Bay Village, Ohio
FRIENDS OF THE BAY VILLAGE KENNEL TO HAVE A FREE & FUN DAY WITH MICKEY AND MINNIE MOUSE AT CAHOON IN JUNE.
CONTACT CYNTHIA EAKIN: case915@aol.com or 440-669-9686 for more information regarding event specifics.
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Owning a pet is a privilege and should result in a mutually beneficial relationship. However, the benefits of pet ownership come with obligations. Responsible pet ownership includes:
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a licensed Veterinary Technician with a degree in Veterinary Science
Technology.
She has worked for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, Long Island Game Farm, the
New York State Marine Mammal Rescue Program, the East End Emergency Animal Hospital
and was a volunteer for the Bide-A-Wee Pet Therapy Program which brings pets to
nursing homes to visit with patients.
Her book is based upon 15 years of research and interviews with hundreds of Animal
Control Officers, Law Enforcement Officials, Medical Examiners, Public Health Officials
Epidemiologists, Shelter Workers, Detectives and journalists.
She is the author of Fatal Dog Attacks: The Stories Behind the Statistics, and is the
founder and lead researcher for The National Canine Research Council.
Breed Discriminatory Legislation in Bay Village Ohio
Animals Impacted by Breed Discriminatory Legislation in Bay Village Ohio
Estimated Number of Dogs 4,070
Estimated Number of Pit Bull type Dogs 280
Costs Associated With Breed Discriminatory Legislation
Enforcement $ 14,190
Kenneling and Veterinary Care $ 4,290
Euthanizing and Disposal $ 3,780
Litigation Costs $ 340
DNA Testing $ 2,520
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(c) The Chief of Police shall determine that a dog is vicious pursuant to this chapter upon proof by a preponderance of the evidence of any of the following:
etc. ….
Presumably, and given that elsewhere in Bay Village Ords in which the now old ORC is copied and includes “Pitbulls” , the Chief alone has the responsibility to determine exactly what a “Pitbull” is.
For this reason I have included this link and challenge all of you to take the test in an honest fashion. I think you will find it ..interesting and hopefully educational and on point.
http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/findpit.html
This is one of the many reasons why Ohio adopted it’s new Non Breed Discriminatory Law, which incidentally,had the support of the Ohio Dog Wardens Association.
This from and article at the signing by the Governor:
Ohio governor John Kasich signed House Bill 14 into law and forever changed the lives of pit-bull-type dogs in Ohio, ending the only statewide breed discrimination in the United States.
What this means in Ohio is local dog wardens will no longer be obliged to kill every pit bull who enters a shelter because the law banning the adoption of pit bulls to the public has been changed. Pit bull owners will no longer be forced to carry punitive insurance policies because their bully-looking dog will no longer be deemed legally vicious just because of his or her appearance.
“This is a great day for these wonderful dogs who have died by the tens of thousands over the years in Ohio just because of the way they look,” says Ledy VanKavage, Best Friends’ senior legislative analyst and the driving force behind the fight to end this longstanding injustice. She adds, “A dog warden was in tears at the signing. She never thought she’d see the day when pit bulls would no longer automatically be killed in Ohio shelters.”
HB 14 replaces the previous breed-based vicious dog law with a graded system based on behavior, not appearance. There are now three categories of problem dog: nuisance, dangerous, and vicious, with sanctions appropriate to the level of aggressive behavior.
Lastly, having received the below response from on of Avon Lake’s Council Members after my inquiry re; will they be adopting /mirroring the NEW state law it would seem appropriate that Bay Village do the same given the push towards regionalism.
