thank you
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good morning thank you for joining us
this morning at the ascmv built meeting
I'd like to call this meeting to order
um uh I'm if you all would join me in
the Pledge of Allegiance please
and to the Republic for which it stands
one nation under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for all
thank you
um Becky I would ask that we determined
we have a quorum
board member Ward
president board member Enriquez
president board member Macias
board member Flores is absent warmer
Ellens is absent woman here former
Sanchez is absent
and chair corn
here thank you yes we have Quorum thank
you
thank you very much Becky
I would entertain a motion to approve
the agenda and I would propose one minor
change to shift report the Coalition for
pets and people report to the end of the
committee reports so we are sorry number
five a shifted to
5D functionally so I would entertain a
motion with that friendly Amendment
so moved um with the changes that chair
Quran has indicated thank you thank you
is there a second
from anyone
can people second yes please
second manager thank you thank you and
if you need a third I'll put it in as
well thank you I appreciate it
if we can call it call the vote please
yes board member board
yes board member Enriquez
yes former Macias yes board member
Gandara yes chair Quran yes
the
agenda is approved as amended and then
before you in your packet we also have
the minutes from the August 25th meeting
hope that you've had a chance to look
those over and after having done so I
would entertain a motion to approve
Madam chair I move that we approve the
uh
minutes
of the meeting held on the 25th of
August of 2022. second Gandara thank
you thank the board member Macias and
seconded by board member Gandara any
amendments
hearing none
uh back here if we could please board
member Ward yes former Macias yes
former Enriquez
yes
a chair colon yes
thank you the minutes to the August 25th
meeting have been approved
next up we have the reports and
presentations so we'll hear from the
city and county acos first please
City oh whichever you you guys decide
thank you good morning
good morning
there we go good morning everyone I'm
Brian Hulsey I'm the case worker for
donana County Animal Control I'm now be
giving the August 2022 monthly report
for our reported Strays for August we
had 293 reported stray animals out of
those animals we picked up 234 Strays
out of those 94 were cats 140 were stray
dogs
we had 17 sick or injured animals in the
month of August we had 10 cats and seven
dogs and we had 14 owners surrendered
dogs
this is our report history animal called
four-year comparison chart
and as you can see August was a little
bit higher and most months August
usually is one of our higher months
because it's getting towards the tail
end of
the breeding seasons and everything for
the cats so we usually end up picking up
a lot more cats
um this is our four-year
RTO or field return to owner comparison
chart
for the month of August 2022 we had 16.
for addition animals picked up again we
had no owner surrendered cats we had 14
owner surrendered dogs we had 17 sick or
injured animals we had one welfare hold
and that's again if
a sheriff unit or State Police they go
and pick up a cat or go pick up a person
and they have a cat or a dog inside the
vehicle we usually go and pick up the
cat or dog and take it as a welfare hold
uh we had nine shelter quarantines we
had zero neglect
we had two home quarantines
we had two cases that are being held at
our courthold for either quarantine or
for a vicious or a livestock attack
currently we have eight animals being
held in our live evidence facility
awaiting for court or anything along
those lines and we had one rabies
submission that turned to be negative
um these are our districts
for for the county
and these are cats and dogs picked up
per District in district one we had
seven dogs in District Two we had 28
cats and 24 dogs
in District three we had seven cats and
27 dogs District Four was our high one
again it was people started to trap cats
again in District Four a couple months
prior we had a very big spike in that
and it kind of went down now they're
starting to trap again so we had 66 and
most of those were cats District Five we
had 14 districts
6 we had 17 and district 7. for some
reason we saw a spike in a lot of stray
dogs and so we were had a lot in that
area
these are stray cats picked up by
District
for
for the year
these are our stray dogs again you can
see that big spike in district 7 for the
all the stray dogs that we were able to
pick up in August
and these are regions of release of
ownership we had five that the people
just weren't able to take care of them
we had two that were livestock or
vicious attacks we had two that were
just old and they requested for
euthanasia I believe one of them was
sick at the time as well
this is a new one for most people we had
four that were transported for hatch so
we have a contract with hatch
sometimes they have us go and pick up
some of their dogs in this case it was
for owner releases that they had for us
to pick up for them and we had one that
was aggressive
um one other thing for our our vicious
for this or for August as well is the
vicious dogs were attacking other dogs
of the same owner so they just wanted to
get rid of the vicious one
and for that I stand for any questions
thank you and if we could also let the
record reflect the board member Flores
says join us please thank
thank you very much
good morning
good morning board members Lieutenant
Joy wheeler for the record
and I will have our city
Animal Control Park
I'm looking to how to make it bigger
there we go
foreign
good morning this is going to be the
report for our August numbers
we had 505 reported stray animals for
August of 2022
275 were gone on arrival 230 stray
animals were apprehended
197th Strays were impounded at the
shelter that included 102 dogs and 95
cats 33 were successfully billed returns
18 were unsuccessful attempted field
returns that ended up being impounded at
the shelter
uh that meant that there was a total of
51 identiful aisles stray animals that
number is from the successful and the
unsuccessful attempts
here are our numbers over the years for
2020 2021 and 2022. uh you can see we
are currently in the yellow and so very
similar numbers to last year in 2021 as
far as reported strikes
again here's your field return to owner
comparison again we are in the yellow
for 2022 as you can see compared to 2021
we dipped down a bit but it was very
comparable to what we did back in 2020.
here's our community cap program and
again this is something that we are
tracking that is new since we've passed
that Community cat ordinance uh 2022 it
shows the cat and trap calls so for
August of this year we had 39 of that
there were eight that were already part
of that Community cap program and they
were released obviously the goal here
would be to see these numbers reversing
in the future
here are our reasons for the owners
releasing their animals we had seven in
reference to dogs that were aggression
towards people and or others or pets one
was towards a child one was towards the
owner one actually bit the child in the
face
three dogs were the owners no longer can
afford to have them two dogs where the
new landlord does not allow the dogs two
dogs were their court orders to be
removed from the home
uh one that was a dog that was injured
one because the dog was old one because
the dog was damaging property and
escaping one was a cat owner moving
across the country and did not want to
put the cat through the excessive travel
another one was a cat owner and was
moving and could not take the cat with
them
here are those reasons why we were
unable to field return to owners when
the Animal control officer was in the
field eight were no contact by phone or
at the residence in this kind of
circumstance a lot of times it can be
the Animal control officer trying to
reach them late at night and if we're
not able to reach them late at night we
have to take them to the shelter seven
the chip was not up to date one the
owner was visiting in Mexico another one
where the owner lived in El Paso and
could not pick up the animal another one
where the owner stated that they could
pick it up later from the shelter
and that is the report any questions
thank you lieutenant any questions from
the board
none hearing none thank you very much
next up we'll hear from from
Clint thanks for the shelter statistics
good morning chair board Quint Thacker
executive director at the Animal Service
Center massillo Valley
again I'd like to give a special thank
you to Bernice Navarro for preparing
this
she needs to get extra credit because I
have been home ill Monday and Tuesday
and half of Wednesday and so she was
putting all this together on her own so
I really appreciate her doing that
her services are invaluable to me
these numbers are from our August
currently at the center however there's
521 animals at the Animal Service Center
Museum Valley
intake we had a huge Spike and then
it'll intake 886 animals 473 dogs 407
cats
we are we know that August is a high
month anyways but this was a surprise
but boy did we feel that August was a
hard hard month we did our best to keep
animals moving through the center and
having with a live outcome
some returns of adoptions now we had
five dogs and four cats as you look at
those reasons just know that we always
ask why and then we present offerings
for them we partner with donana County
Humane Society the rough to ready
program it's called so on behavior
issues Donita County Humane Society
actually pays for a behaviorist to come
to their home for one session
and they can help them with any of the
problems they have some people do as I
reported last time they do take
advantage of that and they do a
fantastic job the the trainer that they
have goes into their home and tells them
what needs to change and some of them do
make those changes
however as you know when somebody's fed
up with something and done they're done
so those numbers for the returns there
and it looks like
a dog's allergic to humans there
that'd be two
diverted intakes 267. this question came
up in a board meeting one time so we
included this slide we're gonna once we
get enough data for several months we're
going to be putting on a graph so you
can see if it goes up or down diverted
intake is anything where our staff does
something to divert the animal from
coming into the center
so it could be
trade or scan the somebody says I found
this dog we scan a microchip and the has
an owner we contact they come and get it
it's that boom it's diverted or they
come to owner surrender an animal and we
say here's some resources for you we ask
that you contact them first and so they
make Con they call those and they said
oh I found a rescue that can take the
animal so another one that's diverted so
267 animals were diverted
um from by our front staff and others
we end the the August with a 73.3
percent live release rate and when you
consider the numbers of animals that we
had coming in that is a phenomenal live
release rate higher than the than last
year 2021 which had a significant lower
intake number
26 percent of our of the outcomes were
adoptions 10 were reclaims 21 were
rescues
Community cats were 18 percent and
euthanasia
excuse me euthanasia was 28 percent with
247.
