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good morning
um welcome it is 902 I'd like to call
this meeting of the Animal Services
Center of the Messiah Valley to
to order
um Becky could we if you all would join
me and and stayed in the Pledge of
Allegiance please
thank you
um
Becky if you could help in determining
we have quorum
please
what you needed nope
yes Mary Lou Ward
present
board member Enriquez
absent board member Macias absent board
member Flores
present thank you board member Ellens
board member Gandara
absent board member Sanchez absent chair
Karen here you have a quorum thank you
um
I would entertain a motion to approve
the agenda
second by Flores that has been moved by
board member Ellens and seconded by
board member Flores Becky if any
amendments
seeing none if we could vote on the
agenda please board member Ward
yes board member Flores yes board member
Ellen yes chair Quran yes thank you do
you have an extra agenda my printer
wasn't working
um I have oh
yeah I would like to keep mine actually
yeah I think you knew okay
um thank you Clint
um
all right next up I'm going to read the
closed meeting statement uh the Animal
Services Center met of the Messiah
Valley board of directors met in closed
session at 10 A.M on October 3rd 2022
the following members were in attendance
board members Macias Flores Gandara
Ellen's Ward Corin
others in attendance included ascmv
staff Bernice Navarro and Clint Thacker
and Attorney Ben Young
the meeting adjourned at 11 17 A.M
so I'm going to read this into
the record the Animal Services Center of
the Messiah Valley met and closed
session and only discussed those limited
State items as stated in the Post-it
notice Madam chair yes a move that we
waived the meeting the reading of the
minutes
that we waved
it was a closed session it was a closed
session so there isn't any I just had to
read the statement these are the closed
session meeting yeah there aren't any
minutes it's just a close a notice that
we had a closed session yeah
and we do have to read that so but I
don't think we have to have it approved
it's just a matter of reading it into
the record right thank you
next up we are getting around to the
minutes from the regular ascmv board
meeting and I will note that board
member Enriquez and board member Sanchez
have joined us so good morning
um the minutes I would entertain a
motion to approve the minutes from the
regular meeting on September 22nd 2017.
it's been moved by board member Flores
and seconded by board member Ellens uh
any amendments
and just as an amendment of note that
was already made in the intervening time
and the second read in the third
paragraph of reports and presentations
at the document that was distributed
says officer wheeler but it's actually
officer widala from from City acos so
just as a note
it's already been amended in these
official
ones that we've sent out so
uh I would entertain a motion to approve
or we already had a motion to approve if
we can just vote on that please board
member fellows
yes board member Ellens
yes board member Sanchez yes chair Koran
yes thank you thank you Becky next up
we'll start with reports and
presentations we have uh Gene Gilbert
here to present the Coalition for pets
and people on behalf of
um broken promises so Gene thank you for
presenting for for broken promises this
morning
and if you can just state your name for
the record when you
week
good morning I'm Gene Gilbert secretary
Coalition for pets and people
okay and then I just do the arrows
yes as Becky was stating uh this
presentation is
um about broken promises Southwest
and here is their info contact info on
this slide they're a non-profit
organization and they were established
here in Las Cruces in
2010 they humanely address Community cat
overpopulation issues through TNR trap
neuter return they operate a small
Sanctuary for Felines and other animals
at their Sanctuary on the East Mesa
include a small number of birds like
pigeons doves hens and they do have a
rooster too and these animals were
injured or have a special needs which
make them unreleasable broken promises
Southwest board of directors also
includes a member who does TNR work in
Alamogordo and as a resource for that
area all services of broken promises are
provided free of charge so the
organization does rely heavily on
donations as a primary source of of
their funding
from
2014 to present uh broken promises
Southwest has tnr'd
1961 cats which is an average of
217 per year
to date for this year they've tnr'd 165
cats
and the only thing that's really holding
them up or slowing them down is the
availability of spay neuter appointments
they would be doing a lot more if there
was greater availability
and as you can see by this slide here
that their work in TNR in this
particular colony is complete it took
them took them a year over a year and a
half to do that so
okay Garfield received medical treatment
after being trapped because he was too
sick for neuter surgery and after a
week's recovery time he was ready to be
fixed and released back to his Colony
while broken promises prefers not to
hold ferals for a lengthy period they do
make Provisions when it's necessary so
they don't put the animal's life at risk
little fluff pictured here was
challenging in trapping but they finally
met success after weeks of trying and I
I want to insert here that
um Joe has been helping me I'm in it
I've been in a position that I've been
able to TNR my colony of six cats and
five are now at my home but there's
still one and we have been working on
that one for a very long time and Joe
uses a drop trap so
um he's a lot more equipped than most
people but so I'm just saying it can be
very challenging
uh speaking of Joe milley of his on the
board of directors with broken promises
he led a TNR workshop on the Unitarian
campus on September the 11th there were
22 attendees and that and also included
me all of us learned the proper way to
TNR and how to feed and maintain a
colony of cats
during the TNR Workshop Joe who's
pictured here showed videos that was
part of his presentation and it included
one here he's working with another
person and they're using a drop trap and
then now they're covering it as you can
see on the video there
uh other video information in the
workshop included TNR facts and tips
from Alley Cat allies
which is a National Organization that's
dedicated to life-saving work for
Community cats
broken promises has found homes for 27
cats so far this year
most are adopted through their Cattery
which is where these people are pictured
with their the animals that they've cats
that they've adopted and broken promises
has been managing the Cattery there at
through PetSmart Charities for quite
some time now and since 2010 broken
promises has adopted approximately 330
cats
Zephyr pictured here is from an
Alamogordo colony and went back to her
outdoor home after being spayed
vaccinated shipped and ear chipped and
Bob the other cat and the ginger cat
pictured here is very lucky to be alive
his caregiver saw him struggling to walk
and assumed he was either hit by a car
or it injured his legs in some way and
so broken promises was able to trap and
get him to a veterinarian right away
we're a Diagnostics show that he had his
serious urinary tract infection and so
after surgery and fluid therapy he was
able to be returned to his colony
Brandi came from the Animal Services
Center where she had been brought in
after being hit by a car her hip and leg
were shattered but she underwent
successful surgery to repair the damage
and since then she's had her sutures
removed in his healing well requiring
some cage rest which will help her heal
before she has another medical
evaluation after that broken promises is
hopeful to put her up for adoption
and the other cat pictured here is
broken promises received a message from
the Animal Services Center asking if
they could accept a feral mom and her
three-day-old babies pictured here and
luckily they did have a cage available
and were able to accept them and Mom
will be spayed and fully vetted and the
kittens once they're old enough of
course will go through the process but
they uh broken promises hopes to be able
to put them up for adoption as well
and that completes the presentation on
broken promises so if you thank you for
your attention if anyone has any
questions for me
thank you so much for presenting Gene we
really appreciate it and it's good to
see you are there any questions from the
board board member Flores thank you
excuse me thank you madam chair and
thank you Gene Ms Gilbert for your
presentation you said that um
there were spay neuters and then you
said there would be more if there was
availability is that availability of fun
availability of funds doctors you know
it's my understanding and I know Kelly
Barker has really thoroughly explored it
and still trying to get veterinarian
here to Las Cruces according to her
research New Mexico is 70
000 veterinarian short
yeah that's what I remember her saying
unless I'm off by a digit but
we're very we're short Nationwide
veterinarians and so that's not only our
problem here but uh it's my
understanding we've actually lost ground
here in Las Cruces in terms of
availability veterinarians
so we've lost grants well ground I'm
saying oh girls don't have the services
wow and I know Clint could probably
speak to that too so I know uh ascnb has
been trying for a very long time to add
to their staff too so
so we're 70
that Veterinary is short in the
statement maybe it's Nationwide I don't
know something to Google
I mean don't quote me but it's a pretty
serious shortage Nationwide
thank you thank you thank you
thank you any other questions thank you
very much Gene
hearing that next up we will hear from
the city and county acos so I look to
you all to see all right to hear from
the county first
good morning
good morning Madam chair
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ER and Council men and women I'm Brian
Hulsey I'm the case worker for donana
County Animal Control and I'm here to
report September 2022 monthly report
for September we had
279 reported stray animals
um
we picked up 205 which was a pretty good
number for us for how many animals that
were reported Strays
especially since the county is so big
that's that's usually a pretty good
number for us if we could reach
close to that amount we picked up 70
straight cats and 135 stray dogs we had
10 sick or injured animals
three of which were cats and seven were
dogs and we had 17 owners surrendered
dogs for September
here's our reported stray called