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ANIMAL CONTROL SERVICES AGREEMENT Proposal to Bay Village City Council
CITY OF BAY VILLAGE, OHIO, AND FRIENDS OF BAY VILLAGE KENNELThe City of Bay Village, Ohio, (hereinafter the “City”), with offices located at 350 DoverCenter Road, Bay Village, Ohio, and the Friends of Bay Village Kennel (hereinafter the“FOBVK”), an Ohio State nonprofit corporation in good standing, in consideration of the mutualcovenants herein, do hereby agree as follows:I. Purpose: The City and the FOBVK enter into this Agreement to provide animalcontrol services for the City. For the purpose of this Agreement, the term “animal”includes dogs and cats.II. Period of Agreement: This agreement shall cover a two-year period beginning …and ending ……III. Animal Control Officer: The City shall designate an employee of the City, who isresponsible for overseeing the City’s responsibilities under this agreement and toensure the City and FOBVK appropriately carry out the responsibilities of thisagreement.IV. Enforcement: The Police Department shall be responsible for enforcement ofChapter 505, Animals and Fowl, of the Codified Ordinance.V. Use of Impoundment Fees/Fine: The City shall collect the fees and costs set forthin Ordinance section 505.10 relating to the impoundment of animals. All fees paid tothe City for reclaiming impounded animals will be used for the maintenance of thekennel and the care of sheltered animals.VI. Animal Impoundment and Transport Equipment: The City shall maintain suchvehicles and related equipment as is required for law enforcement officers of thePolice Department to seize, impound and transport animals and shall be responsiblefor the seizure, impoundment and transportation of animals.VII. Maintenance of Kennel: The City shall maintain a kennel suitable for theimpoundment of animals for a period necessary to provide a reasonable opportunityfor animal owners to reclaim their animals or otherwise provide for transport of theanimals to a suitable adoption agency. In maintaining the kennel, the City shall beresponsible for the cost of the utilities for the kennel. Guidelines for the maintenanceANIMAL CONTROL SERVICES AGREEMENT CITY OF BAY VILLAGE, OHIO, AND FRIENDS OF BAY VILLAGE KENNELThe City of Bay Village, Ohio, (hereinafter the “City”), with offices located at 350 Dover Center Road, Bay Village, Ohio, and the Friends of Bay Village Kennel (hereinafter the “FOBVK”), an Ohio State nonprofit corporation in good standing, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein, do hereby agree as follows:I. Purpose: The City and the FOBVK enter into this Agreement to provide animal control services for the City. For the purpose of this Agreement, the term “animal” includes dogs and cats. II. Period of Agreement: This agreement shall cover a two-year period beginning … and ending …… III. Animal Control Officer: The City shall designate an employee of the City, who is responsible for overseeing the City’s responsibilities under this agreement and to ensure the City and FOBVK appropriately carry out the responsibilities of this agreement. IV. Enforcement: The Police Department shall be responsible for enforcement of Chapter 505, Animals and Fowl, of the Codified Ordinance. V. Use of Impoundment Fees/Fine: The City shall collect the fees and costs set forth in Ordinance section 505.10 relating to the impoundment of animals. All fees paid to the City for reclaiming impounded animals will be used for the maintenance of the kennel and the care of sheltered animals.VI. Animal Impoundment and Transport Equipment: The City shall maintain such vehicles and related equipment as is required for law enforcement officers of the Police Department to seize, impound and transport animals and shall be responsible for the seizure, impoundment and transportation of animals.VII. Maintenance of Kennel: The City shall maintain a kennel suitable for the impoundment of animals for a period necessary to provide a reasonable opportunity for animal owners to reclaim their animals or otherwise provide for transport of the animals to a suitable adoption agency. In maintaining the kennel, the City shall be responsible for the cost of the utilities for the kennel. Guidelines for the maintenance
Friends of the Bay Village Kennel has received donations to fund the construction of a new kennel, and several citizens have offered their professional services to help plan and operate it, the group informed Mayor Deborah Sutherland in a letter dated Oct. 3. Citing budget constraints, city leaders in July eliminated the animal control officer who ran the kennel and began sending wayward dogs and cats to outside kennels with high euthanasia rates. The decision immediately met with protest and a petition drive.
“What a terrific solution presented to Mayor Sutherland and city council,” resident Nancy Brown said of the donations. “Not many cities or organizations are able to have this gift, talent and financial opportunity in such a short time, along with tremendous support from residents that truly care for their pets and those residents that do not own pets but have safety and property value concerns.” Details:friendsofbayvillagekennel.com.
“The letter certainly presented interesting thoughts and possibilities,” Council President Brian Cruse said. “At this time no meeting has been scheduled. As our budget process develops, we will be giving consideration to these suggestions as we analyze the issues with the rest of our budget considerations.”
