Volunteer Angela Kimsey takes a moment to visit with a cat while she cleans up a the SPCA of Bradley County Animal Shelter.CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The Bradley County Commission has been asked to decide whether it will authorize stray animal control services for county residents and how much it is willing to spend to do so.
The county’s $80,000 contract with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Bradley County does not include stray animal pickup. It covers just an animal shelter available to county residents and animal pickup services for county emergency responders.
In a recent meeting, Commissioner Dan Rawls received varied responses when he posed the questions to fellow commissioners.
“My answer to that is yes, we do,” said Commissioner Johnny Mull. “We had it before, we need to have it again. … How we’re going to get there, I don’t know.”
Those services came in a longstanding agreement with the Cleveland Animal Control, but that ended in July 2013 for cost reasons, Mull said.