2022 Community Forum and Survey on the Question of Feeding Deer & Racoons

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A community forum was held on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. Led by Board President, Ben Twigg, and Treasurer, William Enoch, the forum was attended by 25 members. The conversation was civil and respectful with 6 members sharing their thoughts on the issue.

In addition to the community forum, a survey was mailed to all LISECC members in order to ascertain community attitude toward the prohibition of feeding deer and raccoons.

SURVEY RESULTS

As of 8/23/22, we have received 97 responses. This is the highest turnout of responses seen in several years on any issue, including voting for the AGMs over the past several years.

Here’s how the survey responses tallied:

Question 1) Should the feeding of deer and raccoons be prohibited in Scenic Estates?

  • 1A. Yes- 66 votes

  • 1B. No- 33 votes

  • 1C. Undecided- 4 votes

Question 2) Enforcement Mechanism

  • 2A. Reminder/Education Materials- 57 votes

  • 2B. Financial Penalty- 37 votes

  • 2C. Other- 11 votes

Comments

The board decided to give members the opportunity to add comments to their responses. The comments ranged from long and thoughtful (a couple) to short and snarky (a few). Here’s a tally of the comments added to the responses by broad category (arbitrary categories based on the trend of the comments reviewed).

As of 8/23/2022, we’ve had 97 total responses. Of these, only 43 had any form of comment included. The numbers below don’t total up to the total number of comments since the snarkiest or least coherent of the comments submitted were not included.

  • Discourage feeding, but unenforceable. Keep wild animals wild.-25

  • Different species-different problems (deer vs. racoon issue)- 5

  • Not a problem that the board needs to address- 9