Written by jeffgallatin
Bay Village
Citizens and city officials hope to start building a solid foundation in the next few weeks for where and when a new Bay Village animal shelter and kennel will be built.
City Council President Brian Cruse said Monday he still expects discussion about the new shelter to begin as part of the work on the upcoming 2012 municipal budget.
“It certainly will be a part of the budget discussions as they get under way the next few weeks,” he said. “We haven’t set an exact date yet, but it will be a part of that.”
Members of the Friends of Bay Village Kennel spoke at the Oct. 3 City Council meeting, noting that the group has raised sufficient funds to completely pay for construction of a new facility. The old kennel shelter located in the City Service Center area has to be demolished as part of the construction work of a vehicle salt washing facility near the old salt storage building. Cruse said at the meeting he expected the kennel issue to come up in the city budget discussions in the next few weeks. Mayor Debbie Sutherland expressed similar sentiments.
Members of the kennel friends group presented council with two petitions with 2,428 signatures on the subject, while also urging council and the administration to reconsider eliminating the animal control officer’s position. That job was cut during the summer while city officials worked on ways to trim the municipal budget to combat the continued sluggish economy. Sutherland outsourced much of the position’s responsibilities to Cuyahoga County.
Tom Kauker from the kennel group read a letter to council about the animal kennel. He noted that while the group was working in the last year to raise awareness of the kennel and issues pertaining to it, they found that many people weren’t aware of its existence.
In the letter, group members urged city officials to move quickly since the demolition of the old shelter is getting closer. They noted previous discussions with city officials in which a new shelter was tentatively slated for at or near the police station on Wolf Road.
“We are now at a point, and because time is waning before our existing kennel is destroyed, where serious further conversation can be held to determine the scope of the project, its cost and a time frame for design and the completion of construction,” the group said in the letter.
In addition to meeting the construction funding needs, the group also indicated that several citizens have offered their services on a pro-bono basis to take care of the design and engineering work as well as current and future service needs at the kennel.
City officials said that previous funds given to the city for use at the shelter remain unspent and are in place for use at a new shelter.
Animal advocate Nancy Brown, who operates the Hot Diggity Dog business, continued her advocacy for the shelter while again urging the city to move away from using county animal services and to use a city animal control officer.
BAY VILLAGE - Friends of the Bay Village Animal Kennel and their supporters urged City Council during its Oct. 3 meeting to reconsider its decision to eliminate the animal control officer’s position and send stray dogs to the Cuyahoga County Animal Shelter.
The city laid off its animal control officer in July and closed the city kennel, other than to use it as a temporary holding facility until dogs could be transferred to the county kennel.
Nancy Brown spoke on behalf of the Friends of the Bay Village Kennel, telling council that her group has collected enough money in donations and pledges to build a new animal kennel.
She also presented council members with two online petitions urging council to reconsider its actions. The petitions contained a total of about 2,400 electronic signatures, but many of those signing were from outside Bay Village and some were from outside the United States. Some of the same signatures also appear on both petitions.
The city eliminated the animal control officer’s position as a budget-cutting move and began sending dogs to the Cuyahoga County kennel in mid-July.
Supporters of the former Bay Village kennel object to using the county facility because it euthanizes dogs it cannot place, while Bay Village’s kennel did not euthanize animals. In addition, the city is still looking for a solution for dealing with stray cats.
“Yes, efficiencies need to be implemented,” Brown told council Monday night. “However, the safety of the citizens and their companion pets does not need to be farmed out, privatized or outsourced.
“The cost to retain and maintain a simple, safe and comfortable facility in our city is as big as a bag of peanuts. It is a very small percentage of the budget.”
Brown also offered to help the city try to find grants to pay for the animal control officer’s salary.
Tom Kauker, another Bay resident and kennel supporter, called for the city to build a new animal kennel near the police station. The existing kennel must be torn down because of renovations near the service garage.
In addition to the donations to build the facility, the Friends of the Bay Village Kennel also have pledges for pro bono architectural, engineering, construction, landscaping and accounting services, he said. However, for city to take advantage of those donations, it must have an animal control officer or someone in a similar capacity.
