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Residents and veterinary experts urge funding, spay-neuter programs and ordinance changes while supporting donation/fee-waiver bills
Summary
Public commenters at the June 26 Committee of the Whole meeting supported bills to increase the shelter’s ability to accept donations and use fee-waived adoptions, urged more funding and recommended spay/neuter mandates and other county-level changes.
Several community members and a shelter-medicine expert addressed the County Committee of the Whole after Dr. Douglas Pernicoff’s testimony, urging swift changes in shelter funding, operations and legal authority.
Shannon Blatzky, who identified herself as holding a master’s degree in shelter medicine from the University of Florida, told the committee she supported Bill 116 to give the shelter greater flexibility to accept grants, gifts and donations and Bill 41 to allow the shelter discretion to offer reduced- or fee-waived adoptions. "I fully support the passage of Bill 116 so the shelter is empowered to take advantage of the…
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