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I'd like to call the meeting of Thursday
November 17th Animal Services Center of
the Messiah Valley board of directors to
order if you all would join me in the
Pledge of Allegiance
under God indivisible with liberties
thank you Becky if you would please help
in determining a quorum
board member Ward
present board member Enriquez is absent
former Macias
board member Flores
president
board member Ellen's is absent board
member Gandara is absent board member
Sanchez is absent chair Quran present we
have a quorum thank you Becky Madam
chair please if I could just note for
the record that the reason that the
County Commissioners aren't present is
because there's a conflicting and I
believe that that applies to Consular
Gandara as well there's a conflicting
meeting with the South Central Solid
Waste yes and we rescheduled this at a
time that it wouldn't usually be on our
calendar so yeah thank you for for
putting that in the record there is a
conflicting meeting so
thank you
um
I would entertain any changes to the
agenda
seeing none I would entertain a motion
to approve the agenda so move Madam
chair
moved by board member Messias
second by police
seconded by board member Flores are you
is your thing working Mary okay just
wanted to check and make sure that you
could still get the red light on thank
you it was
moved by board member Macias and
seconded by board member Flores Becky
please board member Ward
yes former Macias
yes former Flores yes chair Quran yes
thank you
up next we have the approval of the
minutes from the board meeting we held
just a few weeks ago October 27th on
2020 in 20 2022 I hope I'll give you a
few seconds to look over this and
entertain any motions to amend or
approve the minutes
I would move to approve the the minutes
Madam chair
second
thank you it's been moved by board
member Messiah Sun seconded by board
member Flores any discussion
notes okay board member Ward yes former
Macias yes for member Flores
yes chair Quran yes thank you
all right next up
um we have special guests and then I
really appreciate that you all were
moving on to reports and presentations
so the folks from the spay and neuter
Action Program are here to present this
morning so thank you for being with us
please come on up we'll help you get I
don't know yes you do have a
presentation there ready
good morning good morning it's good to
see you Michelle good to see you too
please say your name for the record even
though we know you and here here my name
is Michelle Gloria and I am currently
serving as the assistant director for
the spay neuter Action Program
I have uh some handouts for you all
which is basically just a reiteration of
this very short presentation along with
our newsletter which is hot off the
press and just a little flyer that we
hand out to all of our clients
foreign
I haven't done this in a while so bear
with me you can press F5 but that Mouse
is also Wild
oh here we go thank you
so this is just a basic uh overview of
the number of space and neuters that
have been done through Snap
for about a 10-year period obviously
we're still in the in the midst of 2022
but we're kind of getting toward the end
and these numbers tally up to a little
over 14 500 space and neuters
collectively snap was in operation prior
to 2012 but I was not able to collect
that information in time for this
meeting but still really good numbers
I think based on the numbers that we're
showing for 2022 thus far we're probably
going to hit the 1300 Mark by the end of
the year so we're doing really good
so far for 2022
we're about
50 50 between city and county County's
got a little bit higher percentage of of
dogs and cats that have been sterilized
than the city but right now we're at
1119 as of the 15th of November
and cats are doing pretty good we've
always historically done more dogs I
think but cats are quickly starting to
catch up
and this is who we serve we basically
serve a low-income families in Las
Cruces and Don Anna County
the qualified they qualify based on
their head their low-income we qualify
them by the HUD income guidelines per
their family size
um qualifying City residents and
residents who live in Incorporated areas
of the county they pay a co-pay and it's
a very reasonable co-pay when you look
at the the pricing that our
veterinarians charge they they do a
great service to us and uh but their
their prices go up just like everybody
else's so the co-pays we try to keep
them as low as we can to serve our
low-income community
the qualifying County residents who live
in unincorporated areas of Dona Ana
County do not have a copay they also
receive a voucher for a rabies shot in a
microchip if needed these services are
provided as a result of snap receiving
funding from donana County for this
purpose
so the process there's various ways that
folks can contact us they can call us
they can come in person to the office or
they can send us an email
we ask a few questions to quickly
determine if they are eligible for the
service
after qualifying them and depending on
their physical address the clients will
receive the appropriate application and
again they either receive that in person
they receive it via what we call snail
mail or email
um they complete the application and
return it along with the supporting
documentation
and they can receive up to six vouchers
a year to be redeemed at our local
participating veterinarians which the
Animal Service Center is one of those
participants to get their dogs and cats
sterilized
and then at the end of the month all the
participating service providers return
those redeemed vouchers and that's how
they get paid
and this is how we can be reached our
address is still the same as we've been
at the same place for some time now we
are open Tuesday through Friday from 11
to 3. they can give us a call we do have
a lot of voicemails when we come in in
the mornings that we follow up on
we have a website and we also have a
very active email so there's a variety
of ways that we can be reached
and that's all I have any questions
thank you I I'm sure that there are
