Trash receptacles at Monroe Park, which is maintained by Virginia Commonwealth University, routinely attract rats, leading Sen. Ghazal Hashmi to question the university’s $2,400 a month spending on poison-bait rat traps.
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Virginia Commonwealth University claims that rats in Monroe Park can rip open metal trash cans to get to discarded food—even though an inspection of the metal cans show that the bottoms are undamaged. The university, which handles maintenance of the park, issued that claim in response to a query from Richmond state Sen. Ghazal Hashmi about VCU’s expenditure of $2,400 a month to spread poison-bait rat traps throughout the city’s oldest park.
