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thank you um just checking in with well
just checking in with Becky that we have
a quorum lingering near the Das yes
Madam chair we do have a quorum with the
four thank you okay thank
you um I would entertain a motion to
accept the
agenda motion to accept the agenda thank
you second Shalo Hernandez thank you
it's been moved in seconded that we
accept the agenda um Becky please thank
you board member
MCAS good morning yes thank you board
member bomo yes board member shayo
Hernandez yes chair Coran yes thank you
motion
passes I don't know he didn't no he
didn't say that he would be
um next up I would entertain a motion to
to approve the minutes from the March
28th ascmv meeting so move shra hernandz
second Ben comoo thank you Becky please
hearing any amendments seeing none okay
thank you board member msas yes board
member bomo yes board member shayo
Hernandez yes chair Ken yes
passes thank you very much um first up
welcome good morning um Miss gardo
please come on up and speak as you as
you did last year I'm so excited to hear
how things are going this year and and
what you all are up
to the Coalition for pets and people
presentation please introduce yourselves
and and go for it I I don't know if you
have
a we do have a you do have a PowerPoint
so yes we do we can help you with you
can you got that thank you awesome thank
you
would you like us to present this or do
you kind of the way set up yes present
this way please speak into the mic and
then say your name before you present so
please thank you well thank you for
asking us to speak today we're very
excited to be here um to give a little
more information about Cru Cruz's cool
cats or S cat sanctuary uh my name is
Selena Cardoza wayer and this is Cassidy
and this is is Philip is
Isaiah um I just want to note that all
the cats that we do have up are for
adoption as we go through the
slideshow our mission for lasus SCH cats
is to improve the quality of our
community's homeless homelessness cats
and kids medically by treating them
socializing them and providing food and
nurtur nurturing environment until we
are able to find a forever home for all
of our adoptable cats to reduce the
feral cat population through the Trap
neuter release program to educate our
community and the importance of taking
care of feral
cats feral or non feral cats our vision
is a world where we work collaboratively
as a community to promote coexistence
between outdoor and or baral cats and
humans with empathy and compassion at
the root of everything we
do so Chris kcat has a really unique
story um in 2019 a woman and her son
Selena behind me and Joseph who
unfortunately couldn't be here today um
they saw a much needed service in Lost
crues and that was a large unchecked
feral cap population um so with ambition
and dedication Selena Wier and Joseph
Lucero found a Cruis Cool Cats in 2020
it started out with just helping with
hoarding cases
and then also partnering with ascmv for
a TNR program it quickly led to a
sanctuary with adoptable cats waiting
the for their forever homes Joseph and
another caretaker Isaiah who's here with
us um they live at the sanctuary and act
as caretakers um full-time and we also
have a ctio for our more feral cats and
they're able to live um in this really
awesome ctio that we'll uh talk about
later uh so what does Cruis schol cats
do we have a um t our program so we work
on a daily uh weekly basis with the
community um scheduling tnrs we help
educate with um trapping um fixing our
cats in the community and working
together as a community
colonies uh we also do adoptions so a
lot of times we end up picking up some
of these cats and we socialize them uh
we have them up for adoption after
they're fix and uh vaccinated we like to
educate anybody and everybody about um
about responsible caregiving and
Community cats out in the wild and um
just promoting that spay spay and
neuter meet Selena wayer founder and
director of Las cruus coolcats Selena is
a full-time mom and works two jobs to
fund the sanctuary she works tirelessly
to care and meet all of our cats needs
for many years her dream has to been to
operate a cat rescue and here we are
Chu's Co cats is up and running to help
as many homeless cats as we can she is
our animal lover with two dogs four Barn
cats three indoor cats five large fish
tanks and one Turtle of her own she
cannot remember a time in her life
without an animal in her
life so again Joseph is Selena's uh son
who helped founded Cruis School cats and
he couldn't be here this morning but he
is awesome uh he lives in Sanctuary
house with Isaiah and works parttime on
top of being a full-time caretaker for
the cats he's responsible for
socializing them and keeping the house
clean he also helps a lot with transport
adoptions medical appointments and also
education
efforts and this is Isaiah he's a second
caretaker in the house um so Isaiah
originally comes from Fort Worth and uh
lives at the sanctuary I'm sorry
love he cares for the cats full time um
he plays a crucial part of um
maintaining the cleanliness of the house
socializing the cats who mostly need it
and with growing up he has been involved
with uh many cats and an um sorry many
animals such as saltwater fish snakes
dogs Birds
cats and just real quick to add so um
the two dogs pictures pictured are
Julian and Nala we did adopt them from
ascmv and um we use them to help
socialize the cats so that they're all
dog friendly and would be adoptable into
a variety of home so um they uh really
help the cats become more sociable more
confident and advocating for themselves
and um they're both really friendly and
like to play with the
cats that is very
true meet Cassidy Zender creative
officer cassid moved to Las cus last
summer bringing with her strong passion
of for animals and a vast knowledge of
marketing and nonprofit skills she works
for a wildlife advocacy organization
called project coyote and believes that
humans and animals both domestic and
wild can live in
harmony uh we have three additional
board members who uh also could not be
here today um naen and Jesse are vice
president and Treasurer they're located
in vad and Cesar Cardona he's also a
board member he is currently in Boston
um getting his education
a little bit about our ctio um Kevin my
husband and Joseph uh put this together
they planned a ctio for our more feral
cats that we could not house in inside
the house uh or unsocialized cats these
cats are available for adoption as
working cats they have lots of room to
play and they find Cozy spots where they
can take afternoon snps
these are our accomplishments Community
Partnership we are proud to partner with
ascmv for spay and neutering Services
where all of our trr cats get their ear
tipped vaccinated shipped and altered
our trr program since 2021 we have
helped people TNR over 630 Community
cats imagine how many needless litters
and lives we've saved we also care for
our cats after surgery before releasing
them our adoptions because of our new
website and more active social media
presence we have seen more adoptions in
2024 we do home visits before adoptions
and we keep in contact with our
adopters so here are some of our goals
and I before I forget um Fred is
actually the only one in this
presentation that's not available
because he got adopted on Monday so uh
everyone wish Fred luck he is a really
sweet boy and yeah we hope that he's
able to thrive in his new home so here
are some of our goals um one is
community outreach and events so we want
to do more education and uh fundraising
events this year and so we plan to have
a Pet Expo hopefully in the late summer
and a benefit walk to raise funds
openhouse hours this year we are going
to implement openhouse hours so that
potential adopters may come to the
sanctuary to interact with our cats I
think this is really crucial
because you know an adopter might see a
picture online of a certain cat but then
they get there and maybe that cat's
having a bad day and you know other cats
are able to shine and it's just a really
great way for the cats to socialize with
new people and um being able to match
potential adopters with the perfect cat
for you know their household and then
adoptions uh much of the community knows
us for our TNR program and not for our
adoption program so we want to have a
way bigger increase in adoptions this
year so that we can save more cats um
because right now we are at full
capacity so donations we are accepting
uh monetary donations so um we have uh
donation buttons on our website we also
uh we have all sorry um we accept cash
check and um online yes online
payments uh time we're always accepting
volunteers to come in any time uh
whether it's uh morning or evening uh
weekdays or weekends and items we're
always in Need for cat food both wet and
dry we also uh appreciate litter uh face
cleaning wipes um cat trees any type of
structures or beds treats and we also
have a wish list on
Amazon you can reach us or get in touch
with us on Facebook and Instagram our
location is 1585 dzno our open hours is
to be determined and our contact is
crues cool cats at gmail.com with 575
55585 thank
you thank you very much are there any
questions from my colleagues up
here go ahead Madam
chair board member Beno and then sh Herz
please thank you so much and and thank
you for the presentation um it was
wonderful to see the cats that were
available for adoption and and also that
Fred was adopted you said that um you're
known more for other services not for
adoptions will you um increase your
presence in the community with for
adoptions or is that primarily done out
of your out of your uh facility uh are
there any plans to I guess um go out to
Parks or other places to increase
awareness U right now we're uh
partnering up with uh the animal shelter
if we can get some of our adoptable cats
to their uh facility to get adopted out
we also have partnered with petmart so
we're going to try to get some stuff
done on the weekend and help get out
there in the community answer any
questions and give information as well
as
adoptions U right and right now that's
where we are we're trying to get those
open hours at our facility so it just
make it easier for people to come in and
see all the cats that we have
thank you board member sh yeah I just
wanted to say thank you for the update I
think you guys are doing some great work
and we're so grateful to have you in our
community but this is a great
presentation so thank you thank you and
I I remember last time you were here I
feel like you talked about some of your
goals and it seems like you're achieving
them and and more so it's really amazing
thank you for your hard work and
commitment and and um real impact in our
community so thank you any other
questions from anyone here as always I
do issue a challenge to my colleagues on
the board um to donate to our to our
friends um when they come and and visit
so um I hope that you might consider it
thank you so much thank you thank
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you next up we will have our city and
county ACO reports I don't I know you
guys flip coins for who has to go first
all
right Mr Hy
please you lost the coin toss I infer
every time I'm horrible at
it good morning good morning
uh chair and members I'm Brian Hy I'm
the case worker for Don County Animal
Control uh here to present the March
numbers so for our reported stray
animals we had 381 reported stray
animals for March uh we were able to
pick up 156 stray animals um out of
those there were 27 cats and 129
straight dogs we had nine sick or
injured animals we had four cats and
five dogs and for our owner surrenders
for the month of March we had 13 dogs
this is our reported stray animal calls
um
comparison um they're staying about the
same um they do about every year um
unfortunately um we had one area that um
is starting to become more of a problem
area every month it usually tends to
move every year um or every month um but
we're having one area in particular that
we're having to start to focus on
more this is our four-year uh fied
return uh filled return to owner
comparison um I was happy to see that we
this is our highest number for this year
we had 27 RTO so it's been gradually
going up every month and hopefully it'll
continue to rise for the rest of the
year these are additional animals picked
up um we had zero um owner surrendered
cats 13 owner surrender dogs we had nine
sick or injured animals we had um a lot
of welfare welfare hold animals this
month month we had eight uh we had no uh
cruelty or neglect we had 10 shelter