questions from the board please board
members yes thank you board member
Flores sorry I didn't see your thing
go ahead thank you thank you madam uh
chair and thank you Miss Corella I think
I just want to thank you for the
presentation for your work
um because it looks like something is
working so I appreciate that very much
thank you thank you appreciate all the
support we appreciate it very much
foreign
board member Messias please I'd just
like to put on the record in terms of
the
County's
support
um
and a sense of a really good turnaround
in terms of the investment and the
return that we're receiving in in the
investment we have a very
I think a very strong partnership with
SNAP and
we've always been very supportive in our
contribution and our support has
increased over the period of time so I
want to congratulate you on the numbers
reached certainly in
2022 and I see that there have been
higher numbers and I understand you know
still issues related to the pandemic
that may have kept some of the numbers
lower but is there is there a master
base of information in terms of the
number of animals that are go through a
spare neutering process
throughout the county is there some way
to have a better sense in terms of total
numbers of animals because again it's
been our perspective that the greater
the number that we can spay or neuter
the greater assistance that we're
providing to the Animal Services Center
in terms of keeping the population as
reduced as possible but is there that
database that you know about there is
this in addition to the work that snap
is doing yes though it's going on in the
vet offices is there any tracking of the
overall county-wide effort from whatever
Source not that I'm aware of but I
myself am very interested in that data
as well so I know that we have good data
we have some data from ascmv and I think
that you know I think some of the
veterinarians might be willing to at
least give us some
basic numbers averages perhaps on what
they are doing monthly so I think we
could at least get some sense of a total
number and you know I would be willing
to try and get that information because
it's of interest you know to all of us
who work in animal advocacy to see if
we're headed in the right direction
great I we can continue that dialogue
I'd like to provide whatever support
that we could in terms of Outreach to
whatever source that is providing these
services in the community I'm sure we
can get all of the information from the
Animal Services Center and I'm sure that
they have a significant number as well
yes and I'll ask about that in one of
the later presentations but I wondered
how much the private sector is providing
I think that data is probably maybe not
to an exact number but I think we could
get a sense of what's going on and again
we so appreciate your support in what
we're doing we are making a difference
right
thank you thank you board member
Matthias any other I I also am very
curious about that I would be curious
also about the denominator which I think
is the part that we're always chasing
and and literally and figuratively in
that in that equation that is the
percent of animals in our County that
are that are spayed or neutered um
uh and so
the the top the numerator really
determines what the denominator is in
that in that equation but I think that
would be something that we collectively
could all name look for we really missed
our opportunity when we didn't included
in the census tracking you could have
asked how many animals do you have in
your home and are they you're right
you're right
um
yeah so Michelle I really want to thank
you for this and and your contributions
and I do appreciate all the work that
you've done and in particular you know I
think you've you've changed all of our
thinking about TNR so just as far as
homages to you go I think I really
appreciate your ongoing advocacy and
support I'm curious
um and I say this as a person from the
city knowing that the county does
contribute significantly to you all's
um sort of thing I'm curious
uh what structural factors do you feel
like would increase the capacity of snap
or us collectively and not just not only
through Snap but through a range of
things
um
keep us from getting
ahead of this problem that we have do
you think and what and your experience
in all of those domains I'm curious well
from where I stand and with all of the
things that I've dealt with these past
years with advocacy in general and you
know with SNAP more recently we have a
severe Veterinary shortage in this
community our vets are currently booking
out six to eight weeks in advance we're
now booking out into January for
surgeries so it doesn't matter how many
clients you're able to bring in if you
can't get those surgeries done the
gestation period for both a dog and a
cat and correct me if I'm wrong guys is
about 60 to 63 days for both dogs and
cats and so if you can't get those
surgeries done
um you you know you can have a bigger
issue so it's a it's a nationwide
problem
um but uh to me that is our biggest
hurdle is just getting more
veterinarians in here if I could figure
out a way to get a vet school here
we are like we're an AG College
I would love to see a veterinary school
here but I don't have the slightest idea
how to make that happen I know it takes
a lot of money and and influence to get
that done but we could sure use one here
and then we could we would have
veterinarians but that's what we need
thank you I I was a little bit afraid
that you would affirm that which has
been which has been part of our
conversations for a long time because I
think we are thinking about how to use I
I don't I don't want to say that money
is No Object but I do think you know
certainly the cities there are things
coming down from the state where we're
trying to sort of recoup some money
related to taxes and other things
related to that I think those things are
all in progress but if you know
if we're if we're at capacity of of the
vets in our community it's really hard
to to Envision a different way
not that I'm feeling despondent about
that but but it is a real problem yeah
and snap specifically doesn't do
