Home at Last Humane Society has launched a community survey to better understand The Dalles community’s priorities for its services, and recommendations for creating reliable funding sources in the face of increasing costs.  Home at Last is our region’s primary provider of animal management partnership with law enforcement, rescues, adoptions, and community spay and neuter support.  The organization has seen a 25% increase in costs of labor, food, medicine and facility maintenance over the past 18 months.  The survey asks for community input on how Home at Last should address the increasing costs of running shelter operations and maintenance of its aging facility.  One of the options for ongoing funding is a 10-cent county-wide levy that could be placed on the November ballot.  This levy of 10 cents per $1,000 of assessed value would generate approximately $250,000 for the shelter each year.  The survey is available through June 19, and can be accessed at homeatlasths.org.