The Auburn City Council meeting on Dec. 20 included discussion of an agricultural zoning change that would impact a significant portion of the land in Auburn. That change would allow stand-alone slaughter houses on land zoned as agricultural. Councilman Dan Herrick claimed that farmers need that type of service desperately.

That is not true. Farmers already have the right to slaughter their animals on their own land.

Slaughter houses belong on industrial zoning land, where there is city water, sewerage and roads equipped to handle that type of business and the additional traffic would generate.

Thank you, Ms. Melaragno for bringing the issue to the public’s attention.

Shame on City Manager Glenn Aho, for conveniently forgetting to have video equipment available for Melaragno’s exhibit of documented information and photographs she worked so hard to prepare for that meeting.

Shame on Mayor Richard Gleason for allowing Councilman Herrick to pompously leave the room during a public discussion. How unprofessional.

Shame on the Council for wanting to pass the zoning change without proper investigation.

That meeting allowed the public to see the “good councilors” at work.

I hope other citizens of Auburn can attend the next meeting, Dec. 28.

Anita and Larry Poulin, Auburn