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		<title>Cecil County Animal Control: Trappers,Buddies, SPCA Interested; Delaware Group Arrives Late as DE Crisis Looms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County officials hosted a mandatory meeting on Tuesday for groups or individuals interested in bidding on a new contract to provide animal control services, as it was disclosed that the county is interested in using government employees to apprehend strays while contracting out the housing of animals privately. At the same time, a Delaware group—First State Animal Center/Kent County (DE) SPCA—got in seconds under the wire, as the meeting was being adjourned, to get its name on a list of attendees. County officials had said that unless a potential vendor attended the meeting and signed the attendance list, they would be barred from bidding. But while the group is considering getting into animal control in Cecil County, it is embroiled in controversy in its home state, with the result that a Pennsylvania group is about to take over animal control in Delaware. Jason Allison, the county attorney, said at the meeting that the county was “looking for an option” that might just provide a private shelter operation to house animals, so “then the county could consider bringing the animal control function in house.” For over a year, County Executive Tari Moore, Allison, and Al Wein, the director of administration, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Control Oversight Panel Eases Kennel Regs; Silences Protests by Bite Victim, Buddy Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cecil County citizen oversight panel on animal control has voted to ease several controversial regulations for dog kennel operators, but the group refused to consider concerns raised by citizens&#8211; including the victim of an attack by a ‘foster’ dog placed in her home by A Buddy for Life, the county’s paid contractor for animal control that the panel is supposed to oversee. About two dozen citizens packed a small meeting room at the county administration building in Elkton Friday night (11/8/13), when four of the five members of the Animal Care and Control Oversight Commission met to review some kennel regulations and approve several proposed changes. County Executive Tari Moore recently suspended the current rules until next spring so that the oversight panel could draft revisions that will be submitted to her and the County Council. [See Cecil Times report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2013/10/cecil-coungty-exec-delays-new-kennel-license-regs-animal-control-oversight-panel-questions-buddies-dog-housing-at-shelter/ ] Lyn Yelton, chair of the oversight panel, said that the group would not take public comments at the meeting—as it had in the past—because of the time constraints to finish the regulatory revisions. For more than an hour, citizens sat and listened to technical discussions of the rules but they erupted into loud outbursts of dissent [&#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>
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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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