comparison for the last four years
this is our four-year field return to
owner comparison so if our officers are
in the field and they're able to find
the owner and return it this is where
this is for
we had a pretty good number this month
compared to last month
and these are our additional animals
that we picked up again we had no one or
surrendered cats we had 17 owner
surrendered dogs we had 10 sick or
injured animals we had eight welfare
hold animals and that's again if
um
NMSU or a sheriff unit or a state police
unit they would pull someone over and
they need us to pick up the animal
that's usually what those are for
uh we had three shelter quarantines we
had four home quarantines we had one
Court hold
um case come to us with one dog we
currently have seven dogs that are in
the process of court and we had one Raby
submission which came back negative
these are districts just as a reminder
for you guys
um and then these are the animals picked
up by District so in district one we
only had one dog District Two we had 18
cats and 13 dogs
District three we had 10 cats and 29
dogs
District Four we had 28 cats and 34 dogs
District Five we had four cats and 13
dogs District Six we had nine cats and
12 dogs and District Seven we had one
cat and 33 dogs just as a quick note
just in case
um it came up for anybody we had a lot
more dogs picked up in September than
catch usually it's our cat's people end
up trapping that we have the high
numbers on but for September for some
reason it was reversed we had a lot more
dogs picked up
uh these are stray cats picked up um by
District
and these are the dogs
and these are our reasons for owner
release of the animals we had two that
the owner just couldn't keep the dogs on
the property
um and they didn't want to end up
getting in trouble with us or anybody
else so they just don't surrendered them
we had eight vicious or livestock attack
animals we had two that were sick or old
and we had five that were aggressive
and for that I'll stand for any
questions
thank you Brian any questions from the
board
board member Sanchez please thank you uh
absolzi I think just a quick question I
know when you look at the the Geo uh
the numbers by the Geo districts do we
have anything in the county that is
similar to the way the city does by
having actual like location on a map
that we can see I know that they use
like a GIS map to identify where all of
their uh you know where they're where
they're picking up all of their Strays
and I'm just curious because you know I
know the one thing that that stuck out
to me is something you had said which is
absolutely true where the number of
Strays versus the number of calls that
we get that or the number of pickups
that you get versus the number of calls
is you know can vary Because by the time
the call comes in you all get out there
that are they're gone so I was just
curious though like when we if there's
any way to get an idea of where the
calls are coming from
and then the actual pickups coming from
and if are we seeing specific areas I
know you're looking by Geo District but
actual like you know blocks or
residences that we're seeing repeat
offenders or numerous calls and and the
reason I ask is because
um
when we when we go when I've had the uh
my meetings in in the district and I
know the last one that I had was in
Rincon and this was a Hot Topic right
was
um
can can attest to and so we're trying to
figure out I guess are we having issues
with Pacific residents specific areas
and then what can we do to Target those
areas because when I look at the number
of calls that have come across year over
year over the year it's con it seems
consistent so how do we
I you know well the calls are good
because people are reporting it but how
do we get that number to come down
right
um so as far as that goes um I know that
there's probably a way that we can
um get that
um with the gis system but we'd have to
work with the rest of the county to get
that set up
um see if it's possible because honestly
I don't know if it's 100 possible but I
could look into that for you and then as
far as districts
um usually when we go to districts um if
we have um hot spots we can get it set
up with them
um sorry sorry
um so if we have districts and if we
have areas that we are known problem
areas when our officers get a chance we
usually try to patrol those areas to try
to minimize and educate and try to get
those areas set up to where they're not
those areas anymore
um and then
for us as well we we just had our
um ordinances go with between
boccc and we had some stuff placed in
that to help with that as well correct
yeah and that's I'm kind of curious like
I said with this push with the new
ordinance that we just approved you know
how do we how do we get smarter because
I know you I know the team is is working
very hard to make sure they're servicing
the county but the resources are
strained as it is so how do we get
smarter in where we're going and you
know maybe maybe also with the ability
or when we're lending out cages or traps
you know is there a way that we can make
sure that people are getting the traps
in locations so that maybe you know we
have those there the residences can the
residents can help us
with with identifying or capturing some
of these animals so that way
they're not they don't disappear and and
we're getting calls coming back to the
same location same location we don't see
the animal and we just keep getting
those calls back and then you've got an
officer that has to keep driving all the
way out to the various parts of the of
the county so right and um you're you're
correct um we we have started a like a
pilot program we're still working on
getting it finalized for people that if
they need a dog trap or a cat trap due
to you know you know packet dogs running
that area or something like that that
they could come to our office pick up a
trap they sign for it and then they have
so long to bring them back things like
that to help out with that so that way
if for some reason
um you know our officers don't have a
trap due to whatever issues we have just
because we only have so many cups
available and everyone wants one so
we're we're trying different methods to
try to help out with that as well and
I'd be curious Mr Macias if if uh you
know with the utilization of our
community Resource Centers maybe that's
something that we could look to have
maybe some traps that are set up locally
that maybe even the HHS Department might
be able to you know check those in and
out locally within those communities so
that we don't have to have the residents
or our acos go out there and have
provide those traps
I I would think that we would want to
stay with the acos because they can
provide the training and the utilization
of the traps rather than our HHS
employees who you know may not have that
background but I would think that we
would want to
um work with the community and I know
that we do go into the communities I
know that we go door-to-door in some of
the communities explaining the
opportunities for spay and neuter and
and who to call when there are loose
animals if uh the with the chair's
permission if I could have Mary Lou talk
a little bit about how we track repeat
problems within each of the communities
please thank you
chair thank you in regards to to the
mapping just to go over that real quick
we that is something we definitely can
get with our GIS on that and set up a
mapping system in regards to that
um
in our repeat offenders currently we
have a system in place where we keep
track of
animal owners who are neglect and don't
comply with the laws where we will
address them educate them and
either give them a citation give them a
warning or you know go through the
progressive process as you would with
any any person where it initiates with
an animal problem that's what we
initially would do we keep that system
in our shared Drive which is something
that's accessible to all the Animal
Control Officers when they're out in the
field and they can access it through
their their laptops their their tough
books
in regards to that they can go they can
go to a property look at that property
and see whether we've had an incident
already or they can also look at it
through the 911 system and look at the
past notes from that officer as well as
I can and see what those past notes are
in C what the incident was or how many
times we have been out there and see
what what has happened with that
location and whether we have charged
that individual or whether that
individual is just
letting that animal run loose and we've
charged them in court already that's why
we have found that we needed something
stricter in place and we've implemented
that in the new ordinance now to
hopefully that'll help us go a little
bit further in regards to that
great thank you appreciate it Miss
Warden you know I just and the reason
you know I think what I I just want to
see is how do we
you know I think they said because
that's always the Hot Topic right it's
it's usually animals and trash are the
big ones that I hear from and I know
that that's where we have these events
out you know we had one Rincon now we're
gonna have one in Garfield and so I know
you guys are doing uh you know we're out
there in the community I'm just trying
to see you know is there anything else
that we can do or might work a little
bit more efficiently that might help us
so you know whatever you all come up
with and I think uh especially with the
new ordinances
um you know I think there's there's a
lot of opportunity out there and if we
can you know maybe look at even some new
projects or new
ways of working I'd really appreciate it
and you have my support for that thank
you yeah
yeah system where the officers do go out
and they do loan out traps for
problematic or vicious and or dangerous
or animal bites things like that where
we really need to capture that
individual animal
and once those traps are not available
to that officer and they can't say
they're on their truck and they've
already given out all their trouts and
they have to go out to something else
they can offer to that individual to
come into the office and pick up a trap
themselves and then it will be in that
office and then they'll alert us we'll
have that trap ready for that individual
with that type of trap that they need so
that they can come by and pick it up
from us and they can still have that
service available to them okay great
thank you thank you Mr I appreciate it
and thank you Mr Macias thank you
thank you board member Sanchez board
member you're you're good okay
