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Show Davis animal control contract signed work with the county commission to develop a reasonable funding plan for animal control. The city council members vowed to put pressure on the county to fund the program solely from coun ty funds and to keep this pressure on through the county budgeting process. Kaysville's elected officials are hopefijl that other city leaders in Davis County will join with them in By DON ETA GATHERUM Staff Writer KAYSVDLLE After three months of discussion, the Kaysville City Council Tuesday evening voted to sign the animal control contract for 1991 with the Davis County Animal Control Department. Depart-ment. In making this decision, the council emphasized again that they are extremely pleased with the service ser-vice provided by animal control and with the facility that it operates. "The $14,200 Kaysville City pays annually into the program is a bargain' Mayor Brit Howard said. The council is still displeased with the system the county developed de-veloped two years ago to tax cities for this service that had been a county-financed program for many years. Councilmen Craig Taylor and Doug Stanger said they wanted Kaysville City to continue to pressure the county commission to have a specific levy within the counw Taxation structure for animal F contra. "This is solely a function of :o;rity government,' Taylor said C(''Xilman Beck Sheffield, the only council member to vote againsr signing the agreement, said lie fe!' :f the cities were going to pay a hare of the cost for animal contra-., they should have input on a'; ann;il control governing board. Ma y r Brit Howard indicated th.it . ommissioner J. Dell Hnlbroofc had told him the county considered the arrangement to have the cititts pay a share of the animal CO nil of department's expenses was a pemianent situation, contrary to what was stated by previous county commissioners when the cities were first icvied an animal control assessment Howard said the commissioner was agreeable to the proposal to set up the, animal control department under an interlocal agreement, giving giv-ing cities some direct input into the budgeting and control of the department. The mayor indicated that Holbrook had supplied him with-general with-general answers to other questions that council members have had about the funding and assessments within the animal control department. depart-ment. "They (the commissioners) couldn't be specific about what unincorporated areas are paying. The best they could do was say they are being treated the same as incorporated incor-porated areas of the county," Howard said. "I believe this is the best information we can get from the county because it is all that they have. ' . t. Even though the animal control contract has been signed for this year, the mayor and council do not consider the issue resolved. The mayor said he would continue to |