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changes to agenda and approval of agenda
do the minutes and then just move the
action items
item five and then
six public input before reports
okay so okay okay so this becomes
four five and then this becomes six
okay the meeting is now called to order
903 am
that was concerned 904 a.m there was a
concern as to
uh pre-meeting um as to how we proceed
on the agenda given that uh there's a
potential for a loss of form we have a
quorum at this point but at 10 am
mr dalahan will have to bow out
and we will not have a quorum unless
other members of the
board show up uh so
the meeting has been called to order the
changes to the agenda
wait wait wait i need to make the formal
determination of quorum by calling the
role
thank you david dalan is president
commissioner manny sanchez president
uh councillor tessa beta stevie here
uh city councilor and board chair yvonne
flores
here uh we have quorum madam chair
thank you very much thank you mr dalahan
so
uh there are changes to the agenda
as follows after the
minutes we will move item
five uh the the minutes is item three
item uh five action items will be moved
up
to um to item four
um item five then becomes
public input and then
item 6 becomes reports and
presentations madam chair
if i may yeah i was going to call the
role
again because not again but and because
councillor
cassandra gandara has joined us so we
have full quorum
okay so for for the record uh we do have
full quorum
um so
should we proceed with the changes in
the
in the in the
agenda as discussed or should we leave
it as
a set forth originally
is there any input on that
madam chair this is commissioner sanchez
yes
i i would just consider just moving
forward as
with the amended agenda um just so that
if for any reason we have any technical
difficulties in any one of us that are
currently on
um you know here have any issues
uh we can get that over with okay
so um counselor mayor pro tem uh
gandara um we discussed the moving of uh
under item two changes to the agenda
uh changes are the actual just the order
not the content
um so it'll be as follows
um for your information
um
i did thank you so much apologize for
being late um but yes i heard the
the change okay great so madam chair
um if you're ready to call for the
motion and a second to those changes
then i'll call the rule yes that's i
exactly thank you mr dalahan uh do i
have a motion
uh for the approval of the changes to
the agenda
so moved commissioner sanchez so second
right we have a motion
from counselor gandera a second from
commissioner sanchez i'll call the roll
um board member beta stevie yes
board member gandra
yes uh board member sanchez
yes chair flores yes
your motion carries 4-0 okay
so um i need
has everyone had an opportunity to
review the minutes
that were sent by um by bernice navarro
yes great is there a motion to approve
this commissioner sanchez i move to the
uh to approve the minutes
from the ascmv board meeting on june
25th
of 2020. thank you second by beta stevie
thank you commissioner and counselors um
calling the role on the approval of the
june 25th ascmb board
meeting minutes uh board member aveda
steven
yes board member gandra
yes board member sanchez yes
chair flores yes your meeting minutes
are approved
thank you so moving on to uh
item four is the action item the
resolution 26
uh 2020 hyphen 16
amend the adopted fy fiscal year 21
budget allowing a carryover
for fund 7440 and
7441.
who's presenting on this
clint should be do you need a motion to
approve or
do we do that we can
after discussion we can
we can move to approve it now and then
have discussion
presentation will be the discussion
yes so is there a motion
commissioner second thank you
so discussion on this presentation mr
thacker
thank you i don't have a presentation
for it it's a simple explanation of
this is a a collection of
items that need to be carried over from
2020 into this next budget year because
they're going to be funded for this year
as well
um items such as grants and
some expense items and so forth it's
basic housekeeping duties for the fiscal
year the new fiscal year is starting
well even so mr thacker are you
referring to the memorandum
dated july 23 2020
which is the attached unaudited
financial report
is that it uh no i don't
i don't do the audited financials no
i'm sorry i don't have the information
in front of me i'm not at work i'm at
home
that's okay let me um let me scroll down
madam chair and let me share the packet
uh i'll share my screen okay okay
yeah it's the resolution 20 2016 we have
to vote on it
so we should know what we're voting on
right uh i'll
let me it's taking me a second to get
there
so let me scroll through and then i will
share my screen
uh mr thacker or mr uh dollahan is that
is that preceded by
the charts that show where the money
went and where the money
um is going
where the money go and therefore we have
the carryover
because we have all that and then we
have uh the
resolution i just want to make sure that
i look at the right stuff
i have no idea what they've done to you
it's crazy
well at least i've got that david this
is land
sorry my bad problem this is david dalon
madam chair can you see my screen
i can see the resolution yes okay so
before you use the resolution 20-116
everybody mute themselves other than me
for the time being
all right thanks i was getting a bunch
of feedback before you as a resolution
to carry over
six 45 forty six dollars for both
revenues and expenditures
from fy 20 to the operating fund
and the capital fund fund 7441
into fiscal year 2021. we're requesting
to carry over a grant
balances in in the operating fund 7440
in the amount of 44 thousand dollars
for both revenue and an expenditures
account
and then lastly the ascm is requesting
to carry over
funds in the amount of 1646. for the cat
room renovations
that were ordered in fy 20 but will not
be received until
fy 21 so we need to carry that money
forward um
that's reflected in the exhibit a and
i'll scroll down to
exhibit a 7441
is the capital fund that's uh we're
amending the budget to king
bring forward 1646 to be able to be
spent this year and then exhibit a on
the second page
is fund 7440 and then
these are all grant expenditures we're
increasing the revenue by the 44 000
of the grant amount and then 44 000
worth of expenditures on grant
authorizations
i'm assuming on the grant that we were
dealing with planning to have them spent
and they didn't happen so they need to
be carried forward to this year
with that i'll stand for any questions
but those really need to be directed
toward mr thacker
thank you david
thank you david very much for doing that
appreciate it
i was muted i'm sorry thank you david
thank you david
and mr thacker um insofar
as uh reference was made to monies
carried over
the kitten money
and and mr mr dalahan said i assume
did he assume correctly
so you say kitten money what what is
that in regards to oh well
what line was that mr uh dollahan i
i shared it on the screen it's the 1646.
