Humane Society wants more county money for rescued animals
NEWARK Licking County Humane Society representatives say increasing animal rescues have escalated the nonprofit agency s costs enough to ask county officials for a $95,000 annual shot in the arm.Meanwhile, county officials recently established two funds setting aside up to $600,000 in each over the next 10 years to take care of building and vehicle needs for the Licking County Animal Shelter.Lori Carlson, Humane Society executive director, questions that timing. Last month, she asked the Licking County commissioners to consider giving her agency $95,000 annually to cover the costs of animal care for increasing cases.The county provides $1,500 a month, or $18,000 annually, to pay the patagonia houdini pants review2salarypatagonia houdini pants review3 of Humane Agent Paula Evans, who gets no benefits, Carlson said. The county padiscount patagonia synchillays nothing for the cost of providing care for the animals Evans rescues on its patagonia r4 fleece jacket men's reviewbehalf.Carlson wants to change that, and asked the commissioners to pay to cover feeding, housing and caring for the animals tapatagonia houdini pants reviewken in by the humane agent to the Humane Society s shelter at 825 Thornwood Drive, Heath.So far, she has received no commitment. Carlson contends a surplus in the county s Dog and Kennel Fund, sparked by healthy dog tag sales, contains plenty of money to offset her rising costs.Carlson said her agency cannot continue to operate in the red and will have to stop providing the humane agent service if the county does not help out financiapatagonia everlong review your bosslly.State law requires counties to provide the service but does allow them to contract for its exenew patagonia gamut trail running sports shoes women size 8cution.If Licking County proves unwilling to increase its payment, Carlson said, the Humane Society will have to stop providing the service, which will revert to the sheriff s office or the animal control department, which handled the task from banco patagonia argentina onlinethe 1980s until 2010.If that is the case, Cpatagonia houdini pants review1arlson said she will notify the commissioners at least 30 days before the contract expires Dec. 31. It just feels like the commissioners aren t recognizing that we have been doing a great job, and we can do it lespatagonia discount code urbans expensively, she said.Licking County Commissioner Tim Bubb said the commissioners hapatagonia houdini pants review0ve been dipatagonia everlong review of relatedscussing planning for county shelter needs for several months with Animal Control Director John Silva. We ve been asking him for a while to work outpatagonia everlong review quicken a long term plan, Bubb said. Actually, we finally have some resourpatagonia everlong review xperiaces in place to fix the facility and equipment they use. The county s animal shelter, built in 1991 at 544 Dog Leg Road, is in need of major updating, Silva said, which will be accomplished a section at a time while remaining open. It ll be a challenge to keep the operation running smoothly, he said.Silva said the improvements will be phased in over the next 10 years and will include expanding animal environments and public areas while also making the facility more energy efficient. An architect will analyze the facility and draft new plans, he said.To make the plans bear fruit, officials accept the need for funding. What I think we re telling them is not just to plan for the future, Bubb said, but also to set aside money for it.
