Peacocks deemed sanitary

The Longboat Key Town Commission asked staff to have the Manatee County Health Department investigate possible health issues with the peacocks in the Village last month.

Thomas Larkin, environmental manager for the Manatee County Health Department, visited the Village on May 2 and reported in an email that the peacocks aren’t causing a sanitary nuisance.

“In summary I did not observe conditions created by the peacock bird population that represented a sanitary nuisance,” Larkin wrote in a May 2 e-mail to Public Works Department Director Juan Florensa.

Commissioner Pat Zunz, a Lands End resident, told Town Manager Bruce St. Denis the reason Larkin didn’t observe any unsanitary conditions is because the residents make a point to hose down their walkways and driveways.

Contact Kurt Schultheis at [email protected].