okay all right so that
are that are shelves that we ordered in
uh last fiscal year
and we need that money and it hasn't
been delivered yet we just heard from
the manufacturer there's been a delay in
their manufacturing and we'll get it on
august 15th
is the new shipping date for that
so we need that money to carry over
because we're receiving it in the new
fiscal year
okay thank you very much mr becker
and um is there any other
uh are there any other questions from
the board regarding
um any item that mr um
any item on the original budget
and the amount that would go to the
amended budget
madding chair yes madam yes sir
mayor purcham
um yes we're getting some feedback again
can you
those of you not speaking um mute
yourselves
thank you um you know it's it's early in
the morning for attack
a tongue lashing i'll try to be as kind
as i can
i'm seeing some disconnect between our
finance department
budget people and our executive director
um i have felt this way the last couple
of times
i'm not sure what that's about but there
needs to be better coordination in terms
of who's going to be presenting
who's responsibility and role that is
um and um i i
i'd like to to to see more of that
coronation i'm not sure what what's
happening
but it it's concerning to me as it
relates to the financing
um clan i don't know if it's
the administration on your side that
that needs to
take the lead or whatnot but i'd like to
see more of that
um i'm sorry uh counselor
this is all this is my fault i um
i assume something else was a
presentation is going to be done and
this was supposed to be done by me um so
i
i take full responsibility we've been
working very closely with the budget
department
they have been fabulous to work with
leanne and liam
have both worked with us we got the
information together
they they actually helped us very very
much with getting this resolution
together
so the tongue lashing needs to be
pointed at me not at them
and i apologize sorry okay
um yeah i i just i want us to to be um
you know more responsible and organized
um
and and i want to be clear and feel
comfortable
and that that we know what we're doing
from the animal services center um
position and the other thing is
the second question is around the grants
now can you get be more specific about
that 40 plus thousand dollars where it's
coming from
um what happened specifically
um and where we need to be or where are
we in terms of
that that particular grant funding
i can give yeah information that i have
so david if you could could you scroll
up or down to the grants
so the grants was a mixture of several
we received
in the wake of covid um we received
money from
maddie's fund to fund some of our foster
program
we received money from a foundation
from california that didn't have
anything tied to it it just said
basically here's some money there's no
limitations on spending
and then we received some money from
best friends animal society as well to
help save lives with cats
and the reason why these need to be
carried over is because one it
we this our our fiscal year is different
than theirs and so they awarded us the
money and we need to have the money
carry over into the next year um we have
limitations
on the length of time to spend it it's a
year from when we receive the grants
so um like i said it's it's a
housekeeping thing of
needing to carry the grants over so we
have the money in this fiscal year to do
so
so clint if i'm if i'm a madam chair um
on on that middle one that you spoke of
that has a little more flexibility um
do you would you know what you're going
to be using it for
and especially during covid how are we
i'm assuming we can we we have the work
the work is there right but what sort of
plans do you have
to fulfilling the grant obligation
most of our funds is going to be going
to our medical program
uh so we can we need to get caught up
with our surgeries
um both are foster to adopt so people
who have adopted animals that are not
sterilized
and people also in our foster program
who have animals that are not sterilized
so all of those funds need to be focused
to those
and getting them done as soon as
possible we also have
medical expenses that we can purchase we
have an autoclave that we can replace
there's there's plenty of things there
that we can spend the money on
okay thank you thank you mr thacker
thank you madam
chair
thank you mayor pro temp any other
questions
comments
mr dalahan would you please call the
question
this is on resolution 2020-16
uh counselor uh board member gandera
yes um board member beta stevie
yes board member sanchez
yes chair flores yes
and your motion carries on resolution
20-20-20-1616
and madame chair i will point out that i
had admitted a few minutes ago during
the discussion
nelson goodin from the county attorney's
office and i don't know if he's
representing
janine quintero today you don't know
yes ma'am i don't know uh he may want to
speak for himself
yes mr gooding
mr griffin it looks like it's uh miss
quintetto there
oh we had to use nelson's
id because mine would not work this
morning and i was having trouble logging
in so even though it's his name it's me
okay and madame chair members of the
board
i i will update uh the name on the list
so it appears as janine catero
all right great that's done great thank
you
thank you thank you mr donahan and uh
okay so we're uh done with that was item
five
um so we are moving on to item
no that was item that was item four
and we'll move on to item five which is
public input
correct did i get that correct yes
so we're going to have public input and
i believe mr thacker said that he had
three um
emails or letters to read on behalf of
the public is that am i correct mr
thacker yes ma'am okay
proceed thank you the first
first email received says good afternoon
my name is emeline stamford and i have
been volunteering at the ascmv dog
walking attending adoption
here
clint mr thacker yes ma'am you're you're
breaking up i don't know if it's just
my reception is anybody else
experiencing uh
crackling in his presentation no he i
hear the breaking up
as well all right one moment let me put
a headset on
is that
okay i can't hear you at all
i just heard something and then you went
off can you hear us can you hear me
yeah i can hear you hold on okay i can
hear you but i can't see you
a madam chair oh
there just made your dinner right oh
there and i can't see clint oh
i what can you hear me now
is that any better yes than it is it's a
lot better thank you clint
all right let's see what i can do here
uh good afternoon my name is emmeline
stanford and i have been volunteering at
the ascmv dog walking attending adopt
error
thanks to the opportunity to provide
feedback i also am very grateful for the
workers at ascmv who continue to put
their time and energy into providing
care for those animals who desperately
need it
particularly in life
and uh very communicative and open
and helpful i would also like to thank
you for allowing us to visit the shelter
on a weekly basis to provide exercise
for the sheltered dogs
despite the quarantine status imposed on
the city
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clinton you you can't be moving
if if you're moving at all i think
that's when you cut out just oh
i know i'm sitting down not moving at
all
wow why are you just keep breaking up
crackling it's like a crackling sound
so i wonder what could be
i if you'd like to i can share my screen
and
you can somebody else may read them or
you guys
you can read them your own well whatever
you're doing right then when you said
when you made that statement that was
perfect
so just stay that way and
just move your lips because that was
perfect
all right recently i've noticed a high
number of dogs who appear to be injured
as a result of dog fighting
bleeding puncture rooms limping etc and
i'd like to know what the typical
procedure is for a volunteer who
witnesses such
injuries and is concerned about them i
have been told to alert kennel staff but
there is nothing further
i can do to help well is there anything
further i can do to help should we tell
the nearest staff members such as kennel
maintenance staff
the office staff or report directly to
the ascmp director
in some cases i have seen dogs fighting
injured in their kennel mates
and it appears they are still housed
with other dogs despite these incidents
i would like to keep these these injured
animals as much as i can
i'd like to help these injured animals
as much as i can and so would like to
know
how volunteers can better communicate
these concerns to the shelter
i know our volunteer coordinator has
invited us to write comments in a dog
walking
log of sorts would this be an
appropriate place to write comments
regarding a dog's health of injury
status
for my part i will definitely take
further advantage of this dog log in
future walking sessions and make
comments about behaviors personalities
i think is an excellent idea and hope
that this helps kennel staff and
potential adopters to build a more
accurate profile of adoptable dogs
are you still hearing me okay yes
perfect
on a few occasions i have walked large
breed dogs and videotaped or
photographed them for network purposes
and have been informed of the fact
after the fact that the dog in question
has a history of aggression towards
humans or other dogs i understand it is
probably difficult
very difficult to obtain an accurate
history of dogs
who wind up at the shelter but is there
any way to this information could be
made
readily available to volunteers and
potential adopters
some volunteers have suggested color
coding on count cards
information to indicate behavior types
and i think that is something of the
sort that would be very helpful to
anyone
working to handle shelter animals
particularly the large greens
the dog has a bite history or a history
of aggressive behavior
my acceptable volunteers would
appreciate a clear indication of that
fact on the docs count card
i would also like to know if there is
any way we can help to network and
promote
adoptable animals and move the adoption
events in which
we're being helped uh prior to the
quarantine restrictions
is there any way to schedule volunteers
for photography sessions or is there any
other way we can hold promotional events
which abide by the current restrictions
i believe these events were instrumental
in bringing potential adopters and
raising awareness in our community about
the need for fostering donating
volunteering animals
desperate animals i'm also very grateful
to all staff members who organized and
participated in these events
prior to the restrictions and invite and
invited volunteers such as myself to
participate
i would very much like to help improve
the lives of shelter animals
and appreciate any additional
information or feedback as to how
we volunteers can communicate better
with staff and more effectively
work towards that common goal i hope
that efforts myself and other volunteers
have made so far
helped in some way to improve the
quality of life for animals at the ascmv
lastly i hope everyone is staying well
and safe in these stressful and
dangerous times
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mr thacker yes ma'am
so um this letter seems like it's really
direct it's something that's
that is under your jurisdiction it seems
like
a lot of these are communication um
questions and lines of authority and
direction so um
i i think that's something for you to
address and i would also