so that's
73.3 percent live release rate live
release rate is animals that left this
the facility alive that came in
these are our rescue partners that we
went with in August that took animals
from us
so they all together took 192. we thank
each and every one of those locally
action program for Animals broken
promises cherished canines
I know there's others on there but all
of all of our local rescues do
phenomenal work in taking dogs from us
and we appreciate each and every one of
what they do we did have to travel a
little bit further this time we made
some trips to Denver we made some trips
to Tucson but it was worth having those
animals leave the center alive into new
homes
that love and cherish them so a total of
192. the breakdown's 138 dogs and 53
cats
here's our euthanasia reasons our number
one euthanasia reasons for dogs is still
medical and you see that it says space
medical so remember when we do need to
make space we're not euthanizing healthy
animals for space we look at our first
thing we look at is medical reasons
so that's why it says medical space we
looked at them specifically to make
space but they do have medical reasons
for that the next highest or I'm sorry
the highest for cats is failure to
thrive this is generally for kittens
when they come in
and these kittens we get high numbers of
them this time of year and they just do
have a failure to thrive so they are
euthanized the next highest for the dogs
is behavior aggressive so those are the
two most common for the dogs and the
next it looks like you would be
respiratory for cats I Believe those are
this time of year those two reasons are
exactly spot on with the high number of
animals in the center and the
respiratory signs in the respiratory
issues I believe that is concurrent to
what we're seeing
our surgeries continue to do an
incredible amount of work trap new to
return surgeries did 146 adoptions 158
shelter Foster 57 and other is 80
441 surgeries in the month of August is
phenomenal if you've ever been to the
Animal Service Center you know that
there's one room one veterinarian
working at one time with a
four individuals prepping the animal
while they're prepping it moving animals
back and forth and then doing recovery
in the area they are working all the
time and we appreciate all that they do
phenomenal numbers from a small
dedicated team
just so you know other
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excuse me
other is
like somebody comes and reclaims their
animal
return to owner and they said they would
like it the animal sterilized so we
allow that and we do that there's also
if a individual
goes through Snap
the the program SNAP program then we
also euthanize I'm sorry sterilize for
that too so those are as an example of
some of the others that we have
other surgeries may be amputations or
fixing what a surgery or if what a
sterilization complications
Etc
total visitors and 1909
to the ascmv last month
this is a slide showing that we had 113
appointments for adoptions and you see
that 66 percent of those 113 ended in
adoptions so that's a great number over
half 66 percent of the 113 resulted in
adoptions for an appointments
and when you look at our walk-in so 408
individuals came into the center and
signed the sheet and checked the box
that says I'm here to adopt
and they walk in fully expecting to
adopt well 26 of those ended in adoption
we still see that the appointment based
is is still a higher percentage but
we're still moving animals with the
walk-in method as well
volunteers are doing an incredible
amount of work 846 hours of volunteer
time that was dedicated to us 75 on the
Walking team did an amazing job this
time getting through events and getting
the dogs walked
thank you
our website had forty thousand three
hundred and ninety views uh just to
remember a view is each page not just a
new new hit so if they're looking at a
dog and they go back and browse the dogs
and they click on another dog so that
would be two two views there
and Facebook stayed pretty much the same
with the
4435. I know that we were heavily
present on our Facebook page this last
month because of our
best friends and also working with Donia
County Humane Society and we had several
events going on Via via Facebook
and here's Devin and Guido
our pets of the week they can entertain
any questions that you may have
thank you very much
Richard Thacker
um any questions from from the board
members
oh
board member Flores please I don't have
a question I just want to thank you
Clint for all your work and Bernice yes
you deserve a raise I hereby Grant you a
raise no but thank you very much for all
your work
thank you thank you board member Flores
thank you Clint
um
also Becky if we can please note that
board member Sanchez has joined us
please thank you
um
next up we're going to hear from
committee reports and I think we're
starting off with the finance committee
and there are a few items to cover under
that so please
come on up
good morning chair and board members
yeah we had a finance committee last
Thursday and we went over the financials
there was no real significant issues in
which Mr Lerma will come out today and
and prevent present the financials and
then after he's done I'd like to ask
Leanne Demus to come up she has a
recommendation for the board
thank you thank you very much
Mr Lima thank you thank you madam chair
my name is Armando Lerma accountant with
the finance department and I'll be
presenting the monthly financials for
the period ending August of 2022.
foreign
we'll start with the statement of net
position
we had a cash balance of one million 208
651 dollars
which makes up our total assets
liabilities we had a balance of 114
561 dollars
Revenue collected in advance
540 dollars
which leaves us a unassigned fund
balance of eight hundred and eighteen
thousand five hundred and fifty dollars
okay next we have our change in net
position
total revenues through August are 979
175 dollars
and total expenditures are 462 299
dollars
which equals a positive net change of
876 dollars
okay next we have our change in net
position budget to actual
same numbers as the previous slide just
as they compare to budget
so this being the second month of the
year budget parameters 16.7 percent
uh total revenues are at 23.4 percent of
budget
and total expenditures are 11.5 percent
of budget
so well under that budget parameter
okay next is our revenues and
expenditures per month
how we could see our revenues decreased
quite a bit from 720 000 to 259 000.