I'll remember Flores please thank you
madam chair and thank you Brian uh you
mentioned that or you showed on a slide
that there are um I think seven animals
that are being held uh pending a court
um
yeah oh oh those there's one Court no
um
maybe maybe I saw the seven but um so
when uh there are court cases uh pending
um what um it's for neglect I I presume
or abuse what happens uh what happens in
court which court is it I mean I I don't
know anything about that yes I I could
um I could clarify that for you so right
now um if we have any case that is a
cruelty
livestock attack a bite
um
neglect there there could be several
different reasons why we have the
animals at our courthold but usually
those are cases that we have to do a
petition on we get warrants to hold
those animals at our court hold facility
sometimes those cases could be done
within a matter of two weeks sometimes
we have a case for four of those dogs
right now that have been going since
April wow and their next court isn't
until December so some some cases are
going to be there for a while it just
depends on what's going on so
um that's why we're just given the
numbers as of right now and then the
court hold the quarantine case that you
see there that's the one that's just a
new case that we had that was brought in
for that month for whatever reason it
was I believe that one was for a
livestock attack
so um what happens to the owners in the
meantime I mean do you ever get enough
evidence just to hold the uh the
defendant in this case I mean uh like a
severe abuse or something is has a an
owner ever been held
um in you know in jail pending the
outcome
Madam chair with your permission let me
address that I don't believe that you'll
certainly Bond levels and release
is more the norm for that kind of charge
have people gone to jail have they been
punished for
animal abuse certainly and some of these
cases that may take longer it's because
they're at a felony level at the
district court and you're dealing with
those issues I wasn't aware that we had
one that long I think that we need to
perhaps be more aggressive in having the
district court address that particular
issue so I don't think that it's the
norm to have individuals
stay in jail pending their cases but
there certainly are cases where
individuals have been incarcerated for
different periods of time because of
being found guilty of those particular
charges
uh thank you Mr Macias
um yeah because my my you know I think
that if um I I think there should be a
lot of Education or publicity about that
to let owners know that they are
accountable for the welfare of the um
their pet or their animal
and if um and I think that there should
be a a lot of publicity on that because
I think there's more than we realize I
mean you know can identify
yes and I get a test for myself when I
was an officer out in the field usually
if I dealt with someone and I gave them
a warning and I had to end up going back
I would at that point let him know hey
at this point you're looking at this
this and this these are your possible
outcomes if this persists I'd prefer it
not to go that route however this these
could be outcomes for that so I mean
education is always involved when we go
and talk to owners because we'd rather
have compliance and non-compliance
because in that that makes it more for
us because then we have to go to court
and everything instead of being out in
the field and helping people out with
their animals so we we had always
preferred compliance if we could get it
so and then do you follow up yes we
follow up as much as we can in it and it
depends sometimes we could talk to the
person right then and there and let them
know and and it's good to go sometimes
we have people that just
they just don't really care or think
that oh you're just a dog catcher
nothing's gonna happen so
um usually they end up finding out when
they end up getting a summons for court
so and then we go that route so but like
I said we try not to go that route
unless we have to but I mean we always
try to get compliance and Education
First great thank you so much Brian
thank you madam chair
thank you both any other questions
thank you very much officer Halsey
next up good morning
good morning Madam chair members of the
board
my name is Gino Jimenez I'm the animal
control supervisor for the city of Las
Cruces I will present to you our
September 22 monthly report for the
month of September we responded to 517
reported Strays of those 312 were Goa
meaning that the officer did not have
contact with that animal we were able to
apprehend 205 Strays of those 179 were
impounded at the Animal Service Center
104 were dogs and 75 were cats we were
successful in field rtoing 26 animals
back to their owner and those are
animals that never crossed the threshold
of the Animal Service Center
we were unsuccessful in uh filled RTO in
20 those were animals that had some sort
of identification but for some reason
we're not able to be returned to their
owner out in the field so that gave us a
grand total of 46 identifiable animals
here is our stray reported stray graph
you can see again that for September we
had 517 bringing us to a total of 42.37
for the year
if we keep with this trend it looks like
we will be right within our average or a
little bit low hopefully below
next is our three-year field RTO uh
again for September we had 26 bringing
us to a grand total of 396 for the year
um big drop since July
typically that happens during this time
of the year as you can see from the last
two years we take a slight increase in
October but then it comes our summer our
winter months where our filled RTO rate
is going to go down again
here is our latest slide for the
community cap program we were able to we
captured 39 animals and traps of those
21 were released right where they were
captured or in that vicinity so for the
cats and traps total we had 417 for the
year and we were able to release 81 of
those
reasons for owner surrendering animals
who had eight for the owners that were
no longer able to afford them five from
one owner he was
going to be put into assisted living and
could no longer take care of himself or
the cats three dogs for aggression two
towards a toddler and one towards the
owner
two dogs the landlord would not allow on
his property
the new landlord I should say one dog
was unable to re-home and it does not
get along with his roommate's dog
one dog the owner was arrested the mom
owner released it owner released it due
to its age and health
one dog uh it killed the owner's other
dog and finally one cat for erratic or
aggressive behavior
the reasons that we were able unable to
field RTO 15 was no contact by phone or
at Residence One was a Texas address one
was an El Paso address and one was a
California address
one chip was not updated one the owner
was contacted but they were out of town
well the other next one is the owner
lives in El Paso
finally uh or the next one is the owner
was contacted and said that they would
pick it up from the acmb
and one chip was not registered and
finally won the microchip company would
not give the owners information but they
would email the owner to let them know
that the dog was at the Animal Service
Center
and with that I'll stand for any
questions
very much you're welcome are there any
questions from the board great thank you
board member thank you madam chair and
thank you Geno you didn't show us a
picture of the distribution that Manny
referred to Madam chair board member
Flores we stopped at I believe almost a
year now really and I haven't noticed
where have I been that was the Stray
chart yes yes we stopped that about a
year ago
um
the reason being is Manpower issues I
was really
currently as it is currently I only have
four officers out in the field and at
the time we also lost our two office
assistants whose primary job was to do
that to input that information
that map would take almost a week and a
half to two weeks to input all the
numbers
so once they weren't there that came on
me to try to do my other duties as well
as input that map and it was decided
that we wouldn't do that anymore
Geno perhaps this is outside of your
a range of knowledge and perhaps outside
of my
job but
those positions that are empty are they
being filled again do you know are they
open or were they positions just don't
exist anymore or do you know anything
about that Madam chair board member
Florida we were able to fill one of
those positions we had two office
assistants they were both assigned to
animal control and codes
one position was filled the other one
was dissolved in that office assistant
went to a different department within a
different section within the police
department
thank you Gino thank you madam chair
thank you board member Flores thank you
again Gino any other questions from the
board
it's hearing none
thank you again you're welcome
moving on good morning Clint
good morning
executive director at the Amazon Center
Messiah Valley here to talk to you about
our September numbers
for the center
so our current animal count here at the
animal center is 506 animals as you can
see this continues to creep up to the
pre-pandemic numbers you'll see also in
this presentation that I I believe we're
almost there numbers are are very high
and can continue to increase
we have 457 dogs come in month of
September and 327 cats come in you look
at our current intake for 2022 for the
month of September was
798 to 8 almost 800 animals
came in
our returns and these are animals that
left the center adopted and was returned
we had three dogs and zero cats
diverted intakes these are animals that
came to the center or somebody called us
with an animal and then we do all we can
to divert them leaving the animal there
for instance dogs they may say I can't
afford this dog anymore I can't afford
food we'll say well we can give you a
bag of food would that help you through
the month they say oh yeah that'd be
great
they could also be saying I have to have
vaccines I can't do it well we offer
that vaccine just anything we can do to
keep the animal with the individuals so
in September we had a total of 222
another one is if a stray comes in
person found a stray will scan it has a
microchip we'll call the owner the
owners come and get the animal so that's
a diverted intake as well
these are our outcomes
so all those numbers that you just saw
these are the how they left 19 left as
adoptions 14 left his reclaims 15 as
rescues 11 and a half Community cats 30
percent was euthanasia so uh leaves us
with a live release rate of 66.3 live
