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Good morning. Um, welcome to our monthly
or I'm sorry, our quarterly board
meeting. And I realize I just shut down.
Oh, there we go. It is Thursday, October
23rd, 2025, 9:00 a.m. So, I'm going to
call us to order. And if you'd please
join me for the pledge of allegiance.
I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all
and we'll go ahead and determine our
quorum. Uh, Commissioner Sanchez,
sorry, I wanted to make him have to grab
a microphone.
Present.
Thank you.
Exeicio member Ward
present.
Board member Campbell
here.
Board member Peek
here.
Board member Gates
here.
Councelor Corin
here. And vice chair Shao Hernandez
present.
And I chair Becky Graham am present. So
we have established our quorum. At at
this time I'd call for a motion to
accept our agenda.
So move. Shelder Hernandez.
Thank you. Second, Sanchez.
Thank you. And
I'll go ahead and call the question.
Exeicio member Ward, although I guess
you don't have to test necessarily vote
on these since we have quorum, but I
always care about your opinion.
Commissioner Sanchez,
yes.
Board member Campbell,
yes.
Board member Peek,
yes.
Board member Gates,
yes.
Councelor Corin,
yes.
Vice Chair Shawandez,
yes.
And I, Chair Graham, vote yes. Um uh
just a quick change on our minutes for
approval. Uh updated the date from April
to July. So sorry for that little snafu.
Um but I'd call for approval of the
minutes from the last quarterly board
meeting held on July 24th, 2025.
So moved.
Second.
Thank you. We're moving right along.
Commissioner Sanchez.
Yes. Board member Campbell,
yes.
Board member Peek,
abstain.
Board member Gates,
yes.
Councelor Corin,
yes.
Vice Chair Shallo Hernandez,
yes.
And I, Chair Graham, vote yes.
We are moving. So, we are into our
reports and presentations. And very
honored uh to have with us this morning
for our community focus presentation,
Cat's Meow Adoption Center.
Yeah, please come on up.
Amy.
Great. Welcome. And if you'll just share
your name for the record and take it
away.
Okay. Good morning everyone. Uh my name
is Michelle Cororea. I am a founding
member of the Cats Meow and uh still a
board member and active participant in
our organization. I'd like to give a
quick shout out to Rick Han because he's
kind of the warrior who keeps things
rolling. Uh I've known Rick since the
zero and seven initiative which started
in 2012 and to this day he continues to
advocate for the animals. So he's the
one who extended the initial invitation
but I appreciate the opportunity to be
here this morning.
Okay. Do we have a full screen? Let's
see.
I don't know. I guess we'll just do it
this way.
No, no.
All right. So, we actually started uh
jinning around the idea of the cat's
meow in the fall of 2013. There was a
small group of us like-minded feline
lovers who wanted to build something uh
a little different from a typical
shelter environment. And Jake Sims was
part of that movement. I don't know if
you all knew Jake, but he was a re much
loved realtor. He has since passed, but
he found us the perfect property where
we reside to this day. Um, so we
actually opened our doors in the spring.
Uh, actually in the fall of 2014, my
husband Ard, who's here with me today,
he and I did quite a bit of work. We
epoxied the floors and built some inner
structures and things. And we actually
opened our doors uh in the fall, October
to be specific, of 2014.
And it there's a typo there. It should
be 2014, not 2024. Um so we've been
there a little more than 10 years.
Okay.
Okay, there we go. So, our physical
address, we're at 2211 North Mosquet
Street. We are open to the public on
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and
Sundays from 1 to 4. Um,
two different phone numbers. The first
one's mine. I take the majority of the
calls and forward them where they need
to be. We get a lot of calls seven days
a week from people needing help with
cats. Uh, we do have a website. We also
have Facebook and our Facebook uh
connects to our website and our website
also connects to uh Petfinder. So we
have a very active social media presence
which has really been a gamecher for us.
That happened a few years ago. So I
encourage you know all groups who do not
have an active social media presence to
to go that direction because it makes a
big difference in uh in the things that
you can accomplish.
It really does take an army to keep
things rolling, especially at our
organization. We have uh anywhere from,
you know, 80 to 100 cats and kittens in
our center. Uh we have two different
shifts of volunteers. The first shift uh
is from 10 to 1. Those guys kind of do
the heavy lifting, if you will. They do
the the majority of the litter box
scooping, the cleaning, and the things
that occur when the cats party all night
and leave a mess for them to deal with
in the morning. Um, we also have a few
good foster people and of course they
sort of take care of business on their
end as well, but we have two shifts
seven days a week and uh we have a few
people who do multiple shifts. Some of
them just come in for one shift. We have
a few people who uh Carol is there in
the picture and uh sheet just comes in
and kind of hangs with the cats and we
think that's really important too to
provide uh you know enrichment for some
of these guys especially the shy ones to
kind of bring them out of their shell.
Um as you can see we go through a lot of
food and litter. That's just a a pretty
close guesstimate. Uh, I did a little
bit of quick math and uh, so yeah, that
we go through a lot of supplies. I won't
even tell you how many paper towels we
go through. It's insane.
So, this is just a snapshot of, you
know, about the last five years of what
it costs to run a facility such as ours.
It's an enormous amount of money. Um 70
to 80%
pretty standard for the past several
years. Our vet expenses and that
includes things like microchips,
vaccines, other medications. We keep
some stuff. We have a good rapport with
our vets. They know that we, you know,
we don't abuse our privilege with them
and they allow us to have a small
stockpile of antibiotics and things
because it just comes with the territory
when you're dealing with this number of
animals. So, we have, you know, ringworm
meds and antibiotics and respiratory
vaccines and things of that nature that
we do inhouse to save money. But even
so, the majority of what you see there
on the screen, which you know amounts to
over a million dollars just in the past
five years, um about 75 to 80% of that
is medical expenses. We are an all
volunteer organization. Not a dime goes
to any of our staff or vol, you know,
we're all volunteer and uh so all the
money goes to the cats. That is all
privately raised. Um we get a few grants
here and there. Um, we do some
fundraising events. We do have some
adoption fees. Our adoption fees are $70
and our cats are fully vetted, meaning
they've had all their vaccines. They're
sterilized and they're microchipped.
So, it's a losing game. Rescue is a
losing game. We put more into these
animals than we get out through our
adoption fees. But that's what the
market will bear. You know, there's
other groups in the north, New Mexico,
Colorado, they get $150 to $250 for an
adoption. We just can't do that here.
It's not realistic.
So, since we broke ground, um we have
found good homes for about 3,200 cats
and kittens. Um that includes some
transports up north. Uh we were doing
transports into Colorado. Uh we
currently do a few transports into Rio
Rancho. We have a good rapport with a
group up there who do really good work.
