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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 08, 2007 Page 7 schedules. Dr. Ballinger again stressed the importance for immediate notice of vaccination records when a stray pet bit someone. Jill Fritz, State Director for Humane Society of U.S. Ms. Fritz urged the City Council to enact differential animal. licensing to recog- nize those who have taken responsibility to care for their animals by having them altered and identified; and encouraged additional public education enforcement. Ms. Fritz supported use of a tiered structure of licensing fees based on the respon- sible steps taken by pet owners; and provided some demographics and statistics of various counties within the State and nation and their practices, and fees of from $4 - 7 and $10 - 15, with trends in making the differential gap wider to encourage responsible pet ownership. Ms. Fritz commended the City for their consideration of this issue and to consider the current proposal for differential licensing; and of- fered to provide the City with any additional research and/or information re- quested. Dr. Ballinger expressed her willingness to donate a microchip scanner to the City of Roseville; and Ms. Fritz advised that many companies distributing universal scanners were eager to donate equipment to further promote responsible pet own- ership. Councilmember Ihlan spoke in support of Ms. Kough's license structure recom- mendations for lifetime rates to encourage incentives for micro-chipping, vaccina- tions and spaying/neutering. Additional discussion included consensus for a differential fee schedule for ster- ilization; staff's fee recommendations and price differentials versus those en- dorsed by Ms. Kough; incentives for pet owners to register their pets; Minneapo- lis and St. Paul lifetime rates of $30.00; and a potential policy discussion on charging less and asking the entire community to subsidize those costs, and how to balance costs and encourage incentives for licensing, micro-chipping and spay- ing/neutering. Councilmember Pust opined that the City Council was in agreement with Ms. Kough; but with all due respect, the City Council hadn't done their homework on statutory language, and several other outstanding issues, and encouraged volun- teering to work on language for Consent Agenda action at a meeting in the near future. After further discussion, Mayor Klausing appointed Councilmembers Kough and Pust to work with Ms. Kough and the Police Department to tweak the proposed ordinance, and provide a differential for lifetime and non-lifetime, spayed/neutered and non-spayed/neutered, and micro-chipped pets, raising the lower and reducing the upper fee range to encourage those components.