City Council President Brian Cruse said the city might be able to meet with the Friends of the Bay Village Kennel in about three weeks as part of budget talks for the upcoming year.
Mayor Deborah Sutherland has previously said that eliminating the animal control officer’s position will save the city about $45,000 annually. She also said at the time the position was eliminated that Bay Village dog owners are already helping pay for operating costs at the county kennel through their purchase of dog licenses, and that Bay Village does not need to duplicate those services.
See more Bay Village news at cleveland.com/bay-village.
The Friends of the Bay Village Kennel, a group of residents who formed over a year ago to promote a new city kennel, presented two petitions to Bay City Council at its Oct. 3 meeting. The nearly 2,500 signatures on the internet petitions came from all over the world, opposing the city’s decision to outsource animal care and control to the Cuyahoga County animal shelter.
Bay resident Tom Kauker read a letter on behalf of the FOBVK announcing that the group has secured funding from a local private donor to construct a new kennel. The group has also received commitments from volunteers to assist with the planning and operations of a new facility. Kauker asked the council members if the city would work with the FOBVK in the planning stages, as well as manage the kennel.
Council President Brian Cruse agreed to meet with the group in the next two or three weeks to discuss the situation.
Nancy Brown (pictured) followed Kauker with a statement supporting the construction of a new animal kennel at the Oct. 3 city council meeting. Brown also inquired about the status of $7,000 in residents’ donations to the city for the purpose of animal care and control, as well as a $1,000 American Express gift card donated for the same purpose.
Finance Director Steven Presley responded that the $7,000 was budgeted for animal care and any funds not used in 2011 will be carried over to 2012. The gift card remains unused.
October 3, 2011
To: Mayor Deborah Sutherland, Police Chief Wright and Members of Council, City of Bay Village, Ohio
From: Friends of Bay Village Kennel and Concerned Citizens
Over the past year, Friends of Bay Village Kennel (FOBVK) has worked to raise awareness about the status and operation of the Bay Village animal kennel. We found that many of our citizens were unaware of the kennel’s existence and that it was operated to provide safe harbor for escaped pets of Bay’s residents as well as to hold stray or abandoned animals until owners or adopters could be found. FOBVK has also worked to raise funds to help with the construction / maintenance / operation of an improved or new kennel.
In light of the fact that our existing kennel must be demolished to allow for the construction of the mandated salt truck wash station, a new kennel is the only remaining option.
We are pleased to be able to tell you, tonight, that FOBVK has secured sufficient funding, from a local private foundation and from donations, to completely fund the construction of a new kennel facility. In a previous conversation between members of FOBVK, Mayor Sutherland and Mr. Dan Galli, a proposed location for the new kennel was tentatively determined to be at the police station, at or near the police garage, on Wolf Road. We are now at a point, and because time is waning before our existing kennel is destroyed, where further serious conversation can be held to determine the scope of the project, its cost and a time frame for design and the completion of construction.
Additionally, several concerned citizens have offered their services, on a pro-bono basis, to provide assistance with:
Also, several volunteers have stepped forward to assist with:
We are very pleased to be able to offer assistance to this substantial degree.
Over the past several months, relationships have been established with local financial, business and animal support people. Their interest is bolstered by the 2,428 signatures obtained on two recent petitions expressing the need, as well as desire, for the kennel to continue its operation. Many concerned constituents view the need for a kennel to be a matter of safety, as well as practical and humane animal control.
We look forward to the start of planning discussions with committee, or whomever from city administration, the police department and the service department, to plan and execute the construction of a practical, efficient kennel of which all in our community can be proud.
It is important, however, that there be a commitment from the city to manage the facility and to provide proper liaison with organizations or individuals that can help with adoptions, rescues or foster care.
We ask that you consider leaving existing ordinances relative to animal care and control in place until a plan for a new kennel can be either adopted or rejected.
Our friends, the animals, are depending on us to be the care-takers and providers that nature intended for humankind. We look forward to working with you to do so.
Thank you.
Friends of Bay Village Kennel.
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