Um so that's a little bit of transport,
but the majority of those homes have
been found right here in this area. Um
we also uh help do spayneuter, not only
for our own kitties, but for TNR, people
who are doing trapneuter return and some
people in the general public who don't
qualify for the spayneuter action
program. Um, we try and encourage people
to use that program because it's an it's
an excellent organization and a lot of
people in this area uh qualify and
surprisingly are not aware of it. So, we
try and spread that word as much as we
can. But for those people that are kind
of in the middle and maybe they have
large numbers of animals to sterilize,
even when you make pretty decent money,
it gets out of hand pretty quickly the
cost of sterilizing these guys. So, we
help with that. Um, and we probably do
about 900 a year, uh, spayneuter
surgeries, uh, help with that. Um, in my
opinion, I think the issues since I I've
been doing this work for over 20 years.
I was also the director of the ferrocat
program at the university when I worked
there, and it's just gotten worse. We
get more calls. There's more need.
There's a higher number of cats
specifically. Dogs may be the same, but
I deal with cats and from where I sit,
things have gotten worse. And uh in my
opinion, the only thing that's going to
change that is getting serious about
high volume spayneuter in this
community.
And that is it. Do y'all have questions?
Thank you so much. Um
questions.
Okay. I do I I don't want to make you
have to go back up in your presentation,
but it looked like uh from January
through August of this year, you were
already creeping pretty Oh, thank you.
pretty close to the entire the entirety
of 2024. So,
yep. We'll we'll probably be right at
300,000 by the end of the year.
Okay.
Yep. Um, so still do you obviously this
is a yearround
venture. Um, I know that softly spring
is kitten season, but really it's kitten
season all year round.
We have such a mild climate here. You
know, I think in the more harsh
climates, the animals kind of go into
dormcancy in some sense, but here they
don't. A prolific female can have four
liters of kittens a year in this
climate. Yeah. And uh those kittens can
start reproducing at about 6 months of
age. And they produce anywhere from, you
know, two to three to two three to six
or seven kittens. And even if you have a
50% mortality rate, you're looking at
exponential numbers.
The math is against us.
So you really you really have to spay
you you you can't kill your way out of
this. You can't adopt your way out of
this. Has to be spayneuter.
Yeah. Um but yeah, just noticing uh
these numbers, the the cost is obviously
not going down. So, it's a great
reminder for those looking to donate to
a wonderful cause. And then just a
personal compliment because I uh had the
great opportunity to interact with your
program uh for a community cat who has
since become my cat.
Oh.
Thanks to uh thanks to the help of
counselor Corin. uh when uh
Yay. Thank you.
Yeah. No, and I what I think was amazing
to see uh she went through uh she went
to I believe Sakoro for
TRC.
TRC. Yes. Thank you. Um it is such a
beautiful balance of factory precision
getting things done, but also great
heart and kindness. And I think that can
be a tough thing to mix and cats meow
does that beautifully.
Thank you. So you have just precision
processed down, but still it was such a
warm environment to come into and she is
extremely loved.
Yeah. Well, and you worked with Kim and
I got to give a shout out to Kim. She is
our she's she wears many hats, but she
she does all of our adoptions. I trust
her just
to more than I trust myself. And she
also is our surgical coordinator. She
and I work daily on medicating and
talking about the cats that need this
and that. So, she is really really a we
have so many great volunteers, but Kim
is just a really key part of our
organization and she's kind of the face
of cats meow and I'm sure you dealt with
her. So, uh so yeah, thank you for that.
Thank you, Councelor Corin. I I just
wanted to this is sort of side related
to you alluded to your 20 years of
history, but I I just want to just say
thank you for your you know you were
saying TNR before anyone here knew what
that was really I think
um and now we we accept that as as what
we expect you know or what we hope to
support and community um again
aspirationally but at the time when you
started flying the TNR flag it was not
it was not something that people
understood and I know that you've done
20 years of work to make to change that
rhetoric and I I attribute that to you.
So, thank you.
And I learned that from Kathy Billing.
Kathy was the founder of the feral cat
program at the university. She came from
Cal State Long Beach. She moved back
here to take care of her aging parents.
She brought her entire colony home with
her, built them a catio where they lived
out the remainder of their days. And so,
she's the one that really, you know,
started the whole process and got the
university engaged. And that's where it
all started for me. And uh yeah, I tell
people though it's like it is like the
mafia, man. You get in, you never get
out. So be careful when you get into
this business, but it is it's
lifechanging, not only for us, but
especially for these animals. And uh we
can't do it without everybody's support.
And uh we just thank you all for for the
opportunity and uh the support.
Thank you. In small world, I worked with
Kathy Billing at the NMSU grad school.
Yep. Yep. She's an awesome person. She's
still still keep in touch with her. She
has
amazing.
Yep. She and her three kitties. Thank
you.
Thank you so much for your time and uh
please stay in touch with us.
Absolutely. Thank you all.
Okay. Next up we have Oh yeah.
Uh next up we have our city and county
acco.
All right. Jumping to be first. Good
morning.
Good morning, board chair and members.
My name is Brian Holy. I'm the um case
worker for Donana County Animal Control
here to present the numbers.
There we go.
All right. So, for our reported stray
animals, we had 863 reported stray
animals. Uh, we were able to pick up 782
stray animals. Out of that, 284 were
stray cats and 498 were dogs. We had 35
sick or injured animals. We had 18 cats
and 17 dogs. We had 55 owner surrender
animals.
Um, which is better than the what we
had. The last one was 95. So, I'm glad
that went down for our report animal
calls for the comparison.
um
we're about about the same as we were um
for the year 2024. There wasn't much
difference between the numbers.
For our 4-year field return to owner
comparison,
uh for July, we had 43. For August, we
had 31. And for September, we had 27.
our additional animals picked up. Uh we
had no owner surrendered cats. We had 55
owner surrendered dogs, 35 sick or
injured animals. We had 32 welfare hold
animals. Um welfare hold animals again
are um any animals if Border Patrol um
the sheriff's unit or anybody that ends
up uh picking up someone and they have
animals with them, we will go and uh
pick up the animals as a welfare hold.
We had um a cruelty case come in
throughout that uh three months. We had
16 shelter quarantine animals. Uh six
home quarantine. We had two uh courtold
quarantine cases. And we currently have
10 live evidence animals um in our
courtold facility. We had two rabies
submissions. They were both bats and
they both came out negative. Thank
goodness. We had 56 diverted intakes. we
had 1,137
um educational and for our total calls
we had 2,93 calls. Um and for um Sanchez
um I know you usually asked what other
animals we usually bring in. We actually
had some different types of animals. We
had a ball python that we were able to
pick up and some guinea pigs, stuff like
that since you always ask for the
different types of animals.