release rate is the percentage of the
animals that came into the center how
many of them left alive our goal is
always 90 that's the Mark we want to hit
because that means that that qualifies
us as a no-kill facility
so some of the ones I want to point out
really quick is the rescues we had
significantly less rescues rescues are
full we are reaching out I know this
month in the month of October we've been
we've sent animals to Indiana Kansas
um I of course locally here and you'll
see in the next Slide the ones we've
done but we're reaching out and trying
to get these animals out the best that
we can but rescues are full it's it's
continuing to see that same trend
these are Transfer Partners in September
as you can see action program for
Animals is always a big one for us and
they're local we appreciate everything
that they do for us 13 cats and one dog
Front Range Freedom rescue this is
actually an interesting one they are
based in Colorado and they take cats the
reason why they're taking so many cats
is because we received a grant that
allows us to the basis of the grant is
if if so we it's extra veterinarian work
so if we go to a like Front Range and we
say will you take cats and they say no
we're full we can't move them very fast
and we say well can you take cats if we
sterilize them and they say yeah we can
move cats if they're already sterilized
so that's what that Grant pays for is
that extra veterinarian work
uh so that's been very useful to move a
lot of animals because we'll always ask
that we'll say can you will you take
another one if it's sterilized you take
another one if
this has been repaired or this surgery
is done and if they say yes then that
Grant pays for that extra veterinarian
work
these are euthanasia reasons again the
number one medical failure to thrive
that is generally kittens that come to
us generally these kittens that come are
in pretty sad shape people don't
understand and and don't know that they
can't be away from the mother for that
long usually it's overnight every three
hours three to four hours are supposed
to be fed and so people just don't know
that so when we get them there past the
point of helping them so we euthanize as
a failure to thrive the second one is
space medical what that means is as we
go once we're at space critical
and that depends all on the number of
animals that come in that day the first
place we look is Medical
um for that space these are animals that
would generally stay if we have the room
and continue to treat but these ones are
like not responding to treatment really
really super sick you know contagious of
others are these types of animals but it
is the only reason why we're looking at
them is for space but they're not
healthy adoptable animals
these are surgeries this is a phenomenal
number when you consider our surgery
Department had a little bout with covid
that they shared amongst themselves
they still were able to do 404 surgeries
the other that you see there 117 that's
just other surgeries
um and it could be anything from fixing
uh sterilization to a our complications
to amputations anything of that nature
the total visitors at the center went
down a little bit to 1
573 for the month of September
so we change this slide up a little bit
so it tells them of a better story if
you remember it used to be just the
number these are adoptions by
appointment so we have two types of
adoptions one you see an animal you like
online you call and make an appointment
and you come in and see it the other
type that you'll see the next slide is
walk-ins people that are interested so
we had 56 appointments uh set or I'm
sorry 98 appointments
that were made and four was canceled or
no show so that left us with I'm sorry
there's 56 adoptions from those so
roughly 50 Cent 57 percent of our
appointments made resulted in an
adoption
when you compare it to walk-ins we had
307 groups that's not people that's
grouped so husband wife friends you know
there may be three of them but when they
counted as one
and that also resulted in 56 adoptions
but it's only 18 percent
so we we do know that the better or more
exact way to go about doing it is via
adoptions but we're keeping both of
these options open because that is
another 56 adoptions we were able to get
out of that
our volunteers doing an amazing job
total hours were 683 and one of the
presentations you're going to hear today
is from our volunteer coordinator and
she's going to talk to us about the
volunteer program when it happens or
what it takes to be a volunteer some
training you get and also some changes
in the volunteer program that they've
made
in month of October I can tell you it
was amazing they walked and they also
did it in September they walked every
single Dog available dog in the center
was able to get out so that's pretty
incredible
our web page views 35
656 again people who are watching those
are not unique hits those are it's a
page that's viewed so if you view a dog
on a page that's one if you click
backwards to see the whole list of dogs
that's another view and then you click
on another dog it's another view
so
our Facebook hit 2935
and we expect that to be going up in
October with a lot of our
our specials and announcements that
we're doing for instance we have a big
announcement coming up on December
fourth
right okay December 4th is our
drive-through Clinic we're going to be
having so another big one of the Field
of Dreams we're excited for that one but
you're going to see a lot of drive on
Facebook for that
and these are our pets of the week Leo
and Cali
I'll stand for any questions let me have
thank you very much Clint uh board
member Ellen's please
the program
I don't recall with the direct or
indirect where you tell the
animal owner that you give him the food
give her the vaccination
what's the cost of that
on an annualized basis the food is
actually food that's donated to us it's
generally what we try to give them so
that's no cost to us and the vaccines
are very nominal um
it's
I want to say it's it's like around two
or three dollars per vaccine we've never
looked at the cost that it is
to do the whole thing
but I can tell you that it's much more
it's much more inexpensive to do that
than it is to have the animal at our
facility with staff caring for it and
utilizing cage space and it also saving
an animal's life
is that a line item budget no what it's
not
and because I don't recall ever seeing
it
what's the quality of the food that you
receive
it could be anything like it's
um it's very rarely do people buy and
just bring it to us usually it's their
dog passed away so they gave it to us or
their dog won't eat it so they give it
to us
but we do it occasionally and get
donations of whole bags and it's
satisfactory
because quality of dog food varies
dramatically
do you basically get low quality
uh I wouldn't say no I no I'm going to
say no
okay thanks thank you
Madam chair thank you board member
Ellen's board member Sanchez please hi
Clint all right so just uh two simple
questions at least I think simple oh
sure
[Laughter]
it's gonna be uh sure the diverted
intake numbers is that do those count at
all to the intakes or are those
completely separate don't count as
intakes okay and then the Life release
rate for the do we have one year to date
we do not okay and the reason I ask is
because I mean that was a huge there was
huge numbers that we got here in uh
September and so you know I was just
wondering obviously that was you had a
lot of Youth uh euthanasians
euthanizations that happened this last
month and that can sway the number so I
was just curious to see where we're at
um here today uh just as I know like I
said I know your chart we always want to
Target the 90 percent but like I said if
not doesn't have to be here in the
meeting if you don't have it but I'd
just be curious just to know where we're
at okay thank you thank you
any other questions from the board
all right thank you Clint for again
making an untenable situation as tenable
us
given the intake rates
all right thank you next up I think
we're gonna hear from Vanessa come on up
um
good morning
we're looking forward to hearing from
you if you can just state your name for
the for the board and and share with us
some updates to the Foster program
okay I'm Vanessa Chastain I'm the Foster
coordinator here at Animal Service
Center
[Music]
okay
all right
um so I'll go over the Foster program
today
and I'll
sorry is that better okay
um so why fostering benefits animals
keep it helps keeps the animals happy
healthy less stressed provides
opportunities for the animals to get
adopted and sent to rescue also it's
utilizing our foster homes will increase
the capacity of the capacity sorry
capacity of our Center allowing us
continuing to reduce euthanasia so as
soon as one animal leaves into foster
data opens another space for another
animal to be intake
all right who's eligible to become a
foster parent anyone that's over 18
years of age I'm willing to provide a
safe loving and stable environment for a
foster home
anyone that's able to nurse or any
injury or willing to take care of an
animal that has an illness and
understanding that not all outcomes are
always positive
and able to bring the animals back and
forth to the Animal Service Center for
appointments and adoption events and
that's really important just because you
could have animal in your home and
Foster it but if you're unable to bring
it back and forth for its medical
appointments exams or for socials then
it makes it difficult to get that animal
adopted
um also I forgot to add on the slide but
you do have to be a
in the live in the doiana County area
also how can you Foster with the Animal
Service Center it's pretty easy just
three simple things you could fill out a
foster care agreement and application
and then within 48 time 48 hours I will
contact the potential Foster and set up
an appointment once we have the
appointment set up I will go over the
Foster orientation and go over the
Foster program and what it entails if
they are approved they could take a
foster home that same day or they could
schedule an appointment for another day
to pick up a foster animal Madam chair
board member Ellens how was the
animal to be fostered selected
so any
available for foster it just depends
what The Fosters able to take care of
and what their house is able to handle
so they walk through the center
you can select an animal correct
um I will take a minute tour throughout
the facility I'll show them all the
animals in the facility ones that are
waiting they're stray hold ones that are
available for adoption basically