necessarily the Trap neuter release we
don't deal with that population as much
as I would love to I understand the
logic behind that because again we're
already really dealing with a population
that is having
scheduling issues as it is so adding TNR
to that just kind of complicates things
so you know the hope is that we will get
more Veterinary Services here more you
know T in our capacity which we really
really need but you know we'll we'll
kind of see how things are going forward
and you know uh
we would love to eventually maybe work
with the city and get something similar
to what we're able to do with the county
but you know we're we're doing the best
we can to serve that population and
again we're keeping our co-pays as low
as we can to try and serve that
demographic so we're moving along now I
think it's great and I appreciate that
and I hope that we can consider that in
the future I also hope that I think it's
really tough to be in a situation where
people want to make a change in a moment
and it's kind of like well let us figure
out in six to eight weeks how we can
help you make that change and it's kind
of a missed opportunity but it has to do
with our structural capacity sure to
make that change so I really appreciate
the follow-up that you all do I know
it's really intensive so thank you again
any other questions
for all of your advocacy Magellan's
really appreciate it I really appreciate
seeing you and you presenting today on
behalf of the Coalition so thank you
thank you I appreciate the opportunity
yeah
okay all right next up we would like to
hear from the the acos
Lieutenant wedela looks like starting
off okay come on up thank you
I'm like looking for the right one
good morning board members Lieutenant
Weedle up for the record I am here to
present the City Animal Control report
for the month of October
we had 530 reported stray animals for
October 2022
283 of those were gone on arrival 205
stray animals were apprehended 215
Strays impounded at the shelter 32
successful field returns six
unsuccessful attempted field returns for
a total of 38 identifiable stray animals
as you can see as far as reported stray
animals we did increase this last month
from 2021 and 2020 where we were up to
530 versus the 462 and the 453
respectively
as far as our field return to owner
comparison we were a bit down from the
last two months
comparable to the last two years as well
where again for October this year we had
32 in previous years it was 44 and 35.
as far as our community cap program
it we have again this is a new chart
that was started as a result of the TNR
initiative what we'd like to see is the
green and blue eventually like switching
up as we continue on with this program
as far as the cat and trap calls that we
had for this last month we had 42 of
those specific calls when we
were on scene and actually got to the
cat we discovered that seven of those
cats were already Community cats and
were able to release them back to the
community
here are our reasons for owner releasing
of animals so this is where they contact
the Animal control officer and they say
hey I can no longer take care of my dog
or cat five were that the owner could
not have the dog in the confined space
that they were living in two were
because they had too many of the dogs
and the owner were unable to re-home
them one was because the dog killed a
family cat one was because it was a
puppy and it was too playful for the
older dog one was aggressive towards
other pets and family members one was
due to old age one another one was due
to old age and a euthanasia request one
was a dangerous dog admittance and one
cat because it bit the owner
here are our reasons um that the Animal
Control Officers were unable to field
return to owner so this is where they
would scan the actual pet but for
whatever reason they couldn't return
that pet to its owner so two of them the
chips were not registered uh two no
contact by the phone or at the residence
one the actual owner was running errands
and said that they would pick the animal
up from the shelter and then one the
owner was at work
any questions
thank you lieutenant questions
board member Flores please again thank
you so much it's nice to see you
lieutenant thank you it's good to see
you all as well thank you
all right thank you next up Chris
yep you're good please
come on up good morning good to see you
too
good morning my name is Brian Halsey I'm
the caseworker for Dona Ana County
Animal Control
there it is
okay I'm here to present the October
2022 donana County Animal Control
monthly report
um so for our reported stray animals we
had 268 stray animals
um out of those animals we were able to
pick up 237 stray animals
we ended up picking up 103 stray cats
and 134 stray dogs
um we had nine sick or injured animals
we had more cats and dogs this month we
had six cats and three dogs
and we had nine owners surrenders which
was good to see because we usually have
way more we usually have double digits
so it was good to see it not so many
this is our reported stray animal calls
for the last four years
um
they're pretty much staying roughly
about where they are every year we're
staying within our averages
unfortunately I'd like to see those go
down but that's about where we're at
this is our four-year field return to
owner comparison chart
for October we had 25
and these are additional animals that we
picked up we had two owners surrendered
cats seven owners surrendered dogs we
had nine sicker injured animals we had
one welfare hold
we had zero neglect abuse or cruelties
we had nine shelter quarantines three
home quarantines we had two dogs that
were picked up for a livestock attack
case and currently we have eight animals
being held awaiting trials
um and Court proceedings and we had one
rabies submission that turned to be
negative
these are districts
that we go through
and per District this is our breakdown
for October for cats and dogs in
district one we had five in District two
cats and dogs we had 41.
in District three we had 31 in District
Four which is usually one of our highest
ones is 67. District Five we had 30.
