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Commissioners approve animal shelter allocation, allow outreach flyers and review phone app plan
Summary
Johnson County commissioners approved additional allocations to the animal shelter for professional services and utilities, agreed to allow outreach flyers in public space, and directed legal staff to review a proposal to replace the shared on-call phone with an app-based solution.
Carrie Kletchy, director of the Johnson County Animal Shelter and Animal Control, asked the Board of Commissioners on Sept. 22 for additional allocations to cover professional services and higher utilities costs linked to the shelter’s new building.
Kletchy said the requested funds for professional services would come from fees the shelter charges and would not require general-fund taxpayer dollars. “The funds that I'm asking for additional allocations, the first 2 funds for professional services comes out of fees that the shelter charges,” Kletchy said. She explained that utilities were higher than projected when the budget was prepared and the additional allocation would cover that increased cost.
The board voted to approve the allocation. Commissioners also approved Kletchy’s request to post the shelter’s “pit stop” outreach flyers — materials containing QR codes linking to volunteer opportunities and adoptable-pet lists — on the public bulletin board at the county annex.
Kletchy told commissioners she had discussed the shelter’s on-call cell-phone arrangement with Verizon; currently, one county cell phone is passed among officers on call. Under the proposed add-on, an app on existing phones would carry the on-call function, eliminating the need to hand off a single device. “The plan when it's all said and done, we will be paying $7.43 more a month for this plan for this add on, but we won't have to pass that phone around,” Kletchy said. A commissioner moved that the county’s legal staff review any agreement before the app is put into service; the board approved that motion.
Why it matters: The allocation keeps shelter operations funded for professional services and unanticipated utility costs at the new facility, and the phone-app review seeks to reduce operational friction while preserving dispatch continuity.
The board approved each item by voice vote.
