The commissioner explains that she does not oversee rat extermination techniques as that falls under other agencies like the Department of Health and Department of Education.

• The commissioner's role is focused on getting trash off the streets to stop feeding rats
• She is not up to speed on specific extermination methods used by other agencies
• The council member had success using fumigation in tree pits in her own office
• But fumigation is labor intensive and difficult to fund from a council office budget