Madera County animals are in crisis…
Madera County and the City of Madera are overwhelmed with stray, starving, and suffering homeless animals. The existing Madera County shelter and Animal Services Department is underfunded, undersized, and in disrepair. There are no other realistic, available funding sources for expanding or improving the current Madera County Animal Control Services. Without this measure and an affordable veterinary clinic, our homeless animals will continue to re-produce, starve, and suffer.
Consolidating and updating city and county animal ordinances and animal control service departments improves efficiency, services, and public safety. Two residents have been killed by packs of roaming large dogs, and another 74-year-old man was mauled nearly to death in Chowchilla.
The cities of Madera and Chowchilla urgently need updated, effective animal control ordinances and expanded, improved animal control services.
A Solution: Ballet Initiative for a New Animal Shelter
Madera can raise between $5 and $6 million annually with the passage of this one-quarter of one cent (.025%) sales tax increase, or about $4 a month per person, depending on sales tax revenues. This measure will build, consistently fund, and operate a new, multi-acre animal shelter complex and a consolidated animal services department, and build, staff, and operate a separate, nonprofit, new spay-neuter veterinary clinic with affordable services to help animals, reduce suffering, and reduce stray animal populations. The funding of this measure shall be restricted solely for these local purposes listed herein audited annually, and its implementation and use shall be subject to the oversight and approval of the residents’ founding board committee.
The Ballot Initiative will:
We Need Your Help to Make This Possible
The Madera County animal crisis is getting out of hand. The proposed ballet initiative will provide needed funding to make Animal Services more accessible to Madera County residents, help control increasing stray animal populations, and offer affordable spay, neuter, and vet clinic services. We need your help to get this initiative on the Madera County ballet. Click below to find a Petition location.
Want to read the approved ballot measure? Click here.