any area in the center the animal is
available for foster it just depends on
what that Foster is able to handle
all right thank you thank you thank you
board member Evelyn Scott Vanessa thank
you
what animals are available to Foster
anyone that needs transitional housing
while awaiting permanent adoption or
transfer to a rescue partner having
medical concerns or conditions that can
be better dressed in a foster home Happy
Behavior concerns that can potentially
be rehabilitated and knowledgeable
foster homes animals too young to be
spayed or neutered those will be animals
under eight weeks of age that need
intensive care and bottle feeding or
transitional from bottle feeding to
normal food
um and then as well as a nursing and
bottle fed litters
how ascmv helps foster parents who
provide a positive outcome we provide
supplies and food that's appropriate for
the Foster we provide resources to help
guide The Fosters in their Foster
experience our staff and myself the
Foster coordinator are available to
answer any questions or concerns they
may have and we're available pretty much
all the time if there's any questions
after hours they could email us and we
can provide the answers the next day
um you could bring your Foster animal
for medical exams if any concerns arises
we do have the medical team on seven
days a week so availability for
appointments are always available
providing opportunities to take Fosters
to off-site events and get them adopted
another thing would be allowing them to
go to rescues
all right some changes that have
happened in the Foster program before
the Foster program was run by employees
at the center or a volunteer has helped
part-time
aside from their full-time jobs
now we have a full-time Foster
coordinator that's able to dedicate and
I'm able to dedicate all my time to the
Foster program
also I try to send Fosters with foster
kids while the supplies last so cats and
kittens I provide food toys blankets
litter boxes litter scoopers when it
comes to the bottle kittens they do get
supplied with a
kitten formula a heating disc to help
keep their body temperatures at the
temperature they're supposed to be
bottles blankets anything to help those
kittens Thrive and make it through to
their adult life
dogs and puppies I provide food toys
blankets and treats if unfortunately if
toys were treats aren't available we do
at least provide them with the food
also we did Implement a new foster care
agreement as of August 13th and if you
want I could provide you guys with those
foster agreements so then you can see
the changes in the your guys's copies I
did highlight
things that we have improved the wording
and or we added new bullet points the
foster care agreement has gone through
with our lawyer and our veterinarian to
make the changes that are needed
also I implemented a foster handbook
before it was just the Fosters would get
a foster agreement and now we have a
foster handbook that goes over the
Foster program and fostering and what it
entails what we expect from our Fosters
what Foster should expect from us
supplies and how to take care of a
foster
that's it do you guys have questions
thank you so much for coming and
presenting and sharing what's been going
on with you all board member Gandara
thank you thank you madam chair thank
you so much for your presentation and
thank you for your work I know this is a
huge load especially with the number of
changes I know that the board has worked
with Clint
to to
you know put together with the new
Foster handbook kind of the roles and
responsibilities right of of the posture
but also for yourself so thank you for
all that work I know that's not easy I
wanted to ask in terms of the foster
care orientations do you have them often
or is it only when someone says I want
to be a foster
I'm thinking I'm not sure if you're
familiar I'm I'm have a lot of
experience in child welfare so we had a
foster program that we would do just
orientations right that were scheduled
once a month and and do a lot of of of
advertising that they were happening and
that way you know sort of building the
list if you will yes so when I started
we did have like a
um
Foster orientation just one
um and I had Fosters come in new Fosters
as well but as of right now when I have
a potential Foster I give them
individual orientations so that way I
could address any questions concerns
that they have and then find The Foster
that's proper for their home and
just I tried to do it individualized so
that way they have an understanding of
the Foster program but I will be working
on having a group orientation so that
way if people aren't ready to posture
the same day they could just get the
information provide needed and think
about and come back when they're ready
so do you have a tool thank you thank
you for that do you have a tool that
helps you and the Foster potential
Foster to match up the the dogs and
kittens unfortunately I do not but what
I go over with The Fosters I ask them
how many animals they have at home what
type of animals they have if they're
vaccinated if they're fixed and then
also what their home life is like if
they work if they have kids and then I
try to
help them figure out what would be best
for their household
and do you do an environmental screening
like actually go to the home and sort of
see if there's enough room and
it's tailored to an animal if you will
So currently um I do not but um in our
foster care agreement if if it is needed
we are able to go in of course with the
Foster's approval and everything to go
look at their home and see how
everything is and see what their
capacity is allowed and tell me the
number again remind me the number of
Fosters that you currently have
currently right now yesterday there's do
you want people or do you want um
animals in Foster both
so I do know I have 120 animals in
Foster okay and then I want to say it
was about 66 active Fosters that are
currently fostering those
120 animals okay and none that are just
sort of weight awaiting a animal at this
point yes so there's plenty of people
that have filled out Foster applications
but unfortunately what the shelter love
system I'm not able to run a report of
like active pending sure I'm just able
to pull a report of people that are
willing to foster okay and I do know
that list is pretty long yeah I don't
have the exact number right right okay
thank you again for your work and great
presentation and welcome we'd love to
see more of you
thanks Madam chair thank you so much
board member Flores please thank you
madam chair I just want to thank you it
was wonderful and I'm glad you did that
the Foster handbook yes thank you very
much
all right Madam chair if I may please
excellent Factor executive director the
choice to be a foster is a very personal
one and a lot of times people will go
online and they'll see an animal they
like to Foster or the bigger one is is
we'll put a plea on Facebook and we'll
say this animal needs foster it might be
injured or it might be a mom with
kittens and so then somebody will reach
out to Vanessa so that's why we've kind
of stepped away from the group sessions
and it's more very much more of a
personal one-on-one type of scenario
because we don't know what type of
counseling that individual might need
Injured Dog counseling for fostering is
way different than a mom with kittens
fostering so I think Vanessa's doing an
excellent job
looking at and seeing each one this is a
one-on-one basis I know it's hard and
she gets calls that's why we did the 48
hours is because she she gets calls all
day long throughout sometimes throughout
the night Etc so I've had the tone to
turn her phone off
stay as our coordinator and not get any
compassion burnout but there's also
other means while her phone's office
other means for medical treatment that
we've set aside with on-call
that text is like that so yeah she's
doing an incredible job
thank you and thank you so much Vanessa
again for your presentation and for
coming here and all the work that you're
doing yes thank you thank you
okay
oh sorry did you have a question Mary
okay are you sure okay you're good
thank you next up we have
um the volunteer program update so early
please thank you for being here this
morning thank you thank you for having
me
please state your name my name is
Yolanda Jurado I am the volunteer
coordinator at the ascmv
all right so here's our monthly
September breakdown we have a 137 active
volunteers and by active I mean they
have been active within the last three
months
we also contain two NMSU interns who
help our medical staff that means with
surgery or our vet technicians
to a student interns who are academic
um
career exploring student interns and of
course overall we have 367 Volunteers in
the program
for volunteers who are specific to our
dog walking team that means they have
completely
successfully completed our dog walking
training course with Clarin our
volunteer but also licensed dog trainer
we also have 25 Volunteers in our cat
care team and they help us with our cat
rooms our stray cat rooms and our
adoptable care rooms so overall for the
month of September we have 683 hours of
volunteer
time
here are a couple changes to our
volunteer application
we added some more
um
programs that they can help us with
which is including
sorry I'm a little nervous it's the
first time
specific to TNR community outreach
off-site Cat Care at Petco our
photography team which is growing a lot
community outreach which we're barely
starting but we've been present at the
fair and handed out brochures and
information that can help other
individuals and the community know what
the ascmv does
um and we've also added towards the
bottom that the ascmv is looking for
volunteers who can commit to
volunteering for at least six months for
at least four hours a month we don't
discourage anyone not to
apply either way but it's also in our
handbook and it's also in our welcome
letter
next on our volunteer agreement on
reliability waiver we did add I do
understand that the ascnv reserves a
right to deny an application without an
explanation and reason
next additions and changes to our ascnb
volunteer handbook
we did add to our policy our social
media
outline and that's just be aware of what
you're putting online you are a
volunteer at the center and it's not a
good idea to make us try and look bad
when we are trying to help and do our
best
and of course our conflict resolution
procedures which was recently added to
our handbook as well and that just
outlines the procedures that we'll take
to be able to
help the volunteer