quarantines two home quarantines uh we
had one uh quarantine case that was held
at our live
facility uh we currently are holding
five evidence um animals at our facility
we had zero rabes submissions we had 13
diverted intakes our education was 549
and our total calls for March was 671
uh this is the dogs and cats picked up
um per District um just to make it a
little easier for people to see uh so
for district one we had three dogs that
were picked up District Two we had 11
cats and six dogs for a total of 17
District three we had three cats and 30
dogs um that's one of our bigger ones um
usually when it comes summertime
District 3 is usually um starts to get
more up to and the dogs um we've noticed
that trend for the last couple years
District 4 um this is our big one that
we're starting to see a con consistency
of high numbers um that we're going to
start hitting a lot harder um to see
what see what we could figure out what's
going on in that area uh we had four
cats and 31 dogs in District 5 we had
five cats and 24 dogs uh District Six we
had one cat and seven dogs and District
Seven we had three cats and 28 dogs um
one thing to note as well we didn't have
as many people trapping cats for the
month of March so that's why our cat
numbers are down so so high or sorry so
low so these are straight cats picked
up as you can see in March our numbers
went down significantly compared to
February February we had a lot of cats
that were being being
trapped uh these are stray dogs
and our reasons for our owner release is
we had one for aggressive uh we had one
that was vicious we had one that was
involved in a livestock attack we had
one that they were unable to keep on the
property uh we had one that they were
moving and they couldn't take their
animal with them and we had eight dogs
that they just weren't able to afford
the upkeep on the
dogs and for that I stand for any
questions
thank you
sir I appreciate it board member Flores
please uh thank you Madame chair and
thank you for the presentation um what
do you do with the aggressive when
especially the vicious uh and the
livestock attack what uh what are the
consequences for those um um for those
animals um it depends on the on the
situation um if they um in in these
cases they r or Surrender
um usually with those a citation usually
involved as well depending on the
officer and the case of why they
happened um I know the aggressive one um
and the vicious they were both um
inhouse um aggressive towards their or
vicious towards their own pets towards
their other pets so as far as that goes
we can't really s them
for site them for their own animals
attacking their own animals so it's it's
a little different on those cases but
usually if it's aggressive or vicious um
we usually end up um working with the
people going through things seeing
what's going on there's usually
citations involved if it's a livestock
attack um we have our state statute that
we end up going for depending on
Witnesses and everything else um and
usually what happens for a livestock
attack just in the state of New Mexico
it's usually a euthanasia uh for the
animal um that's just how New Mexico set
their
laws um and then if it's like a vicious
or dangerous um against another animal
things like that uh we pick up the dog
on warrant um we go to the courts to De
them dangerous and or vicious and
there's a lot that goes into a lot that
goes in that it's not a cheap process
for the
owner are they euthanized the the
aggressive amb vious you did say that
the uh livestock attack do yeah so so
for the state of New Mexico livestock
attack um that's that's a a youth in
Asia um for dangerous and or vicious
they actually have um I call it a puppy
Alcatraz but it's basically a prison
that they get put into and they're able
to uh we have our lead officer that
approves the kenneling we have our own
specific um things for um the county
that they have to build for that animal
it stays in there for the rest of its
life um if it leaves um for veterinarian
care things like that it has to be
muzzled leashed at all times um if it
escapes that kindling it could become a
um we let the owners know right away um
before we even do the petition on what's
going on with that usually um just so
they're fully aware because we're not
going to try to hide anything from them
um and then if per per the Mandate if
they do not comply with that within 30
days then um it's the court orders for
euth in
Asia thank you you're welcome thank
you thank you any other questions from
the board
no thank you very
much good morning Madam chair members of
the
board good morning supervisor
humanis with the weighted
coin that was
good so my name is Gino him menis what
I'm going to do is present to you the
March numbers for
2024 so we responded to 433 calls for
Strays 221 of those were Goa meaning
that the officer didn't have any contact
with that animal 212 animals were
impounded or apprehended I should say
2011 were impounded at the Animal
Service Center 86 were dogs and 91 were
cats we were successful in field ring 35
uh animals back to their owners 14 of
those uh were unsuccessful those were
animals that had some sort of
identification however they weren't home
um and I'll go into that in a further
slide so we had a total of 49
identifiable
animals here is our three-year stray
animal comparison for the month of March
again we responded to 433 calls for
Strays bringing us to a total of
1,34 for for the
Year little lower than the last the two
previous years but now that the weather
is getting warmer those numbers are
probably going to go
up next is our three-year field return
to owner comparison again we did uh we
were able to successfully return 35
animals back to their owners bringing us
to a total of 135 for the year now I
noticed that that that's a sharp decline
uh in our number numbers it's because um
I think for January we started off very
high and now we're coming back down into
our normal numbers normal
range if I may let me go
back I didn't read to you the Peak
Performance goals so our number one Peak
Performance measure is that we apprehend
65% of all reported Strays for the month
of March we were able to apprehend 50
two of all reported
stays prek performance goal number two
is that we are able to uh return to
owners 25% of all the Strays last month
we were able we accomplished 20% of that
goal and here I catch up with our our
new numbers uh pre-performance measure
number three is to have a 10% reduction
in stray animal bites for the month of
March we had
126% decrease in comparison to last
year's numbers at the same
time uh Peak Performance number four is
a 10% reduction in owner victim bites we
had 0% increase or decrease the same
number last year as we do this year so
no increase and no
decrease increase or
decrease here's this next slide is for
our community C program we responded to
61 cats and traps traps and we were able
to release six of those the cats and
trap call for the year 2011 and we were
able to uh so far this year released 22
Community cats and remember those are
cats that have already been ear tipped
uh microchipped they have all the Met
have all the requirements for a
community
cat reasons for owner releasing animals
had six dogs for Behavioral issues five
dogs the owners were unable to care for
three dogs for aggression uh three dogs
the owners could no longer afford two
cats the rental agreement did not allow
for them to have that many pets uh one
dog for lifestyle
change one dog the owner was unable to
keep it in the yard one dog the rental
agreement did not allow and this was in
conjunction with the two
cats uh one dog the the owner got it
when it was a puppy and it grew too big
and unmanaged ible for them they also
had some personal injuries that limited
their handling of this dog and finally
one dog the owner could not afford the
extra fee for keeping a dog in a
rental and the reasons we were unable to
fill our to we had eight calls where the
uh there was no contact by phone or at
the residence one address was actually
in doniana County uh four the chips were
not registered meaning the implant was
there the officer was able to pick up
that microchip however there was no
information showing where that animal
belonged uh one dog the owner did not
want to meet with the Animal control
officer and agreed to pick up the animal
at the Animal Service Center and that
that's not always a bad thing because at
least we know that that animal is safe
and the owner knows that it's been
picked up and they know where to pick it
up we would prefer not to but at least
it's in a safe area where it can be
reclaimed and finally uh one dog was
adopted from the asmv and that
particular owner no longer wanted
it total calls for service for March we
responded to
1,115 calls for service bringing us to a
total for the year at
3,283 highlights for the month uh I had
two acos attend a career day at Rise
Elementary with Libby I'm not sure if
everybody is aware about Libby uh Libby
stands for Las guses is beautiful
because of you she is actually part of
the keep lusus beautiful program um
however she is handled by a codes
officer so whenever we can utilize her
for um our school presentations we take
total advantage of that and finally one
one ACO vacancy we're working with HR to
Phil uh that was last month
I can happily report that that vacation
that vacancy has been filled and we have
a new AO with us so puts me fully
staffed and with that I'll stand for any
questions thank you very
much any questions from my colleagues on
the board seeing none
um really quickly thank you for the
update on um thank you for the update
that you shared with me on on one of of
my residents constituents concerns and
also for Libby I she's approaching
retirement no this is actually Libby
number three oh this is Libby number
three
okay um but I think this Libby is
approaching retirement she had a little
white in her face last I saw her so I
thought she she a little gray in her
beard yeah a little um cushy life after
I I mean not that everyone with gray and
beard should have have to head toward
retire
sorry
um thank you supervisor humis any other
no questions seeing none do do you have
did you want to introduce is this sure
you
in possible I'll introduce you this is
Mariana Salado she is my new
hire hi good morning good morning good
morning um I'm very excited to be here
um this is my second
week and it's really impressive to see
the administrative uh part of all of
this the funding that goes into all of
this I grew up in quatis and there is
nothing even close to to um the services
that are offered by this by the city so
this is very impressive and I'm very
honored to be here well hopefully you
can come present with us sometime we we
like to see everyone so hopefully
hopefully so please we invite you to to
do to save uh Gino from having to
present he would appreciate it thank you
for being here good morning and welcome
we're really glad to have you thank you
so
much thank
you thank you man and I do have a
followup that I'd like to talk with you
about after okay that sounds good thank
you
um next up we'll hear from the shelter
statistics and I think a little happy
birthday is in order we'll spare you the
singing unless someone up here has a
particular desire for singing but good
morning morning happy birthday uh Mr
ther thank you very much I appreciate
that uh before I begin or while I bring
my presentation up I would like to
introduce to you one of our new
employees we have our new volunteer
coordinator with us today her name is
Elaine
Quinn El like to join me I've asked her
just to say a few things you know uh why
she chose us and some of her history and
I think you will find her just as
engaging and very compliment as we did
elain hello good morning how are you
guys oh can you hear me now okay uh my
name is Elaine this is my uh third week
working at the animal shelter I love it
so far all the staff's super amazing the
volunteer community is great um yeah
before this I wasn't really I was
kinding like remote work working like in
BLM land random places not a lot of
people at all so this is kind of Zer to
100 but I love jumping in I love working
with the community and really excited to
be here so
yeah welcome we're so glad you're here
thank you for joining the team yes
welcome I also just want to give a quick
shout out to Samira who did a really
great job in the intervening time as a
volunteer leading the volunteers so I I
understand that you guys are working
together too so yeah she did yeah she
helped me a lot when I was like learning
the ropes of everything so yeah very
grateful for her thank you well we're so