i think that uh her her letter shows a
lot of compassion
this is miss stanford correct emily
shows a lot of compassion a lot of a lot
of devotion
to the work she's uh doing there at the
shelter as a volunteer i think
volunteers are invaluable and
so um you know we did have a report
i guess it was about a month no several
months ago
about uh certain behavior there with uh
some aggressive dogs and uh so
i would suggest or direct you to i mean
my
i think you should uh look into that has
this problem
uh the situation uh arisen before
because it's not yeah we always have uh
issues with
uh animals and dogs being counted
together there's several reasons for
them to fight with one another whether
it be
food time or um maybe a resource has
been placed in there like you know like
a kong or something
um also just a status of
dominancy so we always have
issues with dog fighting there's some
things that we have done to
mitigate that uh playing music in the
kennels
holding only having two dogs in the
kennel separating during feeding
so but every shelter i've ever been to
we've had these issues of dogs fighting
worries means that she's seeing when the
dogs fight she's seeing the same dog
still together
and we do have some options of
separating those dogs or putting them
in different places at least for feeding
and putting them back
so those are things that we will look
into
thank you mr thacker and uh thank you uh
uh emma lying stanford thank you for
your
i don't know if she's listening or she's
whatever but
um or watching but thank you very much
uh for for your work
i'm gonna offer one thing for the record
i had admitted commissioner lynn ellens
to the meeting at 9
26 a.m okay can you read the entire
list of attendees at this point also yes
ma'am
the board members present are
commissioner lynn
allen's city councilor tesla beta stewie
commission
city councilor cassandra ganda
county commissioner manny sanchez and
you chair
uh city councilor yvonne flores and
your and your ex-official members are
jeannie
quintero and myself david dale on from
the county and the city respectively
great thank you thank you mr dalham
and welcome mr allens um okay so
um does anyone else have any questions
uh
pertaining to ms stanford's letter yes
madam chair
uh yes uh councillor obitus
thank you um clint when
dogs have a history of the bite behavior
um or a volunteer see something
are they labeled is there any sort of
labeling on the dog
so that um the volunteers are aware um
of the situation and do our volunteers
get training
on what to do um should they get bits
um and then any sort of follow-up that
is necessary
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it's a great question so recently we did
change our kennel card
uh that will show that they do have a
bite history
has a bite history dude clint you're
breaking up again
did you move i told you not to me no i
haven't moved one
inch i promise stop breathing then
you're doing something
where did i get out that i need to start
over
uh you know what just start from the
beginning i'm sorry that's all right
from the very beginning thank you
thank you counselor so several weeks ago
we received this complaint this feedback
from other volunteers and so we were
able to
change our uh our kennel card that will
show
that it does have some bite or bite
history
however just because a bite or a dog
bites doesn't mean it's going to exhibit
that behavior
at the kennel so because we've told
volunteers if they're aggressive do not
or they're aggressive in the kennel
don't walk them
so we did see the need to post that
or post some history on that and some
dogs are just fine
until you get them out and then they
become aggressive
so yes they do receive training in order
to
take a a large breed dog
out for walking they need to attend a
large breed dog
walking course or training and that's
done by a professional dog
trainer and
they should they know to report
any bites or issues scratch scratches
that type of thing
to a member of the ascmv and they are
directed to a supervisor where we
fill out paperwork and get them to the
hospital or
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or doctor the wounds the best they can
according to what they desire
and then after that time is that animal
are additional notes made on that animal
that they have been
aggressive at the shelter itself yes
it's placed in the memos
i will say i do uh appreciate the idea
of having some sort of color code system
um that way it's very clearly um
recognizable for the volunteers
if an animal has been shown to be um
exhibit those aggressive behaviors while
at the shelter or
been in a concern for the volunteers
um i do think that's that seems like a
very reasonable
um suggestion and thank you madam chair
those are all of my questions for now
we did try to do we did try to do the
color coding in years past but the dogs
move around so much
and the kennel cards have to be
reprinted and
with the correct kennel number on them
that we found it very difficult for the
staff and also misinformation sometimes
got done where if they printed on
different colored paper or they use a
highlighter system
the highlighters were lost wasn't
working and so staff wouldn't
do the highlighting so we found that if
we could label or just have it on the
kennel card
some type of history printed out is much
more
effective for us to go that route but
we'll look really look into it see what
we can do
thank you mr fecker any other questions
on this letter
if not proceed to the next letter mr
thacker
you said you had three correct yes yes
madam chair
the next one is uh from
star schneider she says mr clint thacker
please address my questions at the
upcoming july 23rd 2020 ascmv board
meeting my question pertains to the 10
dollar maddie's fund grant received by
lcmv earmarked for foster animals
you mentioned this at the june 25th 2020
ascm board meeting
and on the ascmv current policy
statement released on june 26
2020 you indicate that asmv is reaching
out to local vets
and the plan is to send a list of
participating vets to the fosters
the foster can then contact a vet on the
list to make a sterilization appointment
the foster takes the animal to the vet
and picks the animal up
the vet will then send an invoice to
ascmv and the invoice will be paid out
of the grant my questions one
when will this start and when will the
list of vets be sent to fosters
two what is the protocol does the foster
need to contact the ascmv foster
coordinator to tell him or her which
animal is going to the vet
or foster with more than one animal is
there a maximum number of animals that
the foster can take to the vet
three are the vets sterilizing the
animal at a discounted rate the 10 000
grand divided by say 150 charge per
annum will only sterilize 67 animals
how is this going to be divided up
between the fosters i look forward to
hearing your responses at the board
meeting thank you sincerely foster
snyder
madam chair if you want me to address
the questions i'm more than willing to
at this time yes thank you so much
proceed
uh question number one when will the
start and will this be sent to the
fosters
we currently have only one veterinarian
that responded to
my plea of joining this program i sent
the information to the veterinarians in
the area
like i said only one responded i don't
want to say which one that is at this
time because we are negotiating amounts
and i don't want them bombarded with
questions
because the office staff probably
doesn't even know that me and the head
veterinarian who owns the practice
is talking um so that it was a concern
that only one
area veterinarian responded but that's
one more than we had before
two what is the protocol does the foster
need to contact the ascmv foster
coordinator to tell him her what's going
to the vet the answer is no not at this
time
you don't need to con or when the
program goes in effect we don't need to
know
and for fosters with more than one
animal is there a maximum number of
animals the foster can take to the vet
that's between you and the veterinarian
uh the veterinarian
will house how it's scheduled to go is
as you
contact them and say i need one
sterilization appointment or maybe i
need
five and then they fit it in if they
tell you that's too many
then that's obviously too many and you
have to scale it down
the reason why we don't need to know is
because we're going to receive a bill
from the veterinarian saying that the
sterilization is done and then we can
mark it on our
end at that time
are the vets sterilizing the animals at
a discounted rate yes they are they've
matched
they well right now the negotiation for
this one vet is to match
how much they charge for the snap
organization
um however that varies by male or female
and also varies by female by the weight
so to say how many animals it's going to
cover varies differently
vastly because of the weight of the
animal and female
any aftercare and so on
and just of note that this is a
ten thousand dollar matty's grand fund
for foster animals and that includes
foster to adopt
animals so it's not just the foster and
it's not all
for sterilization we could also use it
for anything that would benefit the
foster
program so
they could go several different ways and
break up in several chunks right now we
only have a
set to go towards the foster and foster
to adopt animals
but again we need to continue to
negotiate
and we are it's the contract is at our
attorneys right now
and we'll get that out to the foster and
foster to adopt
as soon as it's finalized
any other questions okay
uh thank you uh what was the person's
name i i didn't write it down clint the
volunteer or the foster who sent that
letter
her name is star schneider star
schneider
okay thank you miss schneider
and um proceed with number letter number
three
mr hackers this was an email received
from
valentina maze how do you spell the last
year
i'm sorry how do you spell that last
name m-a-y-z
thank you dear mr thacker and miss
navarro i'm writing you today motivated
by concerns i have for the well
animal welfare issues i've observed from
ascm
in my four months volunteering as a
foster home these are centered around
maggie's health and maggie's chances of
adoption while in foster care
i first sent an adoption application for
a wonderful dog named maggie but never
got a response
or acknowledgement from the shelter i
ended up coming in
after a month had gone by as i saw
because i saw she remained listed as the
adoptable
dogs page of the shelter website i was
then able to bring her home with me
early march as a foster and a few days
later the kovid 19 quarantine started so
all adoption events were canceled
understandably
therefore maggie never got a chance to
have exposure to potential adopters
i wasn't told she was hardware positive
when i brought her home when i found out
a week later
when the shelter spayed her i was
concerned that if she needed treatment
i'd not be able to do that for her the
shelter gave her a 30 day
gave me a 30-day supply of antibiotics
and told me to return on may 25th or
thereabouts for heartworm injections
when it was time to come back after the
30 day of meds i was told that the
shelter does not treat for heartworm
and there must be been a mistake so i
get a different answer from different
people and in this time i have written
the foster contacts
i've written the foster contacts
actually inherited twice
screenshot attached never getting
response to emails or calls
i even tried to reach out via facebook