um the biggest reason for that is the
way uh the city and the county
contribute to the Animal Service Center
the initial month they make a 22 percent
contribution of the total budget and
then the remaining balance is paid out
you know evenly over the remaining 11
months
so going forward we can expect to see a
more consistent Revenue
and then expenses increased 138 000 to
the biggest reason for that increase was
salaries and that's due to the way we do
the um
the accrual for the fiscal year 2022 so
in July
that payroll the first payroll in July
the period the pay period some of that
includes June
so we incorporate that amount into our
June financials which brings down the
July amount so that's that's the main
reason for our our salaries being so low
in July
okay
next we have a percentage of total
expenditures
so total expenditures are 462
299 dollars of that
salary was 52 percent benefits 18
percent
temporary services three percent repairs
and maintenance 0.3 percent
is 15 supplies three Insurance eight and
other of one percent
okay I will now stand for any questions
thank you very much Armando is is the
cat's name Binks or I have that same
question this is the one that I got
that's the one that's the one that we
have for the city and it seemed seemed
appropriate for the relaunch of Hocus
Pocus but uh now I'm not sure but either
way an adorable black cat I think so any
questions from the board board member
Flores please thank you madam chair and
thank you so much for your presentation
on the prior page page six a
year-to-date expenditures you have the
percentages of what it's gone to to date
but what is a percentage of 462
299 of the entire annual budget do you
know I mean do you do that that's gonna
be should be 112 right
or two 12s yeah it's that 11.5 percent
amount yeah okay great thank you very
much yes
yes thank you board member Flores
other questions from the board
hearing none thank you thank you thank
you Mr Number uh
would you like to invite Mr come up and
give us some insight please thank you
chairman board chairs this is just a
recommendation to the board
um it's something that we and the
financial services have discussed this
as you know for Animal Service Center
we're the Fiscal Agent and so we just
have sorry the can you state your name
sorry
uh for the record my name's Leanne de
mush and I'm the finance director for
the city of Las Cruces
we have a very short presentation again
this is just a finance recommendation
one of the recommendations that we would
like to make to the board is the
consideration of going back to a reserve
it is not a requirement for the Fiscal
Agent however this is something that
they had prior to 2019 and I think some
of you that have been on this board for
a while I want to say counselor gandada
when I went back in the minutes I saw
your name in there in the minutes
because I did go back to this particular
resolution which was
in 2019 which is
2019-09 and there was a recommendation
to remove the reserve the 112th and as
you can see the 112th is on the
expenditures we as a city the city of
Las Cruces and also the county are
required by the state to have a reserve
and we would like to make this
recommendation and go back possibly to
this reserve for the Animal Service
Center
one of the reasons that we would like to
see an adoption of a 112th Reserve is
because of course this is best practices
are the gfoa which is our government
Finance Officers Association
recommends this 112th Reserve because it
maintains the adequate levels of funding
balance to mitigate any current or
future risk the animal services
the Animal Service Center may have it
also replenishes the fund balance within
one or three years of use and as you
notice from Mr lerma's art the fund
balance currently is only 301 thousand
dollars
um it has also been more than three
years since we adopted this in 2019
um it so that we've used those reserves
I think at the time
that when I went back into the minutes
to see why this policy was adopted it
was because of the fund balance being
needed for you know the expenditures at
that time and so we just would like the
recommendation of just for the board to
consider going back to the 112th the
also the one a 12th Reserve just let you
know it's only one month of expenditures
so that way if something happened they
would have one month you know of fixed
cost that they could pay it also
mitigates the risk of any audit findings
currently the New Mexico state auditor
2.2.2.10 if you have budgeted
expenditures or more than the budgeted
reserve and currently the Animal Service
Center expenditures are higher than the
revenue then the prior year cash should
cover the deficit and and it currently
does but if we could have that Reserve
112th then we know that this possibility
of not having an audit finding would
really help in the future
just to give you an idea this is the
same numbers that you just recently saw
what we are showing you as you see the
beginning balance is three hundred and
one thousand the revenues currently that
are budgeted at about 4.1 and the
expenditures are about 4.3 as you can
see there is a resolution going forward
to you of a transfer from their
operating to their capital and that
resolution will be later on so that
gives them an ending balance of a
hundred and forty four thousand the
112th reserve requirement would be that
they would need to have 357 thousand
dollars for that Reserve right now
um reserved we find them with the city
that they're really critical for
financial planning we actually with the
city adopted another 112th so we're
required uh local and the state to have
two 12s we find that to really help with
risk mitigation it protects us from RE
reducing our service levels just like
that's what we want to acquire for the
Animal Service Center and also it helps
with raising fees and then hopefully
meeting operating needs and meeting
future needs
and with that myself and of course I
have the accounting staff here if you
have any questions and of course this is
only a recommendation from us to the
board so it might be something future
and later that you might want to discuss
but we wanted to bring this forward to
you
thank you so much chair thank you very
much I would entertain questions from
the board
um
Civic to this and then we can talk about
what the next steps might be please
board members yes do you have the ending
balances of the budget for the last
three fiscal years
for the Animal Services Center board
chair board chair board Macias I do not
have that in front of me sir but I can
get that to you
um hopefully by tomorrow we can pull
that information for you are you aware
whether there were balances or not yes
sir there were balances at that time and
would the balance have covered
the 112th requirement
I think and I'm going to ask my Contra
yeah no sir they wouldn't have
I I was pretty sure that that was the
answer but I was asked I was going to
ask her to come up because she knows
those numbers
this is my comptroller uh Josie Trevino
good morning Jose Trevino comptroller
no the past three years did not the
reason we removed the fund policy
reserved in 2019 was because we were not
going to meet the 112. so prior to 2019
yes they were meeting we have not met
2019 2021
I'm sorry 20 21 22 and as you're going
to see a resolution come up that'll be
fiscal year 23. so prior to 2019 we
would after 2019 we did not are you able
to share the numbers yes we are not with
me right now but yes we can share the
numbers do you have just a sense in
terms of this last fiscal year what the
balance was as you close the books up uh
so fiscal year 22 as it shows here
was it the 144 no uh it's the 301.
oh yeah
so these are unaudited because we're
still working with fiscal year 22 but I
don't see any changes going in after
audit so it is 301.
So currently you're 22. forgive me Madam
chair uh you were just short to 56 000.
if your beginning balance is 301
and what you and your reserve that
you're looking for is the 357. the
reserve would be on the budgeted
expenditures
so it would be 1 12 of your budget
expenditures so 4.2 times the 112 is the
357 and yes we would be short to 56.
