{"id":7172,"date":"2008-05-02T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T23:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/county-council-oks-dollars-for-shelters\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:45:33","slug":"county-council-oks-dollars-for-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/county-council-oks-dollars-for-shelters\/","title":{"rendered":"County Council OKs dollars for shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The King County Council on Monday approved $965,000 in additional funding this year for immediate upgrades to the county animal shelters in Kent and Bellevue.<\/p>\n<p>The money will help pay for new cat cages, new dog runs, an increase in shelter staffing, additional veterinary care, new cages for the animal-control trucks and oversight of shelter operations by the King County Auditor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur first responsibility is to the health and safety of the animals that are in our care,\u201d said Council Chairwoman Julia Patterson in a county media release. \u201cReleasing these funds allows for these life-saving changes to get under way as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>County Executive Ron Sims proposed last week for the Council to approve $965,000 in additional funding for the Animal Services Care and Control division in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Besides its shelters in Kent and Bellevue that house nearly 13,000 animals each year, the county also provides animal-control services to unincorporated areas and 37 cities within the county, including Kent. The City of Seattle has its own animal-control officers and operates an animal shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the improvements includes $570,000 from a county animal-benefit fund that grew for more than 20 years from public donations. The rest of the money will come from the county\u2019s capital improvement budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King County Council on Monday approved $965,000 in additional funding this year for immediate upgrades to the county animal shelters in Kent and Bellevue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":7173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}