District Six we had enough tick in cats
for this month we had some people
starting to just trap cats that were up
there by Santa Teresa area and then in
District Seven we had 44.
this is our Stray Cats picked up by
District
again just another note for you guys
um
in district 7 we started to see a lot
more numbers
um we've been in that area a lot more
this last month and so we were able to
get and find more animals
um so our numbers in District Seven is
going to be a little bit higher this
month as well
this is our dogs that were picked up
and our reasons for owner of surrenders
we had one that was not getting along
with the other dogs in the house we had
four for vicious or livestock attacks
we had two where the owner were deceased
and no one no family members were able
to re-home the animal or two animals and
then we had two for being aggressive
and that'll stand for questions
board member Flores please thank you
chair and thank you so much for your
presentation
um District three is East Mesa is that
correct
um yeah so District me uh three is like
Butterfield Oregon White Sands Missile
Range all throughout that area yeah and
and the stats usually show that that's
one of the highest areas of um
you know animals that are reported loose
or whatever but it was really low this
time around
do you know why or does anybody
speculate or is there any data if if I
had to speculate
um
usually around winter time for some
reason up in that area the animals don't
seem to get out as much as far as like
the dogs and stuff I don't know if it's
because it's the cold weather people
keep their dogs in more in that area I
don't know but it seems like every year
when it gets colder that area doesn't
become as big of an issue for us it's
usually District Four or District Seven
where we usually see the uptick and
District Seven is down
yeah okay thank you so much thank you
thank you chair thank you board member
Flores thank you again Brian
no other questions all right thank you
next up
director Thacker please
good morning
good morning Madam chair morning board
Clinton executive director Animal
Service Center Messiah Valley
to present to you today the October
numbers
for the Animal Service Center currently
yesterday we had 505
animals at the center because you can
see 374 cats I'm sorry in 2020 there was
374 2021 there's 508. so we're sitting
right around at that 500 mark
this is this was troubling when I first
saw this and you're going to see this
number continue are you going to see why
this number was so troubling as we get
further in the presentation
845 animal intake when you look at 2021
we had 651 so just didn't it's just it's
just going up right where we were before
the pandemic
um so
we're looking at 447 dogs and 394 cats
the new slide that we put in uh it
dawned on me while I was looking through
this yesterday that we have the way the
animals go out of the center but we
don't have the way the animals come into
the center so I thought you might like
to see how that 8 over 800 animals came
into the center
so 11 and 0.8 percent owners surrender
the returns are really low one percent
seized or welfare hold was four percent
but by the public Strays coming in 26
percent so a quarter of all of our
animals are coming from Strays by the
public and then 58 56.8 percent was
coming in by acos and that could be
whether it's stray or owner surrender
it's just being brought in by Animal
Control is 56 almost 57.
these are our returns
so a total of six dogs two cats anywhere
between behavior problems landlord
doesn't allow other pets incompatible
again we always talk to them try to have
a conversation and try to mitigate as
much as possible these animals that are
coming in
diverted intakes these again for those
watching for the first time these are
animals that are brought to the Center
for some reason and our front staff
diverts them from not coming in
so it could be somebody who has found a
stray animal
and so we say you know instead of
bringing it to us why don't we fill out
a lot or a found report so we have that
here at the center and take the dog for
a walk go knock on doors go find out see
if you can your area and if they agree
with that that's great that's a diverted
intake if they say no we can't there's
no way of course we take the animal
again if cats they say they're not using
the litter box we'll explain to them
we'll show them we have paperwork and
everything that they can do tricks they
can do just try to keep the animal in
the home if the individual is willing
all right so this is the outcome
uh we had 177 adoptions so 20.9 percent
11 reclaims and rescues Community cats
was 16 and a half percent and then
euthanasia was a 36.8 percent almost 37
percent so as we're looking that's that
big number that I told you about the 800
and so intake
uh 36 percent of that was euthanized
and so we have a live release rate of 62
percent uh it's the lowest one we've had
in a while but we when we're looking at
the issues at the center as far as
population wise
we we are no longer going to be
warehousing animals as we call it and
just such a having a high number like
505 is still the quality of care
um
is is at risk so we want to keep it
lower so we have to euthanize more and
that's going to be in the next slide I
believe oh no this is transfers
so we had 93 total transfers leaving the
center
a special thanks to again our local
locals like Action Program from animals
cherished canines
doing an amazing job of keeping the cats
or I'm sorry our animals here locally
and helping out some of our ones far off
like Front Range taking 27 cats that's a
huge help
so this is the euthanasia reasons
uh again so if it says space and then
the reason why that's because the whole
purpose why we looked at that animal was
because we were out of space but it's
because medically the the individual
animal is not doing well so if we had
space we would hold on to them longer
and try to do more but because we didn't
have space those animals had to be
euthanized
uh so the that's the highest reason for
dogs was space medical medical
