HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- United States Department of Agriculture sharpshooters were in town late Monday (Dec. 7) and Wednesday nights culling deer. While 60 deer were culled during those two evenings, Mayor Chuck Brunello, Jr. said that more culling is likely to take place.
“They culled 40 deer on night number one (Monday), and on night number two, 20,” Brunello said. “That makes 60, and we’re requesting tags for another 40 to make it 100.” Tags needed to cull deer are requested of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
The culling came about a month after USDA infrared deer counters traveled the city’s streets and found that the city was inhabited by 274 deer. On Nov. 25, 2019, the USDA counted 280 deer living in the city, or about 54.4 per square mile.
Earlier this year, from Feb. 18-20, USDA sharpshooters culled 40 deer.
Brunello said the sharpshooters this week culled on 10 sites within the city, both private and public. One of the locations was Highland Heights Community Park, off Wilson Mills Road.
Highland Heights Police Chief James Cook said that the USDA sharpshooters will be back in the city in mid-January. Cook said at the start of culling earlier this year that the city needs to consistently cull for five years in order to see a true difference in the deer population.
“If we remove approximately 100 deer a year, you’ll see a notable difference,” he said.
Santa’s ride around town
The city has announced that Santa Claus will tour each street of the city’s streets on the back of a truck on Dec. 19. Santa will begin at 10 a.m. on Golf View Lane, and finish at about 12:12 p.m. on East and West Inverness drives, before heading out on Highland Road, west to Miner Road.
The schedule also has Santa on Gloucester Drive at 11:16 a.m., and Castlehill Drive at 11:34 a.m. All times are approximate.
Lyndhurst Municipal Court
It was announced in August that the COVID pandemic created a deficit of about $200,000 for the first six months of the year for Lyndhurst Municipal Court. Traffic citations for the first six months of 2020, compared to the same time period in 2019, were down by 59 percent, as the pandemic took hold in mid-March. In April, alone, the number of citations compared to that month a year earlier showed a decrease of 97 percent.
The deficit led to the court, which usually reimburses money paid by the communities it serves, to request two sets of payments to offset the deficit. During Tuesday’s (Dec. 8) City Council meeting, council approved a second payment of 2020 to the court in an amount not exceed $50,000.
Brunello said that the second payment will likely be $29,000-$33,000, or about $10,000 less than originally projected. In recent months, Brunello said, “Our police have been doing a good job and are out there writing citations.”
Earlier this year, Highland Heights contributed $39,000 to the court. The communities the court serves -- Lyndhurst, Highland Heights, Richmond Heights, Mayfield, Mayfield Heights and Gates Mills -- are billed by the amount of cases they create for the court.
Extra money
District 11 Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Sunny Simon recently contacted all of the communities she serves and asked if they had a need for more federal CARES Act money. Money had been given to several communities this fall for COVID-related use, but some of those communities were not able to allocate the money’s use by the Nov. 20 deadline, leaving money available for re-allocation.
Highland Heights City Council accepted Tuesday an additional $50,000. It had initially accepted $424,000 in CARES ACT funding, which was used for the installation of automatic, touchless doors at the city’s community center and other uses to help stop the spread of the virus.
Brunello said that the $50,000 will be spent on adding touchless enhancements at city hall. Those, he said, would include automatic door openers, as well as items such as touchless paper towel and soap dispensers in restrooms.
“Sunny Simon called me and asked if we needed the money,” Brunello said. “I got right on it and asked our directors what we could use it for. She was prompt in asking us and very helpful in getting us the money.”
Drive-thru to see Santa
Brunello said that the drive-thru holiday event the city held Dec. 5 was “very successful.”
The city invited residents to drive to the city hall complex to see the holiday lights lit, and then to wait for their opportunity to get out of their cars and get a photo with Santa Claus.
“We had 125-150 cars,” Brunello said of the first-time event, which took the place of the city’s annual children’s holiday party and which was necessitated by COVID safety guidelines. “About 95 percent of the people got a picture with Santa, kids and adults.”
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