page but all there was on the other end
was a bot reply to call the shelter so
maggie has at the point
at that point gotten no treatment no
exposure
to prospective adopters and i have a
warehouse dog who needs treatment
and get no real support from the shelter
thanks to some folks who came to our a
the shelter gave her heartworm treatment
on june 16th and sent her home with
their pre
predaton treatment to give for three
weeks after maggie had the injections i
immediately ordered heartworm prevent
prevention meds from chewy.com
they tried numerous times to reach the
vet office to approve the prescription
and not only did
no one answer calls or emails the order
got
auto cancelled twice because they had a
limited tire of tries
so i had to reorder twice i called the
shelter and asked what was necessary for
this to be approved
on your end so this dog's heartworm
treatment would not be for not
it took multiple calls between me and
the shelter and me and chewie until
someone finally did what they were
supposed to do three days before this
dog was due to take the medication
i am volunteering because i want to help
the animals but i can't help more dogs
if the shelter won't talk
to me or try to address concerns in the
end thanks to outside influence ascm v
treated her for heartworm and got her
advertised by networking her
leading to what i hope is a successful
adoption that was made yesterday
i'd like to continue to help my
fostering to help by fostering
but i am hesitant to go through the same
experience if i am on my own
if that is the case then it would be a
fair deal for your staff to be
to more accurately and inform foster
homes what they can or cannot expect
from the foster in support of finding
these animals in a good home
i hope this helps you spot the areas
that need improvement and that they are
properly addressed for the welfare and
benefit of the animals which is the sole
purpose and reason for existence of an
animal shelter sincerely valentina maze
this madam chair this is an old issue
i've been involved in it from about the
middle
when i found out and were able to get
actions taken immediately
uh when they happened the the part about
heartworm prevention meds from chile.com
that's completely new to me i didn't
know about that
issue until i read this
two days ago so i know that we've been
having
major issues with our phones where it
rings three times and then hangs up
i've been working with the city to get
that resolved and so far as i know is
resolved only two days ago
so we
so but we've had we've had that
information that we haven't found
machines
and to continue to try and call and call
on our website
and also on our facebook page so the
public was aware
of our issues and we have them i do know
i talked to
again this is the long issue and i
talked to erica and ashley
they both stated that they did
speak to this individual there was
a mixed communication on heartworm
treatment and like i said this was weeks
and weeks ago
and we were able to get that cleared up
by our
medical director and also her staff
so we are glad that maggie has a home
and was able to get out and be adopted
and we hope that holds
so uh mr thacker it seems like the um
the core of her concern was number one
um
the lack of communication and then the
inconsistency
in the information and in so far as the
meds and this and that
um but it sounds like it's all been
resolved now
yes ma'am and did you speak with miss
mays directly to
let her know to appease her concerns do
you speak to people
i just you know do you call them up and
say are you okay with this i mean
they care enough to be volunteering or
fostering
um so do you call them i'm not telling
you to call i'm just curious
uh when i speak to them or they request
me to call them i do speak to them
one-on-one for this one she never called
and asked to speak to me
um in her letter where she states that
thank you to people who intervened
i guess an individual from texas called
me
and and is a friend with hers
and i was immediately able to help her
and she even told me she was i'm not
sure what the issue is you've been
very helpful to me so i
i feel the same way if there's an issue
or problem then
it and you're not getting what you need
from the staff there
then move it up the line and talk to
somebody else so we can
find out what is going on
is i just i started asking questions
they're able to get things
resolved right yeah it sounds like it
was
um you know i i'm um i think it'd be
great
and and uh mr dalahan can uh tell me if
i'm out of
line here but um i think it'd be great
with
my fellow board members um i think it
would be great to have
like um articles there used to be when
the sun used was a bigger newspaper this
would be
just a big section on animals in the
sunday newspaper
uh it'd be great if you could just like
maybe once a month send in an
article um you know i think they have
different
different columns now i think one is
called your opinion when it's i think
called your view
i mean different things just to update
people on
the wonderful work you all do there
because i mean we're dealing with some
of the
gaps and communication and that sort of
stuff but overall
and and of course that's the purpose of
the sport is to make sure that
everything is streamlined and
running as well as it could possibly run
but it'd be great uh to um
not to be tooting your own horn but to
just let people know
that we have a very good center and that
um
you know just to update people on what
what gets done
and then address maybe some of these
issues without you know getting too much
into the weeds as to the
the you know the situation that raised
the issue
because it's been corrected but just to
let people know how it's functioning why
not that's just my two cents
thank you mr thank you mr thacker so
that was uh letter number three
so we're done madam chair
yes of course i'm sorry you know what
i'm so sorry i don't even have a
participant
i'm so sorry yes kelsey thank you um
thank you clint um i do have a question
it seemed like there was a little bit of
confusion on what the proper procedures
were for a heart uh
dog um could explain what that process
looks like and what type of care is
given
well i believe the medical director
would be better to answer that than i
would
of the proper procedures taken the
missing communication was
is that one vet tech thought we didn't
have any of the medicine and the other
vet tech knew we did
and so there was no direct communication
of
what or that we are actually offering
that service
um we would not offer that service to a
dog that's adoptable but this dog was
under fo
or that was adopted we would tell them
the dog has heart worm and we would tell
them they need to go their vet
because this medicine is so outrageously
expensive
if you remember we had a volunteer in
years past
they didn't want their name said because
they want to be anonymous but they would
foster a dog
and pay for the treatments and then
bring it back after it was done
and so but with this one we had some
older medicine
and we still we still do have a limited
supply of it
and the medical director has has
unkinked that communication
we'll say so it's more clear on what
animals we and it's also selective on
what animals we
supply it to like we wouldn't we
probably wouldn't do it to a 15 year old
dog
versus you know a one-year-old dog so
it's
it's it's all about the prioritizing
when okay so it will go by kind of a
case-by-case
basis then um
and based on availability of the product
yes ma'am and we're looking into grants
to get more of that product
so we can do for the entire shelter and
animals come up
and i would assume when possible then um
if you all know that a dog is heartworm
positive
that that is disclosed to whether it's
adopters or
fosters um before they acquire that
animal
yes thank you and thank you madam chair
and thank you counselor okay
any other comments on this uh item
if not um any other public input by
uh someone who might have received a
an email by from anyone
is uh ms gilbert on the line
is she i mean oh no she's not a
participant or is she yes
gene yes i'm i'm i'm here
oh great great king uh you sent
us someone what what
okay thank you thank you so you
sent that a letter i think to all of us
and you want to
change the order of the agenda so
um we did move up public input
i was asking if on occasion the people
who are
presenters presenting reports
could be first maybe on a rotation or on
an
occasional basis okay okay
well we'll definitely consider that um
thank you there's a presentation and so
as
and i agree with you i think that
towards the end of the meeting people
begin
to um fade away or or whatever but
um i think that accommodation is
certainly possible i i did speak with mr
dalahan
and with mr thacker and um
and i'm sorry i didn't speak with miss
navarro um
but uh based on the conversations with
uh david and with clint
it appears uh that that is definitely
uh possible just because nothing is
really set in stone the only thing of
course we have to
open with is the call to order and uh
changes to the agenda and minutes and
i think that um you can maybe do that on
ad hoc basis also if something comes up
well we can't do anything that's not on
the agenda just because otherwise it'd
be only a violation of the open meetings
act
but otherwise thank you so much for
contacting us uh
and for all you do for our community uh
gene
okay next there's um next is
uh item because we switched them all
around
where are we oh item six reports and
presentations
oh so that's different okay
okay reports and uh that would be um
it would be mary lou and gino
good morning madam chair council um i'm
officer lawrence donahan county out of
control
um i will be presenting our stats for
the month of june
okay can everybody hear me yes
okay
we have a slideshow bernice
yes let me pull that up for you real
quick thank you
right
so
can y'all see that yes
okay so for the month of june
of this year we responded to a total of
628 calls for service
of those 628 calls we had a total of 519
that came from dispatch
we had 82 self-initiated calls
and 27 assist calls and as you guys can
see
we broke it down again by district
district 1-7
and the majority of our calls being in
district two dona
district three the east main are the
west i'm sorry the east mesa
and district four um messiah park
shepard or
macia park uh mesquite
that general area um and that's been
consistent
um throughout the years for those three
districts
excuse me william what was number uh
district 2 what area is that
district 2 is going to be everything
from fort selden into dona ana
okay and then you got fairy acres as
well okay
thank you
okay all right so far animals picked up
and impounded
at the shelter for the month we had a
total of 168
of those animals we had uh we had no
uh owner surrendered cats we had seven
dogs that are owners surrendered
we had 50 stray cats 61 stray dogs
43 sick and injured animals
and three welfare holds
and we also had four bike quarantines at
the shelter as well
um so within those numbers you can see
that the majority of our
impounds were stray cats and stray dogs
of course um and we'll go over um
our rtos here in a minute um
but the next slide will just will uh
explain um
the districts that the animals are
picked up in
okay so animals picked up by district we
only had one call
in district one which is everything
north of uh fort selden
um district two we had a total of 68
animals that were picked up
we had 40 47