glad you're here elen thank you thank
you sh actually she was camping Elaine
was camping in BLM lands and doing water
surveys soil and plant surveys she just
spend the night out there spend weeks
out there and I'm like man that sounds
like a dream job for me I could pay for
my family to live that would be
fun all right so the things you're going
to be seeing here today are for
March director report so far yesterday
the uh population at the center was 289
animals you see the dog and total dogs
and cats totals
there intake 717 animals right lays
right in between 22 and 23 years total
but 535 dogs 171 cats and 11 others is
the
total this is how those animals came in
you see as usual our number one highest
is Strays by acos uh the one that Drew
our attention is owner surrenders 16.6
jumped up four
4.4% for the owner surrenders portion uh
we believe that is most likely with uh
some litters that came in at that time
so that that jumps up the number quite a
bit from one dog to four or five at a
time and then also the born and Care
those are are again uh litters that
might be born at the center from animals
that come impr pregnant or from dogs and
also from cats they may be in Foster
type of a situation but that jumped up a
lot
too we had quite a few returns but
percentage wise you'll see how they left
or k me that they uh wasn't a lot or
wasn't when you do the whole total a lot
but uh some issues behavior problems
with was a big one to me I discussed it
with uh
our uh operations and also our kennel
supervisor but a lot of those were
animals that just uh had some issues
that were trainable but the P individual
who adopted him didn't want to have him
at the time or didn't want to take care
of him at the time so for instance food
aggression or issues with other dog that
is you know was there when they came in
and they didn't want to take the time at
that time to to correct
it these are diverted intakes so in 2024
we had 177 dogs and 18 cats for a total
of 195 animals get diverted anytime an
animal comes into the center and our
staff can say can you hold on to it or
let's schedule an appointment for you to
possibly bring the animal back later uh
type of situation so we were able to
divert that many uh that did not come
into the center at that time
and this is how those animals left uh as
a lot of these percentages are down uh
except of course with euthanasia
euthanasia went up about 2 and a half%
uh 28 animals were euthanized so it left
us with the live release rate or the
number of the animals that leave alive
at
69.6% the big one for us that went down
is reclaims and rescues uh it was was a
big jump down for those we would have
liked to see more rescues are very
difficult right now and you'll see on
the next slide we talk about I believe
it's the next slide we talk about what
rescues we did go with there is a large
number of brand new rescues that we're
working with because we're putting the
feers out and contacting so many to try
and get that number up and
improved so this is them uh some of the
brand new ones that we don't usually go
with like Deming animal
Guardians uh is one and you can look
through there as those single ones that
have just taken one maybe
to uh Front Range continues to be a big
help to us of our cats uh that's one
reason why we don't have a lot of cats
at the center is we do send a lot out to
rescue as fast as we can because cats
have a really hard time moving through
the center for that but action program
for Animals is a local one that always
does amazing for us they generally take
the injured or the SI cats so those are
those are animals that really need to
get out quickly and they do a fantastic
job for that we appreciate
them the adal Rescue League of a Paso um
they take a lot of our dogs too uh I
generally just do it's it's like a half
hour drive from the center and I'll have
a few minutes so the the rescue
coordinators asked me to do it and I've
been on a name a one-on-one name basis
with the rescue owner there and it's
fabulous to see she we have a great
Rapport be able to talk about their
challenges and our challenges and how we
can continue to work together so I enjoy
doing
that are euthanasia is number one reason
again for dogs is space Behavior again
this is something that uh if we had the
space and the time and the resources we
wouldn't have euthanized these These
dogs uh however with having the lack of
all those three then they did need to be
euthanized to make room for the animals
that are coming in as you know it's a
revolving door we have animals coming in
every single day I think we had 36
yesterday come in so and then there were
some uh early this morning when we got
there too so it's a continual door of
animals coming in and animals having to
leave number one reason for cats was
medical
General uh but only seven for that
to to work towards a behavior or
treatment and issues U because we were
not able to get a position in this
coming budget year we are looking at
doing some contract work with a dog
behaviorist this is going to be enable
them to come in we're working right now
with uh individual that we're talking
right now on the aspect of how many
hours a day how often during the week
would it be beneficial for dogs and also
beneficial for this individual and
coming up with an amount uh that would
make it worse wor their while to come so
hopefully we'll see that number drop for
a
behaviorist our surgeries continue to do
amazing work in what they have 324
surgeries in the month of March for a
total of
1,9 year to
dats this is a brand new slide I thought
you would like to see the amount of
Fosters that we have at the center uh
the program is up it's successful doing
amazing work right now 100 dogs in
Foster 58 cats in Foster uh and and as
you see 73 now the OD the number
difference in that is again you would
think we if we have only 73 foster
parents then obviously somebody has to
be doubling up and that is because of
litters so bottle babies is what we're
receiving right now for kittens uh we a
lot of bble babies if anybody want wants
to be up every 4 hours and feed kittens
please let me know and I can make those
arrangements so we can have that happen
the dog uh and fosters again these are
most likely litters that are having or
moms or or yeah moms that are having
litters and be able to care for them
until they're up for adoption or held
for Rescue and get them
out our volunteers years to or total
hours years to date is almost
2,000 uh the dog walking team is
invaluable
134 hours that they're
donating the really neat thing about the
volunteers is we're having a group
called or organization called dogs
playing for Life what this is is they
come in and they teach us how to do a uh
a a group Playard kind of a thing for
dogs and it sounds odd but a group
Playard for a half hour is equivalent to
about a um for half hour would be the
same as like an hourong walk it it's the
stimulation of of being with another
animal and trying to communicate with
that animal with a with a dog on dog it
just absolutely exhausts them if you
think about you know when your dogs are
out playing in the backyard how
exhausted they are versus you just go
for a walk uh it's so valuable for the
animals to have this interaction and
it's health for them too so they're
going to come in March and show us how
to do that nope not March in May Come
and do that and uh 14th through the 22nd
we have our staff we have some a lot of
volunteers doing it and then we also
have some outside agencies in the
community they want to come and do it as
well and that is being sponsored by a
volunteer we're not paying for
that let our visitors up just a little
bit uh so we're excited about that I
again I believe the number is even a
little bit higher because we count uh
just by like we say the people sign in
as a group like just one one person's
name and it may be the family that are
there so we believe it's higher but year
to date we've had over almost 6,500
people come through the the new
center our web page views went down a
little bit uh I'm sure this is because
we have so much as you see on our next
slide of increase on our social
media and we are redesigning the I just
got an email last night from our
marketing that is pretty much final so
we're looking at just working out few of
our bugs on our website the biggest
problem with the website when people
search animals is when they hit the back
button it takes them right back to the
animals and they have to put in all the
information again this is not our
website issue this is it's our shelter
program called shelter love there's a
code that sends all the animals to the
website and so it's actually searching
shelter love it's not searching the
website so it's a shelter love issue
we've let them know the frustrations
they said they are aware of it and
they've placed it on the list to update
when they can uh however that list is
fairly long
so uh we're frustrated with it as as
much as the public is what we tell them
is is to come see not only can you come
and see all the animals at the center
for available but you can also see the
new Adoption and stayhold facility and
uh the cats and have the whole
experience
there so our Facebook is still up quite
a bit 17,200 views so that's quite a bit
higher over 5,000 almost 5,000 of but it
was in last
year we do have some fun upcoming events
uh Petco petmart uh we're going to have
a fun adoption at McCoy adoption uh
event there and then always at the
farmers market we have a good
presence one fun one that we're doing in
and this is this month April 28th we're
doing a picnic with the pup this is for
the animals that are in our medical
facility but they're still available for
adoption so we're bringing those animals
out we're going to have hot dogs and uh
just a fun time with these animals have
them outside so they can be outside but
also outside for people to come and
visit with and see and hopefully get
more and more of those adopted so that
is Sunday April 28th from 11: to 1 this
was also thought of by a volunteer who
approached us we thought it was a
fantastic idea so we Incorporated that
into our our uh
adoptions so Kitty here is what our dog
of the week fantastic I talked to Amy
about it uh who does the postings for it
and she said as soon as Kitty came out
and Amy sat down to get a picture she
ran right to her and wanted snuggles and
loves so it was she said he's just a
fantastic dog
and we have Rose but Rose was adopted
the very first day I believe it was on
Monday they came in and picked up Rose
so we are so happy for her and hope
she's doing great in her forever
home we're also doing another program
called you've probably seen on social
media about the Fantastic 4 playing off
the whole Marvel thing uh these are
long-term dogs this dog we're going to
watch the video because uh they named
her Luna but Luna was adopted she' been
at the center for over 30 and I want to
say
68 number will come up uh but been a
long time almost a year at the center
nothing wrong with her it's just luck of
the draw nobody had interest in her so
I'll let you watch this video
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you're so excited
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just a fun little thing to see that uh
the staff was happy to see ouro they
knew who she was and we were all very
excited that Luna got a fantastic new
home they did call us the next day
because sometimes with these long
termers you're like oh what's going to
happen uh they called us the next day
and said she is doing
fantastic uh with the I guess when she
was introduced to the new dog or the dog
currently in the home uh they did it at
the center they hit it off immediately
so we're really happy for them and wish
Luna the best the other three of our
fantastic 3 uh is continued to be adopt
or is to be up for adoption and
hopefully we can get some word out for
them to be adopted but it's again it's
being pushed on Facebook fairly well and
I'll entertain any
questions thank you any questions from
the
board board member m
please thank you so much chair um Clint
with your shelter statistics surrounding
a diverted intakes as you explained that
it it seems like those numbers may also
show up later in the intakes to the
shelter do you do you track that Delta
as well we're yeah yes and no we're
trying to find a way that we can do it
effectively that doesn't cast a huge
burden on staff because the best way to
do it is to keep those numbers you know
the information from them and then call
them back and say did you what did you
end up doing with this dog uh so we're