yes so that would have been a yes okay
so again the the gap between the two
isn't
isn't that much at least for this last
fiscal year that's why I'd be interested
in looking at the prior to fiscal years
as well and I understand the intent I'm
not opposed to the intent I'm just
trying to get a sense of where where the
potential exposure to the to the Animal
Services operation is
thank you thank you for giving me thank
you thank you board member Flores
thank you so much
um my question is
if we had 301
674 dollars at this point you know just
looking at what we have there where are
we going to get the money to have that
12 112th Reserve
I mean if it's not there it's not there
so where does it come from if all that
money has already been allocated or
expended this is where planning comes in
and where we start looking at our
expenditures and our revenues if needed
to get back to where we were
so well yeah that's a given
but
what exactly is well I guess that's a
budgetary item or that's something that
Finance does and as Leann knows I'm a
total when it comes to numbers and
stuff like that but not entirely stupid
um so my question it remains how are you
going to are you just going to move
numbers around or what how it does come
through the budget and the planning just
planning yes
so
then does that mean then that certain
budgetary items are
money is taken from those allocations or
allocated expenditures future
expenditures
support chair
um board member Flores it could be a
combination of different things it could
be that we could ask for an increase in
the revenue again we could also look at
lowering some of his expenditures it
could be raising fees it could be as
Miss Trevino said it it's a mixture of
planning and that's something I think
that the director in the Animal Service
Center would need to get together and do
that planning okay so yeah that makes a
lot of sense to me so does that mean
that Clint Bernice
well Mr Navarro and Mr Thatcher will get
together with your department Liam
um Madam chair and Madam chairman chair
floors that is that it we could work
with them and work on that if that is
something that this board would like to
adopt and to recommend going back to the
112th
um or it could just you know if the
board decides that they don't want to
adopt the 112 we just keep going status
quo with what it is right now so Leanne
or Mr Bush are you then going to have
you already met with Clint and Bernice
or the powers that I need
um Madam chair chairman Flores I know
that the budget department has been
meeting with him off and on
um we have not sat down and I'll say
like a work session or to look at you
know how he could be reducing his
expenditures it could be that maybe they
need to come up with a long-term plan
like a five-year financial plan that
might be be something that we could sit
down and work with them in conjunction
yes ma'am great I thank you so much Mr
Irina and Mr Moosh and thank you madam
chair
thank you board member Flores board
member Sanchez please thank you madam
chair uh Mr moonshine I'm trying to get
under at least a little bit of the
historical uh
understanding of why I guess I'm taking
a guess here
understanding that they didn't they were
not going to meet the 112th Reserve in
2019 is that associated with the capital
expenditures that began in 2019 and
continued through this day because I
mean we've had uh the the renovations
that went on at the ascmv
2019 2020 and then now you have the
expansion going on so I didn't know if
that increase of budget because of the
capital expenditures and that increase
of the amount for the reserve the
necessary Reserve would have caused
the board at that time
Madam chair chairman Sanchez I do not
believe I don't want to say 100 with
Shore it's a little difficult for me to
even remember yesterday back into 2019
but I'm pretty sure that all of this was
in operating which is their operating
budget which is the 7440. all of the
capital expenditures are in 7441 and
that particular fund is doing okay I
also think at that time back in 2019 and
I'm looking at board member Gondola to
see if she could help me remember but I
also think that at that time and maybe
even the the year after that which was
2020 we even forego the city did the
administrative fees at that time as well
which I want to say were like probably
about eighty thousand dollars and we
foregoat even that in the 212s to help
out on the budget and expenditures for
the Opera really fun
okay and I'm just trying to get an idea
because I was understanding so that the
112th is based off of the 7440 does not
include the 741 okay that is correct all
right
I appreciate that clarification and that
was going to be my my question by next
because I was understanding if we try to
plan and do this any future steps
given where we're going in the future
how that would affect
the numbers that we're looking at but I
think clarifying that it's only for 7440
makes a huge
helps me understand that better so thank
you so much Mr Moosh and appreciate
that information thank you madam chair
and board chair and board members what
we can do is we can get the the numbers
to you that board member Macias wanted
will get the three years to you we can
actually probably go back five years as
well and we also have a copy of that
resolution which is attached to it as an
exhibit which is the fund balance policy
that was adopted at that time so we'll
hand that we'll deliver that to Mr
Enriquez and he can send it out
thank you so I just want to sum up what
sort of is the proposal here or the idea
and then knowing that we have to have
subsequent conversations
just to get a sense of what you all see
my sense is this is taking something
that has been sort of
um
in the general fund balance and making a
specific budget item that would be less
touchable on not touchable in this in
this sense
that would be slightly more than it has
been in the recent history which would
probably require some type of
operational changes
and shifting to that budget model so
that just to clarify if we passed a
resolution to to do that that's what
that that would mean correct
uh board chair that is correct okay and
and the
the positive outcomes of this include
increased risk reduction
sort of uh
risk mitigation I I don't know that we
necessarily have a fee leverage a place
to leverage fees necessarily in the
ascmv budget typically in terms of
revenues but I do wonder if we have
things I don't think we have significant
Debt Service either that would that
would benefit from increasing a reserve
so just to put some of the other things
that might normally be benefits of
having a 112th I don't know the things
like Bond ratings are or anything like
that are at play so hearing all of those
pros and cons and the ones that that are
at should we what I'm looking toward the
board to see do you feel like this is
something we should consider and have
those conversations and and work with
Clint in the budget office to
I appreciate the presentation
um
yeah we definitely need to be fiscally
responsible and I think moving in this
direction is is at least to have the
conversation is worthwhile
um I like the idea of getting the
numbers from five years and really
looking at different things that have
happened along the way
um I I think it's important and and as
we continue to be prudent especially
that we're opening up a new facility
um
and and it
so I'm I'm
I think we should move forward but we
this should probably be a part of our
strategic planning event that we have um
coming up
um I I don't know that we'll have a
significant amount of time I don't know
what that agenda is going to look like
but it's something we should definitely
talk about
and moving forward and maybe I would
recommend a work session and I'd like to
hear from Clint about what he is
um you know I I noticed
I think it came it feels like it came as
a surprise
um and I want for Clint to to to come up
and speak to what he's willing to do
with his analyst moving forward because
I think that's important
thank you Leanne thank you so much
Madam chair
could I just get one clarification
because I think it's
we don't need to perhaps over complicate
the issue what we're looking for is a
reserve of 357 thousand dollars and you
know the city and the county budgets we
it's the reserves are in the millions
millions of dollars and so yes you can't
spend on in an emergency situation
Beyond a certain amount you have to make
sure that you have it there to continue
operations for not an extended period of
time but in a transition period of time
so I want to make clear I want to make
sure that we
the money that both the city and the
county contribute
that formulates the budget the
operational budget
is it at the end of the fiscal year
those monies don't revert back to the
City or the county they stay with the
Animal Services Center is that correct
and that's technically what your
beginning balance is
but then you're beginning balance you
get I think both the city and the county
are contributing at this point 1.7
something million dollars so technically
then you have that additional 300
000 as part of that Year's budget why
not just reduce it
um
the balance down to two hundred thousand
dollars over the course of two years to
make up four hundred thousand dollars
and just move it into a reserve account
because you're starting out what we I
think what confuses people a little bit
is that we think well we're putting in
1.7 million each year and that's what
they're operating on but they're
operating on that 1.7 million times two
