The safety of our citizens should always be of number one importance to all of us. I will work with the commission to accomplish this goal. In addition, I would like to see Animal Control established as its own entity and removed from the control of the Sheriff's Department. It is my opinion Animal Control could be run more efficiently as a separate department. As Forsyth County becomes urbanized, I think we have to continually review our ordinances and laws concerning the rights and privileges of living here.
Animal control is a key issue as population density increases.
There is simply no excuse for having laws on the books and poorly or haphazardly enforcing them. I was shocked by the statistics your message quoted as to the volume and severity of the shortage of staff and the velocity of the increase in volume of calls. I would like to understand more of this and what steps have been taken to resolve the enforcement and why those steps were ineffective. I look forward to working with your organization and certainly look forward to getting to the bottom of this risk to our protection and quality of life. I simply do not understand how this could go unaddressed.