Um, for district one, we had eight cats
and 25 dogs for 33 in total. Uh, for
district 2, we had 54 cats and 55 dogs
for 109. For district 3, we had 73 cats
and 132 dogs for a total of 205.
District 4, we had 61 cats and 87 dogs
for a total of 148. District five, we
had 59 cats and 90 dogs for a total 149.
District 6, we had 12 cats and 24 dogs
for a total of 36. And for district 7,
we had 17 cats and 81 dogs for a total
of 98.
Uh this is our comparison uh for the
stray cats that were picked up
and our comparison for the stray dogs
that were picked up
and then our reasons for owner
surrender. Uh we had 11 that were
vicious and or dangerous, 10 for
aggressiveness. We had one that the they
were unable to provide the medical care
for the animal. We had 10 that were sick
or injured. We had one that the animal
was too old um and they didn't know what
to do with it, so the owner surrendered
it. Uh we had 16 that they were unable
to care for. We had one that was an
escape artist. Uh we had two that came
from the same family. Um they had a
newborn baby and it was allergic to the
animals.
Uh we had one that they just had no time
for the animal. And then we had two that
the owner passed away.
And for that, I'll stand for any
questions.
All right. Thank you so much.
Good morning.
Good morning, Madam Chair, members of
the board.
Gino Himenez for city of Las Cusus. I
will present to you this third quarter
numbers. Um, I am going to continue to
do what I
have done in the past and I've included
July, August, and September numbers in
it to give you a reference point to look
back at those individual months.
However, I will fast forward slowly to
uh was it September to give you the
quarterly finals.
So, here's July's numbers.
And again you will see these numbers in
uh September.
Here's August.
If I'm going too fast, please let me
know.
And here I will begin with the
presentation. This is September's
numbers. Um with our next slide, it
shows the three-year uh stray animal
calls. So for the month of September, we
responded to 455 stray animal calls,
bring us to a total of 3,954
for this year. Uh here is our first peak
performance goal. 65% of reported
animals secure. That is our goal. Animal
control is able to do 49%.
Our next slide is our three-year field
RTO comparison for September. We were
able to field RTO 39 bringing us to a
grand total for the year of 344. Now,
these are animals that the animal
control officers captured or got in came
in custody of that had some sort of
identification, but they were unable to
um or they were able to be returned back
to their owners.
So, our goal is to return 25% of all
stray animal calls. For this month, we
were at 16.5%.
Here are the last two peak performance
measures. uh 10% reduction in stray
animal bites. Unfortunately, for
September, we had an increase of 56%
compared to last year's numbers. Total
of 149 reported stray animal bites
compared to 90 of last year at the same
time. And number four is a 10% reduction
in owner victim bites. That one has gone
down incredibly low. U but it's still we
haven't met our our goal. is a 1%
decrease uh from 91 reported stray
animal bites or owner victim bites to
92.
Here's our community cat program uh
graph. It shows for the month of
September we responded to 70 stray uh
cats and traps. 11 of those were
community cats which were released back
to the area. So, we had a total of 611
stray animal stray cats in trap calls
and we were able to release so far 114
community cats.
Finally, our reasons that we were unable
to build RTO uh 20 for dogs that there
was no contact at the home or by
residents. One was a PO box only and the
second one was had an El Paso address.
Uh, 10 chips were not updated. Six dogs,
the owners were at work and could not
meet the animal control officer. Two,
the owners were out of town. Two dogs
that had the chips, but they could not
reach, the animal control officers could
not reach the microchip company. One
dog, the owner couldn't pick it up.
Unknown reasons why there. Uh, one dog,
the owner was in jail. And one cat or no
contact at home or a resident.
Here are our reasons for owner releasing
animals for this quarter. Uh 25 dogs for
aggression. 24 dogs the owner states uh
there was too many. They had too many
dogs. Uh 12 dogs the owner could not
afford. 11 dogs for health issue with
one euthanasia request. Five dogs the
owner was unable to care for. Five dogs
kept escaping.
Five dogs for behavioral issues with one
euthanasia request. Four cats. the owner
was unable to care for. Three dogs the
landlord did not allow in their
property. Two cats for bites. Uh two
cats for health issues. One euthanasia
request. Uh two dogs owner had health
issues. Two cats the owner could not
afford vet care. Two dogs the owner was
moving and they could not take them to
their new uh residence. Uh one dog had
killed a cat. one dog, the owner was
elderly and according to her, the dog
destroyed everything. Uh, one dog was
too big. And finally, one dog old age,
another euthanasia request.
And finally, here's our monthly calls
for service. For July, we responded to
1,22 calls. August 1,149
and September 1,178,
bringing us a year to date total of
10,000 562 calls for serve.
And with that, I'll stand for any
questions.
Okay, thank you so much. Questions?
All right. Oh, I thought Commissioner
Sanchez, maybe you're about to sneeze. I
thought you were raising your hand.
Okay,
I can bring it back.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Okay. And our shelter statistics and
activities.
Good morning.
Hi. Uh good morning. It's Liz Cely, uh
interim director for the shelter. Um
before I begin the presentation, uh I
just wanted to take a moment um to
introduce you all to our new
veterinarian, Dr. Monty. He's here with
us today.
Uh he's worked with us at the shelter uh
for a while now, and he just recently
accepted the uh veterinarian position.
Hi guys. Good morning.
We're just so happy to have you.
Thank you very much. And I'm happy to be
here. Just to let you guys know.
Wonderful. Thank you. And thanks for
coming on over so we can smile and
applaud you. I I don't know that you
imagine this much applause in your
career, but we're going to keep doing
that.
No. And I know they've been short and
and needed help for some time. So,
thank you so much.
Thank you guys.
Okay. So, uh, these are our third
quarter numbers. Uh, so we'll start with
our current animal intake or animal
count. Um, 365, this was as of
yesterday, uh, 299 dogs, 65 cats, and
the one other uh was a chicken, but it
did get adopted at the end of the day
yesterday. So, already found it home.
Our uh total in or our intake numbers
from July through September is 2,655.
We did uh we took in 1,586
dogs, 152 cats, and 17 other.
And our intake methods, um so our
highest intake method is uh strays by
animal control. That made up 49.3%.
And then our second highest was the
strays by the public at 25.1%.
And our owner surrenders were the third
highest. So uh in a 3-month period we
took in 528 owner surrendered animals.
So our yeartoate intake uh is 7,569.
So, we are about 500 animals over uh our
year-to-day intake from last year.
The outcomes for the third quarter, so
um we did 700 adoptions. Uh we did
phenomenal there. That's really the
highest number we've seen in quite some
time. Um a lot of that was from our July
uh promotion. We partnered with the
Donana County Humane Society to do the
uh red, white, and cute promotion. And
in August, we had our clear the shelters
promotion. So, we did really well those
two months. Our reclaims uh 378.
