This is how we are paying Tony $771.10 per deer

We were originally told that Tony was going to charge us $250 per deer. By filing a Right To Know, I was able to get an unexecuted copy* of the Sharpshooting RFP and the 2017-2018 Sharpshooting Contract.

I think there is some fuzzy math going on with the travel expenses or I just don't understand. In any case, we shouldn't be paying $771.10 per deer to be killed. Even the blood thirsty gardeners should agree that is too much. They thought that $500 per deer to be sterilized was outrageous. But then again, they thought that paying Sandy Baker less than $5000 was excessive. That was for almost a week's worth of work. When you want deer killed that much, I guess nothing is too high.

*Bonnie Cross, the Open Records Officer, will be sending executed copies to me when she receives them.

Execute the execution

Our brilliant commissioners are still under Tony DeNicola's spell. The commissioners will be voting on November 27, 2017

Consideration of a contract for a white-tailed deer management utilizing sharpshooting. The Municipality desires to follow the controlled hunt archery program currently occurring with a sharpshooting program under a PA Game Commission political subdivision permit. This activity would occur from February 1, 2018 to March 31, 2018. 

The Municipality received a proposal from White Buffalo, Inc., to provide deer management sharpshooting services. Under the contract up to 100 deer could be removed at a cost of $77,110. 

Recommended Action: Move to authorize the execution of this agreement with White Buffalo, Inc., for the removal of up to 100 deer at a cost not to exceed $77,110, subject to the approval of the manager and the solicitor.

Do we even have 100 deer? As in the past, we have no idea how many were killed by the archers, during Archery Season. Last year, the taxpayers paid Tony $9,000 to have "volunteers" kill 36 deer.

According to my blog posting from November 23, 2016  Tony, please return the commissioners' brains, 

Recommended Action: Move to authorize the execution of this agreement with White Buffalo, Inc., for the removal of up to 100 deer at a cost not to exceed $83, 477, subject to the approval of the Manager and the Solicitor.

55 deer were killed last year by "sharpshooting," at a cost of $815.78 per deer.

Year	Deer Removed	Cost of Removal
2007	79	$19,900  (USDA)
2008	146	$50,837 (USDA)
2015	6	$3,000  (Wildlife Specialists)
2016	101	$15,460 (White Buffalo -Archery)
2016	114	$74,375 (White Buffalo –Sharpshooting)
2017	36	$9,000 (White Buffalo- Archery)
2017	55	$44,868 (White Buffalo -Sharpshooting)
Total	537	$217,440

Here is the breakdown by year:

2007 $288.41 per deer
2008 $348.20 per deer
2015 $500 per deer
2016 (archery) $147.24 per deer
2016 ("sharpshooting") $652.41 per deer
2017 (archery) $250 per deer
2017 ("sharpshooting") $815.78 per deer

Brumfield's legacy will be to approve another year of killing deer with high powered rifles in undisclosed areas of Mt. Lebanon. He once said that he will only vote for shooting deer when the deer carry rifles, to even the score. I wrote that

Both Steve Silverman and Craig Grella want to continue doing business with that scoundrel, and will vote along with John Bendel and Steve McLean to keep Tony DeNicola. Killing deer causes collisions to increase, but they will continue to bring in lethal weapons because deer are scary.

Craig Grella didn't have to vote this year. Brumfield will get it passed. Parents, expect another CYA letter in January from Super Timmy and Keith McGill like this one sent last year. Bullets never cross sidewalks We'll hear how there hasn't been an accident. Will they only stop when there is? 

To Hell with those with PTSD.