The people who run the only no-kill, open-admission shelter in the county say they currently operate on roughly $300,000 a year from the county. However, they say with inflation, a rise in intake and upkeep of the building, AWL will need $1.3 million a year to be able to stay afloat.<\/p>\n
The county has only offered around $500,000 per year for funding. District 4 Commissioner Stephen R. Deutsch released a statement this week.<\/p>\n
“There is no question that the AWL needs more support from the County, and they’ve needed it for a long while. I agree with them,” Deutsch said. “I’ve been making that case directly to our County Administration negotiating team, and I’m going to keep making it.”<\/p>\n
Executive Director Tara Zajas says the doors to the Animal Welfare League will not close. But the opportunity for all animals brought in to have a roof over their heads is slim.<\/p>\n
“The animals that are here will still remain here. The animals that the county brings us, I don’t know where they’ll go,” Zajas said. “That’s a question you’re going to have to ask your county commissioners, because they won’t come here. Sadly, I don’t know what the answer is for them.”<\/p>\n
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The shelter’s next discussion with the county is scheduled for a county workshop on Tuesday, June 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A Charlotte County commissioner is speaking out for the first time about the Animal Welfare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[39366,209,211,210,853,28,14483],"class_list":["post-293658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-animal-welfare-league","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte-county","tag-florida","tag-port-charlotte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}