General News: Town Moves Ahead with Dog Control Changes
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| The town of Cornwall animal shelter was closed last year. |
December 15, 2009
The town of Cornwall has put all the pieces together in its plan to handle dog control while controlling costs. Eighteen months after the town closed its animal shelter on town hall grounds, board members agreed Monday night to pay building and grounds superintendent Albert Conley a $2,500 annual stipend to transport stray animals to the Blooming Grove Animal Shelter. A part-time position of dog control officer is being eliminated, a move that will save the town about $7,500, according to town supervisor Kevin Quigley.
In addition, the town will contract with the Blooming Grove shelter to care for animals at a cost of $20 a day. The animals will be kept at the shelter for 10 business days and then will be made available for adoption.
For the past year, the town had been paying the Hudson Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (HVSPCA) $8,2000 a year to provide shelter to animals picked up by the part-time dog control officer. Last summer, the HVSPCA proposed to pick up and transport strays to the shelter, then to care for the animals, for a flat rate of $24,000 a year. Town officials were reluctant to agree to that proposal and asked the Blooming Grove shelter to get involved.
Tom DiCarrado, a Cornwall resident who is president of the HVSPCA board said that he understands that the town needs to go with the lowest bidder and that his group’s services were more thorough, including the possibility of time-consuming searches for stray animals.
After Monday’s vote, supervisor Quigley said that he was relieved to have a solution in place. “I never thought it could be so difficult,” he commented, “That’s going on my resume.”
Comments:
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Is the Blooming Grove Shelter a no kill shelter??
I hope so.
posted by Susan glendening on 12/15/09 at 11:58 PM
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