respiratory signs TX means treatment
so they were under treatment but there
is respiratory signs and the highest for
that is the cats next highest is medical
respiratory signs non-responsive or not
responding to the treatment so that's
the next category next one is a failure
to thrive again most likely these are
the kittens that are brought in
generally what it is is somebody thinks
they're being a Good Samaritan and they
see kittens alone so they bring kittens
in and over the weekend or the next day
they bring them to us they haven't eaten
people usually don't know what it takes
to care for kittens and so by the time
we get them they just they have no
strength anymore they they won't nurse
they won't have any desire or they're
just failure to thriving so we euthanize
them
and then the next reason for dogs is
parvo
and non-treatment that doesn't mean that
we don't treat for parvo what it means
is is the animal had clinical signs of
parvo when we have to euthanize at that
point
because there's no space at the center
right now for treatment for parvo
and the next reason down is the
aggressive dog for the behavior
our surgery is talking with our medical
director her goal is 400 every month and
as you can see she hit her goal this
month or I'm sorry last month in October
at 404. to date
3781 surgeries just phenomenal what
they're doing there in our surgical area
total visitors had a great uptick
1791 to the center
this is a slide showing it's the next
one will show walk-ins but this is by
appointment as you can see we had 103
appointments that were made six didn't
show up but that ended up with 61
adoptions so 59 of our appointments
being made resulted in
the animal being adopted
whereas we look at walk-ins people just
walking in 307 groups that were that
came in so a group could be anywhere
from one person to seven people who had
just thrown a number out there but
usually it's it's between two to three
people it ended up in 56 adoptions so
only 18 percent
okay yes that was my mistake I didn't
change the bottom one the actual
percentage was the 29.6 oh 29.6 thank
you
volunteers the total volunteers of 674
hours with 375 volunteers uh one thing
that they do a fantastic job of is the
dog walking Team every month they have a
goal to walk every single dog in the
center that is available to be walked so
they do a fantastic job of that
it's our web page views
37 252.
now this was an interesting one
so our Facebook view shot up
6282 we have to confirm let's make sure
that they're still counting at the same
uh we didn't do anything very different
the only thing I can think of is our
Firefighter Calendar that went out
I think that might be might be it
[Music]
so
[Laughter]
we did have some great things going we
announced our December 4th drive-through
Clinic
there towards the end of October so it
could be any member of those things
and speaking of our drive-through Clinic
is December 4th it's going to be in the
Field of Dreams 9 A.M to 2 p.m and as
always we're excited for it's going to
be a lot of work on our end however so
much payoff if you remember it's it's
thousands of vaccines that we get done
we like to thank James Corporation
they're the contractor that is building
the new center we approach them and
they're going to sponsor a thousand
dollars worth of microchips and then
also the ASA Architects are the ones who
designed the new center they're also
doing a thousand dollars so we have two
thousand dollars in microchips that are
going to be free for the public I
believe that's 200 microchips
so we're excited for uh for them we're
very grateful for them bringing that on
okay we'll stand for any questions you
may have
thank you very much Clint that's Grimm
the the yeah frankly um but
it is and I think we'll Madam chair
we're going to continue to see to see
that we just can't this the standard of
care just drops significantly the value
of care once we have a high population
in the center
we are doing our best the new center and
when we open up will help a little bit
but we as long as we have a high
population sickness is a lot more there
stress is a lot more there we'll add
those all up you get sick animals which
means animals aren't being adopted so
it's just a constant struggle that we're
facing there
thank you questions from the board board
member Flores please
thank you madam chair I just want to
thank you Clint I know that um
there's a lot of adversity at times from
the community
but I know that you're working hard and
and I want to thank you for your
presentation today for your work as well
as Bernice thank you
yes thank you and I do want to add the
slide that we added in was my thinking
at I think one o'clock yesterday
afternoon so thank you for Bernice for
getting that all together put in I
appreciate that
thank you and I appreciate oh please
board member Messias oh okay okay I was
just gonna say I appreciate you all in
increasing the amount of I know that
more data means more work for you you in
terms of counting and that that also
goes for the acos so I really appreciate
you all coming and trying to communicate
all of the
efforts that are happening in ways that
help us see both
you know the extraordinary effort and
the extraordinary breadth of the problem
that face so thank you
thank you to our acos as well please
board member
could we go back to that slide that
showed the
spay and neutering
did I see the number right
3700 over what period of time so if you
add that to snap we are have identified
5 000 animals that have been Spain spay
or neutered
three
FY 22 so that's um
so that's year to date that's 10 months
worth of so normally the 12-month period
before how many put was achieved during
that period of time I don't have that in
front of you but I can get it before the
it's in our year-end report for last
year and I can get that to you before
the meeting's over I can just look
online for that and let you know
but it should be pretty close to I mean
we have
two more months and she's usually really
well good about hitting her 400 Mark
so another 800.
