Culver City Beat

Front Page Online is reporting that LA County has approved of the City Council's plan to use a privately run Hawthorne animal shelter for most of the animals picked up in Culver City.  The city uses County animal control services and the normal procedure is to use the County's facility in Carson.

Responding to a City Council request, a County official confirmed yesterday that on-duty animal control officers patrolling Culver City will, when appropriate, be ordered to deliver animals to a privately operated shelter in Hawthorne instead of exclusively to the County facility in Carson. Uncertainty over whether the County would agree to transport some, but not all, Culver City animals to a so-called rival shelter was a major sticking point in last Monday’s City Council meeting in the Council’s ongoing attempt to cobble together its own independent animal control program under a two-year pilot plan.

Read the full FPO article for background on the issue that led to Monday's contentious council meeting.