Local News in Brief : Vote Kills Citizens Panel on Animals
Los Angeles County supervisors deadlocked Tuesday on a proposal to form a citizens commission to implement measures to improve the troubled Department of Animal Care and Control.
The 2-2 vote killed at least temporarily the creation of a 13-member Citizens Commission on Animal Care and Control. Supervisor Deane Dana, the fifth member of the board, was out of town.
Mike Antonovich, who introduced the proposal, said he would resurrect it and seek the support of Kenneth Hahn, who cast one of the opposing votes. Hahn, who earlier expressed support for the commission, said it would be improper to form such a panel before a new director is named for the department.
The previous director, Brian Berger, was fired in December, two months after a county audit blamed mismanagement for shoddy security that resulted in the disappearance of nearly 200 animals in a month from county shelters.
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