so how long does an animal have to be
there at the center before their
eligible or before they're either spay
or neutered
yes sir it so it depends you got to
understand that these are not just
sterilization surgeries they could these
could be any type of surgeries that are
happening so we have to wait to figure
that in as well as all different types
so we have somebody coming in to redeem
their animal but it's not sterilized so
they take a higher priority than animals
that are there at the center waiting to
get sterilized up for adoption and then
we have animals that are already adopted
that need to be sterilized so while the
majority of these animals are these
surgeries are sterilization surgeries
there's still a small percentage that
aren't and then also we have to
prioritize which ones are coming in and
and add TNR into that now too while
we're doing so it is a mixed batch so as
you can see 164 TNR 99 adoptions 56 was
the shelter Foster animals and then 85
were other
for the 404.
and I was just told by Bernice the 85
the other includes snap surgeries and
other rescues that are bringing people
are bringing surgeries to us
oh I see so you take some of the coupons
from snap
yes
yeah they are when we started our public
where we brought it back up opened it
back up our public surgeries that was
how we did it was is working through
Snap because we wanted to get to the low
the low income individuals that
qualified for that so we could help them
the most okay so if I understood
correctly there is a priority given to
animals that are being returned to their
owner or being adopted
yes I I would
so yes the return to owner is the
highest I would say
um because they're waiting for their
animals to come back to them they pay
the fees so that would be the highest
priority for them so do you have an
average uh or just a sense of how long
an animal is there before they are
I've never liked the term sterilized but
if you're using it and that's the
terminology before they're sterilized
it I I don't because it all depends on
the animal uh
I can get the information for you I can
do that but off the top of my head I
don't have an answer for you I'd be
afraid to reach out and grab something
because I know it might be wrong
because we have different categories we
have so if you're asking the average
length of time an animal stays there
prior to sterilization in our adoption
program
then I could get that for you but
there's also a return to owner category
how long an animal stays there before
they're Redeemed by their owner
that's another one that so there's
different categories there's not just
one that says on average for everything
okay but I'm assuming that an owner can
only have their animal there for a
certain period of time a set period of
time before then it's no longer their
property all right before you take
action on the animal but they can take
it anytime they want so we can have an
we've had an animal there a month before
and they come and somebody says oh
that's my animal and they redeem it and
they pay all the fees that that were
there so it's always available for the
owner to be for the owner to come redeem
their animal but at some point it would
be ours after after that five-day stay
so does an animal come into the shelter
and then leave without being sterilized
very rarely now used to you know I would
say yes because we had the Foster to
adopt program but now the answer is no
only if they're very young or they're
very sick they can't have sterilization
surgery all right
thank you
thank you board member Messias any other
questions
no thank you Clint
I appreciate that
um
all right next up we have committee
reports and the finance committee ACM
Enriquez is not here but I do think that
we have folks from the finance
department thank you good morning for
being here good morning please
good morning thank you for being here
good morning Madam chair and members of
the board my name is Liam Beasley I'm a
senior accountant with the city's
finance department and just as an FYI we
didn't have the finance committee
meeting this month it would normally be
the third Thursday so today but due to
scheduling conflicts it was hasn't
occurred
so I'll be covering the monthly
financial report for October of 2022.
on the first slide we have the
highlights for the statement of net
position
cash was one million 59 625 as were the
total assets
liabilities was 114 563.
Revenue collected in advance was 261 397
and the unassigned fund balance was 683
665.
for the changes in that position the
total revenues through October was 1
million 558 666.
and the expenditures were one million
675 and that resulted in a net increase
of 381 991.
and here is the budget to actual
comparison for the changes in that
position
total budgeted revenues are at four
million a hundred and fifty one thousand
three seventy five
and through October the revenues ended
up being 37.5 of that budget
for expenditures the budget is 4 million
287 850.
and through October there's been 27.4
percent that has been expended so far
and the budget parameter for October is
33 and the third percent
here's the month-to-month comparison for
revenues and expenditures as you can see
between September and October Revenue
stayed at about the same and there was a
hundred thirty thousand dollar decrease
in expenditures and that was mostly due
to the fact that in September we had
three pay periods that posted and in
October it was just two
and then here's a breakdown of that 1.2
million dollars in expenditures so
salary made up 55 benefits were 19 temp
service is two percent repairs and
maintenance half a percent
Services were 14
supplies and insurance were four percent
each other was one percent and then
Capital was 0.6 percent
and that concludes the financials I can
take any questions thank you
thank you very much Liam any questions
from the board
hearing none thank you and just as a
note the city is currently undergoing
its auditing process yes sorry this
might be putting you on the spot nope
yes and that's correct and so this
afternoon we have an exit in our exit
interview with the Auditors regarding
the ascmv's financials just to to make
it transparent that we're also that you
all are also going through that process
so thank you again also Amaya's eyes man
they they get me every time
um
that's her eyes are
I know
huh
she looks really smart thank you Liam
next up
athletic yeah like if you wanted someone
to run with you
on my uh please adopter you know I've
been looking for a long time have you I
didn't know this yeah yeah I consider
myself a Matchmaker so please Clint it's
just so much going on Within Myself
we'll include a free a free calendar
with firefighters on
it so
just saying
um if I could just hijack the meeting
really quick I wanted to let Mr and see
us know that in 2021 we did 4030
surgeries
uh trap new to return was our highest
with 1 311 shelter animals in other
words animals there at the shelter that
needed to be sterilized prior to
adoption was 889.