in district 3 41 in district four
13 animals in district five six animals
in district six
and fourteen animals in district seven
um
resulting in 190 total animals
have any questions on that
sheriff lotus this is commissioner
sanchez yes yes percy
officer lawrence i know uh going back
one slide before this there was a large
number
of of cats and i missed uh did
was there a particular reason in
district two why there were
so many cats picked up i mean it's so
far
past any you know i think all the rest
of the districts and then all the other
animals in the other districts
yeah um we don't really have a specific
say in why
um all these calls that were
um being picked up well let me get to it
um all these calls were picked up in
traps okay um
we did have an influx this month and
straight hats picked up because we had a
call come in for um
an individual that passed away and he
had some feral cats
and uh we received a call for service to
trap those cats and um
that that call was in just trick two and
i believe it resulted in um
close to 20 cats that were picked up
just by that one
um call for service um so that
so that influx right there would
probably be from that call alone
got it yeah okay
yes sir thank you officer you're welcome
okay so for real our return to owner
statistics we only so we scanned a total
of 182 animals for the month
um we were only able to successfully
return the owner 16 of those animals
and uh we had an unsuccessful attempt of
nine
so out of so as you guys can see we have
a large
a large amount of animals that didn't
have microchips that went to the shelter
um uh we have some reasoning
um obviously because of kovid situation
um
a lot of these animals aren't um being
uh
shipped at the not only at the shelter
but at the
vet clinics due to you know the
limitations of
when they can go out and and
appointments that can be made and
whatnot
and we have been seeing an
increase of microchips not being um
properly updated either by phone number
address
name and a lot of these microchips are
being
entered with no information at all
so we're looking
more into why um we're getting more
animals that aren't getting
sent home rather than to the shelter due
to the microchips
um so you know it's it's something that
we're seeing that we're having an
increase of
microchip or non-microchipped animals
or animals that are the information's
out of date
so we need to look further into that and
try to figure out
a way to get this figured out
does that make sense yes
so these will be our bike type calls for
the month
uh we had 12 exposures to humans
we had three exposure bites to other
animals
and we had uh four animals that were
current on the rabies vaccinations
of those bites so for our quarantines we
had five quarantine at the
animal service center we had one at our
courthouse facility
and we had three home quarantines due to
them being up to date on the rabies
vaccinations
and of our bike calls four of those
animals were gone on arrival meaning
that we couldn't make contact with those
animals
and uh we weren't able to ascertain if
they were updated on their vaccinations
we have any questions questions for
william lawrence
there are no questions thank you very
much mr
officer lawrence thank you okay so we
had a total of seven animals that were
only released into our custody
and the reasonings given by the owners
were six that they can no longer care
for
either they were moving they were you
know getting
old in age um just a different
variety of just uh they can no longer
take care of their animals
uh general response and we had one
owner released of animal due to
aggressive nature
believe it was with their own animals
their other animals
we had a total of 19 uh court cases
that went to court for the month of june
of those 19
cases we had a total of 33 charges
which resulted in 62 regular hours plus
five
almost five and a half hours of overtime
for those cases
we had a total of six dismissed for
compliance
we had a continuance of 18 cases
uh six bench trials two warrants were
issued for no show
and we had a one 300 cash bonds
next slide we'll discuss the the types
of charges
okay so as requested this was um
the types of charges that we submitted
um so for our general restraint
requirements we issued 12 citations
um for our rabies control and
vaccination requirements we had a total
of seven citations
or population control uh resulted in
five citations
we had four enforcement authority and
processing
um two multiple animal site permits
two animal cruelties and one for
a pet license pet licensure and owner
identification
so that's just a general breakdown of
our ordinances and what they were cited
under
okay and our spay action uh spay
and neuter action program um we're just
now barely getting started you know with
due to the covet outbreak uh so the
numbers are still down
but they're going to start going up as
long as
we're allowed to start making
appointments with the snap
um so at today's day we have 13 dogs
that were speed neutered and
two cats that were spayed and neutered
and of course like i mentioned um
we're hoping that we can continue to see
an increase in these numbers as
we're allowed they're allowed to make
appointments to to get their animals and
to get
fixed we're just uh at the mercy of
colbit at this point
and i'll be it
any questions for um
officer lawrence
i don't see any little blue hands up so
there are no questions thank you thank
you again
very much for your work and your
presentation ms ward has something for
you guys
oh okay thank you guys you guys have a
good day
thank you you too
where's miss ward she's trying to talk
but we can't hear her
oh
let me go try to help her real quick
okay okay great thank you
very much um i believe she was shaking
her head know that she didn't have any
comments
and it now looks like she's agreeing
with me
so can you hear me mary jo yes
so do you have anything to say to report
you do
but we can't hear you give me one second
okay
can you hear me
yes i can hear you
okay so just real quick
just real quick i wanted to add to
williams report in regards to the
return to owner in the field and what
we're looking at is um
we and jeannie can probably talk to you
a little bit more about it too we're
looking at a new software that we're
probably gonna
look into getting for people finder
so when the officers find a lot of times
we're finding that their microchips are
not updated
and sometimes we look for people we
can't find out who these people are
because they've moved several times
and so we're looking at some like some
of the people finder
software so if the officers are looking
for an individual
and we can't find them so possibly
a few of the the individuals here at our
department
will have access to that software and
hopefully that'll help us
find some of these individuals that
might have had these animals
microchipped or
these people that might have moved at
one point
so that's another aspect that we're
looking at later down the road
that might help us um find these
individuals to
get these animals back to their owners a
little bit better than
we're just brainstorming now and trying
to see what more we can do
to try to get them out into the field so
i just wanted to add that
out there that we're looking at other
aspects and trying to
trying to do that
okay thank you
thank you mary jo thank you very much
okay so um
gino
yes ma'am good morning good morning
also madam chair before i begin um
once officer lawrence was done with his
presentation i believe
i saw commissioner ellen's raise his
hand
if he had something i'd like to give him
that opportunity
see i don't even i didn't see him he's
not even on i hear he is no
uh commissioner ellens did you have a
question for mr lawrence
can you hear me gino yes ma'am okay so
where's mr
where's uh commissioner allen's we just
can't hear him
mr ellen can you hear us
his hand isn't raised as far as the
participants go and i don't know
okay well let's continue with you geo
and then if mr ellens wants to speak up
he can
um i think he's a is mike
mr ellens i'm having mike problems
okay there you are so did you have a
question
for mr uh lawrence officer lawrence
are you hearing me yes sir can you hear
me okay
i'll just take it up in the office it's
it'll take too long to answer the
question
okay thank you uh so
proceed um officers thank you ma'am
madam chair members of the board for
benefit of the record my name is gino
jimenez i am the animal control
supervisor for the city of las cruces
uh i will begin my presentation
can everybody see my presentation yes
very good thank you
so for the month of june 2020 we
responded to 446
reported strays of those 206 were goa
meaning the officer
did not have any contact with that
animal um
we were successful in apprehending 240
of those
of those uh 96 were dogs and 106 were
cats
we were successful in field rtoing 38
dogs or animals back to their owners
we were unsuccessful in returning 13
back to the owners and that 13 is
included in the
202 that were impounded at the shelter
at the animal service center
so that gives us a total of 51
identifiable animals
so here is our three-year comparison for
strays
of course for june
uh we have the number of 446
which we anticipate because of covid
that our numbers are going to go down
and even after this is over hopefully
it's over soon but um we hopefully we
keep these numbers
down to where they're the trend that's
going on right now
so here is our three-year comparison for
field rtos
um it's keeping within our trend at 38
for this month
uh we were at 35 for a year ago and 30
for the year before
wow we're showing a pretty good trend um
we would like you know as of course we'd
like that number to go
up that we are being able to field our
two or more animals
as we go along
here is our reasons for owner releasing
of animals
uh four by the same owner because uh he
could not
afford the uh the animals any longer
and his and the animals living
conditions were
terrible according to the officer that
responded
um three were for dogs that were left
behind
and the landlord was able to redeem or
turn those animals over to us three were
four
dogs acting aggressive towards our
family and one was for
um it was acting it was a fosterer
and that dog was acting aggressive
towards him
and three were for dogs that were sick
or injured
and or that required some sort of
medical issues
um that the owner could not afford
finally here is our reasons that we were
unable to fill rto
six were for no contact by telephone and
or at the residence um that could be a
number of reasons maybe they were at
work
they couldn't answer their phone um
whatever
whatever the reason could be six where
the microchips were not registered or
updated
and that falls in line with what officer
lawrence was saying
that is happening on the county side as
well
we're receiving the officers are
scanning these animals and they're
coming back with the microchip
information
however it may be missing the address
or the address is included
the officer goes to that address and the
animal owner no longer lives there
so we're asking people that citizens
that if they do move to please update
that microchip information
that would um definitely ease a lot or
uh lessen the number of animals going to
the animal service center
ernest yes sir um
on a previous slide you said that there
were 51
animals that were returned to their
owners
i think it's the one before that keep
yeah here we go
38 successful uh field returns not 51.
