LOS ANGELES : Longtime Employee Named Animal Regulation Chief
A 21-month search for an administrator at the Los Angeles Department of Animal Regulation has ended with the selection of Gary S. Olsen, a 24-year employee who has served as the department’s interim chief.
The city’s Animal Regulation Commission selected Olsen this week after the top candidate for the job dropped out, citing concerns that Mayor Richard Riordan’s Administration would collapse the department into the county Department of Animal Care and Control.
Olsen, 50, will be paid about $90,000 a year. He will oversee a department that has been criticized for keeping animals under poor conditions and destroying pets before owners could claim them.
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