plus the reserve from the year before
that's why I wanted to see a couple of
years worth of reserves because couldn't
you have just taken couldn't we just
authorize that some of that beginning
balance actually be pushed into a
Reserve account so that you're basically
operating in that three to four hundred
thousand dollar range of money that is
there in reserve and not part of the
operating budget and yes it may mean
some belt tightening but it could be
really almost as simple as that
because all you're looking for is to
maintain that that uh 350 to 400 000
Reserve
and so if it's in a separate account
that isn't touched during the course of
the year and it remains there haven't we
resolved the issue relatively simply
we use the 112 Reserve just as with the
city but yes there is other options and
that would be one of the options
um so this is where we would start
conversating to see how we get to a
reserve we just recommended 112 and this
came up just when we saw these last
actually yesterday the budget that is
coming forward that we do see that we're
now starting to use fund balance we used
to have a we're used to seeing a budget
balance with animal services and as
you're going to see with one of the
resolutions we're actually starting to
use a fund balance so this actually was
something that we did see yesterday and
say we need to start doing something and
not be at the end of the year where we
were in 2019 and we had to do something
last minute so what we were able to do
in 2019 was let's remove the fun uh the
fund balance policy at that time so we
would be able to meet our year end right
now we're being proactive and starting
before we do get at the end of the year
and we're like how do we get out of here
so yes there's more than just doing the
112 and that is one option so this is
where we do need to start talking and
Madam chair if I understood the some of
the comments that were made one of the
other things to consider if there is a
if you're having to use the previous
year's fund balance at the beginning of
the following fiscal year perhaps one
issue rather than just contributing 22
percent
of the contribution from each of the
city and the county that we upped that
contribution to 30 percent right from
the very beginning so that there isn't
the need to technically be using the
balance from the prior fiscal year
so again I'm just I don't want to over
complicate the issue I I think it's a
good policy to always make sure that you
have a reserve and if we look at this as
a distinct operation from the city in
the county then perhaps they should have
their 112th obviously the city and the
county have
at least today thankfully substantial
Reserves
thank you so I think hearing your
comments and and board member gandara's
comments it does seem like something
that
is relevant this year but needs to be
part of it definitely needs to be part
of a future planning process and so I
know we have a strategic planning
session set up for for the November 30th
um or planning an information session
I'm hoping that we might be able to do
some I'm hoping that Clint you can work
with the the
management analysts to to sort of come
up with some models for what this would
look like because I by my sense is that
it does have the the carryover that
exists represents some unfilled
positions I believe and so I'm I'm not
sure so I think figuring out what that
would mean in terms of changes and how
to plan for that would be
I think very helpful for us to consider
doing that at a at a subsequent meeting
to to make this an official policy
perhaps in January or
sooner when we have more budget
conversations
does that did you want to talk Clint
Madame chair I have a question for
Leanne oh sorry police board member
thank you Flores Leanne Ms dumoush
and and Miss Trevino
um is this something that should be
implemented as soon as possible
is it necessary to wait for our
strategic planning at the end of
November the city
I or is it is it separate and apart from
independent of whatever we do in terms
of our strategic the city's strategic
planning it's separate from the cities
but as mentioned in one of the slides
usually when you re use your reserve
policy which we did in 2019 you want to
replenish it within one to three years
and where past those three years so it's
not something you need to do tomorrow
but we do need to start looking at it as
soon as possible yeah yeah that that's
that's what I sense too and so we need
to hear from Clint and
um
and Bernice to see how soon that could
be done because I feel very strongly
that we should have that 112 perhaps at
212.
not now okay
Shorty's shaking your head well I just
believe in having all these safeguards
so we'll dab three four
seriously uh yeah so thank you very very
much for that clarification thank you
thank you board member Flores
I
this is coming as a surprise to me
presentation is a surprise no
communication has been made to me about
this with the presentation that was that
was done I agree that it is good to have
that reserve and we can work towards it
uh just so the record straight we had to
put 705
000 of my own budget money
into the new center it was either that
or we had to cut 705 000 value engineer
out of the new center
so when we looked at our fund balance
and we knew that money was there
that's when we decided to take the money
out so it wasn't that we didn't have it
for all that time is that looking in the
past with the transfers we've had
that we were able to access and take
that out
so
that that's the reason why it is there
um I again I have no problem whatsoever
doing doing the 112th I think it's sound
financially responsible for us to do
that 2019 was a pretty volatile year as
far as our budget goes because there
there was so many uncertaints of what
was going to be happening with Staffing
and
um uh other complications
if I remember right we had some
significant purchases that needed to
happen and so that's why we lifted that
and was able to make those purchases
so
um
I just as a reminder also we I we had
commitment coming into this year and
Eric will remember this that
we were told repeatedly that whatever
we're going to roll over the fiscal year
22 budget into fiscal year 23.
because our budget wasn't approved so
we're going to roll that budget over and
we were going to
fiscally responsible look into see how
much the new center was going to cost to
run the new positions we had to run and
then we were going to come to the board
for a budget adjustment for the money
that is needed
and
and so I with that move forward as long
as that's still on the record and we
understand that's going to be happening
because it sounds like what is is being
said is that there
hasn't been any fiscal responsibility
happening
our responsible fiscal management
whoever you want to say and I don't
believe that that's the case I believe
we've been doing the best we have with
what we have
so I again I don't have any problems
with the 112th I think it's the sound to
have that and I I like the idea that
board members see us had
of increasing that
and we can move forward
so thank you
thank you I don't think that the
suggestion is that there hasn't been
sort of financial responsibility but I
do think it suggests that we need to be
make sure that we close any gaps in our
planning and and budgeting to make sure
that we we have a really clear picture
of what we have how we're spending it
and how much of sort of a reserve we can
possibly have so I think it gives us a
really good opportunity to have some
grounding for those conversations as we
go forward so
um thank you are there any other
questions from the board
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no hearing none
next up the executive committee meeting
uh
we did meet on the 6th of September we
had conversations about what kinds of
sort of up-and-coming
things that will be coming to us
including the upcoming resolution and
conversations about budget and the
future strategic plan which again is
scheduled for November 30th
and the kinds of things that we can
include in that conversation as well so
um we also talked a little bit about the
building and the progress on the
building but I'll leave that to the
facilities committee report
which is next please board member
kandara
thank you so much chair Karen we did
meet we meet the first Thursday of the
month
um
some of the discussions surrounded
the the
retention Pond
and and trying to figure out who is
physically responsible I think the city
has indicated that AC CMV is responsible
for the ponding it'll be around twenty
one thousand dollars so when I hear this
too I want people to understand you know
when we meet in facilities there's
always these issues with the the
facility because of the age of the
facility the the the things you know are
breaking down so this is really hard to
to say okay where are we going to pull
this out and then say Oh and by the way
you have to have a 1 12 you know Reserve
so I do believe that they are doing the
best that they can under the
circumstances the roof is leaking in
kennel B
um and
um on and on and on right there there
are just so many of those things that
are that are happening that
um even though this is
um the city's facility they're asking
acmb to be responsible for for much of
the of of the upkeep and and you know
the
figuring out how to you know stop the
leak and and and things of that sort
um let's see
we spoke a lot about the facility it
looks like still a completion date will
be in January a whole month has passed
so I'm looking at Clint he's smiling so
