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		<title>Cecil Co Exec to Give Buddies More $ Despite Council Budget Cuts, No Spending Audit; Option to Extend Kennel Lease Through 2017</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2016/01/cecil-co-exec-to-give-buddies-more-despite-council-budget-cuts-no-spending-audit-option-to-extend-kennel-lease-through-2017/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT Cecil County Executive Tari Moore’s proposal to give an extra $24,000 to her preferred animal control contractor, A Buddy for Life, Inc., for a six-month extended contract actually gives the group a net fiscal gain over their past pact and removes requirements for an independent audit of how taxpayer funds were spent in 2015. Moore signed a $271,020, six-month extension of the Buddies previous three-year contract on 12/29/2015, even though she did not have sufficient funds in the current Fiscal 2016 budget year to pay for it. The Buddies do not own an animal shelter facility and the county also signed a separate $48,000 lease with the owners of Rainwood Kennels to continue to house animals at the Elkton site. On top of the money paid directly to the Buddies, the county is also taking over repairs and maintenance costs of two trucks used for animal control that were previously the fiscal responsibility of the Buddies—at a taxpayer cost estimated by county officials at $4,980 for six months. Now Moore is asking the County Council after-the-fact to approve a total of $24,000 in extra spending for total animal control services—despite the fact that the Council [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Buddy&#8221; Group, with $2.2 Million Cecil County Animal Control Deal, and Allies Push Legal Steps Against Critics, Oversight Panel</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/10/buddy-group-with-2-2-million-cecil-county-animal-control-deal-and-allies-push-legal-steps-against-critics-oversight-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES Special Report—First in a Series A Buddy for Life, a Delaware animal rescue group with a more than $2.2 million Cecil County government contract for animal control, has hired a lawyer to threaten an unpaid volunteer who complained to county officials about conditions for animals housed at the group’s rented shelter. And a county oversight panel tasked with reviewing animal laws and the Buddies’ performance has been riddled with dissension, as Buddy allies attacked the panel’s chairwoman, including legal threats. The Buddies got a three-year contract in the final moments of the old county Board of Commissioners’ existence on 11/30/12, after the “Three Amigos” political majority of the commissioners approved the award and suddenly extended the duration&#8211; despite the fact that the published “request for proposal” only specified an 18-month contract for animal control services. At the time, the Buddy group had no shelter, no vehicles, no experience supervising a public animal control service and no employees. But the county gave the group $10,000 in start-up cash and purchased two pickup trucks (at a cost of over $65,000) plus special “caps” for the trucks, while also paying the Buddies $60,000 a month. The group is now renting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse-sense, Nonsense and Bid Cents: Cecil County Commish Roll in Litter Pan Again Over Cats, Animal Control, Horses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners could have used a veterinarian to administer tranquilizers Tuesday as they bared their claws, yet again, over revisions to the county’s new animal ordinance, how many ‘experts’ should dance on the head of a panel reviewing the lone remaining bidder for animal control services, and conflicting concerns over horses. And just when you thought one Old Gray Mare issue had been put out to pasture—a mandate for “health certificates” for animals such as dogs and horses crossing state lines to visit or attend events in Cecil County—Commissioner Diana Broomell (R-4) on Tuesday proposed putting the contentious certificates matter back into the new ordinance, which took effect on 10/1/12. It had been removed previously when citizens protested at a public hearing that putting the certificates into the county ordinance imposed an undue and unenforceable local burden that was best left to state laws covering transport of livestock and horses across state lines. In another revelation, Broomell and Commissioner James Mullin (R-1) claimed Tuesday that they did not read the text of the animal ordinance before they voted on it in August. The Three Amigos majority of the commissioners, including Broomell, Mullin and Michael Dunn (R-3) voted for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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