Central government subsidies accounted for NT$5 million of the funds and the city government’s secondary reserve funds made up NT$7.5 million. The city has applied to the Legislative Yuan to increase the allotted secondary reserve funds by NT$12.8 million to NT$20.3 million. Contractors must respond within 30 minutes of a reported snake sighting, catch the reptile and report to the bureau within four hours, he said. Lu said that her administration was forced to use the secondary reserve funds, as former Taichung mayor Lin Chia-lung’s (林佳龍) administration had not allotted the necessary funds. Such operations should have their own funding, as the secondary funds are reserved for natural disasters, Lu said.

Source: Taipei Times June 26, 2019 15:56 UTC