Council to accept donated gate so giraffes can remain in larger enclosure

Committee members reviewed Resolution 26-195 to accept a $12,565 donation from the Honolulu Zoological Society to fund a gate that supports a newly installed fence allowing giraffes to stay in the field overnight.

A Department of Enterprise Services representative described the fence and said the gate was identified as a needed improvement during construction: "we recently installed a fence in the back area that's high enough... and while we're doing that, we realized in the middle of the construction that a gate would be helpful to bring stuff in and out of." The representative added that the zoo director "wants to... is starting to talk about, baby giraffes."

The chair amended the resolution to a posted CD1 and recommended reporting it out for adoption; no objections were raised and the item was ordered reported out to the council.