still playing with that and just trying
to figure out how so it is in the plan
to do it but currently not right
now okay thank you yes I I was just
trying to understand the sign um versus
you know maybe some more qualitative
data about the outcomes uh with respect
to those stats
understand thank
you um any other questions from folks on
the
board no thank you very much
Clint um next up we have committee
reports so board member Beno Finance
please thank you so much chair yes and
last week we had our finance committee
meeting I was actually out of the office
but happy to say that our senior budget
analyst Rosio gambo was able to uh
attend the committee meeting for me and
provide me with notes and I believe that
you were there as well uh board member
Flores yes so the the two items of
discussion at that committee meeting
were the um quarterly financials which
you will see a report today on that um
and and input on that as well as the FY
25 budget and I believe that our uh
budget team who attended had quite a few
um items of of input regarding some of
the assumptions for the budget and again
I believe we're having a presentation on
that as well today so since both of
those items are going to be covered um
um what I'd like to do now is to just
introduce Mr Michael fi to come talk
about the quarterly financials
first and those are what's what are
linked in the document
correct that's correct thank
you good morning
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good
morning Madam chair members of the board
Mike fusini Animal Services Center I'm
going to provide a brief overview
of the Animal Services Center third
quarter Financial results ending as of
March
31st and it will show you a comparison
between budgeted
revenues and expenditures to actual and
this will just be a brief overview I
will say uh before starting that the
state of the financial finances for the
uh Center are very good and continue to
be positive through the first nine
months of the year however that may
change not in a negative way but I do
anticipate that uh spending for the last
three months starting with this month
through June will accelerate and uh some
of the variances that you're going to
see between revenues and expenditures
will probably be dwindled as we get
closer to June
30th starting with the statement of net
position the highlights we have cash
received of
$1,321
164 and that's equal to the total assets
under the liabilities and fund balance
counts payable of
6323 acude liabilities of 11
16,22 revenues collected in advance of
155 461 and the unassigned fund balance
is 866 798 totaling to 1,132
164 equaling the
assets looking a little further down
into what uh contributes to those
numbers the county contribution from the
donian county is 1,612
456 cities is slightly more which is how
it started out to beginning of the year
and continues to be uh a little higher
than the counties at 1,612 479
other Revenue which is usually from
donations operating uh Revenue collected
through operations uh totals to 360 788
which brings your total revenue to
3,585
723 on the flip side looking at the
expenditures and what you will see is
that U salary and benefits speak to the
Lion Share and typically as has been
happen happening in years uh with the
center the ratio of of people to non-pe
Dollars personal service cost versus
nonpersonal or operating cost is
typically run 7030 ratio 70% salary and
benefits people dollars versus
non-people dollars and that bears out in
the numbers here the
salary uh figure represented is a milli
586 145 benefits toal 539
924 none in temporary services although
at the beginning of the year we did
budget uh for that to happen
$25,000 but we have not spent any in
temporary services these are services
that we contract through or in the past
have contracted through like Manpower
from when we needed to fill in the Gap
because we didn't have full-time or
part-time staff available to perform the
the necessary tasks and duties this year
we're not taking anything from that so
therefore uh we transferred the dollars
into and repurposed them into other
accounts that need the support to uh
finish out the rest of the
Year services are at
35944 supplies 347 458 and all other
expenditures which includes a collage of
accounts like travel
training uh things of that nature that
feed into the other expenditure category
total 10
6,429 and as you can see the total
expenditures for the 9 months ending
March 31st were lower than the total
revenue at
2,939
440 oops wrong
way
this slide um presents some of the very
same information for the March actual
but it Compares and shows the the um
position in each of these categories
compared to the fiscal year 24 total
budget and reflects the percent of
budgeted that has been collected in
Revenue versus spent against the
budgeted revenue and I should state that
the budget parameter through nine months
of this fiscal year is
75% so what you see there is that the
revenues collected from those three
sources are at a rate of 76.9 which is
slightly ahead of the 75% parameter but
the
expenditures uh uh are not nearly the
same it's 61.9% almost 62% and as I
said that through the first nine months
which is a continuing trend from what
I've observed to Center this um
difference between revenues collected
and
expenditures um has been uh true in the
past as well however I will state that I
feel that April May and June you're
going to see that the expenditure ratios
will probably um grow to be closer to
what you see in the
revenues there are dollars left over
that will need to be spent and and
because it's a it's it's um fueled more
by people dollars
what I've I've gotten in way of
information from the program managers is
that each of the programs have filled
many of the
vacancies um medical I think has still
one vacancy remaining uh they filled the
other two that they had for the longest
time uh kennel has filled everyone with
the exception of one vacancy and the
administrative Services section I think
still has about four or five vacancies
and vacancy savings will Drive what
dollars that you have available against
the revenues that are collected and
since we're heavily leveraged in in in
people uh that has an impact but I do
think that because we filled a lot of
the vacancies you're going to see those
numbers grow closer
together this is just a graphic a
chart that shows by month for each of
the past nine months where revenues and
expenditures have fallen and and in the
last
month um couple of months it it it
peaked out in February at 445 445,000
there was an increasing Trend ever since
um November but it it fell slightly in
March and I think that you're going to
find an uptick in that number of
expenditures in the months of April May
and June whereas the revenues will
continue to be pretty much
static and with that I'll take any
questions that you may have should you
require any further detail thank you
very much board
members board member Flores please thank
you and thank you Mike um on page at the
page before this one why was there such
a dramatic drop um in from is it uh
what's that July to August
in July you're saying in July through
August of this year dropping which one
expenditures or Revenue
revenues well what what happens is in
July they frontload the revenues the
contributions that we receive from the
county and the and the city I think it's
like 20% is front loaded and then each
of the the new fiscal year yes and then
each of the 11 months thereafter they're
allocated at an equal amount for the
remaining 11 months so therefore that's
why the revenues will look like a spite
at the very end beginning because most
of the revenues were front loaded okay
thank you thank
you thank you board member Flores any
other
questions no thank you board member Beno
um yes one thing to consider you you
alluded to the h percentage of um
expenditures for the center being
related to
Personnel um so it it might be helpful
to include a a report on vacancies the
positions um outstanding to be filled
and those that have been filled as well
I know that we do that internally as the
city as we track uh that so if if the
board is inclined that that might be um
something certainly will review what at
the finance committee meeting and then
potentially bring that here as well if
it's helpful to inform that Trend it's a
good suggestion that hasn't been part of
the package previously but it's an easy
ad but as I mentioned um prior to I'd
say April 1st the total vacancy count
had been about 11 three in medical three
in um kennel and five in admin
Services just recently over the past two
or three weeks weeks the vacancy count
in both medical and kennel has pretty
much evaporated with exception one and
there were two or three hirings that
occurred in the admin services so the
only vacancy right now that you have in
medical program which has been one
that's been ongoing and continuing for
quite some time and I don't mean weeks
or months I'm talking years would be the
veterinarian position that Still Remains
to be
filled um and I think there's one animal
caregiver full-time remaining in the
kennel operations three admin uh
positions are basically one is the grant
writer which is still under search to
find a replacement and then the other
two remaining or three remaining our
office administrative
assistance I have another question thank
you go ahead please yes so the the other
question I had related to the expected
expenditure for the remainder of
fy4 I believe there was some discussion
at the committee meeting regarding the
projections for FY
24 um and um I think the budget thought
that they were a little bit High um
given historically uh the funds that
have remained at the end of the year
that then are available uh to utilize in
the in the next fiscal year but I think
the projection was that all would be
spent by the the end of the year can you
speak to
that yes I remember the discussion when
we were identifying all I think we were
talking about all of the grant money was
to be expended that's the plan but in
this year different from prior
years um and talking to program managers
and that's where I get my feed from
because I do a multivariate type of
approach when I try to determine what
the projection is what a reasonable
projection should be for the year I do a
quantita
and a qualitative a mixture of two I
look at the numbers analyze the numbers
based on the previous 9 months of
spending and I project for the remaining
three months I look at the year
over-year spending for the prior three
or four years to see what the spending
Trend had been and I look at the highs
and lows there that being the
quantitative side of the house and in
qualitative I talk to the program
managers in particular the one where I
get a lot of information where the SP is
going to certainly Trend up is with the
medical program and the uh medical
director's Pro um idea for spending this
year is a bit more aggressive than it
has been in the past because a couple
things are driving that one with the
knowledge that fiscal year 25 may not be
so rewarding as what we had once thought
we may need to start spending money in
this year for things that we may be
thinking about spending next year if
there's a surplus remaining and because
of the vacancies we do fortunately
enough have some vac some Surplus
spending that we can repurpose for that
and to give you a good example medical
supplies is an account that we budgeted
for the entire fiscal year of
$150,000 before talking to the medical
director I had projected reasonably
based on all the data that I had
received and anal an analysis I
performed about
$135,000 but after speaking with her
that will not be true she's planning to
spend that and more all of her budget in
the $150,000 that's been budgeted and
looking to to pull monies and transfer
from other accounts that are UND spent
to be able to fuel more medical supplies
because primarily of the community cat
program in TNR and all the spay neuters
that she's planning to do under that
program so this year that program which
was only an infancy as far as an idea
last year has taken off and she's
spending a lot more of her budgeting
dollars toward uh fulfilling those
goals so I know on the city Side we
spent quite a bit of time looking at our
projections because it obviously it
affects um our resources in the
following fiscal year so I would just
recommend that as we go forward next
year through the budget process at the
this would be a discussion a little bit
earlier um because I know our our budget
analysts will be happy to weigh in as
well on what we're seeing um in Trends