um
make changes to continue helping us if
not completely dismissing
so the process of becoming an ASE and
volunteer of course your application is
processed within about a week due time
volunteers receive an email from me
welcoming to the program that email
contains a welcome letter our volunteer
handbook and our online orientation
from then the volunteer will choose a
tour date of the facility which is
typically a week or two before the next
dog training class or Workshop that they
want to take they'll of course get the
days to the next dog walking course
um
once the volunteer responds they get
added to my regular emailing list and so
on they get notices of
events next classes workshops for cat
care anything like that
um
this is what our online orientation
looks like these are just screenshots
it's just a little bit outlines the
program it goes through the handbook
gives all the information of what we
provide in the program
next we recently separated our ascmv
Foster and volunteer Facebook page we
now run our own volunteer page and that
just informs of the events which makes
it a little bit easier for them to
select which events they can go to but
also keeps us up to date of any animal
adoptions any animals they've helped
events that we're doing that we went to
and just to keep updated with each other
and make it personal one-on-one instead
of everything being jumbled up it's a
foster page as well
next is what we're working on and what
we're doing we currently hold a monthly
group walk with all our dog walking
volunteers we do invite new members to
come so they can get an inside look of
what to expect
we have volunteers that attend Santa
Grace Village and take a dog with them
to help with
Paul's therapy
timid dog adoptability and enrichment we
have volunteers come in and focus
one-on-one on timid dog's fearful dogs
that way they can become more adoptable
and of course adaptability and
enrichment with long-term dogs and big
dogs
we have hosted a volunteer Camp we're
going to have one before the end of the
year again
and something I personally work on is
the barn cat program which helps
Community cats that are not welcomed
back into the previous Community to have
a better environment that they can
thrive in
what we're working on is play groups for
the new center
cat photography and enrichment we do a
lot for dogs so we want to start doing
the same for cats and having it balanced
and not just focusing on one and of
course our outreach program
and lastly here's venues that we've
attended or going to attend for adoption
events and on the right side you'll see
our volunteer groups that have helped us
throughout the year
any questions
awesome thank you so much for coming and
presenting are there any questions from
the board
seeing none no go ahead board members
thank you madam chair thank you for your
presentation thank you
um really appreciate the work that you
do very impressive both of you actually
I think it important right that we're as
transparent as we can and and knowing
all the various programs in in better
detail is is has been really excellent
for me so thank you thank you thank you
madam chair thank you yeah thank you so
much you thank you both for coming and
presenting great job what
yeah thank you the Powerpoints were on
point great great PowerPoints yeah good
job good job y'all
we'll invite you back if you want to
come
thank you so much for presenting and
no no I mean in general like we would
love to have you here in the future
thank you though
you don't have to come back
today
all right next up
um on our agenda are the committee
reports so I first turned to board
member Enriquez please
um good morning
chair and board members we did have a
finance committee meeting on uh this
past Thursday and
um
there were really no issues on the
reporting and Mr Liam Beasley will from
the finance department will be providing
that report but I also wanted to mention
that we did continue the discussion on
the reserve or fund balance at that time
and we'll continue to have those
conversations until we come up with a
good solution as to what we can present
to the board
thank you
thank you please welcome good morning
thank you good morning uh good morning
Madam chair members of the board I'm
Liam Beasley I'm a senior accountant in
the city's finance department and so
I'll be going over the monthly financial
report for September
on the first slide we have the
highlights for the statement of net
position
total cash in the general fund was 1
million sixty seven thousand two hundred
and eighty one
receivables were 2 900 resulting in
total assets of one million seventy
thousand one hundred and eighty one
liabilities were 114 804
Revenue collected in advance was two
hundred seventy two thousand forty six
unassigned fund balance was 683 331.
for the change in that position total
revenues through September were 1
million two hundred and sixty eight
thousand nine hundred and fifty
total expenditures were eight hundred
and eighty seven thousand two hundred
ninety three and that resulted in a net
change of an increase of 381 657.
now for the budget to actual comparison
for the change in that position
total budgeted revenues were four
million 151 375.
the actual revenues through September
made up 30.6 of the annual budget
and then moving down to expenditures the
total budget is four million two hundred
and eighty seven thousand a 850 and the
actuals through September were 20.7
percent of that budget
and then here is the month-to-month
revenues and expenditures and you'll if
you'll recall from the previous board
meeting the reason that the revenues
dropped so drastically between July and
August is due to the fact that the city
and county both contribute 22 percent of
their annual contribution in the first
month and then the remaining spread out
over the next 11 months
for the expenses we had a hundred
thousand dollar expense increase between
August and September and this is just
due to salary and benefits because we
had three pay periods Post in the month
of September and normally there would
just be two that post in a month
then out of that 887 000 in expenditures
this is how it's broken down
we had salary at 55 benefits at 19
percent
temp service is two percent repairs and
maintenance half a percent
is 14
supplies four percent Insurance five
percent and then others at last one
percent
then as was discussed in the prior board
meeting
um we they were discussing the fund
balance policy of having that 112th
Reserve
and it was requested that we provide
some numbers for the previous few years
um as to what that number would have
been
so we have numbers going back to fiscal
year 2015 and in the second column we
have the budgeted expenditures for each
of those years and so the 112th reserve
requirement would be calculated based
off of those budgeted expenditures
then we have the ending fund balance in
the fourth column and those are taken
from audited numbers and then in the
final column we have the fund balance
minus the reserve so the fourth column
minus the third column and that would
tell you whether the fund balance was
over the reserve or feels under the
reserve if it was negative
and that concludes the financials and I
can stand for any questions
thank you very much Liam I appreciate it
board member Flores please yeah thank
you madam chair and thank you so much uh
Liam
um so the year-to-date salary on uh page
six shows that
um it's 55 percent
and my experience since I've been you
know in public or whatever Public
Service
um
the that that pie section is always a
lot higher than 55 so my question is why
um is it because
um there are unfilled uh positions or
or why I mean I don't know what other
question to ask but the first thing that
comes to my mind is is it because there
are unfilled positions and if so why if
you might shed some light on that right
thank you Liam yes board member floor is
members of the board I'm not sure as to
why would be maybe less of a percentage
compared to previous fiscal years but I
can research into that and get back to
you if you would like
oh sorry I was just going to say my
sense is often when we see this the
benefits are added in with the salary
and so that's why the pie appears more
that might be an explanation but I need
to know because I think that um I just
want to make sure that all because one
of the things that I've seen throughout
my experience here at with City Hall not
not the asmb but um not the shelter
service center but just generally
um you know the pie is always you know
bigger and I just want to make sure
because my concern is that there we are
aware of the fact that there are a lot
of unfilled positions in the city and it
remains a big mystery to council members
you know as to why and if there's been
allocations for positions they should be
filled
so um thank you Liam and thank you madam
chair
thank you
thank you any other questions from the
board
all right hearing none thank you Liam
that's the end of the finance report
correct
all right thank you the executive report
we I did meet with with Clint on October
4th we talked about what we could go
over at this meeting and some of the
outstanding questions that we have as
far as upcoming meeting dates as well as
key issues that were happening in part
and we did Cover a little bit of the
facilities but I I'll leave it to board
member Gandara to do that so that's the
executive report board member Gandara
please thank you madam chair we did not
meet for facilities I believe Clint was
doing a transport that day
and or
Disney Disneyland vacay that's right
even better Disneyland with the fam Bam
Bam so we didn't have one and didn't
schedule
um I don't know if we can bring Clint up
to maybe speak to facilities and where
we're at with the new facility I think
would be in order he does that anyway
because we most we have our meeting so
early in the month that by the time we
meet things sometimes drastically change
or there's updates so thank you Clint
thank you very much Glenn Thacker
executive director the new center is
moving along really well we have hit a
rather large snag however and that is
what has always been the snag is the
manufacturing of the dog and cat kennels
in our meeting we had last Tuesday the
the contractor said listen we're on our
last the inside of the building is is
pretty much done
uh the the last phase that they're at is
Landscaping they said after Landscaping
we can't pay somebody just to sit here
so in other words they're going to lock
the building up and because it's still
their property until substantial
completion and and that's what we've
