Council approves variance allowing child to keep roosters, amends Ordinance to require new registration of all dogs and cats starting Jan. 1

A child with special needs gets to keep his roosters after the Devine City Council granted his family a variance to that effect during the Special meeting on Tuesday, November 24.
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Mayor denied newspaper column, asks for City Attorney to be “phased out”

Newly-elected Devine Mayor Cory Thompson warned that the City’s project to lure private developers to the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone near IH-35 could be “$3.5 million worth of failure” and expressed concern that both the News front page coverage, as well as potential conflict of interest for City Attorney Tom Cate after his son Charles Cate’s election to the Lytle City Council, as potential threats to the plan’s success.
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