as well and have that discussion with
Animal Service Center so we can get a
good idea um on our side of course we uh
try to do something similar understand
the operations what people are saying
that that they think they can do and we
certainly have historical data uh to
show what what has been done in the past
so it's really important to to review
that so I think just going forward will
make sure that that's one item to to
keep a close eye on for budget
development thank
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you thank you any other questions from
from the
board seeing none thank you and I do
appreciate seeing this um just sort of
thinking about the context from last
year to this I do feel like we have more
information this year and thinking about
the budget and what the projections are
I really appreciate your um sharing some
of the vacancy things and I we did hear
from earlier that uh on at Monday's
meeting that we seem to have the lowest
vacancy rate um than in recent years it
feels like there are fewer vacancies
than there have been and so I just want
to add that to the context of the budget
conversation that we're going to have
soon too so I think thank you for
sharing and and bringing us up to speed
on this um and I do think it would be
useful in in future presentations to
sort of have one slide on the the
Personnel count and where we we might be
missing and and the way that that might
be affecting the budget as well that
would be very helpful mam chair please
board member Flores thank you I have
another question I wrote down a note
here to myself to remind me um and I
don't know what page it's on can you go
back um okay let me see I have the sum
of oh the t a total revenue was
3,000 uh 3,585
um where how where were these funds
allocated that's my question the the
total revenue for the March
actual is is that you
yeah is the following information the
total
expenditures the
61.9% is the percent
of the
76.9% that has been
spent is that am I reading that
correctly the 61.9% if I understand your
question is the total amount of spent
for the nine months that ended March
31st compared to the full budget amount
of
4,745
288 um so how are they allocated the
three year to date 3 million5
is allocated across each of those
expenditure categories that you see
below including salary
benefits Services supplies and all other
expend they are allocated but they are
not spent and they are not spent to the
degree that your expenditure percentage
of budget lies below the parameter of
75% now that would mean that there's
still more dollars available because
we're going to continue to collect
revenue or um assign Revenue as we go
through each month April May and June
but there are still more dollars in the
kitty if you will that remain to be
spent that haven't been they been
allocated from the revenue but haven't
been spent yet and so that is where I'm
addressing the fact that I think in
April May and June you're going to see
that Trend um ramp up to spend the
dollars as much as they possibly can to
utilize things that they need to spend
or acquire this year and maybe those
that were planned to be acquired next
year if we don't have budget to support
that and that would be the net change of
$646,000
$283 yes that's the net change through
March
31st yes okay thank you very
much thank you and I think that there is
actually a little bit more detail in the
packet on page three of 11 of the append
that has some of the specific parameters
if you're curious to see like there are
a number that are sort of hovering at
50% that I think those are what you're
talking about get those spent and and
caught up to the 3ars of the Year budget
parameter so thank you for that
detail any other questions from the
board no thank you
Mike next up we have let me see who's
next facilities or exe executive
committee which would be I was there
with with Clint and and Manny and Chris
we were there we discussed the upcoming
conversation about the budget as well as
uh the director's evaluation which is on
the closed session scheduled for today
although we might have to have a
conversation about that um at the
executive committee meeting we also
heard really plans for this meeting and
plans for the upcoming budget I don't
know if there's any if there are any
other highlights from those
conversations please come on up Clint
admittedly I didn't come prepared to
present on this you're fine for the
record Quint ther executive director I
just did want to point out and let the
board know that we did meet with the
Emergency Management oh yes and talked
about the shelter and emergency
preparedness uh some fantastic plans we
worked with uh the county uh Mary Lou
Ward was there a supervisor and talked
about the Disaster Response if the
county had a disaster how would the
ascmv play in that and then if the ascmv
had a disaster how the county would play
in that so it was a great conversation I
know Mr uh youz Gino the city ACO
Supervisor was invited but ran into some
huge Personnel issues so he was not able
to attend but that's a simple we'll sit
down and talk and and get the city's
side of that planned in but it was a
fantastic meeting uh and there the ball
is rolling we have I'm getting emails
from Emergency Management saying this
has been done and this has been done so
excited for that I wanted the board to
know thank you you did tell us that at
the executive committee and meeting and
I'm sorry I didn't report it thank you
for that update and for working on that
those continuity
plans other
questions okay next up is the facilities
Clint
sorry
update thank you Clint fer again uh we
had a great facility commune meeting we
had uh
commissioner
uh uh Christopher saho Hernandez he was
there uh we had Becky Graham was here
I'm sorry counselor Graham was also
there and then Mary L Ward was there as
well this was a little bit different we
went on a walk around the center uh we
tour the new center we discussed some
issues there we told we uh went through
the old I'm sorry the medical facility
and uh saw some issues there and we
talked about all of them one some things
we talked specifically uh we're having
some significant cloth washer issues uh
we just found out yesterday when they
were there to to work on them that the
slab that they poured them on specs for
the machine say a 6 in slab and is
currently poured at a 4 in slab so this
means uh they are they being Janes is
meeting with the
manufacturer and getting a plan of
action of moving the washers out and
then demoing the floor and then pouring
a 6-in slab for him to be on so that
puts us at quite a bit out as far as no
washers available for the new center we
still have one going all the time at the
medical facility I did ask for in the
meeting that they're going to be
presenting uh here shortly that Jane
said I did ask for them to discuss some
compensation for or some kind of plan
for us to still be able to do laundry
and keep up with laundry uh there are
some options in the city and we've done
them before when our washer has uh
clunked out so uh those are in
discussions but that was some bad news
we received this morning on our
washers the tops of our kennels we re
received we really did want to go with a
specific vendor that did all of the
fencing for the new center just for
continuity they did a good job uh
however they were vendors of Jan's
Corporation general contractor not a
city vendor so we R into some issues of
having them become a city vendor so we
did get some uh more quotes just this
last week of getting tops to our kennels
so we're waiting for those to come
in uh public access to the medical
building has been implemented it started
last Sunday as far as my knowledge we've
only had a small handful of individuals
go up there but there's there is going
to be a sign our staff is telling people
to follow the dog prints if they want to
to the medical facility a sign is being
made to say the hours and when they're
available uh the dog prints are adorable
going up to the the medical facility
they're big they about this big so they
can easily be seen uh but people are are
having access to the adoptable animals
in the medical building now we're still
having issues with cameras there's some
cameras that are not on the server uh it
looks like some of them they've been
plugged into the server now but some of
them are broken uh so access
Technologies is working on that locks uh
the company that did the locks never
sent keys or locks to the general or to
the city uh that's what we're being told
so so they have a shipment date of May
1st and then from there we'll see when
they're supposed to arrive but as soon
as they come then we can get the
construction cores out of the building
of those doors and replace them and have
keys of our own access cards are still
not uh have have not been issued to us
uh we're working with access technology
and also with the city to see why but uh
it continues to be a big problem for us
uh we did have some grooming bathing
stations installed in every single dog
pod so the dirty uh dog doesn't need to
go up to our grooming area in the
medical building they can now do it
right there inside the pods so that was
pretty
awesome and our shade structures were
actually at the time of the meaning they
were still down below they need to come
back up and by via Crane and into our
playards and that has been done so we're
just now need to set those in cement for
the legs and then get a roof on them but
we're excited for the progress that's
going on that's all I have to
report thank you really quickly the
access control and the incorrectly
poured pads those are warrantied or
those are things that are already paid I
assume in the costs of the new building
so the keys are paid for yeah they're
they've been uh waiting for those the
pad we're going to have to to wait and
see because nobody I guess nobody
checked the specs for the washer and
dryer the spec said 4 in pad for the pad
of the ascmv the cement pad the only
thick part is the sally port and that's
why vehicles are driving on the 6 in
there uh so I I'm not sure how it will
run down but we'll keep an eye on it
again they're going to have a meeting
and we'll discuss it today yeah I think
I would I would look to the contractors
for that I hope yes that's part of their
their Duty so thank you any other
questions from the
board seeing none thank you Clint thank
you okay next up is the is the next
action item um I think Clint you are
coming back
sorry uh item 6.1 a resolution to adopt
the FY 2025 proposed budget for the
Animal Services Center of the Massi
Valley as it is highlighted in exhibit a
in your packet
correct yes or is the one that is up
here is the same right that is the new
one that needs to be handed out yes we
we all have this so okay thank you go
ahead please thank you Clint ther
executive director just want to let you
know that this presentation is different
from the one that was presented to the
city is also a little bit different
because the pr preliminary numbers to
the one that was presented to the board
of County Commissioners at that lovely
Board of County Commissioners meeting
that we did have the reason why uh
preliminary is with the board of County
Commissioners is we did not get exact
numbers until the next day uh on how
much insurance was going to be for an
individual and we'll go over those it
dropped it dropped it down a little bit
uh so it did go down uh the reason why
it's different from the one the city saw
is because we received feedback from the
city we went back and fixed it the city
is expecting pretty much a flat budget
this year uh with the expectation for
each department to drop 3% so we uh went
with that attitude that we need to make
several choices and several changes both
that were fundamental to us that we
still needed to have funded
uh but yet also something that is able
to be passed by and could be afforded
financially by the city and the
county so really the only thing we are
requesting for funding is our
compensation study that was implemented
so you'll see there the total of
$383,000 that will completely fund all
the positions at the
ascmv
uh so all the positions of the ascmv
with the implemented uh comp study what
that means is is we will continue to
have competitive uh salaries and wages
for our
staff so when you take the 383 that's
that's everything above the line um that
had to be that effects increase by that
increase uh we're doing a straight over
operating so no increase to our
operating and we take out the capital
that we did spend out so 240,000
is what we're asking
for you take our approved budget that we
