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♦ SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2008
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Vision 2020 addresses WR decision on animal shelter
Begins to weigh options for the future
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Recover. Regroup.
Reconsider. Those are three
words that pretty much
described Vision 2020’s
efforts Wednesday during the
group’s regular meeting, and
in regard to animal control.
That following Monday’s
vote by the Warner Robins
City Council to take no action
on an intergovernmental ani
mal maintenance agreement
but instead to go back basi
cally to square one: To build
an animal shelter on its own.
And, to approve a motion
to return the county’s and
Centerville’s $250,000 which
would have gone toward the
shelter and in turn offer to
charge them $63 per animal
along with a fee of $16.50
“should” euthanasia come
into the picture.
The decision not only
sent ripples - a typhoon
maybe - through Vision
2020 but also impacted the
Houston County Board of
Commissioners’ meeting as
well as the Centerville City
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Council where the “intergov
ernmental animal mainte
nance agreement” item was
on both agendas. Centerville
took it off and the County
Commission voted to table it
until basically “whenever.”
On Wednesday, Centerville
Mayor Bubba Edwards said
in regard to “what now”:
“The City of Centerville has
‘no comment.’”
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall,
who as it’s been reported the
City of Perry is building its
own facility, also echoed “no
comment.”
That left Vision 2020
Chairman Ned Sanders, who
represents Houston County
to offer, following a recap of
events to date: “This (Warner
Robins’ decision) led to an
alternative. So, that’s where
we are today.”
“This alternative was never
discussed in Vision 2020,”
Sanders said. “So it has yet
to be looked at in depth.”
That’s where the two no
comments came into play
but Warner Robins City
Councilman Terry Horton
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did respond.
“Unfortunately,” he said,
“I think the city failed to
look at numbers early on in
the process. And when our
comptroller ran the num
bers last Friday they showed
the cost per animal was like
$63 for us to take care of
an animal. And it showed a
cost of euthanization of like
$16.50.
“The proposal that was
at council at that time was
not adequate to cover that
cost and the council made
the decision, they felt like
the county and Centerville
should pay what it cost the
city to take care of an animal
and put it down, if it had to
be put down.”
“Now it was a close vote
and I’d like to say this before
this group. I did not support
the fact that we had sort of
flip-flopped. I felt like we
could work out something to
continue the agreement.”
Sanders, to close the item
on the agenda sos that day,
said what’s going to happen
from here is unknown.
He said Houston County
and Centerville - “If
Centerville desires,” he
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If not, he said they would
look at other options. Those,
he said, ranged from using
private providers to using
other governments to con
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“We’ll go down that road
to see first of all if can get
with Warner Robins to work
this out. I hope we can. I still
think it would be mutually
beneficial.”
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