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Commissioners express opposition
over annual dog license budget amendment
By Bob Robinson
GREENVILLE
– In its July 1 meeting
the Darke County Commissioners noted for Journal Information a letter
to Ohio
Gov. John Kasich in which the Commissioners, Michael Stegall, Diane
Delaplane
and Michael Rhoades, Darke County Auditor Carol Ginn and Darke County
Animal
Control Officer Duane Sanning requested a line item veto on a Senate
Budget
Amendment changing the availability of dog licenses.
Rather
than be limited to the
current one-year license, the amendment would require counties to sell
one-year, three-year or lifetime dog licenses.
County
officials noted the current
system was simple and easy to administer. It also provides useful data
for Dog
Wardens regarding licensed dogs in their county. The new system would
be
unreliable as dog owners could move to another county or the status of
the dog
changes.
The
letter noted that these were
just a few complications that would result from the amendment.
“This
is a system that simply does
not need to be changed,” the letter said. “The change benefits no one.”
Commissioners
approved a request
from Darke County Waste to extend an invitation to quote on the
county’s annual
Household Hazardous Waste Collection event scheduled for Oct. 26.
According to
Delaplane, the contract went to Clean Harbors Environmental Services,
Inc., of
Cincinnati in 2012.
Commissioners
also approved the
receipt of four grants. The first, 2013 State Probation Improvement
Grant in
the amount of $75,000, went to Darke County Common Pleas court. The
second to
Common Pleas was a 2103 Achievement Incentive Award in the amount of
$23,127.
Darke
County Hazardous Waste
received the other two: 2013 Tire Grant in the amount of $24,725 and
2013
Litter Cleanup Grant in the amount of $7,000.
On
July 3 Commissioners approved
the appointment of Michael Darland, FRAM union representative, and Lyn
McArdle,
Mental Health/Darke Recovery, to the Local Workforce Investment Policy
Board of
Job & Family Services of Darke, Miami, Preble and Shelby
Counties.
In
the public attendees comments,
Ryan Carpe of the Daily Advocate commented that two of the
commissioners were
wearing patriotic colors of red, white and blue.
“Commissioner
Rhoades, just what is
it about freedom that you don’t like?”
Without
skipping a beat, Rhoades
said “I have red, white and blue underwear on.”
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