And our rescues, we did 554.
Our community cats, these are the TNR
cats that go back out into the
community, uh we were able to TNR 334 of
those.
and our youth in Asia was 839.
So, uh that brings our total live
release or our live release rate for the
third quarter uh 69.1%
and the year-to-ate live release rate is
67.4%.
These are our returns for uh the last
three months. So there was 28 returns,
27 dogs, one cat, and uh those are the
reasons for the returns. Uh health
issues for the animal, behavior
problems, uh can't afford basic care,
landlord doesn't allow. Um so the
landlord doesn't allow this number would
have probably been a lot higher uh in
years past, but now um we do a lot more
counseling with adopters. So, we
actually sit down and take the time to
talk to them and make sure that they
have uh everything in place before they
adopt the animal. So, um with over se
with 700 adoptions and only one return
for landlord, um that that's a really
good number. It just shows that we're
doing our due diligence when we do the
counseling. Um lifestyle changes that
would mostly include moving uh other
pets incompatible. There were seven dogs
returned for that and wasn't a good fit.
There were six dogs returned for that
reason. The one cat that was returned uh
was for other pets incompatible. So,
they may have had just another grumpy
cat at home or a dog that just didn't
get along with the cat they adopted.
But overall, 28 returns in a three-month
period is is pretty good.
So, our transfers uh we did 454. These
are all of our rescue organizations. So,
we worked with a ton of rescues uh in
third quarter. A lot of these are from
out of state. There's a lot of local
ones on there. Um we just want to say a
huge thank you to all of our rescue
organizations that come in and help us
with our pets in Donana County. Um even
if they took one or they took 68, it
really makes a huge difference and we
really appreciate all of our rescue
partners.
um especially the ones that out of state
that they come in and you know they have
animals in their own state that they can
help but they still choose to help our
pets. So we're really appreciative to
all of them.
Our euthanasia reasons um there was 839
euthanas if you look at the blue uh
that's going to be the dogs. So the
number one reason for euthanasia for the
dogs is going to be timid fear biter.
Um, again, this is a behavior that's
completely natural. Uh, the shelter is a
stressful environment. Um, but it's not
always an adoptable behavior. So, we
really can't put the public at risk when
we get an animal that's a fear biter.
Um, we give them as much time as we can,
but when, you know, you have a revolving
door of animals constantly coming in, we
can't give them more than a few days
most of the time. So, that's really the
number one reason um probably throughout
the year that we euthanized. uh for
dogs, for cats, uh respiratory signs,
upper respiratory signs, non-treatment.
So, um we do have a medical building
that all of our animals under treatment
go to, and it's separate from our
adoption building. So, if a cat either
comes in with URI or breaks with URI, we
really want to remove it from the
adoption population immediately since it
is an airborne illness and it can be
contagious. Um the problem is if our
medical kennels are full, there's really
no place to keep that cat while we do
treatment. Um so that's the number one
reason that we uh euthanize cats during
this last quarter.
Our surgery count um in July, August,
and September, we did phenomenal. We did
the highest numbers that we've seen all
year. Um we really did well in July. We
did 509 surgeries and our year-to-ate
number um we've done 3,337
and our surgical team is just a handful
of surgical techs and a veterinarian in
a small room doing all of these
surgeries. So, um they're doing amazing
work and now with our new veterinarian,
our goal is to try and increase these
numbers as much as possible um with the
resources that we have. So, we're
excited to see uh what's to come.
our visitors, our total year-to- date
visitors, we've seen over 10,000 people
come to the shelter this year. In, as we
kind of predicted in July and August, we
saw a lot more people coming in uh due
to our promotions, our July promotion
and our clear the shelters promotion. Um
it dipped down a little bit in
September. Um but we still saw, 1561
visitors in September. So, that's still
a really good number. So, we're happy
that our pets are getting seen and that
people are still coming to visit
our marketing report for the third
quarter. Um, our clear our website had a
clear the shelters page this year. Um,
and it did really well. There was over
6,000 visits to that page. Um, our
social media visits from our website was
over 32,000. And our total web views was
uh 115,000 with 16,000 new registered
new users. Um, and these views are just
a click. Each one counts as a view. So,
if you view multiple animals during the
time that you're browsing, each new page
that you click on is going to be a view.
Um, but our website is doing really
well. We have a lot of information on
our website. Um, all of our animals, um,
our stray animals that come in, their
photos are posted in real time. So, a
lot of people utilize that to look for
their lost pets. They just keep checking
the website every day.
Our uh, volunteer hours, um,
our volunteer coordinator, Christie,
she's doing an amazing job. These are
the highest numbers that I've seen in
the many years that I've been there and
it just keeps getting better every
month. Um, in September we had 37 new
people sign up to be a become a
volunteer and they're all they help out
uh with everything from uh kitten
socialization to cleaning uh dog play
groups, walking, anything that we need
help with, they're there to support us.
And we see a lot of new faces every day.
I don't even know half of their names
because they're just coming in, you
know, new people every day. So, we're
really appreciative to all of our
volunteers that continue to support us
and our dogs and cats
and our foster program. Um, a huge shout
out to our foster coordinator, Vanessa.
Um, she manages this program and she
does an excellent job. Um,
if you can imagine, you know, in August,
you see there was 199 animals in foster.
So that's 199 animals that would just be
left at the shelter if we didn't run
this program. We do get the occasional
uh bird, rabbit, turtle, snake. Um those
were not really equipped to handle. So a
lot of times they go into foster right
away and nine times out of 10 the person
fostering ends up adopting them. Um so
again, we're really grateful to all of
our fosters and thank you to our foster
coordinator for running this program.
our upcoming events. So, right in the
middle, you'll see our big event coming
up actually this weekend is our
drive-through vaccination clinic. So, on
Sunday, we'll be at the Field of Dreams
from uh 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. And we
will have free and lowcost vaccinations.
And we also have some sponsored
microchips as well. Um our PetSmart is
also PetSmart puppy palooa is on
Saturday. So once a month, uh, we take
puppies out into the community for
adoption, um, at PetSmart. So that's
happening, uh, from 9:00 a.m. to noon.
And then every other Saturday, we're at
Petco.
Here's our dog of the week, Champ. Uh,
he's been with us, uh, I think since
March, so he was a puppy when he came
in. Uh, he is still looking for his
forever home.
and our cat of the week, uh, Moto Moto.
She has already been adopted, so we're
super happy for her.
Is there any questions?
Yes, Councelor Corin, and then I'll come
down to you, Commissioner Sanchez.
