Salina Takes Aim At Bi-Center Bats
Associated Press - Tue 05:04 PM 03/05/2013
The Bicentennial Center houses a 7,500-seat arena and an 18,000-square-foot convention space.
Officials in Salina are happy to welcome thousands of visitors to the Bicentennial Center for conventions and sporting events every year, but there's one group they're trying to oust.
Several thousand bats have entered the Bicentennial Center through cracks and vents. They've taken up residence in the mezzanine level, right above the public restrooms.
The City Commission voted unanimously Monday to pay a pest control company about $35,000 to remove the winged mammals. The company will also seal the cracks and vents and clean up the bats' droppings, as well as a type of insect that feeds on bats.
The cleanup and treatment will continue for a year.
The Bicentennial Center houses a 7,500-seat arena and an 18,000-square-foot convention space.
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Associated Press information from: The Salina Journal
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TheCleaner
Wednesday 6 March 2013 02:13 Report this comment
The paper said old Aaron our rogue commissioner wants to go in with a gun and get them. Wonder how many holes he would shoot into the roof and then have to put a new roof on the place as well. What I find that is amazing if you or I had a bat problem it would be a health issue but not so with the bi-center. They have had this problem for quite sometime but let thousands of people go in and out of the place.
Toothpaste
Wednesday 6 March 2013 07:02 Report this comment
I'll do it for $34,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Iamgonnagetyou
Wednesday 6 March 2013 08:07 Report this comment
I cannot believe the health department did not shut down the place. With the selling of food this endangered many. Let a restaurant have a rodent problem and they would be closed. Then again people take their dogs into where they have auctions and sell food an nothing is done evidently because the city or county runs these places they can get away with health violations.
t--bone
Thursday 7 March 2013 00:05 Report this comment
Maybe a few people who became ill after being at the bi-center ought to file lawsuits considering this rodent problem has existed for a very long time and ignored by the health department.