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COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK FELT THAT WE CANNOT ENTER INTO A LEASE <br />OF COUNTY PROPERTY RENT FREE UNLESS IT IS FOR A PUBLIC SERVICE FOR <br />THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC. <br />CHAIRMAN LYONS DISCUSSED THE ANIMAL CONTROL FUNCTION WHICH <br />THE HUMANE SOCIETY PRESENTLY PERFORMS FOR THE COUNTY AND THE EXPENSE <br />IT INVOLVES. HE FELT THAT MRS. NOLTE FEARS THEY MIGHT BE REQUIRED TO <br />CONTINUE THIS FUNCTION AT AN EXPANDED LEVEL AS THE COUNTY GROWS, BUT <br />THAT THEY MIGHT NOT RECEIVE ADEQUATE FUNDS. HE SUGGESTED THAT A PROVI- <br />SION BE INCLUDED IN THE LEASE STATING THAT AS A RESULT OF THE COUNTY <br />GIVING THE HUMANE SOCIETY USE OF THIS PROPERTY RENT FREE, THEY WILL <br />CONTINUE TO PERFORM THEIR ANIMAL CONTROL FUNCTION AS LONG AS THEY ARE <br />ABLE, BUT NOT AT THEIR EXPENSE, <br />MRS. NOLTE AND MRS. CARLSON, DIRECTOR OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER, <br />AGREED THAT EXPENSE IS A CONSIDERATION, BUT EMPHASIZED THEIR CONCERN <br />THAT, AS POPULATION INCREASES, THEY MIGHT HAVE TO GIVE ALL THE ARE. <br />OVER TO ANIMAL CONTROL AND NOT TO THE PURPOSES OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY. <br />MRS. CARLSON STRESSED THAT WHERE POPULATION BECOMES LARGE AND ANIMAL <br />CONTROL BECOMES INCREASINGLY COMPLEX, A LOT OF THE BURDEN LANDS ON <br />THE HUMANE SOCIETY WHO HAS CONTRACTED WITH THEIR LOCAL GOVERNMENT. <br />SHE BELIEVED THERE COULD BE A GOOD BLEND OF ANIMAL CONTROL AND BASIC <br />RESPONSIBILITIES, BUT THAT WE NEED TO FORESEE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS THAT <br />MIGHT ARISE. <br />DISCUSSION AS TO WORDING CONTINUED, AND MRS. NOLTE REITERATED <br />THAT THEY WOULD PREFER TO REMOVE THE WORDS It CONT ROLIt AND 'HUMANE" AND <br />6 <br />JUST CALL THE FACILITY AN ANIMAL SHELTER. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS DID NOT OBJECT TO THE CHANGE IN WORDING <br />BUT STATED THAT HE WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE COUNTY LEASING LAND <br />FOR 40 YEARS WITHOUT COMPENSATION AND THEN, IN ANOTHER YEAR OR S0, <br />HAVING THE HUMANE SOCIETY SAY THEY WILL NOT TAKE CUSTODY OF THE ANIMALS <br />PICKED UP BY THE OFFICERS. HE POINTED OUT THAT IF THIS SHOULD HAPPEN, <br />THE COUNTY THEN WOULD HAVE TO PROVIDE THIS SAME SERVICE, AND SINCE <br />THE COUNTY WOULD BE LEASING THE HUMANE SOCIETY THIS ACREAGE AND GIVING <br />600K _6 <br />JUN 171981 47 <br />