The Seal Beach City Council will discuss coyotes and ratify the city’s response to recent storm impacts on the beachfront area at the agency’s meeting tonight, Monday, Sept. 8.
Mayor Ellery Deaton has requested a disussion of a coyote management plan. Recently there have been significant reports on the news and social media concerning coyote activity in Seal Beach’s Old Town, Leisure World areas and in Long Beach’s affluent Belmont Shore neighborhood. An online peition drive to have the City Council trap coyotes to be sterilized or euthanized has gathered 165 as of 1:50 p.m. today, Monday, Sept. 8. The goal of the petition drive: 5,000 signatures.
Staff will ask the counncil to ratify City Manager Jill Ingram’s local emergency decree of Sept. 2. Some residents have complained about the city’s response to storm activity earlier this month.
The council will also hear an appeal of a Planning Commission decision to deny a permit for an alternative two-car garage design in Surfside and a request to approve hiring a consultant to prepare a feasiblity study of an aquatic park.