it looks like yeah it's still
um January they're really sort of the
hold up is in those cat cages
fabricating and those cat cages to
ensure that we have those to go ahead
and the materials and stuff and again
due to covet and supply chain issues
that continues to be a a issue I think
Clint and our project manager there is
hopeful that December that they'll be a
December date opening but still not
still not sure it's again 86 percent
completed
um at this point let me say I'm working
through my
working through my notes um Clint did
indicate that Paul Clint and
volunteer coordinator have done the
walk-throughs to talk about access and
Pathways and what that's going to look
like in that new side
um
and just sort of get acquainted about
the about the area
um
let's see
there is an issue with
um
a piece of the of the
of the area that needs to be cemented
for cleaning um purposes it was value
added out Clint please help me with that
most specifically so they're going to be
looking at that that will be an issue in
the new facility if we do not take care
of that just given the amount of water
you know to disinfect the the place that
we need to also look at that yes what's
being spoke of is the get acquainted
area sorry Clint Thacker executive
director get acquainted areas in at the
new facility the value engineered out
was a cement and it's going to be put on
crushed rock so the problem with Crest
rock is you can't you can't sterilize it
in between ducks
because it's essentially dirt it's rock
it's no solid surface
so what we did we went to The Architects
we also had a great discussion of it in
the actual meeting
where we review every other week we
review the progress of the center and
we're able to but it's right now it's
getting quotes the worry is if we just
made a flat or a slope to one side that
the water with small pieces of feces in
it would eventually Gather in in the
Rock chips that washed off the cement
and so then there'd be a smell
so then we thought well let's slope
slope it in in the middle so we have
drainage and we'll go into the sewer so
that's right now of course it's going to
add expense I raised the concern in our
Geo Bond the city meeting that we have
once a month
and was able to get that and I was told
that it will be taken care of
so we're looking getting quotes for that
so that is in the process of being
changed good good good good and then
lastly Clint you made mention of a curb
that look is pretty high it's not Ada
or from your perspective ADA Compliant
it
it feels like it's going to be a problem
and there's some discussion about
putting railing and such because of how
high that curbing is and it's going into
the
um
The Pedestrian gate yeah that's at the
current facility so they removed the the
orientation of the fence the fence used
to go north and south and now it's it's
done on a 90 degree turn now it's going
to go east and west so those
significantly High curb that's right
there we have a quote in with the
contractor right now or a requested one
for the curb or for the railing to run
12 feet down so where it's more of a
regular curb height where it's that's
about 14 inches high is where the one we
need and it's right by The Pedestrian
gate
opens up so dogs can easily pull
somebody right straight forward off that
curb
people thinking that it's a normal
height curb would be severely injured on
that so right now let's count off and
have caution tape so people won't yeah
Clint and so you said you got a quote
received a quote
process okay okay
I I would like Mr Enriquez to look and
oh he's not here somebody take notes
from Mr Enriquez please Leanne thank you
I would like for facilities to look at
that and really
um I know there's been that dialogue but
it it
I would hate for an accident to occur I
think it's easily remedied and I think
it's something that the city should
definitely be responsible for and to act
swiftly so um so Madam chair I'm sorry
not a chair um not important
Gondola sorry for remember Gondola I
want to let you know that it's it's not
a facilities issue it's actually
directly with our architect and the
contractor because it's a new project
facilities it's it's a yes we're just
waiting for the quote back and for it to
get done I believe it is safe right now
like I said there's big orange cones
yeah
so I know it sounds like it but if you
were to see it you see that it is ConEd
off sufficiently
um but you can have that it's just
temporary you can't have that forever no
you absolutely to find a a solution to
that so as soon as we get that pricing
back then we'll be able to
start conversations about where it's
going to come from very cool and then
lastly I always get a Census count and
at that point
um
484 animals that includes dogs and cats
at that point it's probably changed now
as you know as you saw the stats today
so thank you I'll turn that over to you
come cheer correct thank you board
member Canada thank you Clint any
questions from the board
all right hearing none thank you we're
good next up that's the end of the
committee reports so did you you're good
okay
um we had moved the Coalition for pets
and people presentation to now so for on
behalf of action programs for Animals
I'd invite Kathy Stark up please please
state your name and
thank you for being here this morning
good morning Kathy Stark and I'm here
today representing action programs for
animals
and it's been many years since I've
navigated this but we'll see if we can
do it
yeah
okay Bernice
no I do that all the time
there it goes call the old-fashioned way
now F5
there we go okay
and thank you chair Koran for the
invitation update everybody on the
current situation at action programs for
animals
um as some of you probably already know
we have a roofing problem
we moved in the building that we're in
at 537 North Solano approximately two
years ago I think it will be two years
in November and we
late last year started having a little
bit of leaking problem with the rough
and so we started contacting contractors
to come out and kind of assess the
problem however on October 27th
of this year with a tremendous rains we
had the ceiling came down in our large
dog room unfortunately none of the dogs
were injured but it revealed as you can
see quite a problem all the way down to
the decking
out of abundance of caution we moved all
the large dogs into boarding
and we have undertaken fundraising
multiple bids were obtained looking at
do we need to replace the entire thing
can it be repaired and as of Monday the
board selected a contractor and the
estimated cost for the roofing portion
of the work is going to be fifty five
thousand dollars
if I go by there today and they're not
working I'll be really surprised because
they were ready to just hit the ground
and let's get this done
we're awaiting mold test results all of
our large dogs are inboarding and that
cost is going to be about five thousand
dollars we did get a mold report back
yesterday and there is not you know you
look at mold and you say oh my gosh it's
black it means it's black mold and we're
all going to die
it's not toxic black mold there is mold
that can be remedied in the areas when
the contractor comes out and starts
working on the roof however we're going
to keep the large dogs out of the
facility because that work is right over
their kennel area and so there will be a
lot of dust a lot of noise and
containing any mold spores that are
there
then we've got interior damage to the 55
000 is going to cover the external roof
problem
um the the insulation and the
um sealing drywall will come after that
and we're getting bids on that this week
and the community has been absolutely
amazing in our fundraising efforts
we are currently open we've got I think
sometimes you know when you talk about
there's a roof problem and there might
be a mold problem people think that
we're not open for adoptions and we are
the animals that are in the facility
given the nature of the work that will
be done are going to be able to stay in
the facility and hopefully we can find
them homes barring any unforeseen
circumstances we've got to be very
flexible in all of this
so how people can help they can donate
to our raise the real fund on network
for good
checks can be dropped off people can
offer to foster adopt or sponsor an
animal take a dog on Doggy Day Out give
the give the dogs a break from being in
this work environment and then we remain
open Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays
11 to 3 and by appointment so anybody
who wants to come in and see some of the
animals can just call us and we'll be
happy to accommodate them
and these are just a few of the of the
dogs we've got our small dogs are
in-house
um so if anybody's looking for a small
dog we've got some great ones and then
of course our cats and our kittens we
currently have we've we've been able to
take a few cats and kittens mostly
kittens from the shelter
but not at the rate we would typically
be doing this time of year
um we have approximately 40 kittens in
foster care that now we're going to
start trying to bring them into the
facility and find them homes and we've
got some we've got some great ones we
took the in the lower left hand corner
that's bare and he has heartworm
treatment that's being done east of Las
Cruces and so they needed a transport
and so Jerry and I said sure we'll take
bear over to Alamogordo and then connect
him with his other transporter and he is
just a gem he's co-pilot in the car and
uh just gets along with everybody so
just some of the animals to keep in mind
