Dr. Doyle suggested we contact Rhonda Shelton from Bridals of Regiss Park in Glasgow. This morning we unsucessfully attempted to call her. The proposed date for the forum is Monday, June 3, 2002 at 7:00 P.M. at the Hart County Courthouse. We contacted Terry Shelton this morning to see if we can conduct the forum on the above mentioned date. We still need to contact Dewayne Forbis about making a radio announcement. The flyers are made, just not posted yet do to the unofficial date. We are now developing an ad to post in the Hart County News Herald.

We are struggling to organize our public forum. The official date has not yet been decided.

The total number of signatures acquired on our petitions is 1,370. We are in the process of making flyers to announce our public forum. That is all we have to report as of this time.

We are planning on holding a public forum to educate people the importance of spaying and neutering pets. So far Terry Shelton has agreed to speak on behalf of our local government. Yesterday I went to Hartland Animal Clinic and spoke with Dr. Doyle. He has also agreed to speak. Further arrangements are being made in efforts to organize this forum. The importance of responsible pet ownership will also be addressed at this forum. The goal of this forum is to develop some type of Hart County Animal organization.

We have a total of 1,056 signatures on the petitions we have counted so far. This is a relatively good number considering the petitions were only up less than two weeks. We still have a few more petitions to collect. We will update the total as soon as the information is available to us.

Nothing major to report today. Our letter to the editor of the Hart County News Herald was published in last weeks edition. We are continuing to collect our petitions.

On Wednesday, May 8, 2002 we met with Hart County Judge Executive Terry Shelton. We already knew what he was going to say before we went...His usual answer to EVERYTHING. He pretty much told us getting the building built would be no problem, but with our county's budget we couldn't afford to maintain it. He says the money just isn't there. What I'd like to know is where are all of our tax dollars going? He suggested we "educate the public" about the importance of spaying and neutering pets. I must agree that if it weren't for irresponsible pet owners there wouldn't be a need for the shelter, BUT I also feel like this was an attempt to discourage us to continue wanting a shelter. I, however am not discouraged one bit. If anything, this encounter has deepened my desire.