did 4.5 million you add in the grants
that we received so that is a revised
budget of 4.7 million you take our
request of the 240,000 we're asking that
puts us at a budget of
$4.98
million with that budget request you we
take out the revenue that the
ascmv projects to to uh contribute you
take out our grant rollover we did have
a grant just awarded to us a week and a
half ago it's for an adoption trailer
we're really excited for it but that's
$110,000 and then the city has told us
to plan on $80,000 specifically for
sterilization uh that was granted to us
or gave to us so we take all that
Revenue out and that gives us the 4.4
million uh that we're requesting the
city in County split half which is 2.2
million each uh you look there at the
bottom right that's the difference so
240,000 our request then we had some
operational shortfalls that needed to be
funded uh that's the leftover grant
money and then discrepancy in our
operations and expenses from our FY 24
equals 103 so 343,000 is what we're
expect is is our full ask you split that
in half and that giv you the
171,172 point2 million requesting for
the funding what that gives us is it
covers our shortfalls so we're even or
so we are financially presenting a
balance budget and it also covers the
required increase in our salaries and
benefits for
that and I stand for any
questions thank you I have a couple
questions SL follow-ups but I'll defer
to the board first if you all
don't go ahead please board member Beno
thank you uh chair just a question about
the shortfall are you saying that the
revenue shortfall is primarily from
related to
Grants or so the the revenue shortfall
there's
$81,000 that we could not
identify in the difference between our
operations and our revenues for f y 24
for some reason they were different uh
we presented a balanced
budget uh but it came back as the
difference we talked about these in our
finance committee meeting and we neither
the city nor us could identify why we
had that
offset uh but this will bring us back to
whole does does that help clarify or no
not exactly
I think so my sense is this is what
we're trying to figure out we approved
implementing the salary study at the
time point in time that we did which was
March I think or February
yeah um that was that amount had not
been included in the budget from last
year um and the idea was using salary
savings I think to cover or you know
Revenue that you all have in the budget
but so this is likely a result of that
following through for the rest of the
year and that's the projected shortfall
I don't I don't think it's not coming
from the Personnel side or from um the
comp study funding no okay it was it was
there before that if you look at I know
the the paper we got from the finance
committee uh it shows on there the
discrepancy of the 81,0 696 I believe
that uh I don't know if you have it in
your PO in your in your packets I do
it's on page three of 11 net change in
fund
balance
um it's
there6
yeah
um so I think that does come from
the it looks like it's coming from the
expenditure
side
uh I think is that
correct I oh yeah no I see what you're
saying you see what I'm saying or you
see what Clint's saying or you see what
Barbara's saying okay you want to
comment on
it Barbara do you feel like you still
have the same question yeah I don't yes
okay I do
um so Clarity on the short
fall so the 81,000 a portion of it the
remainder is the grant funding of 211 so
you take out the 110 Grant that we did
and then the 880,000 that was um that
the city's contributing so it's the
81,000 that we are unsure of how that
was funded or counted and then the
remaining of the grant gives you the
103 I'm sorry it looks like that 81,000
is on the on the budget side not the not
on the actual side of that statement
right that is where it looks like it is
on the on the financial statement that
we're looking at so I assume that's
right yeah on the on the budget side
versus the actual side
yeah so it's not on the
is that versus
projections um it no it it appears that
that is calculated by just taking the
total budgeted revenues and subtracting
the total budgeted expenditures that
there's a there's that negative $81,000
okay dollar so it's not on the it's not
on the actual side um because the actual
sh side is showing the 646000 because
the expenditures are below the the the
actual revenues so I'm I'm not sure why
we need to take that into
account uh if it's not on the actual
side it's only in budgets that I guess
that's my uh
question
it but that's not affecting the ending
fund balance for this year though it's
not taken into consider so it's just on
the financials but it's not affecting
anything so it's just bad
budgeting yes I I don't understand on on
the budget side and I apologize for not
um going over this since I wasn't at the
finance committee meeting but I don't
know if this came up as a question uh
during that committee meeting it it did
Clint yes we did and the explanation was
uh there was no explanation
yeah I would love to come up
yeah good morning Miss Gamboa hello Rio
gambo budget analyst too um it was
brought up at the meeting and we were
going to look into it but we haven't
come down to but you're correct it seems
to be that there we're comparing budgets
to actuals rather
than taking the actuals and putting them
into the yes okay mhm
yeah so so I guess my my my question is
then yeah we we need to look at it from
the from the budget side but it from the
actual side we're not experiencing that
so why are we accounting for that in in
the FY 25 budget or or counting that
shortfall into a into the fy2 budget if
it's not there in actuals
and I'll have to get more information to
answer that
question Mr board member shint pleas can
we um go to the next or the previous
slide where you showed the budget
shortfall uh that one
it's not on
here there was this one where we left
the benefits as a 383
but uh this is the slide the shortfall
from FY 24 the second the last
line yeah I
see where's that number coming from it's
coming from the the 211 $1,000 grants
that adjusted our our
budget it's the remainder of that after
you subtract out the
110,000 of our grant rollover and the
sterilization
contribution is that reflected in the
animal services um statement of revenues
and expenditures though from this
because this is the city software right
that we're looking at in the agenda
packet the financial statement
is
okay the grant will not be in the
financial statement because it has not
been accepted yet we just got it last
week or two weeks ago so it was not able
to be on this agenda
gotcha
yeah I would also like to orio gamb um I
would also like to bring up that the
revenue
include the increase of the donana
contribution that you were assuming in
the first presentation a 500,000
increase CU right now I show it's a 4
4,957 and you have
4.98 and I show that you already
included in munis the increase assuming
that this County would have contributed
so that number is also too high
the revenue
amount which am 177
or no the 4.9
million seems to include assuming that
the county was going to contribute an
additional
500,000 oh I see
so that number on
up I don't think that's I I don't think
that's the case or if it is it's we're
unable to get into there and change it
this time I it says 2.2 on the in
exhibit a for both contributions I
think no that I think that then you add
in the revenue from operations which are
all the other things that are collected
but that's not oh I see
yeah go ahead please good morning Mike
Fen Animal Services Center let me
addressed two issues here the first
being the latter that was addressed in
what's in munice the numbers that are in
munice on the revenue side or the
expense side have not been updated to
what's reflected in this
presentation why the reason is these
numbers just came about yesterday at the
end of the day if I'm not mistaken so we
didn't have an opportunity to change
those numbers and I shared that with
budget that I would be making those
changes as soon as the target stop
moving because we've had multiple
revisions dating back to when we first
made this presentation to you last month
and there's been several revisions and
the revisions hadn't stopped until
yesterday about 3 3:30 when we got the
the uh came up with the final numbers on
the first issue though if I can shed
some light and this may or may not
explain the Genesis for this
81696 I'm going to take you back to the
March meeting and I think councelor
Karan asked this
question what's the difference between
why you were asking and at that time
these budget numbers are different than
they are today what's the difference
between a
$295,000 gap in
expenses versus I mean a SE excuse me
$720,000 that we're asking for in
expenses versus the 1,1
15,000 that we asking for revenues and
what was add ask was how can you
reconcile that difference shouldn't they
be the same so when we look at that at
that time and it still continues to
carry forward today Al the numbers are
much smaller we looked at that
difference
1,15 versus 720 came out to be 295,000
and again I'm speaking from memory so I
don't know the exact numbers
$295,000 so I I started to look at where
are these numbers how do I reconcile
that difference
2,747 of them that was from the from the
grants we removed that and that gave us
a figure of about oh 82,000 and
something again I'm sorry I don't have
the numbers in front of me I pulled out
the difference between the revenue from
24 to the revenue that we were expecting
to do in 25 which has since been changed
that difference was
$199 the remainder was 81696
which happens to match exactly to the
difference on the budgeted side that
you're finding on those uh finance
committee meetings now I can't explain
why that difference is in the amount of
monies that were budgeted for Revenue
versus the amount of monies that were um
in the FY 24 for expenses other than to
say that the 4745 number is a number
that grew as a result of adding in the
grant
from the
4633 4.6 33 million that was originally
approved in fy2 24 and that's how we get
to the
4745 so we use that number and it just
happens to be that it all falls out
those numbers and I don't think it's
just necessarily a coincidence I mean I
didn't pull those numbers out of the air
when I went looking for them I found the
differences and I was able to back fill
in here's the reason why so I don't know
if that helps any explanation but that
was a Genesis of it that helps me
understand the some of the things behind
it I don't know if that helps everyone
feel like you know what the the
differences are but it sounds like there
is a combination of differences between
actual expenses revenue from Grants that
arrived and in out of time in in terms
of how these have been revised and the
revisions that that you just did
yesterday to sort of cut it back to what
the city these parameters were does that
is that an does that feel explanatory
enough for everyone or do you feel like
this is something we need
to
revisit
um finalize in another revisit
this okay um so I
think I I would say it seems like this
is coming closer to what we we're
getting closer to what we can feel
comfortable approving but it doesn't
sound like this is ready to be approved
from my
colleagues
if
please so I am a non- voting member at
this point just to remind you um but yes
I I I do feel like I I would uh feel
more comfortable to understand what's
characterized as a
shortfall um from
fy4 which uh hadn't hadn't been
discussed before this last finance
committee meeting um and I just don't
understand the the explanation here
today so my understanding is that we
need to have our city budget up for
approval uh the second week of May and I
I'm sort of looking to you as a friendly
reminder of yes that's correct we have
it coming forward on the 20th of May
currently in our FY 25 budget the
Assumption we have for Animal Service
Center is a a flat budget from FY 24
revised I believe um so it it does not
include any increases in
expenditures now what we could come back
to and certainly we we've done this on
on our side as well at the city is
the needs being beond that can come as
budget adjustments um afterwards and
certainly on our side we're going to be
very closely watching our revenues and
expenditures um to understand where we
may have room for additional requests as
well um and so I don't see that that
would be um uh out of the realm as well
for Animal Service Center with respect
to fy2 budget adjustments that would
come forward to to both this body and
the and the council and commission
and you you said what's in there now is
the revised budget that includes the new