and to make sure that everybody knows we
are still open
and if you have any questions I am happy
to try and answer them if I don't know
the answer I'll make it up
just kidding thank you Kathy I really
appreciate you sharing this presentation
and always
um keeping us in the loop and being a
really extraordinary Community member
when it comes to caring for the animals
are there any questions from the board
board member Flores please thank you
madam chair and thank you Mr Stark for
all the work you do on behalf of animals
I just have a question who owns the
building
action programs for animals oh so dude
we gotta we got a bequest from Sheila
Pickett I'm sorry you got a request
we've got to be quest which is how we
were able to purchase the building
so
um but doesn't insurance cover uh this
kind of damage to the roof I know that
um when there's severe when we had the
golf ball hail storm some years ago
that was covered by my insurance so does
it cover did you look into that yes we
did the insurance adjuster was out
and surveyed the roof we went back and
we looked at the inspection report from
the point of purchase
and that inspection report while it was
very very brief noted that the roof
needed some routine maintenance and last
year we did some patching and so the
insurance company has said no this is
normal wear and tear and you are on your
own
so this hurts I mean this is a huge hit
for us yeah it yeah well I'm sorry thank
you
thank you very much I appreciate it and
as always again thank you for your help
and if any of of my comrades feel
compelled to take out an animal to to
Foster them and mind them while they're
getting their roof worked on or donate
to apa I hope you'll consider it thank
you again Kathy
all right that's all we have for the
reports and presentation section next up
we have our one action item that was
alluded to earlier
um I believe Clint has a presentation
resolution uh 20
2022-09 which is a budget amendment for
some transfers so we're not going to go
as much as
a presentation
why does it want me to open that
uh just as just as much as a walk
through of what the resolution is
requesting
so if you have a copy of the resolution
in front of you first of all this is a
resolution authorizing an amendment to
the 2023 budget
so we need to correct the beginning fund
balance
that was that was put up originally
and then we need to transfer out of fund
of 440 and into oh and 441 of 705 000
and then transfer 21
000 from fund 744 0 to 744.1 and then
decrease revenues by forty thousand six
sixty nine and increase expenses by the
259 331 it all will make sense when I
work this out with you
so you can see the beginning balance of
the sheet exhibit a is three three
hundred one thousand six hundred and
seventy four that is the correct feeding
bounce it was incorrect when it was
rolled over from the previous year
because it included the 705 thousand
dollar access to the fund balance that
that we had
again that 705 000 was for the fixtures
and furniture and equipment for the new
center
so this resolution will correct that uh
the next correction is to zero out that
transfer of the seven hundred and five
thousand because it's already taking
place
so you'll see that in in the resolution
and that occurs
right here
you see that that it's being taken out
and then the twenty one thousand dollars
that is for what uh
board member gondra spoke of of the
ponding project what we're doing is we
as if you remember a presentation I'd
done several months ago about relocating
the retention Pond when it rains all the
water drains into this Pond the pond is
archaic meaning that there's no drainage
in it we have tadpoles which mosquitoes
which we feed on our dogs that have
heartworm and spread heartworm so we
need to we had two options either redo
the pond so it does correctly or
relocate it because of our parking
issues I opted to relocate it
we worked with the city of Las Cruces
they put it out to bid for engineers
they're going to be moving it into our
outside of our gravel parking lot area
and it'll be a longer trench instead of
one big pond but they assured me that no
issues or problems and it will be the
amount of twenty one thousand dollars
for that to be done
so they're just waiting for that money
and then they can get started on it so
you'll see that coming here you'll see
the twenty one thousand dollars being
taken out and placed into this is our
7441 which is our Capital fund you'll
see that it's being placed here into our
Capital fund
now the three hundred thousand dollars
that we're going to be accepting from
the county this is a
kind of a book A book mistake that was
occurred if you remember last month you
signed a resolution accepting that three
hundred thousand dollars well on the
exhibit it only showed 300 000 on the
revenue side it didn't show any on the
expense side so now you're seeing it on
this on the expense side
so that's covered that's clearing that
part up
and
then on the last whereas for the 40 669
again because the budget was rolled over
into 23
it included City Licensing as part of
revenues as you know we passed a
ordinance in August of last year not
doing doing away with the City Licensing
so we needed to subtract out that
revenue and also the expenditures so you
see here the 259 331 that is the
incoming amount shown on the ex that's
the incoming we already showed on the
revenue so now we're showing it on the
expenditures
but it's a 259 331 minus the 40
000 669 so we just took that out of
the expenditure side of the 300 000.
and that's why that shows the 259 331
and not the 300 000.
so that is the explanation of the
resolution
are there any questions
commissioner Sanchez I can see the look
on your face you're like what board
member Sanchez
thank you madam chair and and Mr Thacker
I think my question comes from the fact
that
um I guess in terms of the expenditures
I know you're saying that that we
accepted the money from
um and I'm just trying to I'm trying to
think over the last few months since uh
We've entered into the new fiscal year I
know at the time I just wanted to make
sure that I know we're we're making the
numbers match here as a kind of the
general gist of it but yeah
the does this match the budget the the
approved budget for the ascmv the four
point uh sorry I lost my number here but
with that additional 300 000 which puts
us at uh was that 4.4 million
is that correct
that's on the revenue sorry that's the
revenue I'm looking at Revenue sorry
about that uh
4.287 million under expenditures I was I
was told that this is what's needed to
match the budget up yes okay I just
wanted to make sure of with all the
changes and I said I just want to get
verification that this does match the
approved budget for the fiscal year
thank you
thank you board member Sanchez any other
questions
all right hearing none I would entertain
a motion on resolution 2022-09
move to a group ultimately the second
emotion it was moved by board member
Gandara and second by board member
Sanchez uh any other questions or
discussion
seeing none Becky please former Macias
yes board member Flores
yes chair Quran
yes thank you
um
up next we move into public input
uh I'll start on my right
I'm
not seeing any in the first few rows
Jerry
no
no no please come on up and
state your name for the record when you
arrive
please
good morning council members my name is
Renee Chavez
and I'm here to ask a couple of
questions I'm an advocate as you know
for the animals and the shelter and the
volunteers
I'm speaking
on behalf of the volunteers
at this point we have I do have some
questions we did meet two of our members
couldn't be here today
uh that would be Miss Haynes because she
had to uh
take a training in Dallas for her job
the other member had to work
my questions at this point
um
Mr Macias was very kind to meet with us
took time from his hectic schedule we
presented we spoke at extent extensively
he gave us the suggestion which we tried
to follow however we ran into some
pretty heavy glitches those glitches
were inaccurate information that we had
requested we had given the packets I
know that they were quite lengthy
packages and you all don't have time to
read everything but hopefully I'm here
to focus again that you take the time
and help get the answers for us so that
we can address and help and support and
move with the shelter
to resolve
and contribute more volunteers
there are 14 as far as I know okay I
don't have all the accurate information
right now but there were 14 volunteers
that could have helped Foster uh some
dogs with the situation especially with
APA we've got that I know that it's a
it's it's an overwhelming problem that's
why I'm here I'm here to try to figure
out a solution best way possible
straight let's just you know we need to
get it figured out but we didn't get all
of the information
what we did receive was incomplete
we never received I believe the girls
requested the policy manual the only
thing that we received was
um
some information I believe on 2010 and
outdated procedural manual
no contracts everything was incomplete
accurate information well you can't base
a decision it's like a multiplication
problem if you've got the incorrect
information how do you solve it
so we need to have that information
and uh
Council Karen
I believe you were in touch with Harriet
she didn't receive information I don't
know I'm just here to address the fact
that we need accurate information in
order to respond to the suggestion you
gave us so that we can work together to
figure something out because
there was a time where seven kittens I
