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Jessamine fiscal court votes for county-run animal shelter

July 01, 2011|By Laura Butler | lbutler@jessaminejournal.com
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“I think this proposal is excellent. There’s a ton of work, and I hope I can be part of it down the road. You have my number; you know you can call,” Arias said. “The rescue groups need to wait until the other stuff gets done ... I want this to work, and I want it to work in the right way. You’ve already put thought into the people that you’re going to work with. I think we all just need to take a backseat. We’ll be called when we’re needed. You can’t put the cart before the horse.”

The committee will be meeting at the end of this week or the beginning of next week to get the ball rolling, Dean said. The first meeting will be more of an organizational meeting, but once the committee gets situated, it will start advertising the meetings to encourage participation from those in the county who wish to contribute.

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“We’ve got a lot on the agenda,” Dean said concerning the committee’s pending first meeting. “Our first priority will be setting job descriptions and staffing requirements ... as well as volunteer requirements. We’ll set up the screening process; it will probably include background checks among other things.”
Dean said he’s going to suggest modeling the policies after other counties’ and cities’ policies, such as Shelbyville. Dean said Shelbyville’s organization is similar to Jessamine County’s in size and operations. In the meantime, the transition in the county takeover is going “as well as can be expected,” Dean said after Tuesday’s fiscal court meeting.

“Sherman (Jett) has been going over things, and he’s got some ideas for positive changes,” he added.
Cassity said things seem to be going well from what he can tell in the first five days since the county took over operations.

“I think they’ve been working together pretty good over there,” he said Tuesday evening. “I think it will help people running it to know that the county is 100 percent behind them. Our main goal is to get the animals out of there and into homes. That’s what we’re trying to do.”

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