Women from the Domestic Animal Protection League appeared on KSRM’s Tall Dark and Handsome Show September 17 in an attempt to clarify the borough’s limited animal control proposition.
They clarified that they would not be dealing with leash laws, licensing, or nuisance animals, they would only be dealing with mistreated, neglected, abandoned, and abused animals is their goal.
Denise Cox clarified that there would be someone trained to know those indicators and broke down some of what that proposed .02 mill rate increase for areas outside the cities would go towards.
Cox:“We’ll have to be nationally certified as a animal investigator, the national organization that does the certifications, you have to do that on your own, the borough doesn’t pay for that. You have to have a vehicle because the borough is big so you’re going to need a vehicle. You will need to get the video equipment kind of like the troopers use and thats part of the expense that you have to figure out if you can afford to do this for that $95,000.”
Six of the seven Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Candidates were asked their opinions of that proposition at yesterday’s luncheon, to which Kelly Cooper, Stan Welles, LaDawn Druce, Blaine Gilman, and Jake Thompson all said they would not vote for it. Grayling Bassett was unclear in his answer and Marty Anderson did not attend that luncheon.
Borough residents will decide on that two part advisory vote October 7.