salary structure is that the revision
that we
did so I believe that in munice and
munice is our uh system of record for
budgeting that the salaries in munus
reflect the increases from class in
comp is that yes that is correct
yes I'm I'm sorry M chair yes they do uh
inflect the people that were in there at
that time because it was done by people
in seats not by just position so the
employees that are hired after that time
and coming on at the higher amount are
not funded at the
higher at the the comp rate that's
higher from the study and so that's what
we need the extra funding for that's
requested is to fund them as as well as
part of the
funding okay that sounds like a gap
between actuals and budgeting that is
built into I I I think is built into
this process but I'm not
I um so every year when we budget um as
Mr ther said we take a snapshot at a
period of time to see um you know what
positions are filled what positions are
vacant and at that time then we work on
the projections for for the next fiscal
year of course over the several months
uh that we're going through budget
development there are positions that
will be filled and there are new
positions that will become vacant and so
at any given time you're going to have
uh different um uh specific positions
that are vacant or filled uh but at that
and so we have to just sort of put a put
a Line in the Sand to say at this point
these are the numbers we're going to go
with knowing that um we have uh you know
specific positions that will will be
different in terms of whether they're
filled or vacant but on average we
utilize the same
methodology um to budget for them and so
I would I would say that for your vacant
positions um I'm also assuming that in
munus those vacant position salaries are
at the
revised uh salary level that's correct
yep so then that's a consistent
assumption for both filled and vacant
positions that they that the salaries
were taken from the class and comp study
okay and that makes
sense so if we
don't and and so I think I'm really
looking for what kind of consensus do we
have around what is presented here um it
sounds like there's not a lot of
consensus around approving
it um and what what is in the city's
existing sort of budgetary
parameters
um
so go please board member Flores based
on our uh work session the city's work
session and what we're doing today um I
think that we don't have a consensus I
don't think that um I'm certainly not
ready to vote on it on you know on this
due to
our budget presentation to last
week so so what this would mean is what
exists will be will go into the annual
budget consideration and everything
including the which this would have been
the case if we did approve this today um
this would have been the case that the
things that you had on the prior
iterations of the budget things like
additional vet tax
supplies um Animal Care folks could
appear as a budget adjustment as soon as
you could bring them to the next board
meeting ascmv board meeting to get into
the next fiscal Year's sort of
conversation as a budget revision
right yes
yes please board member FL thank you
Madame chair
um yeah I I think I have to restate
emphasize
emphatically emphasize
redundant
um that
um I I think you Mr ther said well the
board this board approved the
presentation that we what we went
through um
and I think that the final determination
is what the city could do what the
County can do um in you know in terms of
the budget
restrictions um so I don't know if that
would be you know the decision that we
made at the presentation for this board
would be
controlling do you remember that I don't
remember that exact but yeah whatever
the decision the board makes it it's
kind of like a the boards gives a thumbs
up or a recommendation to the city
council and to the County to to approve
it but there's no guarantee that it
would be approved yes that's
correct thank My worry is and if it be
answered by the board is if we don't get
the the funding for the comp study there
that you
see then I have to absorb that
increase into my budget through salary
savings and I've Been Told by the city
not to budget off of salary
savings is that or is that is that not
the case is that what I'd have to do is
to continue to fund my co-workers at the
higher rate that they received from
March until June 30th for the new fiscal
year I'd have to do it off of savings
through my budget is that right it's
that's what we approved that's what we
approved for last year I think to imp
Jun 30th right and then for the upcoming
year please board member Beno yes so so
the clarification I want to get is in
munice do we have the FY 24 revised
budget plus the class and comp salaries
for Animal Service Center I I don't know
if budget can answer that question or
Clint if you can ask answer that
question best my understanding that the
positions are all in as the higher class
and comp study amount that's my
understanding
okay then it then it would already be
built into an ongoing continuing res
kind of continuing resolution to fund
this correct so that's my understanding
of what's in munice and what we're
basing our fund summaries off of right
now but I wanted to just confirm that if
that's the case then the salaries are
already in the fy2 budget at the higher
class and comp levels so it looks like
this question is outstanding board
member msas please I I'm not trying to
oversimplify things but did you build in
the increases that were approved did you
build it into your budget request to the
city and the
county and does that fit into the
increases that are pending before the
city and the county so did I include
them in the fiscal year 25 yes yes yes
which of course you should have yes but
is the amount of money that is being
tentatively identified for the city and
the county to contribute for
fy2 does it cover that amount yes okay
well I don't see it as a problem then
and actually I don't see it as a problem
to kind of recommend the budget that's
being proposed subject to any kind of
reconciliation uh that that can be done
administratively because again this is a
recommendation it's to the city and the
county I'm not speaking on behalf of the
County Commission but I'm assuming that
the County Commission is um favorable to
the reduced rate the 200 and what was it
177,000 roughly okay then I'm assuming
that that um the County Commission will
find that as a reasonable request I
don't know where the city is I had
understood that there was some
negotiation involved to arrive at that
number that request and so that'll be a
common contribution from the city and
the county so I don't know we're I I
think we're spending a lot of time over
what is really a Reconciliation between
uh the system that the city uses and the
way the the um Animal Services Center is
presenting the information at the this
point and I think it can be an
administrative Rec reconciliation so
that the proposal needs to be the
commitments need to be there and they
need to be there as early as as soon as
possible I don't think waiting until
next month gives us a lot of clarity and
to Amendment what I said before sir it's
171,000
$172,000 I would entertain a motion from
the board on this
resolution um move to approve Madam
chair it's been moved to approve the
resolution as it is given the
reconciliation that will occur occur
between the two and between what is
budgeted potentially and what might
exist in terms of the positions in in
munice that may already be built into it
sounds like the
existing budget
second it's been moved and seconded I
would hear more
discussion I think with the clarifying
points about reconciliation happening
and understanding more at a future date
but getting this in front of both the
city in the county is a wise move I
understand
that we have more work to do and more
conversations to have but um with the
increase I I would I would agree so my
sense of what the spirit of the
recommendation of the board is is that
we'll we're honoring the commitments
that we made in the class and comp study
um and that's the main budget increase
that we'll see in the next year that's
that's my sense of this but we would
like to see more clarity around the the
short the identified short call
shortfall and hopefully we can follow up
in the next uh finance committee meeting
to to figure out and reconcile those
things so is
that is that what the spirit of this vot
is board member flotes please I don't
understand what the motion is if we're
going to um to recommend the budget
as identified here with the increases
that are consument with the class and
comp study if those aren't already
represented in in munice I think I think
that's a big if so I'm not in favor of
that motion for what it's worth it
doesn't make sense
okay and again just so that there's no
lack of clarity Madam chair it's
basically adopting what is being
presented here as it as being um
accurate as being an a recommendation
that we're making to our to our
respective
bodies okay any other
discussion hearing none Becky please
board member MC
yes board member Flores no board member
shayo Hernandez yes chair Coran yes
motion
passes thank the board very much thank
you thank
you um next up we have public input I
will do my typical
as my colleagues do starting on my left
go up through the rows I imagine there
are none until about row five Kathy and
Jerry I please welcome you generally um
I hope that you will keep your comments
to three minutes but I won't uh I'm not
going to be buzzing anyone off so I ask
you
to good
morning board members um Kathy Stark
I'll keep this really short um and I
know you don't answer questions so what
I'm asking for is at some future board
meeting if you could provide some
clarity on the board's position of a
friends of type of
501c3 to support the shelter I
understand the reasoning why the
previously presented option was not
acceptable and I agree with that but I
didn't hear from them from that board
meeting a definitive kind of Direction
on establishing a 501c3 um to help
support and I think most of you have
seen the efforts of Dr Kyle and the
amount of funds that she has raised by
very generous community members every
day on social media we have people
stepping up and we could leverage that
to help members in the community through
a friends of
organization for future thank
you that is not off of any of our radar
so thank you
Gary Wheelis
jpa uh last month and the month before
that and I realize it's still at state
level um it's approved it's we have an
update for this yeah get into it then
okay thank you is that that's all that's
I just wanted to know yeah what the
progress oh yes so we will be giving an
update momentarily sorry we forgot that
earlier chair board chair on board
comments
okay keeping on on my left
no okay on my right uh please come on
come on up Miss
rre Dr
uh Joe re R for the record Becky we're
getting to be two good
friends um I apologize I'm here at the
invitation in part of um Clint ther uh
because I had approached
him to follow up on a situation that
came up with a neighbors's very uh
wonderful
cat uh who had a poor outcome uh in an
encounter with the
shelter and in talking with Clint about
that uh I came away with uh an
understanding
that he would work with staff to make
certain changes to improve things and
when I talked to the uh owner of the cat
good friend down the street from us
um I decided that it was one of these
situations where the best thing was to
find a way to fix something
rather than to fight about it um there
was some question at one point whether
the owner would sue the shelter which
didn't seem like it was going to be
benefit any of
us so I'm here to just announce that uh
this is a working
project um May 4th is the anniversary of
my friend
Tyler um an aged deaf cat who came into
the
shelter um by a public person who picked
up not understanding who he was or
belonged and because Tyler's ownership
had passed from one sister to another um
upon the death of one
sister in the demise of the
human the chip was not updated and so
when the shelter staff checked the chip
they hit a dead end they hit a land line
that had been disconnected they had a
cell phone that was not in
order um eventually they did find a
number to contact the sister who had
inherited Tyler but by then Tyler had
been put
down and um there are a number of
mistakes in this uh I know that Clinton
the staff at ascm be are working on on
their end and on the end of Tyler's
owner and myself we're working on a
public awareness campaign for check the
Chip And to encourage people to have a
date or a month in mind we're looking at
