Marshall Resident Asks Clark County for Animal Control Help

Clark County Board | June 18, 2026

Article Summary: A Marshall resident told the Clark County Board on June 18 that she has found numerous stray cats and dogs on her fenced property and has gotten no help from city police, the mayor or the sheriff’s department. Chairman Rex Goble said county animal control is funded, but that there are issues between the county and the City of Marshall.

Animal Control Public Comment Key Points:

Heather Strohm said she lives on a fenced double lot in Marshall where she has found numerous cats and dogs that made their way onto the property.

She said she has spoken with the Marshall Police Department, the mayor and the sheriff’s department with no help, and asked for funding for county animal control.

Goble said animal control is funded but that there are issues between the county and the City of Marshall.

The board took no action; the item came up during public comment, and the nature of the county-city issues is not described in the record.

CLARK COUNTY — A Marshall resident pressed the Clark County Board on Thursday, June 18, 2026, for help with stray animals, and drew a response from the board chairman pointing to unresolved issues between county government and the City of Marshall.

Heather Strohm, identified in the minutes’ attendance list as a Marshall resident, told the board she lives on a fenced-in double lot in Marshall. Her property has been recognized as a wildlife habitat by an organization the minutes identify as the National Wildlife Association.

Strohm said she has found numerous cats and dogs that have found their way into her property. She has spoken with the Marshall Police Department, the mayor and the sheriff’s department with no help, according to the minutes, and she asked the board for funding for the county animal control operation.

Chairman Rex Goble explained that animal control is funded, but that there are issues between the county and the City of Marshall.

The minutes do not elaborate on those issues, do not state whether they involve an intergovernmental agreement, cost-sharing, jurisdiction or service calls, and do not record any other board member speaking on the subject. No motion was made and no action was taken; the exchange occurred during the public comment portion of the agenda.

What the County Has on Hand

Clark County’s animal control function was represented in the room. The minutes’ attendance list records Tammy See of animal control among those present at the meeting, though the minutes do not record her addressing the board or being asked to respond to Strohm’s request.

Animal control elsewhere in the county was not otherwise discussed at the June 18 meeting, and no animal control budget figure, call volume, staffing level or shelter capacity appears anywhere in the record of the meeting.

Because the county’s dispute with Marshall is the chairman’s stated reason that a city resident’s complaint has no clear path to resolution, the substance of that dispute is the central unanswered question raised by the exchange. The county board’s own record does not supply it; the county and the city would each have to be asked directly.