Thanks. Thank you, Liz. I I um I don't
have any questions. And I I I just
wanted to really give you a a I know
that you when you agreed to be in the
interim that was like you were like,
"Oh, for three months or so." and that
was like a year ago. Um,
I just want to really appreciate you for
bringing, you know, your your approach,
which is really thinking about the
animals and and trying to maximize
everything that the shelter does to get
animals out the door to to transfers. I
know that's where your heart is to fost
to fosters to adoptions. Um, and I know
that this job has meant taking on a lot
of administrative administr
managerial
um,
tasks that I know um, are really
difficult and not necessarily um, that
easy to navigate. And so I I know I I
feel like um, having worked with
executive directors throughout the time
of the ASCMV, I really appreciate the
commitment that you've brought to that.
And I know that um it's been a lot of
work, but I think you've done a really
great job in terms of trying to work as
best you possibly can at at making sure
that the shelter is functioning as as
well as it possibly can be. And you've
done you've done an extraordinary job.
And I just really want to appreciate
your hard work and thoughtfulness and
and trying to, you know, keep all of
those things that we're all worried
about all the time and then all of the
things that we don't see behind the
scenes that I know that you're really
working very diligently at and you I I
just want to appreciate you for that and
sorry that it's been like a year instead
of three months. Um but but thank you.
Thank you.
Who second that second by Graham and
yeah, interim needs a hard definition.
uh like that that should come with a
time parameter. But yes, thank you so
much, Commissioner Sanchez.
Thank you, Madam Chair, and and Liz. I
just want to say um again, I I think I
want to say thank you for stepping up
and continuing for this time. Um not so
much a question. It I I it was
originally a question until you got
through the whole presentation. and and
I I I'm still I know we're we're almost
a year into the new um setup for the
ASCMV
from monthly going to quarterly and so
it's like when I still look at some of
these numbers I have it it takes a
minute because I think like you noted
about the um the the lifestyle changes
and the changes in in how you're doing
the counseling um makes a big difference
and I think one of the things that that
that struck me was um the the the dog or
the animals that didn't work out or were
incompatible and it my mind then goes to
the foster program. Is is there a or or
even just like taking them on a foster
or child basis and then you pop up the
numbers of the foster program and
they're you know you got huge numbers
and then I have to remind myself that
for the quarter you had 700 adoptions. I
think going back to kind of how you put
it and framed it and yet you know you
had a a not even one you know maybe
about a 1%
is coming back. So I think y'all did an
amazing job u and and still the numbers
for the posture program is is amazing
too. So, I just want to say kudos to you
and the team of trying to work through
and trying to minimize those returns.
Um, trying to find those fosters and and
you know, kind of an awesome story here
with the cow of the week. Um, finding a
home before you even had a chance to
present. So, just want to say again,
kudos to you all and to the team for for
everything that you do.
Thank you.
Yes, I think we're all on the same
wavelength this morning, which is always
good. Um, but I do want to say
that seeing everything constantly going
up, whether it's adoptions or how many
animals are going out of state to other
homes and making sure that we're staying
on top of that. Surgeries is going up.
Everything is going up with you, Liz.
And I just want to say thank you because
I know that that is hard um to make sure
that we keep seeing the the growth of
the animal services center. Um, so
really give yourself a pat on the back.
Give your team a pat on the back. Uh,
you're this is a heavy lift and you're
doing it and and I'm appreciative of
that because I know that this has been a
long almost year. Um, but honestly it we
you know you would expect things to kind
of slowly just kind of fizzle out, but
they're not fizzling out with you. And I
want to say thank you for that. You know
you're we're proud of you. We're so glad
that you're in this role and constantly
rocking and rolling. So, give you and
your staff a big pat on the back.
Thank you so much.
Right. Thank you.
And
oh yes, sorry. Exicio member Ward.
Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you,
Liz, too. I appreciate your time and and
your position that you're at. And I know
every time we reach out to you in our
department, you've always been very good
working with us. And so I I I really
don't want to see you go from this
position because I really have come to
really enjoy you working with you there.
So, but moving um with my question on
the surgeries, um I know on one of the
other surgeries you have 514 surgeries.
Could you give me an just an an overview
of what those other surgeries represent
in regards to that?
Oh, sorry.
I think you had it up just
I did have it up and then I went to the
presentation. I'm so sorry. Um, so the
other surgeries are going to be um,
first of all, anything other than a spay
and neuter. Um they're also going to be
our public surgeries that we do at
lowcost and also our rescue surgeries.
So um if you look at the shelter foster
um there was 502 adoptions 986 TNRS uh
1,335
and so the other is going to be all of
the rescues that we do um and all of the
lowcost public t uh surgeries.
So the public that comes in for that
considers that. We do um try to do as
many as we can and this is a number that
we're trying to increase but you know
with all of our in-house adoptions our
um TNR surgeries and everything we we
only have a limited amount of um public
surgeries available. So um we're hoping
um with our new vet position that we can
increase that other and to accommodate
more public uh surgeries at low cost.
Thank you.
Anyone else? All right. Thank you so
much.
Thank you.
Moving into our committee reports. We'll
start off with finance. Good morning.
Uh good morning, Madam Chair, members of
the board. My name is Josh Sappel and on
behalf of the finance department of the
city of Los Cusus, I'd like to present
the unodudited financial statements as
of September 30th, 2025.
So to start with, we'll look at our
statement of net position. This is for
all funds. So it includes the general
fund, your capital fund, and your
special projects fund. So we have total
uh current assets. We have pulled cash
and investments of $1,862,479,
receivables of $550,
and our capital assets are $299,157.
This leaves us with total assets of
$2,162,186.
This of course is offset by our total
liabilities of $371,83
and a fund balance in all funds of
1,791,13.
We move on to our statement of revenues,
expenses, and changes in fund balance,
budget, and actual. So this is just the
general fund. We see total revenues of
1,763,328
and that's at 34.3% of the budget. We
have total expenditures of 1,37,853
and that's at 18.7%.
Our budget parameter, this is of course
the first quarter of the fin of the
fiscal year. Um, so our budget parameter
is 25%.
We can see that our revenues are at
34.3% which is well above that 25%. Of
course, the majority of that is due to
the fact that both the city and the
county uh provide a uh large upfront sum
to cover um cash outflows. So that's why
we see that being so large. And of
course, our total expenditure is at
18.7%. So that's actually well below
that parameter. So we're performing
well. Uh that left a change in net
position of $725,475.
uh our net position at the end of the
period and I want to apologize. I didn't
catch this until just now. Uh that
should actually be about 1.4 million,
not 889,000.
Um I apologize. I think this error was
made because I'm used to working in
Excel and so as I put these numbers in,
I thought it was going to add up at the
bottom. Uh that will be corrected the
next time we present.
So moving on, we're now going to look at
the each uh different program that we
have. Budget and actual for the
executive director program. We see total
expenditures of $37,115,
which is $18.1%.
