Comments on: Cecil County to Buy SPCA Animal Shelter, Staff With County Employees at Unknown Cost; Moore Cancels Competitive Bids https://ceciltimes.com/2016/03/cecil-county-to-buy-spca-animal-shelter-staff-with-county-employees-at-unknown-cost-moore-cancels-competitive-bids-for-animal-services/ News and Views for Cecil County and the Eastern Shore of Maryland Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:21:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Jonathan Hart https://ceciltimes.com/2016/03/cecil-county-to-buy-spca-animal-shelter-staff-with-county-employees-at-unknown-cost-moore-cancels-competitive-bids-for-animal-services/#comment-40797 Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:15:27 +0000 https://ceciltimes.com/?p=4761#comment-40797 What’s the cost to the taxpayers for all this? What is her claimed cost savings based on? This is lunacy at best. I don’t know of other county governments that are directly involved in asking taxpayers to pay for “rescue” and adoptions programs that are usually handled by non-profit volunteer groups.

I wonder what, if any qualifications, training and experience the two individuals who will oversee animal control and animal shelter services have. How does running a bus service qualify you to oversee the day in and day out operations of an animal shelter?

Taxpayers want to know what this will really cost, by adding workers to the government payroll with full benefits like health and retirement. Before people worked at a non-profit group without those “Perks.”

I hope the Cecil County Council does its homework before approving such a vague plan with no clear costs to expand government employees. The Chesapeake City shelter is a good place for the animals, and I don’t mind having the citizens own it, but why do we need to pay top dollar to actually operate it? There are other alternatives, like contracting with a qualified non=profit group to run a county owned shelter. That would be a lot cheaper, in my opinion.

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