ELIZABETHTON â Responding to a $70,000 cut in its budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year, the Elizabethton/Carter County Animal Shelter has announced that it will no longer provide animal control services.
The policy change was reported on the shelterâs Facebook page after a meeting by the Animal Shelter board of directors earlier this week.
âWe know and understand how much this service is needed and will affect our community, unfortunately, we are forced to reduce services and possibly personnel,â the post read in part.
The animal shelter was the only controversial matter in the budget approved on Monday by the Carter County Commission. The shelter is jointly operated by the county and by the city of Elizabethton.
ELIZABETHTON â Despite a sharply divided disagreement over funding for the Elizabethton/Carter County Animal Shelter on Monday evening, it was mostly smooth sailing for the Carter County Commission in passing a new budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year. The commissioners also passed the certified tax rate of $2.03. That is down from the $2.47 rate passed by the commission last year, before the latest countywide assessment of property but determined by the state comptrollerâs office to bring in the same amount of property tax revenue.
The only serious controversy during the passage of the new budget was an attempt to reduce the countyâs contribution to the animal shelter that is jointly operated by the city and the county. The total contribution to the shelter by the city, county and other means in 2020-21 was $492,000. Several commissioners discussed reducing the total amount to $400,000 by reducing the countyâs share, but were not able to gather the 13 votes needed
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