adoption animals so they've already
adopted and they're not sterilized at
the time of adoption was 824 rescue
animals was 389 snap surgeries was 304
return to owners was 184 and other
surgeries was 129.
add that up
4030. oh I see you get what we're giving
a breakdown of the four thousand yeah
okay
um just going back to Amaya I'm sorry go
ahead board member must yes I don't know
if you have more questions I would not
interfere in a matchmaking app
um just just to put it out there she
does look really smart and I have a lot
of confidence in my ability to train her
I could hold on to her for a week and
make her into a ring bearer by next
Friday if that's what you need
foreign
oh wow what can I say you've left me
speechless anyhow
um Council Quran can I mean um
um those are impressive numbers
um kudos to you and the staff and the
doc and
all the technical pieces that play into
that
um
I wonder if this would be helpful
um
to share that data individually rather
because it gets lost in that report and
how many of us I mean we read the end of
year report but I'm I'm asking to
publicly put that out a lot because I
just feel like you don't get enough
kudos for the work that you do we always
hear the negative about or that we are
not doing enough and I want folks to
realize that this is taxpayer dollars
hard at work and
um
and this is an important aspect I think
of of what you do so if you would do
that in a way that really highlights
that on your social media accounts and
maybe a a nice letter to the editor
um I think those all would be very very
helpful thank you thank you it's a good
suggestion we do have a great
relationship with bulletin and other
local Publications it is also done daily
in our daily report we report how many
surgeries that are done and also
whenever I do a report or presentation I
always review the previous year's
numbers and surgery is always one of
them but I'm saying we can absolutely
put that on Facebook on other ones we
can show pictures of our our surgical
staff just I mean I appreciate you
saying thanks to me but I mean overall
it's Dr Hadden and her crew that do
amazing work I know I think I said to
the doc and the staff and and I really
mean it and you know she's hardly ever
here in the staff because they're so
busy see but if you pass that on I am so
grateful for all the work and just the
number the population in there that you
have to deal with I think it's just easy
for us on the diets to say oh what about
this and what about that and people who
don't have right at um
the day-to-day operations you know to
offer up suggestions and stuff and not
only is is it for you but I mean all our
rescues they Place such a huge part in
it and I just for
um well you know that's my thankful my
gratitude moment for the the month of
November I I recognize it we may not say
it enough but I want to be really clear
that I'm very thankful and grateful for
the for Dr Hadden and staff's work thank
you thank you
thank you board member Gandara board
member Flores please ditto
thank you it is the month of gratitude
and so thank you very much
please extend that
next up the executive committee we did
meet Clinton I met November 1st we
talked about uh setting up a formalized
sort of system we're formalizing A
system that kind of informally already
existed related to Clint's travel and
also made a quasi plan or had a
discussion Clint's really been taking
care of this so thank you about the sort
of strategic planning session that we
have coming up November 30th as a
friendly reminder from two to four here
at the city but just just as a friendly
reminder we have that on the agenda and
and we spent some time talking about how
that's going to go so
that's it for the executive committee
unless you wanted to add anything
I I just want to let you know that we
have an individual from best friends
coming to talk to us about strategic
planning on the 30th she's done several
of them I don't think in in two when I
told her well it's from two to four she
kind of says oh boy it's not a very much
time to do it but I told her I said if
we can get a rough outline
and get us started on something
especially some of the higher points we
want and then a budget together of what
that will take that will get the ball
rolling for me and I'll be able to meet
with each committee and be able to talk
also in each board meeting about the
process where we're at for that so I
will very least get us started on a
strategic plan so I'm looking forward to
that thank you
what is the date that was mentioned the
November 30th Thursday
right
from two to four
and Mr Macias if you don't have it on
your calendar let me know and I'll get
you an invite
okay thank
you all right next up facilities report
I don't know if you all have
a board member Gandara
sorry we didn't meet I think it was
canceled so I'm gonna defer to Clint
thank you our facilities is actually
looking really well right now are the
existing facility just again premium
preventive maintenance is the biggest
one that we're working through for our
drains that continues to be an ongoing
good thing that's occurring we do have
some issues with our vehicles right now
that especially are white a large white
transport van
uh hopefully we have that addressed with
city fleet that's working with us on
that it did break down on somebody as
they were traveling and it gave the
continual it has a blocked fuel pump it
keeps saying but every time we take it
in they said Fleet says it's okay and
then we take it and drive it and it
gives us the same error
so
we're working on that an email was sent
yesterday by our our
our maintenance individuals so we're
glad that he's on that the new center is
coming right along they updated us on
the next on the past meeting we're at 89
now we've been at 87 for quite a while
but we're updated to 89.
