{"id":55635,"date":"2023-08-15T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T00:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55635"},"modified":"2023-08-15T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T00:02:41","slug":"animal-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55635","title":{"rendered":"Everyone loves animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Collin County’s Commissioners Court has received a heartfelt lesson from some of its constituents … which is that we shouldn’t mess with efforts to take care of our furry friends.<\/p>\n

That was the lesson delivered at a Commissioners Court meeting today as the five-member governing panel got ready to send a $683 million bond issue to voters to decide in November.<\/p>\n

Part of the package includes a $5.7 million proposition to expand the county’s animal shelter compound. The proposition will be decided on along with four other propositions in the total bond issue.<\/p>\n

My prediction, based on what I heard today? County voters are going to want to spend the money to improve county’s animal welfare system.<\/p>\n

I want to be clear as well on the rest of the bond package: It looks like a good deal for the county, as it takes care of essentials, such as law enforcement, roads and highways and parks.<\/p>\n

The folks who crowded into the Commissioners Court meeting room today, though, spoke only about animal welfare … which, the more I think about it, the least surprising it is to me.<\/p>\n

I have covered a lot of issues over many years involving animals, namely dogs and cats, domestic pets that depend on human beings to care for them. Almost without exception I have witnessed the public rise up and speak on behalf of our furry critters. Indeed, I would hate to be the sorehead who speaks to a public hearing and disparages animals that have been abandoned or brutalized.<\/p>\n

Collin County Judge Chris Hill, speaking at an Aug. 7 meeting in which commissioners received the proposed bond issue package, argued that the county might not need to spend the $5.7 million it had allocated for animal shelter expansion and renovation. His notion was voted down by his colleagues on the Commissioners Court.<\/p>\n

Did he say a word endorsing his previous position before a packed house in the county courthouse Commissioners Court chamber? Don’t make laugh out loud!<\/p>\n

I reckon he knew better.<\/p>\n\n

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