Once again, that's well below our 25%
budget parameter.
Next is our medical director program. We
see total expenditures at $248,114.
again 16.5% so again well below the 25%
budget parameter.
Our kennel director program we see the
total expenditures at $398,177.
This is uh 18.9% of budget.
And finally our administrative
operations. Here the uh total
expenditures were $354,447
which is at 20.6% of the budget. And
again, that's still under the budget
parameter even though it's a little
higher than the other uh programs were.
Finally, we have a breakdown of the
grants and donations that are out and
the balances remaining. So far, the
total balance remaining in all uh grant
funds is $99,697.
I did want to point out that first grant
from the Humane Society for $2,400.
Um that will actually be cleared off by
next uh quarter. Um that was actually
for expenditures that occurred back in I
want to say 2023,
but unfortunately they weren't charged
to the correct project codes in the
system. So they weren't recorded as the
grant. So we're now uh working on
cleaning that up and that should be
cleared off of that uh by next quarter.
With that, I stand for any questions.
Thank you so much. Questions?
Looks like no. Thank you so much.
Okay, moving into executive
committee report and I will invite my
Did you want to say something
immediately or
Oh, no. Go ahead.
Oh, okay. Go ahead.
I was just getting ready just to support
you.
Oh, okay. Thank you. So, thank you so
much. Um, our primary directive has
obviously been our director search as we
were just talking about. Um, as uh we
were all thanking Liz from the bottom of
our hearts. Um, I want to thank my uh
director search subcommittee members uh
vice chair Shel Hernandez and board
member Gates. Um, because we have
finished our charge. We have three
finalists. Um, we will be coming out.
We're hoping uh next month we are
getting ready to schedule those visits
and I'll ask my fellow board members,
please don't scurry off at the end of
this meeting because we're all going to
compare calendars. So, um hopefully
we'll be able to firm up those dates. um
that as noted throughout uh the ASCMV
staff is going to have input in as we're
making this decision both through a
survey tool um that we're hoping to see
pretty soon from Afon, our hiring uh
company, and also uh through some
one-on-one visits. We're going to make
sure that each candidate comes out and
has the opportunity to tour the facility
and visit with staff uh one-on-one.
We're also going to have a community
survey and a community I'm thinking of
it loosely as like a meet and greet
opportunity for all of the finalists. So
hopefully so the community can have a
little more one-on-one person will get
to have some conversation. Um and we
will again we're going to give plenty of
notice on that. Um, anything
subcommittee? Anything you want to add
to that? Okay, cool. We've also talked
about um some great uh upcoming funding,
which I know until we firm those up, I
can't go into a lot of details, but some
new grants coming on board and also some
very generous estate gifts. So, uh,
kudos again to the shelter staff for
continuing to show the capacity to, uh,
win and attract that kind of funding.
Um, also, uh, you know, the exciting we
have our new vet on board and also, uh,
some additional personnel. Um, board
member, I think you're pretty through
your search, but you've been involved in
something. Things are happening. We'll
we'll just say it that way. Um, also
some job postings. Um, I wanted to thank
uh assistant city manager Sonia Delgado
who isn't able to be with us this
morning, but she has been instrumental
in getting some job openings posted
really quickly and also coordinating
some on the ground help to fill some
existing gaps. And we had also discussed
um some internal policy updates uh that
had been ongoing. That's just life with
a JPA. Um but thanks again to Liz for
spearheading um yet another yet another
duty that she has taken on. So much
appreciated. Um Councelor Corin and Vice
Chair Sheldon Hernandez, anything you
want to add from the executive committee
side?
Okay, cool. Uh, great. Any questions?
All right. Um, and finally, facilities.
Exapicio
member Ward.
Thank you, chair. Um,
okay. And I apologize. I did miss a
couple of the meetings um for various
reasons, but um I did get the report
from Liz on the last meeting. Um, so
some of the topics that were discussed
was flooding in the new adoption
building. So there was rainwater that
continues to seep through down through
the walls into the adoption area and the
front office and the break room. So
there was a sealant that was applied to
the outside of the building and as a
potential fix. Um, so facilities placed
a new work order in for and hopefully
they'll evaluate the situation. There
was also maintenance coverage.
um for the manager who's currently
working in the medical leave for several
weeks. Um the animal services will need
to rely more on the facility staff for
smaller repairs during this time. In the
playyard area, there's flooding. Um it
was previously reported on some issues
in the flooding area. It's still under
review and the city's considering some
solutions which may include rerouting
standing water, rainwater into a new
retention pond. Um there's a sidewalk
concern between the adoption building
and the medical building. Um which does
not have an ADA uh access ramp. Um so
they're looking at some um way to
resolve that. Um so that ways
individuals don't have difficulty
accessing the sidewalk. And then finally
the medical kennel area. There's some
repairs that need to be applied or were
applied for state funding to replace
medical kennel that has been repeatedly
repaired and it's nearing its end of its
usable life. Um and then the current
kennel areas there's a leak underneath
the and then underneath um which is um
creating a risk contamination water
spreading um illness such as giardia or
coxidia. So, if the funding is allowed,
it will cover replacement kennels and
necessary concrete repairs.
Hey,
anything else that you want to add to
that, Liz? We're good. Okay.
Okay. Thanks. Uh, questions?
And I'm wondering if last night and this
morning was maybe a test for that
sealant. Did it did it seem to work?
Okay.
Okay. Well, we'll take we'll be
cautiously optimistic about that. All
right. Thank you so much. Um, so at this
time, we'll move into our action items.
Uh, first 7.1, a resolution to accept
state funding from the New Mexico Board
of Veterinary Medicine for the purposes
of spaying and neutering and to adjust
the FY2026 budget per exhibit A and
exhibit B. Move
approval, Sanchez. Second. Oh, sorry.
Second, Chela Hernandez.
Oh, the county has it. Thank you.
Thanks. Good morning again, Liz.
Hi. Good morning. Uh, so we had applied
for uh $50,000 uh in state funding uh
for spay and neuter purposes and we were
awarded that. Um we will be using those
funds towards um our reclaim spayneuter.
So if somebody wants to come in and
reclaim their animal, a lot of times
they can't afford the spayneuter fee.
So, um, this that's what this funds will
be used towards.
Thank love seeing the possibility of
removing a barrier to someone who really
is hoping to get their family member
back. Um, questions.
Oh, and board member Gates and then
Exophicio member Ward, did you have a
question or did you Okay, perfect.
Thanks. At some point, we start like
blocking each other out soundwise. Board
member Gates.
Um I just wanted to ask um because I
know I believe the city's new animal
ordinances specify after two they must
be sped or neutered. Do you all do that
regardless of how many times an animal
has come into your care?