June as uh for Tyler's sake check the
chip and uh I've all I talked to
commissioner Karan a little bit about
this I've talked to uh Clint I'll be
talking to um my good friend Gino himz
and I'll be making friends with County
folks to try and get us in on this and
also with veterinarians because there's
a number of ways to do Outreach and
education about the importance of
checking the chip both for is it
functioning and what information does it
lead to um we've got a lot of situations
with older people where they're animals
are being rehomed um as they move into
facilities we've also got a situation
where a lot of landlines are being
disconnected or abandoned and where cell
phones don't give you the same
information so people need to be aware
that updating is a must otherwise when a
a shelter worker or somebody else in a
office or in a functionary position hits
a dead end um it can come up as a bad
thing this this was one of the things
that happened for Tyler so we're trying
to fix some of that and um I'll be
working with a number of you to uh
outline how to do this and the way that
we can do some education and get some
different numbers up on the board in the
coming months so check the chip um for
Tyler sake and that would be June and
we'll be working throughout the coming
month of May to pull things together and
to get an initial effort for the county
so that it wouldn't just be City it
would be County
also thank you thank
you
and we are being asked to motion because
the exhib
a is not the exhib
a right do we have to amend it
though yeah I think so okay thank you
Joe let me really quickly get through
are there any other public
comments okay um we do have some updates
but I'm hearing that there that we need
to that we should update the amend we
should amend the motion on the budget to
reflect the exhibit a that was handed
out this morning not the exhibit a that
was presented in the
packet does that make sense yeah yes
okay um so I I think we have to reopen
consideration for for the action item
first I would guess we have to do
something like
that
you're I apologize you were out of my
wheelhouse
aspect so Mr msas if we can get a motion
to amend the original motion for the
budget we have to include exhibit a that
was given to us today not the exhibit a
that was in the packet that was
originally published for the meeting is
that a
motion that is a motion it's a request
that you just made yeah it's it's been
moved that we amend the
the prev vote the exhibit that was in
the previous vote that we approved that
we designate or point out that the
exhibit a that we have been provided is
the one that's included with that not
the one that's published online I think
the motion I think the motion would be
move to substitute this exhibit for the
exhibit currently in the packet I think
that no no that's the other way around
no you're correct that is correct that's
what I thought I heard okay and so
that's all it is is a mo because you're
not a you're not amending the resolution
you're you're all you're doing is a
motion to
substitute the exhibit a exhibit a that
was distributed at today's meeting for
the one that was previously included yes
yes so I I hear a
motion second and a second to revisit
item 6.1 and substitute exhibit a that
was provided
um and that was presented I think it
reflects what was presented as well that
was provided to us at this time as the
accompanying exhibit and approved budget
for proposal to the city and county
authorities any further discussion of
that
no seeing
none please
board member Maas yes board member
Flores no board member shayo hernandes
yes chair Kuran yes motion
passes all right thank you we've gone
through all of our action items and
Revisited them a bit as well um chair
and board comments just to talk I'll
I'll start and then I'll head down but I
will give a quick update on the the jpa
and and subsequent things and I will
also put a note um that we have a
proposed Clos session um but I think we
haven't collected the information that
we needed to to do this closed session
is that correct commissioner Shalo
Hernandez yes but it's
on yes Madam chair but I believe that
joint session is on the um close session
the Clos session is on the executive
director's yes report and I just want to
say that we're we're looking at
postponing that because to the next
meeting when hopefully there's more yeah
participation so because we haven't
collected all of the the information and
there aren't enough folks here to to do
that closed session so on that note um
just the last thing on our agenda we are
going to cancel that closed session and
we'll notice and announce a future Clos
session related to that on the on the
jpa to to Jerry's question um it was
approved last Friday I understand the
state issued an approval for the new
joint Powers agreement if you all
remember a few of the highlights are
that are that it moves meetings to a
quarterly basis and adds community
members to the board um as voting
members um in that context we have work
been working with our city clerk to
prepare we have a boards and committees
website that people can apply to um on
that website we're going to use that
same portal for both city and county
applicants to the board uh it asks a
series of questions you to submit your
resume and work history um and it will
also have sort of a brief description of
what the board will look like but I
think I'll we'll also be all promoting
this in our own sort of ways to
encourage people to apply via that
portal it should be ready early next
week for folks to submit there their
packets of information and again we're
looking for City and County
representation and I think at a very
basic level because it's all coming
through one portal what we'll be doing
for that we'll be filtering them if your
address is in the city you will be
filtered to the city council for
approval if your address is in the
county you'll be filtered like
the I if if it's clear that you're in
the county then you'll be filtered to
the county but obviously people on in
the city could be on the could be County
Representatives as
well so
um we'll be looking through those as
they come in to make sure that we have
folks to fill the the positions each
board does the appointment themselves so
city appointees and county appointees um
to determine who the folks will be so I
think that that will also be we we'll be
having an executive session an executive
meeting of the of the board as it exists
now I think at that what we can plan how
we're going to follow up what the
timeline is because the next meeting
really wouldn't be for another three
months of this board if the jpa is in
action right now
correct yeah
so with a different Constitution
including the community members Madam
chair I would recommend maybe a couple
special meetings between there to get
everything cleaned up
until yeah I would recommend that okay
so we will keep you posted but starting
early next week we'll be accepting new
applicants to join the board um in its
new formulation so
um yeah we'll figure that out we can
keep the meeting next month keep the
meeting next month on the books
for at least in our
could we can call that a special meeting
and we have it on our calendars correct
perhaps so then we can figure out at
that time have the applications together
um review them get them to the to
the to their respective governments and
also plan future meetings so that people
who are coming on to the board will have
a calendar of when those meetings will
be occurring um and we can make sure
that they know that that's what's
happening
so uh you will see
I will put on through all of my social
media and send directly to you all as to
hopefully share widely the the sort of
solicitation for people to apply and the
link the direct link to our city boards
and commissions
thing and we'll add we'll give it to
Clinton make sure that it gets on his
social media as well
so um those are all the comments I have
except to add to Joe's thing I think my
I will probably be having a community
meeting um in hopefully in June so I
will add the check the chip for Tyler
thing as a part of that and figure out
how we can do that um as a part of it as
well so uh TBD on that note but thank
you for that idea and we'll be figuring
out ways to to get it out there so all
right I will head down the rest of the
board for comments um starting with
board member
Beno uh just want to thank you all for
your patience on the jpa
um
anou process and approval um I was on
the verge of driving up to Santa Fe to
see what was going on up there I'm happy
I don't have to do that and very happy
that they did approve uh the document
we'll also be going through the the
newly adopted mou as well for the fiscal
Services uh just to uh since it that's a
completely new document for us to make
sure all parties understand roles and
responsibilities um going forward as
well but uh yes thank you all for your
patience thank you for getting it in
there and putting it on their desk where
it's at for three months in Santa Fe um
thank you again for your advocacy and
ongoing work and getting that document
those documents
ready board member
FLOTUS I uh just want to thank everybody
who's here today I want to thank the
Animal Service Center Director um Mr
ther and
Bernice and all at all but
um I also want to thank uh Miss bencomo
for her contributions to this board uh
in so far as well everything but
especially the financial aspects and um
and thank you Madame chair thank you
board member Shel Hernandez
please um I probably shouldn't ever
start a comment out with them but I'm
really excited that the jpa was approved
I think that's fantastic um I know
that's something that we've all been
waiting for the community has been
waiting for but I do have to say that I
am also
very aware that this is a very hard
board to sit on especially when it comes
up to
budgetary um constraints since it is a
jpa with both the city and the county so
making sure that we're having these
meetings from now until when we get
those that new board appointed making
sure we're getting all the finances in
order to give that those two new
incoming members um some comfort level
and knowing that we've fixed some of the
problems that are there is going to be a
huge um concern to me that we're
bringing on community members and that
they fully understand what is going on
on this board and how we're having these
conversations um especially related
to the comp study and also the overall
budget um so I think having more
meetings now until we get to the point
where we're all very comfortable from a
city and county perspective to do those
quarterly meetings is something that we
really need to look at and I think we
need to have a a larger discussion
during our executive session of what
this looks forward or what this looks
like going forward and maybe coming up
with a little bit of a transition plan
as to how to onboard those two um
community members as to where they're
not
just fed to the Wolves I mean honestly
so I think we need to do a little bit
more of a look on that at our executive
session thank you I agree and I think we
can develop a I think we have a fair
number of documents that can support
this and then we can sort of develop
some others that would would be
supportive of whoever is joining so go
ahead for board thank you point of
clarification please um our next meeting
then would be May 23rd let's keep that
on our calendar and plan it as a special
session for special session you know it
might not be an official meeting because
now we're on a quarterly basis but but
before great to thank you to sort of
finalize all those things and then we'll
we will have close session as well yes
the one that was scheduled for today
we'll also be happening at that time so
it will be short and not a business
meeting in the same way that that it
usually is probably no reports I would
say Okay um so no reports in the next
one you you heard it here first um it
will be no reports for me uh I I know
you guys love creating monthly reports
congratulations now they're officially
quarterly so um so um thank you for that
any other questions or comments from the
board seeing and hearing none again the
closed session we
we are because we don't have sort of the
critical mass that we had hoped of
information or participants for our Clos
session we're going to put that off
until May
um so hearing no other board and chair
reports uh I would entertain a motion to
adjourn so move shra Hernandez second by
fles thank you we can vote with our feet
thank you again Becky thank you guys for
your patience and
presentations e