The St. Louis County Council voted Tuesday night that it has no confidence in Public Health Director Kanika Cunningham’s leadership of the county animal shelter.

The 6-to-1 vote was to pass a resolution based on a report with recommendations from the council’s Ethics Committee. The vote of no confidence was one of these recommendations. It also recommends an online dashboard with statistics on the shelter and notes that the county is not required to operate an animal shelter at all.

Council Chairwoman Rita Heard Days said she hopes the vote leads Cunningham to make changes.

“(The vote is) a message to Dr. Cunningham,” Days said. “I’m hopeful that she’ll see that and she’ll rectify some of the things that have happened under her watch.”

She said the vote was largely a way for the co

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