is that i'm sorry if i if i misspoke sir
i meant
51 were identifiable
thank you for correcting that for me was
that due to microscopes
either microchips or some sort of tag
that showed
that they were an owned animal could be
a rabies tag
an id tag a pet license uh
any sort of identifiables
okay thank you you're welcome okay
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go back to here
so uh keeping up um
so those six microchips that were not
registered or updated
and one was uh a dog that was abandoned
by the foster
and here is my stream app i'm going to
minimize this screen
so
and this is the stream can you all see
my map
yeah okay this is the stray map for the
month of
june 2020 um it shows the areas where we
have picked up stray animals
where we have been called to uh reported
of a stray animal
i can zoom in a little bit more into the
city and then i will do a
move it around so that can get a better
view of things
if there's a particular district that
anybody would like for me to highlight
please let me know and i'll focus in on
that one
so if there is no no questions uh madam
chair i will stand for
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questions
does the rest of the board have any um
any questions for
officer jimenez
yes sir go ahead counselor
thank you um i and thank you geno for
this i know that we are
seeing or i've seen online that there
have been
uh reports of um different types of
wildlife coming near
the area um and i don't know if you guys
uh
if some of these little dots here are
some of those calls that you've seen
again
yes ma'am uh to answer your question
these
red dots are the other animals
yeah and for example this one is a
rabbit
uh anything other than a dog or cat but
let me try to find
i believe this one is going to be a
mountain lion there's a bobcat
yes we were dispatched to a bobcat call
and we are getting a lot more of those
calls here
recently um for example
i don't know if it's the same bobcat but
we're getting a lot of calls
in this area uh in reference to
bobcat sightings however we're also
getting calls for mountain lions
um as
as the weather gets hot and water
becomes scarce up in the organs
they do come down during the summer
months to try to get into that easier
accessible water
um we've had reports of them drinking
out of swimming pools
in um right over here by
sonoma ranch so it's it's not
unusual um however
there should be precautions of course we
refer
what animal control's responsibility is
for those wildlife calls such as bobcats
and mountain lions
is we'll go out and try to spot them
and make sure that there is not a public
threat
and if we do spot them then we'll call
out new mexico game and fish
and they will come out and it'll be
their determination whether
what happens with that animal because
they are protected
and because they belong to the state
they will decide
whether to dispatch that animal or
capture it and relocate it
okay and with that in mind
are they have they decided to redispatch
like that bobcat do you know or if they
are
allowing them to just stay put and the
animal is coming back
again um because i have no idea
what their protocol is at this time um
once we
we if we don't see it all we do is
advise them that we
uh we're dispatched to wildlife call
if we do see it then it becomes their
responsibility and
at their discretion as to what they do
with it
do they communicate back um any
resolutions on those
with you i know ma'am um again it's it's
their
their jurisdiction yes um
i think it would be helpful if there is
if they've allowed an
animal to stay in the area uh if they
have that communication with you then we
can let the public know
as well that that animal is protected in
that area
um that that's been the resolution but
it might be
good then if that is the case then we
might need to give education towards
those neighborhoods that do see those
types of
occurrences with those types of animals
and you're absolutely right what i'll do
is i'll make a better effort to we have
a pretty good working relationship
with the game and fish department um and
i'll make a better effort to
follow up with them to see what they've
done with that wildlife that has been
spotted
and also um we do provide
brochures that they have provided for us
um
some of them will say um uh
for example living with large predatory
wildlife
and all it's telling you basically is
that they were here before we were
so we need to learn how to live with
them and also
precautions to take so that you're not
inviting them
into your backyards um and also
the precast uh to be aware and give game
and fish a phone call if you do see them
fantastic thank you i think that'd be
very helpful um especially if we're
seeing
more of those occurrences at this time
of year
yes ma'am and uh thank you madam chair
those are all the questions i have at
the time
and and thank you uh counselor and thank
you
uh commissioner for taking that i had a
emergency call
um so gino i do thank you gino i have a
question
yes just as a follow-up to what um and
thank you for your questions uh
counselor betastubie
because i'm very concerned about
wildlife i'm very concerned
about um you know like the the ones that
you
that you mentioned are um within the
city limits
um so what happens um you say that you
just
and thank you for telling people that we
have to learn to live with them
what makes me really sad is when i when
i first moved here in 2005
or bought the house here in 2005 um
we we had bobcats in our backyard and
they
you know they would come in at night and
my mother
always had water out for the bird so
they would come out
of course the cats would come but you
know um
and then the coyotes you know they were
around and they never never never
um interrupted uh our daily activity in
any way so thank you for letting people
know
and i you know after a while it was like
just get rid of the water and stop
coming around
um but what happens um beyond that
i mean i you know i um
have to really watch my words here but
um
well the county you know i'll bite the
bullet here
the um the county does have wildlife
services uh
a contract with that um that corporation
it's a national corporation
and of course it's for the county but of
course
our wildlife don't know county line city
lines or jurisdictions
um do you uh by any chance
provide a telephone number for people or
you
just tell them you know what called what
is it did you say
was it wildlife and game is that a state
agency or is that the one that the
county hires to uh annihilate animals
really nearly madame chair we share that
same contract with the usda wildlife
services
oh okay so we we share that same
contract with them or mou i should say
um i have been on a few calls i think
i've mentioned this
a few months ago where a um this has
been a long time when i was still out in
the field
a pack of coyotes threatened and
actually went after
a pedestrian as she was walking her
small dog on a leash
and this was up on the north sonoma
ranch area
before it was developed as it is now um
and a pack of coyotes came and attacked
her
and actually tried to grab her small dog
as she put it in her arms
she immediately called us i was
dispatched out there
i was able to spot the dogs or the
coyotes
and i kept an eye on them and meanwhile
the usda wildlife services was
dispatched
to assist me now this became their
protocol or their
jurisdiction and they chose to dispatch
those animals i'm sorry
do you know what what do you mean by
dispatch kills
but they were able to kill those that
pack of animals and uh move along
because
they had shown that they had now become
aggressive towards the public
and it's rare that they do that that is
because i've walked my dog
and there were three i was on mission
you know near a golf club
and i was uh going towards the park
there desert trails
and it was about 5 30 6 o'clock in the
morning
and there were three coyotes you know
heading uh west
on on mission with my dog when they saw
us they just ran the other way they were
scared
i mean scared you know like the dickens
so
i'm really sorry to hear that woman had
that incident but um
and then the desert trails community
park uh has
coyotes and when and a lot of us walk
our dogs there
and they just could do when they see us
so
whose computer's like yes ma'am and
mayor
i'm sorry yes i'm the mayor now you can
call me
to the both of you so sorry i know
somebody has their new yeah can someone
knew
because we're not we're getting a lot of
background please
you're yeah madam chair it looks like mr
guzman has his uh
it's on he's not on mute it looks like
they believe that's where the line may
be coming or the word oops sorry
sorry was that you adrian yeah
okay got it okay i was just concerned
about
um in asking you these questions gino um
about our practices here with wildlife
and um you know i i agree with you
a hundred percent it's like we're
encroaching and
uh we have to learn how to live with our
wildlife so
thank you for taking conservative
measures and uh
and sharing that information with us any
other questions for gino
and i'm sure commissioner allen's had uh
he was raising his hand um on his video
earlier
oh uh commissioner allen's your hand
isn't up anymore
you still want to say something
commissioner allen's okay
any other questions his hand isn't up
and he's not responding so
um
let's move on what is our next item
uh
okay those are the aco shelter stats and
activities by mr thacker
yes ma'am uh
here we go as soon as geno unshares the
screen ah there we go
i'll be able to start mine can you hear
me okay
yes i i can okay yes we can
yeah thank you
so
thank you madam chair so the ascmu
director's report
for the numbers in june now the current
animal count at the animal service
center
is 185 dogs 122 cats for a total of 307.