So um we aren't really um
we don't really enforce many of those
laws. We rely on animal control to
enforce those. Um but oftent times we
have them pay the fees if they come in.
Um this grant would cover those fees for
them if they can't afford it.
Okay. But it's not it's just like
basically anybody reclaiming. It doesn't
matter that this is the second reclaim.
Right. Right. Yes. Anybody?
Any other questions
or or jumping into Yeah, please.
Uh Vanessa Perez, budget analyst for the
record. I just wanted to highlight a
small typo on exhibit A which is the
fund summary. Um towards the bottom part
which are the expenditures. There is a
line item titled legislative reserve.
That is not the legislative reserve.
That is the funding for the animal
services center. Um so there's a like a
quick flip-flop right there and I just
wanted to bring that up
but this funding is fully for the animal
services center. Okay.
Thank you. Uh councelor Corin. So, do we
need to
have an amendment on the record to say
that should be moved up one column, one
row? Do you think?
I'm not sure if that would require an
amendment. Um, I don't know exactly how
the processes work with Animal Services
Center. I could replace that exhibit to
flip the uh ASMV with Legislative
Reserve. I would just require direction.
If you I think if you replace it, we
can't approve it. Like I think that's I
think that's the issue is okay. Like the
way that So either way it would be repa
like we would just say this we're I I
recommend an amendment that switches
flips the ASCMV and legislative reserve
rows in exhibit A. um and the which we
can make the note on here and then
include that with our final approval if
we agree to the friendly amendment I
guess would be my not that there is such
a thing as friendly amendments but it is
that
is that a motion?
Yes.
Okay. I second the motion.
Okay. I apologize. Thank you.
No, not at all. Okay. Are there any
further questions
on the amendment?
Okay.
Right. So, so at this time um be calling
on a vote to accept the amendment as
suggested by councelor Corin
and Commissioner Sanchez.
Yes.
Board member Campbell.
Yes.
Board member Peek.
Yes.
Board member Gates.
Yes. Councelor Corin,
yes.
Commissioner Selj Hernandez, vice chair,
yes.
And I, Chair Graham, vote yes. And then
any lingering questions on the
resolution itself.
Okay, then we'll vote on that.
Commissioner Sanchez,
yes.
Board member Campbell,
yes.
Board member Pek,
yes.
Board member Gates,
yes.
Councelor Corin,
yes.
Vice Chair Shalo Hernandez,
yes.
And I, Chair Graham, vote yes.
Okay, thank you so much.
Next up, hold on, let me flip my PDF
here. I know it's 7.2. So much suspense.
Okay. A resolution providing for
determination of reasonable notice of
meeting date of the animal services
center of the Messia Valley board of
directors.
Move to approve, Sanchez.
Thank you. Second, Corin.
Okay. Thanks, Liz.
Hi. Uh so this one is just the
resolution um approving the uh
reasonable notice of our meetings so of
all of our board meetings uh for next
year.
Okay, great. Any questions?
Okay, go ahead and call roll.
Commissioner Sanchez,
yes.
Board member Campbell,
yes.
Board member Pek,
yes.
Board member Gates,
yes. Councelor Corin,
yes.
Vice Chair Shalo Hernandez,
yes.
And I, Chair Graham, vote yes. And then
similarly, uh, 7.3, a resolution
approving the 2026 holiday closure
schedule for the ASCMV.
Move to approve. Shall Hernandez second.
Sanchez
Liz.
Um, so this one is just the approval of
the holiday closures. Typically, the
ASMBB just follows what the city does
with the exception of two holidays that
we stay open.
Okay, great. Any questions?
Okay, call roll. Commissioner Sanchez,
yes.
Board member Campbell,
yes.
Board member Peek,
yes.
Board member Gates,
yes.
Councelor Quorin,
yes.
Vice Chair Shao Hernandez,
yes.
And I, Chair Graham, vote yes.
Passes. Um, okay. Moving to public
input.
Yeah, please come on up.
Sorry, our timer is not on today. Will
three do for you and I'll just softly
keep an eye on it.
Yeah, no, no, no worries. Good morning.
Good morning, Jerry Wheelis. I just had
a question actually for Liz if you don't
mind clarifying. Um, when we were
Jennifer brought up the ordinances, you
said that the ASMV doesn't enforce a lot
of them. Could you explain that a little
bit further? And also specifically when
an animal is brought in on its third
time, so it's already brought in second.
Are you waiting for animal control to
tell you that yeah, this animal must be
mandatorily sterilized or what's the
process with that? And also what is the
process if you've implemented anything
um with the exemptions?
If somebody has an exemption to the
ordinance, are they providing you with
the information or are they providing
animal control or just kind of logistics
and things like that with the new
ordinance? Thank you.
So, uh, just to answer that question,
um, so we do, um, require them to pay
the, um, fees for the spay and neuter
when they come in. So, um, that's the
part that we enforce is, um, the fees
that they pay when they come in. Um, as
far as the three uh, time um, ordinance
that comes in, um, we do really rely on
animal control to enforce these types of
things. So, um, when animals come in
and, you know, they've been reclaimed a
couple of times, we don't want to put a
barrier on them reclaiming the animal
again. Um, but we do charge them the
fees that are associated with the, uh,
sterilization.
I'm I'm not Gino, I'm not sure if you
supervisor Jimenez, I'm not sure if you
might want to talk a little bit more
about how these two things are
interacting
basically them ending up being reclaimed
versus you sort of the interface that
you have with the owners as they're if
they're violating the ordinance and how
that is sort of rolling out. I think
that's sort of part of what you're
talking about too, right Jerry? Is how
these two things because the shelter is
trying to not have animals be in the
shelter. you get you all are trying to
enforce the ordinance on the end of the
owners. So, so I think the it might help
if you might clarify some of the that
logistical stuff.
Um, Madame Chair, members of the board,
um, and Elizabeth Liz brings up a good
point.
They don't want to be the barrier there
to keep their animal from going home.
And I completely understand that and
agree with that. However, um if the
animal is brought in one, two, or three
times, it's up to the acco to put those
in the notes that this is the second,
third, or fourth impound, whatever the
number may be. Um, however, we can't
spay and neuter. Animal control cannot
spay and neuter. So, then we're having
to follow up with that uh homeowner or
that animal owner and then basically
force them to go get it spayed and
neutered. And if it's not done within a
reasonable time period, then we can uh
enforce and sight seize if we have to.
But that's kind of like our last step.
We just got them out of that the
shelter. We don't want to put them right
back into it. So, it's just a matter of
Liz and uh I communicating and seeing
that number uh where we are with that
number of impounds with that animal.