believe got put to sleep and the Foster
was told no
which is unnecessary because the kittens
and it's happened again and again well
we'd like to see that stop it's not it's
unnecessary the medication that it takes
is inexpensive all we need
is the antibiotic we have one Foster
that's a tech uh Foster was able to We
rescued some kittens and we she was able
to save save them
and they're willing to do it so there's
no reason to put I mean I understand the
other ones that have to be vicious
I don't understand the timid ones
because you can make timid once so
there's a lot of
uh incorrect things that need to be
adjusted things that need to be
corrected and that's what we're trying
to do we're trying to move forward with
that so if you would all please
help us get this information and help us
move forward together no one is too um
should be pinpointed for
trying to help
because that's what it's about it's all
about trying to help the gentleman that
originated with this problem is still
living up with those dogs
in a place that is
not really livable but the dogs are safe
the man has no access unfortunately to
electricity or to water he has there's
an exorbitant bill but there these
Fosters that have been taken out are
continuing to take food continuing to
take water and helping this men so they
turned the whole thing and this is what
we're trying to do is just make it
workable for everybody
so um the other thing was my
understanding is that there's a list
called shutter love I think the shelter
uses it I'm not certain I was asked to
bring it up because it's got a lot of
personal information
and
whoever's able to access this
information can access
information of the people that are no
longer there so that has to be looked at
as well now if I can have
a way to approach this how can I work
with you again how can I how can we move
forward if we don't have the information
that we need how can you help me get
that accurate information how can we put
together a procedure manual you know I
would like to find a way to do that if
you want to hire a man for hire I'm
retired so I can help
but that's the point we want to take
care of these animals I know that the
city is overwhelmed with pressing
problems I realize that but these
animals have nobody to speak for them we
are we're trying we're trying and we're
not getting back what we need
so please again if you will you have my
emails if you want to write to me
individually I would welcome
conversations you know so that we can we
can move forward
um I think thank you very much that's it
thank you Miss Travis and I appreciate
your inputs
you're welcome
any other public comment
from the back up here no no public
comment hearing none
uh that's the end of public comment on
to board member and
board member comments
um I will just follow up and
even though we can't respond to public
comment really quickly I do want to say
that I will follow up with with Clinton
Bernice to try to get you additional
information as we can
um and supporting your understanding of
how these things can be addressed so
um
we I will follow up with that on a
second note I would like to
uh just give a note to
the uh firefighters Union
2362 who have produced a calendar with
the ascmv you can pre-order that
calendar all of the proceeds benefit
the ascmv and they're also going to have
a kickoff at andelay's Dog House in
November to to launch the calendar that
they produced what
I know it's super exciting so there it's
a firefighter steamy firefighter slash
dog calendar I don't know if there are
any cats represented but
um but that's that's what it looks like
and you can pre-order it they're 25 on
the iaff
website or Instagram so that's my main
comment thank you I'll start
with board member Sanchez
thank you madam chair I just did want to
say give you know thank you to I'm sorry
I mean that is I know last night we had
a uh that community meeting in Lincoln
we had some very Lively discussion about
the cats and dogs that are in the area
there so hopefully
um you know we'll start looking at it
from the county perspective and trying
to see what we can do I don't know how
that will in the end affect the asemv as
we kind of move forward but
um you know it's something we'll have to
take a look at I know they've they've
identified at least or mentioned that
there's a large
colony of cats of feral cats in that
area that's not a registered
colony from my understanding so it's
something we'll take a look at but I
really appreciated everybody coming out
and appreciated
um like I said off stardom and that is
coming and helping with some of the
initiatives that we're working on
through the County Animal Control
and so you know if there is something
that ultimately Comes Your Way Clint
hopefully will will be able to work with
you and figure out how we can
work through that so but appreciated
everyone that came out and it was a good
Lively discussion in drink one which
which was nice so but just wanted to let
everybody know that like I said we're
trying to work on this I know it's it's
we I think we'd have a lot of comments
and I hope within the city on stray
stray animals and so
um you know we start getting in the
rural areas we're seeing very similar
things so but thank you all
thank you I'll just move if that's okay
chair Karen thank you
um
Vice chair Sanchez for those comments I
think we all are seeing and uptick in
loose animals
and more specifically feral cats
um
I am
had a couple of neighborhood meetings
specific to the tree streets area
and and specific to our lift up program
and they're mentioning an increase in
loose animals as well and I've talked
with Mr peedly about doing a sort of
two-week canvassing with codes
and and animal
codes officers to address some of those
issues and mostly to provide education
to the community so I'm really looking
forward to hearing more I know Mr
pelia's work as there's a sort of like a
committee that of staff that are are
looking into this and trying to decide
what next steps are going to be and so
that's certainly on my radar as well and
then I'll I'll work to look for an email
Miss Chavez I I don't see the email
right off the bat I think you've emailed
few months ago and I don't have those
saved up and and I'm I'm asking Clint
and Bernice to look at that and to be as
accommodating if they're ipras that have
been made that that we make sure that we
get that information to you and that we
work diligently to
um you know do what we can to to to make
out the the state
um
of the animals I'm safe and and secure
and to keep from having to euthanize
those animals but I also think that I'm
challenging each of the advocate groups
it really is about responsible pet
ownership we don't see enough of that
and there sometimes we point the fingers
at each other but really what we need to
be doing is educating our community
about responsible pet ownership because
we see very a lot of irresponsibility
I'm related related to that and not
enough information out there
specifically I know some of the groups
are working on training or going to the
schools and training the Young The Young
Generation the young kids that's really
where you know we as parents are
learning a lot of that information and
so I would ask that you work with Clint
um to
um you know pres to provide that kind of
training and information be it social
media and other other avenues because I
think really until we become more
responsible pet owners
um all this these efforts are are sort
of in vain because we look at you see
the numbers month after month after
month and the center can only do so much
and you heard a whole lengthy agenda
item about a 1 12 reserve and all the
competing demands that we have that
prevent us from from doing that and so
we want to be fiscally responsible the
center can only do so much and so can
the volunteer programs so I've always
tried to say it's a shared
responsibility and we need to continue
to assert that pet owners need to be
responsible so thank you
picture
thank you for my soapbox sorry thank you
board member Gandara board member Flores
thank you madam chair well just working
off of what mayor Pro tem Gand that our
board member Gandara just said
um I think maybe we can would it be
possible Clint to coordinate something
with lcps
to maybe have presentations
um you know a volunteer group that you
can get I know I'd be willing I'm sure
people appear other board members would
be willing to go into a classroom and
talk about
responsible pet ownership
um how does that sound sound like
something we can kick around yeah
because I think it's a great idea and
that's where it begins because I know
that in other quote movements such as
climate change
um it's really working when you go in
and talk to Children about how important
it is because then they go home and say
well Mom Dad or Grandma and Grandpa you
know whoever they're with we'll say
shouldn't we you know do this or that
regarding you know climate change issues
but
um so great so that's all I that was my
only comment thank you madam chair and
thank you Clint Bernice thank you board
member Flores board member Macias
thank you madam chair I have no comments
to make
thank you sir good board member Enriquez
no comments board member Ward
all right thank you no comments uh
hearing no further comments from the
board I would entertain a motion to
adjourn
ES
it's been moved and moved by board
member Canada second by board member
Flores Becky please and thank you
former Macias
former Flores yes yes former Sanchez yes
chair Quran yes we are adjourned