uh some of the things are going in now
are kind of exciting Landscaping the
rock is being poured we have the
awning the large covering for the
parking area
for the three washout ports it has been
erected a lot of the fencing has gone up
we still have a completion date of
December 27th and in our meeting I made
it clear and I asked a very specific
question of when will ASC and V be able
to move into the building
and they said December 27th you'll be
able to be in the building
however there won't be any dog kennels
because they're still
a ways out
which they're saying is out of their
control and it is
so and also some of the cat cages as
well however we'll be able to get some
people we'll be able to get the front in
we can do licensing we do adoptions we
can there's a lot of stuff that we can
still do out of the new building
so we're excited for that for that
move-in to occur and happen and I think
it I actually be a blessing in disguise
because as we get in there we won't have
the whole production at the center as
we're figuring out the flow of how we
want to do it you know the little stuff
of shelves and it'd be nice to have
something here have something there we
do have quite a bit to purchase still so
we're going to see our expenditures up
we have exam tables and stainless steel
kennels and just some larger ticket
items that we have to purchase to get
them in dishwasher
purchased Sun shelving really big ones
but overall we're excited to be in there
thank you that's exciting so
all right
thank you that wraps up the committee
reports next up is public input I will
follow the tradition of starting on my
left anyone
no all right hearing seeing no public
input
next up is chair and board comments and
so
um
I will start with board member Ward
just real quick
um I would just want to let the board
know and the community know that doniana
County animal control's ordinance has
been revised and was approved by the
board of County Commissioners and so
that new ordinance will go into effect
November the 28th
so we will start enforcing that new
ordinance
um it's got some changes to it it's
um there's some some minor changes and
then there's some sections that allow
for more enforcement for the officers in
regards to like animals killing
livestock and and that type of thing
that's it
I remember did you have a question about
I do I do and a recommendation thank you
um for that I think that's important
what I would ask and recommend that we
have a segment as part of this meeting
to go over those and compare and
contrast from the city and county I
think counselor
board member Flores asked you know that
question like what are the changes kind
of thing it'd be I think it'd be helpful
to know what those are and that the
public is can be that it's on record the
public is informed I think is is what I
would like to see
Madam chair please what we can easily do
is basically
get all of the changes compare them to
what their counterparts in the city to
see if there's any kind of difference
and basically submit a report to the
uh to the chair and to the committee
members I think we can do that pretty
expeditiously okay thank you that would
be that would be great but I I mean I
would say high level sort of things it
doesn't have to be any kind of very
elaborate not to create a bunch of extra
work for anyone I I but with the big
picture
thank you
Board member Miss yes
no comments thank you board member
Flores
no board member Gandara thank you I was
quadruple booked this morning so trying
to meet the needs of all my boards and
commissions we had closed sessions so I
apologize for for being late
um and and I'm just again to extend my
gratitude a Happy Thanksgiving
um or whatever kind of thankful
event that you do at the end of the
month and and just to say that I'm still
on the fence about whether I'm able to
attend the strategic planning event I
will know here probably in the next few
days and I will put an email out to you
chair Karen and I'm Clint so thank you
thank you
um all right that leaves I think my last
comments I would say that I did have the
opportunity to talk to the Humane
Society on their podcast for November so
um that was delightful and they gave a
tiny preview of of the upcoming sort of
promotion that they're partnering with
the ascmv with in terms of making
adoptions available to the community for
for the in the month of December so more
on that soon
but otherwise thank you again our
gratitude for for all the work that you
do
Clint
Joy Brian
board member word we I know that you all
are out there doing this thinking about
this working on things Michelle in every
aspect so I really appreciate the
cross-section of this meeting to see
what an extraordinary Community effort
we're putting into this in in our city
and county so thank you I would
entertain a motion to adjourn the next
meeting again is December 22nd it is
kind of a holiday meeting the
expectation let me just put the Norms
out there is that you will be wearing an
ugly sweater and in my opinion you get
extra credit if there is an animal on
the ugly sweater so since we are meeting
in December uh
ugly sweaters
please all right
a motion to adjourn please so moved by
Flores
second Gandara
Becky please
board member Ward
yes former Macias
former Flores yes yes
we're adjourned
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