And if they if so that they they go back
to the owner and and you you all make a
note and then the second time happens
and I think you have been doing this all
along, right? You give the folks the the
resources, right? These are this is how
you get a SNAP voucher. This is the
shelter's sort of ability or capacity to
do this. And I think that also goes back
to the reclaim the instance of reclaim.
But um
and or you can get the animals spayed or
neutered and show us that you had that
happen. Right. That's another part of
that interaction.
Absolutely.
On your own totally separately.
One of the requirements when they do get
redeem their dog is that the animal
service center will um
uh collect that spayneuter deposit as
required by state statute. So, it's up
to that animal owner at that time to
take that animal to a vet, get it spayed
and neutered, and then go back to the
animal services where they'll either be
refunded the money or it'll be given to
the vet as a credit uh to pay that
spaying and neuter. Um, so it really is
in their best interest to get that
animal spay and neuter. They basically
already paid for it. U go get it done.
All right. If I could just add to that,
um we also do um a lot of times um if
they agree to get their animals spayed
and neutered, um we reduce the fees
greatly. So we want to do everything we
can to make sure that they get spay and
neutered. Um that's why this uh funding
for the um $50,000 is really important.
So if you know they can't afford it, we
are getting that um paid for that
surgery. It's not just something that
you know we're just doing for free. So,
we can offer that to a lot of people
that do want to spay neuter animals. Um,
there are some that just are adamant
that they just do not want to spay
neuter and in which case they do pay the
fees.
Thank Thank you both. Jerry, does that
get to your question or no? Sort of.
Other public input? Yeah, please come on
up.
and of course just state your name.
Good morning board members. I'm Dina
Dargo. Um I love that this meeting
opened with the cats meow mentioning the
need for high volume spayneuter and then
the $50,000 grant. Um I think that it's
really a need in our community now to
have a designated spayneuter program uh
that's affordable um that is not
necessarily SNAP and uh something you
need to qualify for. I've participated
in other cities in programs that used an
existing facility on a day it was closed
with minimal veterinary staff and
volunteers doing the check-in and the uh
payments through some sort of online
form. Um so that way there's just a day
a week where people know sign up pay
your fee go in and get your cat neutered
for $50 or your dog neutered for $100. I
think it's time for us to maybe look at
that. And I don't know who to go to with
this, but like I said, I've participated
in this numerous times and I would love
to see it happen here and I'm happy to
partner with anyone who wants to talk
about it.
Thank you so much. And please feel free
to email amongst the three of us as a
current executive committee. For sure
we'll do. and I have a friend at doing
this program in Tennessee as well and I
would love to get some statistics from
her and some uh information as to how
she got it rolling.
Love that. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Other public input
seeing none. Um
Oh, yes.
Sorry. I I know uh Miss Ward had a
comment I think to the last
Thank you so much and thank you
Commissioner Sanchez for I'm sorry I
keep I never I just don't turn my head
far enough to the right. Thank you.
No, no, we're we're good. We're just I
just wanted to make sure we get
Thank you.
get your attention.
We're here. No, thank you, Madam Chair.
I just wanted to comment on that and and
thank you for that. I think um our spay
and neuter is very important in this
community and I just wanted to um touch
base on that and let you know that our
the county has um as you as you
mentioned with SNAP because we have been
working with SNAP for several years now.
The county gives um 90 they allocate
$99,000 and last year we've given more
than 99 I think it was 140,000 to SNAP
for spay and neuters um for the
unincorporated areas of the county. Um
we have our own veterinarian for the
county. She's getting ready to go out um
I would say within the next couple of
weeks into the unincorporated areas as
well. And there is not not going to be a
barrier of who qualifies or who doesn't
qualify because there's not going to be
it'll be completely free to the
constituents out in the community. Um so
she'll be going out to these rural areas
and vaccinating microchip and spay and
neutering these animals out into the
community along with her, you know,
she'll have her her surgical techs out
there, the whole surgical team that'll
be going out there. This will be a brand
new program for the county. We're very
proud of it. Um and then along with that
and then we'll be in contract with
another vet to go in the southern area
and it'll be the same thing all free
spay and neuters along with keeping SNAP
as well so we can hit it on all ends. So
I wanted to make sure that you
understood that we're working diligently
trying to get this program up and going.
Thank you so much. Board member Gates. I
just would like to request that you
highlight that um at the next board
meeting. I'd love to see statistics of
the surgeries you do. I'd love to see
this the you know vaccines everything
you know even even the amount of SNAP
vouchers you gave out. I think that's
very important to highlight and maybe
that's actually even something we should
track a little bit better at the at the
shelter um is just when we have done
that um given a voucher for like
internal spayneuter and then also handed
or you know
uh received a SNAP voucher just so that
we can have that to see what is going
on. I think particularly with regard to
the program that is making those
surgeries happen.
Okay, great. Um moving on to uh board
input
and councelor Corin, I'm putting you on
the spot right now to share your social
media stardom.
I would not call it stardom, but we the
city is, as folks have been urging us to
do, doing a series of um communications
related to the new ordinance. In the
next month, we will have the new fee
structure for for folks who are um who
are in violation of that. And it will
also be published in the official
municode
documentation. I think that come we do
that twice a year. And so it's right now
in a slightly separated part until we
pay to get everything put back into the
official MUN code um publication. But we
are doing a series. Thanks to the
shelter for hosting our our brief PR um
filming
series for social media and that will be
in collaboration with a number of other
sort of city communication channels that
they're that they're working on
spreading those messages out not just
the social media things but I think
through other forms of communication
they'll be expanding the reach of and
trying to get folks
through an education campaign to sort of
have an awareness awareness of the new
Munich code rules related to spaying
spaying and neutering, microchipping,
etc., uh, dangerous dogs, barking, all
of the things that are chaining, um,
things that people are really concerned
about and and are in the updated
ordinance. So, uh, watch for that as it
comes out. There there are probably
about five, I think, total um, sort of
messages related to cruelty, related to
spay and neuter, related to
microchipping. And so, um, be on the
lookout for those as they roll out.
Thanks to the city's communication
office and and Liz and everyone at the
shelter for hosting our our B-roll
filming.
Thank you. Others.
Okay. Um,
wonderful. I would anticipate. So again,
we will try to firm up some dates before
we leave here. Um, I would anticipate
board members to expect a special
meeting in uh let's say probably early
December depending on where we get these
interviews scheduled if we're not going
to step on the Thanksgiving holiday. Um,
just
member I'm just going to roll call it to
be careful. Commissioner Sanchez,
yes.
Board member Campbell,
yes.
Board member Peek,
yes.
Board member Gates,
yes.
Councelor Corin,
yes.
Vice Chair Shalo Hernandez,
yes.
And Chair Graham votes yes. And we are
adjourned at 10:17. Thank you so much.
And thanks to our uh assistants in the
booth for helping us live stream.