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Judge’s wife hired to new post of executive dog warden
By ED RUNYAN
WARREN
Trumbull County commissioners have hired a former candidate for commissioner to the newly created position of executive dog warden.
Gwendolyn Logan of Farmington will oversee operations at the Trumbull County Dog Kennel on Anderson Avenue in Howland.
She ran unsuccessfully for commissioner in the 2004 Democratic primary against Dan Polivka. She’ll begin the new job in early October. It’s a part-time position paying $26,000 per year.
Logan, who is married to Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, is a dog breeder and animal lover who also has experience in advertising and marketing, said Commissioner Frank Fuda.
“She has the most experience with animals and people,” Fuda said. The position was advertised July 16-25.
Fuda said Logan has proposed using additional methods of advertising the availability of dogs at the kennel in an effort to find adoptive homes for more of the animals that come into the kennel’s care.
Animal rescuers lodged numerous complaints with the commissioners in late 2007 about the rate of euthanasia of the dogs coming to the kennel at the time.
About 86 percent of the animals were being euthanized — nearly double the state average.
County officials upgraded the kennel and expanded its capacity in response.
Mike Robinson, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers Local 2394, said the union agreed to a request by the county commissioners to change the contract between the dog-kennel workers and the county to allow a nonunion manager to be brought in.
In the past, one of the union dog wardens was assigned to handle budgeting, discipline and other administrative tasks at the kennel.