done until those cat those cages come in
and we're talking the large dog cattle
cages and also the cat cages inside the
facility
um
I I do want to talk and see with the
contractor and also with the city if
there's any way that we could move in
because they're still the cat rooms we
have all the furniture is going to be
coming in all of the computers are going
to be coming in everything's going to be
there that we need
except for the cages and just some of
the areas
so we would like to get in there as soon
as possible but I it doesn't look like
we will because of the the change of
permissions and you know being inside a
building that doesn't belong to the city
and so on and so forth but that's what
we're waiting for the building is
beautiful it's great to see and there's
there's a lot of room for us to grow and
do the things that we want to do there
some of the items in the existing Center
and I again I have to be careful because
I get this month the last month except
sometimes what we're going to talk about
so
I know the we had some issues with some
clogged drains
that in one of the kennels and we called
Roto-Rooter in they were able to get
those unclogged there we believe we have
a broken pipe down in one of the kennels
so that's going to cause some
significant issues if it is in fact
broken they're going to be putting a
camera down to see for sure what that
condition is
uh we have a lot of equipment that is
needs to be replaced it's breaking for
instance scales scales are very very
important at the center because we have
medicine that we dose out according to
weight
and some of these floor scales these
large floor scales that the dog gets on
they're around three or four hundred
dollars each we have to purchase some
for the new center
so it's just a continual you know
stuff's wearing out these these scales
were purchased a long time ago
um so we're keeping an eye on those some
other items is remove I contacted
um
the city yesterday about moving forward
on the pond relocation the retention
pond so we're going to be getting that
going
to start up again that's all I have
thank you
thank you thank you Clint are there any
questions from anyone on the board I I
do have a quick question Glenn sorry do
you have did they give you any sense of
when the cages might be arriving or
could be arriving you you don't want to
know do you really want to know yeah
they're saying March
that's why you don't want to know yeah
it's it's pretty it's pretty frustrating
the problem is is there's only like four
manufacturers that do maybe five that do
cages that are reputable and who you
want to work with big names in the
industry
and so when they say they can't get some
you're kind of stuck you can't it's not
like a cement you know personally you
can just go to the next cement truck in
town and ask
so we if I remember right they may have
already switched vendors a long time ago
because the first one was like no we
can't do that
and then this one said they could but
probably actually can't
yeah and another one is it may not be
their fault steel is is really hard to
find right now and all of those cages
are all stainless steel
fence work
uh all of that is it all has some
component that is backed up and hard to
find
board member Flores please thank you so
is that under contract and is the price
locked in or those variables and so far
as prices and stuff that's a great
question yeah the price is locked in if
I remember right they've already paid
for a portion of it and remember it's
not City that's paying forward it's
Jane's Corporation the the contractor
who's paying for it okay well they're
not
who is paying because if there's been a
designated amount Saint Jane's then
um I just want to make sure that they
that we do get them and they're pushing
them they they said we're sending an
email every single day
they still have the completion date as
uh the end of December
James is still saying that the
substantial completion date so
um I I don't understand how they're
still saying that but they still say
that they hope they can get it done by
well and I think that's because they're
supposed to I think that's the contract
I was going to say it's a contractual
issue so long as there's substantial
performance there's no breach so that's
what it is thank you Clint thank you
madam chair
thank you I appreciate we do want to
know it's depressing but it's good to
know so thank you
um
okay that brings to an end the reports
and presentations section uh
everyone on the board is all right we
will move on to our next discussion item
which is related to our regularly
scheduled meeting on Thanksgiving
morning sophomore-ish I think as winner
next month so I'll meet you here for
turkey breakfast
so I think Clint I know you had some
some insight or some ideas for what
because the next two months the ascmv
board meeting falls on days that would
be during holidays
so is there anything that's urgent where
we'd have to meet for those two months
or is it are we mandated by any the jpa
states that we meet monthly yes ma'am
wow
we can meet
via's oh man no So currently your the
next board meeting is November 24th
which was said was is Thanksgiving and
then
the 29th of December
is the next one
which I think that December one no way
I'm sorry that is every third Thursday
right no fourth so it would be the 22nd
no
one two oh you're you are correct I was
wrong
so that one we can keep uh the December
one
correct
it's not
well that's the that's the question to
to all
um do we want to it's not I don't think
that our
holiday that the holiday break starts
until the Friday I think
um
I can tell you in years past Madam chair
they have changed both whoops both
meetings
so and we also have just as a note a
scheduled sort of strategic planning
meeting on a Wednesday on your calendars
I think for Wednesday November 30th on a
day that that we could reserve here at
the city but that's a separate meeting
for us to to be getting together
um so I sort of Look to You All
rescheduling both so that would be
something like the 17th and the 15th
of November
if we went with the same day of the week
in the same time
17th of November is just a week earlier
so it's the third Thursday
police board member Sanchez just uh I
don't know if I could float this idea if
we're really going to have our meeting
on the 30th
could we theoretically move
basically instead of having a full
meeting like this the meeting in closed
session or the work session that we're
planning that would take the place of
our November meeting
and we would just meet on the 30th
yeah I don't know I don't know if that
meeting would fulfill the
the requirements for having this every
month and also just as a note in the
future jpa we should probably
build in some room for
I believe
I'm sorry madam chair no no please I was
just gonna say I think we were that was
one of the the suggestions I think from
Clint was that we meet quarterly in the
new jpa
so that would give more flexibility
um
so I would say I would ask if we could
schedule I would
lean toward keeping the 22nd but you
said that lcps will be off so that
creates lcps it'll be the last day for
lcps is on December 16th oh okay for
what it's time well then
both dates would be
I mean I think if you can make a quorum
that'd be yeah so I would I would
actually ask if we could keep the
December date of the 22nd
and move the November date to the week
before on the 17th
if that works for you all
I mean it ish as much as moving a
meeting can possibly work in all of our
schedules
okay
well if everyone will not be here on the
22nd then we shouldn't plan for it
no
four
I'm sure we could figure that one with
only four I think we can do it okay well
let's especially with Madam chair it
could also be that we don't need a
quorum to have a meeting you just need a
quorum to make any decisions or action
items yeah action items so if we could
just meet and you could we could do our
presentations just no action items as
well I would I would like to keep that
date than the 22nd and but then move
November to the 17th
um
if that's possible which is just three
weeks from now
so the only the only hiccup on the 17th
November the 17th is the availability of
this room and we can work that out with
the city okay pending of
then we're gonna go ahead board member
Madam chair and Clint I'm wondering if
we can check now because the last time
we did this and went and left that this
room was not available and so I would
like before we leave this meeting to see
if there's the availability
Eric's checking thank you Aaron
and for what it for what it's worth on
the 17th I believe the commission
Chambers I'd have to get verification
but if we needed to County Commission
Chambers might be an upper an option as
well because that will be
the Planning and Zoning will be being
before on the 10th of November
and I think that's what held us up the
last time is this is usually our meeting
now is usually that second and for the
fourth Thursday matches at the same time
as Planning and Zoning okay so while
that's sort of being figured out I would
move on to the public input section
and we'll we'll come back and revisit
that
um
and finalize it before we leave so
public input
I hear it please
Gene thank you
I just want to say my apologies for
presenting any inaccurate information I
know we were kind of scratching our
heads when I used that figure 70 000 and
I admit I'm not good with numbers but
the number is actually seven that when I
said remove a digit I was right 7
000 uh veterinarian shortage Nationwide
and I googled it to find out the reason
and the reason is lack of vet schools
along with the high cost of becoming
event
maintaining a practice and then of
course many who incur that type of debt
is you know
reasons to some people don't enter enter
the field so and then I just I had a
question for Gino I know this is a
public input time but in the city report
there were 414 cats trapped and 80 were
released I'm curious what happened to
the 334 what their outcomes were so if
you could answer that if that's okay I'd
appreciate it thank you thank you Gene
I just wanted to make sure that I have
your question correct okay this is what
you were reported that were trapped and
then you said
so I just wondered what happened to the
other 334
the year
numbers okay Madam chair members of the
board to enter Gene's uh question what
she was looking at was the total number
of cats that we have impounded sorry
about that
the total number of cats that we've
impounded for the year which was 414 and
the number that we have released was 81.