now we've seen that number go up
slightly
uh since june remember last last month
it was a little bit lower
but we it continues to trick up just a
little bit and that's because of the
busy time of year we knew it was going
to be an uptick
animal control on both sides county and
cities
are doing a good job of
watching the impounds they're bringing
in and we appreciate that greatly
again the reason why we want to limit
those impounds is my staff is split up
into two teams a team and a b
team and they do not intermix they're
too separate
and the reason for that is if somebody
comes down with kovid
then that team will have to shut down
and quarantine because they've worked
with that individual
so if team a has to shut down then team
b
can come on and clean the shelter until
that quarantine period is over
for that so we want to keep those
numbers as slow as possible so
in the event that happens it's
manageable for that one team
to take care of
intake versus 2020 or 2019
as you can see where it's half of what
we were
coming in 286 dogs and 259 cats
for the intake for june versus that
total of 1044 for 2019.
we had zero returns for dogs and cats in
the month of june
and those are adopted animals that
people didn't want
and brought back so that's good
now outcomes i think we need to switch
this to more of a percentage
than we we do just hard numbers because
it looks like things aren't going well
but i'd like to know the percentage of
what the intake of adoptions reclaims
and rescues are because i think
you'll see that we are still doing a
very good job especially when you
compare it to
2019 it looks like like wow 181
adoptions but only 72
well our intake was half of that for
2020.
so i think um we are going to switch
that to percentages
so you can see going down rescue numbers
are looking fabulous thank you very much
to
our local and our regional rescues that
are taking our animals
uh we couldn't do doing this without you
and 81.5
any 81.4 live release rate
for those that are watching the live
release rate is the percentage of
animals that left
the center alive 81 of the animals that
came into the center
left alive
wow our total visitors in june was 549.
again you compare that to the 1850 in
2019 you're like wow that's a big
difference
but when you consider we're doing
appointments only so that's 549 people
that actually
contacted us made appointments came in
and we're also only counting one person
whereas in last year we were counting
everybody that was in the party
and sometimes we would have seven eight
nine people in the lobby and now we only
have a maximum of two
at one time so we're continuing to make
great strides during this coveted time
for that
and that concludes my presentation
anything else
thank you uh mr thacker does anyone have
any questions for clint
okay no questions let's move on to the
next item
which is uh committee reports uh
finance uh committee chair is uh david
dalahan
uh is there anyone else on that
committee that might be reporting for
him
um madam chair this is the council
yes um
you're on mute counselor thank you i
think thank you
sorry okay um
thank you i was also in
attendance to our finance meeting
um i do not have uh exactly what
mr dollahan was wanting to present but
um one of the items uh
we did talk about are grants accepted
and
um there were three items that did need
attention
during that time um in our reports
um there was a question
of assets and logging on
proper there were three assets
uh line item 6404
6449 and 64.50
and it was pictures of assets and
needing to find out
more details on those and
we can turn over i think if amador is
here
there were a few other questions at the
time during our finance committee
and i believe they've been addressed
with staff
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madam care members of the board my name
is amador espinosa i am
one of the accounts from the city of las
cruces to answer the um
counselor some question regarding the
assets
um we raised the question because
the building actually belongs to the
city of las cruces and so we had
uh building improvements on the animal
services um
um general ledger so i just asked the
question
should they belong there or should we
transfer those assets
to the city and so the response is
more than likely um we're going to
transfer them over to
to the city the book value of the assets
in total of the three assets in total i
believe are is like 16 000
remaining life of those building
improvements
so it won't be a significant you know
decrease of your assets from animal
services
um when we transfer over those um
those online items to the city of to the
city of las cruces
so moving moving along can anyone see my
the the the board uh the powerpoint
presentation on the screen
amador we can see it but it's the
we think we need to see your other
monitor all right let me see if i can do
this here
he always had difficulty with this hold
on give me
there that's better yeah
yeah but that that doesn't actually have
the um the power
slide running but i'll just run it that
way just uh for type constraints
looking at your financial statements
which is page number one
um that's the statement of net position
um which is also called the the balance
sheet
the general fund your cash balance is
000 your receivables is that four
thousand
your uh total liabilities is at sixty
nine thousand
uh six thousand six hundred is due to um
to vendors
and sixty one thousand is due for
compensated
absences and i do apologize for the uh
for the typo i had 6400 at the time
uh revenues collected in advance again
we had we discussed
um the grants that
the governing board approved 25 000 of
that is for the um
carol petrie foundation 10 000 is for
the uh maddie's covet pet care stimulus
and 9 000 is for the best friends animal
society cat
life so we receive that money in advance
we haven't spent it so we defer the
revenue
until fy 21 once once uh money
once the grants start getting uh spent
then we'll recognize
the revenue on fy21 for the unassigned
balance for the general fund
uh it is a hundred and eighty one
thousand
for the capital projects funds you have
a restricted balance of thirty one
thousand five hundred and sixty five
originally we had thirty six hundred uh
specifically
restricted for the um the current
donation
but uh right on friday when i was
working with um
bernice and also working with omb um
they asked me to transfer 28 000 from
the general fund
to the capital projects fund your
book value for your capital assets your
total book value for your capital assets
is 255
000.
