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Will Radnor Sign Animal Control Contract?

The newly formed Animal Control Board calls on the county's 49 municipalities to sign the new animal control contract.

The newly formed Animal Control Board called on the county's 49 municipalities to sign the new animal control contract.

The will stop taking stray animals from municipalities, with the goal of becoming a no-kill shelter, on Dec. 31.

Animal Control Board Chairman Thomas Judge Jr. called the municipalities' responses to the contract "woefully disappointing," according to the Delaware County Daily Times.

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According to the Times, municipalities are being asked to sign a three-year, $250-per-animal contract.

The SPCA bills municipalities which does not necessarily cover overhead costs of maintaining the facility.

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With the approaching and the county's , officials are working to develop an alternate animal control plan for the first third of 2012.

If , the legal holding facility for a stray is the police department in the township where the stray was found, Director of Community Relations at the SPCA Justina Calgiano previously told Patch.


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