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Debbie Caywood is the director of the Augusta SPCA, which, like many organizations, has struggled with keeping its staff employed. But there’s an unexpected benefit to more people working from home. Since March of this year, the Augusta SPCA has had 465 adoptions. That’s actually a drop from last year’s 707 dogs being adopted. But it’s for a good reason…on a regional level, there just aren’t enough dogs to go around.
Debbie Caywood is the director of the Augusta Regional SPCA.
Credit Debbie Caywood
DEBBIE CAYWOOD: And everyone is facing the same situation with the lack of dogs available for adoption. We ve been getting one in a month and they come in on a Friday and by Wednesday, the next week, they re adopted in their forever homes.
LEMON GROVE
Lemon Grove, a city struggling financially, hopes to earn as much as $350,000 next year from the sale of medical cannabis with the possibility of doubling that total in future years.
The Lemon Grove City Council on Tuesday unanimously agreed to impose a 5 percent gross retail sales tax rate on cannabis stores in the city. That is 1 percent higher than in neighboring La Mesa, but less than in the cities of San Diego (8 percent) and Chula Vista (7 percent).
The tax collected by Lemon Grove will be from the sales receipts of the medical marijuana businesses, not a tax on the stores’ customers.