(VIDEO) CONFUSION REIGNS AT SC DOG POUND. COMMISSIONERS ARE DOING VERY LITTLE TO CLEAR THINGS UP? SCPR: "COMMISSIONERS NEED TO APPOINT A 5 MEMBER INVESTIGATORY COMMISSIONER TO DEAL WITH PERCEIVED PROBLEMS WITH THE POUND!

There is a lot of talk going on with the Stark County commissioners about the "problems" at the Stark County Dog Pound (SCDP - Pound), but very little action.

And confusion seems to reign supreme among volunteers at the SCDP on a number of issues.  At Thursday night's meeting (November 18th) of the Stark County Dog Pound Advisory Board (SCDPAB), it was apparent to one and all that the confusion was the dominant topic of discussion.

One topic that ought to catch the attention of Stark Countians is whether or not dog abuse is taking place at the SCDP.  Thursday night SCDPAB members were totally confused as to Commissioner Pete Ferguson's take on the existence or not of abuse at the Pound.  Members said (see video below) that Ferguson has said (contractorily) that his view of video taken by video equipment installed at the Pound revealed evidence of serious questions of abuse and, then, on another occasion - according to board members - that "all?" he saw was a bunch of employees sitting around doing nothing.

And there are other issues.

Questions of the financing the operations (e.g. funds to buy sufficient food for the dogs), capital improvements in terms of needed repair, the role of volunteers at the Pound and on and on and on goes the list.

SCDPAB members are in the process of developing a form for volunteers at the Pound to use to record incidents at the Pound which the volunteer believes to be a problem in need of a response/solution.

The SCPR would go one step further.  The SCDPAB or the commissioners or Warden Tetreault should develop a Pound user evaluation form for citizens who use the services of the Pound to use in evaluating the quality of their experience with Pound employees.

Moreover, the SCPR believes that with the entrance of newly elected Commissioner Tom Bernabei at Wednesday's upcoming meeting (November 24), the commissioners need to seize the day on all of these issues and appoint a official five member nvestigatory commission composed of a commissioner (either Ferguson or Bernabei), a SCDPAB member, Warden Reagan Tetreault, a citizen who is not a Pound volunteer or SCDPAB member who has experience in dealing with the Pound and Canton law director Joseph Martuccio to develop a list of perceived problems with the Pound and to either substantiate them and recommend specific remediative measures or to debunk them and thereby put them to rest.

Here is a video of SCDPAB members discussing the contradictory take of Commissioner Ferguson on whether or not he believes the video he has seen is evidence of abuse.