Novato police hoping to continue K9 program I am a board member for the newly formed Novato Police K9 Foundation. It was recently established as part of a Leadership Novato Project. Members of the community have joined with an adviser from the Novato Police Department.
The Novato Police K9 Foundation is a nonprofit organization. Using donations, police hope to fund the acquisition of several new K9s to continue the 20-year history of deploying well-trained canines. The cost to purchase and train a service dog has become increasingly challenging.
The average service life of a K9 is about six years. When a K9 retires from duty, the affiliated police officer maintains the care and medical expenses. It is our hope that the foundation will provide a health and medical policy to help K9s in retirement.
Peter Pelavin is the president of the foundation and Sgt. Sean Sinnott is the secretary-treasurer. I serve on the board with Dan Hanlon and Keith Wheeler.
We are asking the community to help support the K9 program with tax-deductible donations. Go online at novatopolicek9foundation.org.
At Marin Humane in Novato, foundation representatives staffed a donor table at the annual Woofstock all-day picnic celebration. We were pleased with the many inquiries about continuing Novato’s police K9 program. — Penny Hansen, Novato Town Council has put Fairfax in very bad spot From my perspective, our local system of government in Fairfax has completely broken down.
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