her question is what happened to the
other 300 and
okay
60 60.
those were all taken to the Animal
Service Center
so then they would have been represented
in the intake correct and and outcome
data related yes CMP does that answer
your question to you yeah
we'll just have one more quick thing to
it isn't really a response to Gino's but
just that I wanted to say I was really
happy to see the number of surgeries you
know we were talking about uh you know
you know Joe saying uh melee with broken
promises that um what's whole you know
or I must say holding them up but the re
they could do more if
um there were more slots I just I think
that 400 number I believe it was Clint
that you reported was was really good I
don't know what the peak is I mean what
what the highest we've ever done but can
all things considered that was really
good so thank you thank you Gene thank
you Gino and I mean I think sort of your
questions and thinking about this it's
both heartening
to hear the number it's it's
disheartening and also heartening to
hear that
we're struggling in the same way that
people across the country are struggling
with both the way higher intakes and way
fewer resources available for for
surgery and and I think we're committed
to doing everything we can to remediate
that in our own
in our own local jurisdiction but also
acknowledging the bigger structural
issues that that are
continue to press on I think and and be
very
um disheartening overall so but thank
you for providing that context
yeah any other public input questions
no Jerry Tina you guys are y'all are
good okay no other hearing no other
public input
um are there is there any are there any
more concrete answers about the 17th
availability of the 17th
oh yes thank you uh Madam chair and
board the 17th is available Chambers are
available from
9 A.M to 12 normal meeting even up to 5
30 if needed
so let's book it till five no I'm just
kidding Let's book it from from 9 to 11
which I'm trying to shoot for at most
times so we'll thank you very much for
looking that up and making that happen
so the upcoming meetings for November
and December will be November 17th and
December 22nd
um so thank you I'll expect a festive
holiday
um
fun on the 22nd
bring your ugly sweater bring your ugly
sweater with cats on I I really am going
to get a ugly sweater with cats on it
because I have cats and I'm into that
scene okay next up chair and board
member comments it is I'm in for the
challenge yeah
um chair and board member comments I
will start off just very quickly thank
you to everyone who presented here today
including the
um folks from the shelter and Gene and
it's been great to hear what all the
extraordinary things that our community
is doing and then also the ways that the
shelter is adapting and growing
um
I did want to just put one quick note
out there the uh firefighters Union did
create a calendar and they are selling
it right now on for
um to raise money for the ascmv the the
I've already pre-ordered my four
calendars for everyone I to give to all
the people I know I hope you all will
consider getting the calendars that
include firefighters and and dogs I
think only dogs I don't know that there
are any cats making appearances in this
um only dogs and firefighters for the
shelter
uh they're they're available for
pre-order online and then next Wednesday
um at andale's dog house they're
actually having a launch event where uh
firefighters will be doing the serving
of of the food and drinks at on delays
and giving out the calendar so
um what at the doghouse at the dog house
uh it's at uh I think it's around dinner
time six-ish I'll look really quickly
but five so that's next Wednesday 5 p.m
yes the uh November 2nd
um and I can send you to the link
so that you can sign up if you want to
I'll send you the link but generally
speaking I hope to see people there I'm
really looking forward to it so that's
all the comments that I have for today
I look toward down the board to see any
additional comments board member Sanchez
thank you madam chair board member
Gandara thank you madam chair I do want
to say that the stats this month they're
real staggering with the population
creeping up gosh I can't even remember
maybe early on when I first became a
member of this board that we saw those
kinds of stats
um and so I'd like for us to really
think about some strategies on how we
can reduce that I think a lot of it is
around educating our community
continuing with some of the programming
that we have done microchip vaccinations
spayed and neuter
um
and just educating the community about
import how important it is to be a
responsible pet owner I know that many
of the our two acos from respectfully
from the city and the county are have
been down vacancy with vacancies and I
know that we put a lot of pressure and a
lot of onus on new responsibility to
educate the public but I think I'd like
to see a huge lift from the center
in educating maybe getting
our Ad Agency out here looking at what
we could possibly do to do that
and I am very
um
I'm challenged with that it it has sat
very differently today for me and and I
think we really need to as a board look
at what we might do to really reduce
that and then I'd like to wish our vice
chair Manny Sanchez a happy birthday
today so please join me in wishing him a
happy birthday
um sorry Manny I had to do it
um and with that I'll turn it back over
to you madam chair thank you board
member kandra and happy birthday happy
birthday board member Sanchez I would
have given you a harder time had I known
that earlier so
probably good we just found out
board member Ellens please
nothing board member Flores
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happy birthday Manny hey
thank you thank you I won't charge for
that
um
but uh yeah I I too was uh I always and
every time I see Gene I think of cats I
think of animals that you know are out
there I look at my own little dog and
um and I I think that um we you know
it's maybe has been said before it's
nothing new we just I think that animals
humanize us I think that you know they
bring out the most tender feelings
and frankly I like them better than I
like some humans
but I just want to thank everybody at
the Animal Service Center and we're
working so hard and everyone in the
audience who is here who has worked very
hard at making our community
um
very Humane by caring about our our
animals and thank you madam chair
thank you board member Flores
board member Enriquez
yes thank you madam chair and happy
birthday Michelle Sanchez
um no I'm not going to sing because I I
will have to charge him
just joking
um now I wanted to bring up an item that
has been pending and outstanding is the
TNR handbook that we've been working on
the subcommittee uh provided a lot of
input on that and we we want to meet
with them on Tuesday we're going to have
a meeting Mr Thacker has done some
research on what is most current and
best practices so what we want to do is
have a meeting and combine those so that
we can come up with a good product a
Good Handbook with the intent to
finalize it here soon and get something
that's going to work out for this
community thank you
thank you board member Enriquez board
member Ward
uh yes thank you
um happy birthday
um just real quick I think it is I'm
glad you said you talked about the
educational Outreach it is important
um I know the county has done a few more
educational Outreach events including
picking up the community sweeps that we
have started back in where we have
partnered with our codes department and
gone into the communities and educated
the communities out there with resources
like we did with the aces project as
well as going into like the fair and
whatnot for educational Outreach going
into the new ordinance that's going to
be something that's we're going to
highlight and really Target because the
Outreach is going to be isn't going to
be important in regards to that so
you'll be seeing a lot of that in in a
lot more so with that
awesome thank you so much we appreciate
it any other comments from the board
anyone here
seeing none
um
again just to follow up the
November 17th December 22nd the calendar
release party
um
I still don't know what time of day it
is but I think it's at it's at five five
it's at five on the latest are you sure
I thought I heard 6 30.
no five okay
no five yes it starts at five
Madam chair if I made Clint Thacker I
I just want to caution that I believe
this was a private a private party and
you had to buy tickets to get in and
most of them are sold out so I just want
to be sure nobody shows up hoping to see
firefighters and oh yeah sure and just
so you know I am not in the calendar so
if you need to return the calendars I
understand
thank you for that clarification
clarification it is a private event but
it looks like tickets are still
available from their website right now
so if you want to want to go so
I did yes
all right hearing no other inputs thank
you for that clarification
I would entertain a motion to adjourn so
moved second by Flores moved by board
member Sanchez second by board member
Flores
please
remember Flores
yes
yes board member Ellens yes board member
Sanchez yes chair karon yes
we are adjourned