moving on to page number two
what's that um i live close to the uh
international airport and so that was
just an actual fighter jet
making uh making a round so sorry about
that
so your channel you can't help that
amador right
right nice
how do you sleep at night that's leaning
in so
so looking at your change in that
position
um across all funds you have total
revenues for the general fund
at two million and sixty-five thousand
and then total expenditures
at two million six hundred and fifty six
thousand
we transferred a total of a hundred and
six thousand
from the general fund to the capital
projects fund and that will leave
a net change in your fund balance of
three thousand three hundred and forty
two
again your capital projects funds
there's been no change um
all that activity happened in july we
were trying to finish up
and spend the remaining uh 77 000
dollar grant that the center had
received the revenues are at 13 000
and total expenditures are at 48 000
and then right below you see the
transfer coming in of a hundred and five
thousand
so with that transfer coming in your net
change to your
fund balance is seventy thousand
capital projects or i'm sorry capital
assets funds um
your depreciation your year-to-date
depreciation is forty five thousand
so your budget to actual schedule and
we're just concentrating
specifically for the general fund your
budget parameter is 100
total revenues is at 95 percent and
total expenditures is at 92.3
so as far as your expenditures are
concerned they will be low
um budget parameter
so in on your financial packets you have
page number four and that is your um
the center's monthly trend so what that
trend does is it takes your year today
and it itemizes it your revenues that
expenditures
by month uh and then what this graph
does uh it basically takes your data
points
your monthly total revenues and and
lots of months you this way in your
graph so all of your um
data points that are in green olive
green that represents your revenue and
all your data points in red represents
your your
total expenditures
your pie chart percentage of total
expenditures um
basically that just represents us 75
77 percent of your 2 000 i'm sorry 202
million six hundred fifty six
thousand um were spent in personnel
ten percent uh towards supplies and
seven percent towards
um i'm sorry ten percent toward services
and seven percent towards supplies
and of course this is the pet of the
week and seal and i will stand for any
questions
any questions for mr espinosa for amador
yes madam chair oh
yes councilor beta stewie yes thank you
amador
um during our meeting we also
had an issue um with a
project code seven four four one and it
was for
twenty eight thousand dollars and um
if there seemed to be some confusion on
what that money
was um going to be for
and they had looked up the justification
sheets
um but i didn't know if we could expand
upon that resolution that was found out
with that item
uh madam chair um counselor um
there was a transfer that was approved
at the beginning of the budget
uh to transfer 28 000 to from
the general fund 7440 to 74.41
as far as the details i would defer that
to you
to budget okay
william blanchard budget analyst
and the 28 000 in the justification was
for medical
for a medical wing improvement
and i've spoken with clint he's not
we're not quite sure why it was budgeted
he can't remember any project
but we're going to be bringing a a
another carryover
to carry that 28 thousand dollars over
in the capital account
so he's going to have some
money in theirs that he can use for
other capital projects
we believe it was probably budgeted in
two different line items one of them in
error one of them
was used but we have the transfer
budgeted so we're going to make use of
those funds
anyways
i'm sorry does anybody have a
counselor beta stewie did you have
something else to say
i'll defer to you right now madam chair
oh thank you well i just want to know
um well first of all mr espinoza it says
that this is an audited so
what exactly does that mean and this
money that's going
here and there and that's always been
somewhat of a concern of mine
do largely in part because i'm not an
accountant
and so i don't really know how money
moves
around but when i see money uh for
example and with all due respect to mr
becker
um there's just 28 thousand dollars and
and
i can't recall what it was so now mr
blanchard says so now we're going to
move it
somewhere else or do something else with
it and then the this
this thing that says in parenthesis on
audited
um all of that really frankly scares me
what does that all mean and and
where do where do we go from here to
make sure that
um we don't know exactly where this
money
why it was earmarked for something or it
didn't happen or can't recall
how do we rectify that situation or how
is it
how is it explained and how do we
rectify that
um madam chair thank you for your
question so
normally throughout throughout the
months we label
um our financial statements as unaudited
and that's only because
it hasn't been reviewed by an auditing
firm an independent auditing firm
and that's something as you know we're
at 6 30 we have uh the board has
approved
um to contract um
an auditing firm that that will be
reviewing all of the
transactions or pulling samples of those
transactions to make sure that
that that the balances are fairly stated
without any type of
material statement so without the
accounting
verbiage or or terminology it just means
that it hasn't been reviewed
by an independent auditing firm or
accounting firm
so if when they look at this and they
said see this twenty
thousand dollars that's been moved from
one
column to another or one fund to another
what do they do with that do they ask
you do they ask william do they
ask clint um do they come to the board i
mean
you know what where where do we
you know how does this all play out
uh yes my good question so what happens
is is is part of the auditing process
is that they will review they will
review some of what they call
the supporting documentation or the
source documents
so they ask okay we see that you
for the entire physical period you
transferred a total of 105
000 from the general fund
to your capital projects funds
it will they will ask for the support
it will ask you know is there an invoice
that supports that
or on the menace that the governing
board
approves of that movement of money from
one fund
to the other fund
so so in essence when you're when you're
thinking about auditing
is that they're auditing legal documents
whether it's
invoices that you're invoicing out to
say for example the city of sullivan
park or the
you know hatch or invoices that vendors
are billing
us for payment or
resolutions that have been approved by
the governing board that gives gives us
the authority
to move that money from one fund to
another fund
and so since throughout the period or
throughout the months we haven't
been reviewed by the independent
auditing firm
um the financial statements that we
present to you are
an audit i see so that means that
when we like the resolution we just
passed uh just earlier this morning
um that would be enough to support
the auditing process they won't go
further than to see
if there was any shenanigans there for
lack of a better word i mean call of
spade spade
you know it's just that we're dealing
with other issues right now and
i mean not in the city but another board
i sit on
um and all of this is coming to surface
it's like so where exactly did this
money come from
and why was this resolution passed or
how was it passed
which means that we have to be fully
informed at every
at every uh turn i mean it just at every
juncture
so yes i'm a good question and again you
know you know that
as far as your budget um the budget
that's presented to you and that is
approved by the governing board
and that resolution that's presented to
you once that's presented to you that's
a legal document
no so the auditors so the auditors when
they come in and they audit
will actually assign a staff accountant
and they will they will have them review
the board minutes
so they will review the board minutes
and then we'll look at the resolutions
and then we'll make a listing of all
board approved resolutions
and as they're auditing your financial
statements they're looking
at at you know where these transactions
especially transactions that are
material
or human rights uh if they've been
approved
by the governing board okay so then
it's it's really incumbent upon us to
really ask a lot of questions that
may be a little um
well because i'm not an accountant i i
ask
questions and so um that would all be on
the record
insofar as how we based our decision
based on the information provided to us
and then if there's anything that
doesn't quite jive there
does the accounting firm then look any
further than that
maybe to the the party presenting
um yes ma'am so so that is a good point
to make
so so uh so it starts with your
with your approved budget what's your
way with your what
and it allows and you're basically
allowing um
your director to spend that money any
any significant increases to the budget
have to present it and they have to
justify it and they have to tell you and
after
that's why they um you know and william
feel free to step in if you like
um that's why they the the budget
department omb provides budget summaries
so if there's an increase or there's a
transfer of a budget from one place to
another place
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they give you the budget summary and
they give you all the support
of why they're asking you to allow them
remove that money and also to spend that
money
okay and so many concerns that you might
have
that's part of you know you know you
have your engagement letter it tells you
what's
the responsibility of management which
is you all
the governing board and what is the
responsibility of the auditor
and how they audit it you know they
audit according to governing uh
auditing standards then if there's any
concerns
that you might have then you can talk to
your auditor
and you can say well you know on top of
what
you're supposed to want it have other
areas of concern
and then you can ask them to look into
those areas
look into those areas and they can pull
all the support
where does everything that's legal it's
legal what what the audit
is legal it's no longer fully supported
fully supported documented yes yes chair
thank you um miss uh
is that you trying to get in yeah yes it
is madam chair how did i know
well it's the laugh
it's the laugh good morning madam chair
um and also counselor stevie i want to
address the 28 thousand dollars um
it did come up in the finance meeting
and actually afterwards
um started doing some digging uh
originally the twenty eight thousand
dollars as mr blanchard
mentioned just a few minutes ago this 28
was actually originally budgeted at the
original
budget for fy 20 by the animal service
center
and was adopted by the board it's a
transfer actually from your operating
to your capital of in the middle
of the fiscal year there was another
resolution that was taken to the board
to increase that transfer by i want to
say 77 000
so the total transfer for the year if
you look at the records
i want to say and i apologize i don't
have any numbers directly in front of me
but it was around 105 000
what happened was uh was the 77
000 was transferred by
uh finance into you know out of your
operating
into the capital
and but unfortunately the 28 thousand
dollars
was never transferred over even though
it was
budgeted so what what amador was
bringing up was was that they are going
to make that transfer
uh there is enough um funds
in your in the balance to to
continue that transfer so one of the
things that i talked with um with mr
thatcher and also with um mr dalahan was
that
if if there is a need an fy 21
to do some capital improvements
or to make any capital you know changes
to the bill
you know to the current building that
they have
he would have some funds available in
the capital account
to make those um to make those
adjustments or to not adjustments but to
make those
um what am i trying to say to to pay for
services if they need to fix
the building or anything else that needs
to be capitalized
um better that by the end of the fiscal
year
that that 28 000 gets transferred over
and
just like i told mr thatcher that uh he
has a nice you know
a little bit probably due to covet he
has he has a good
uh ending balance for the operating and
he also
now has a good beginning balance for fy
21. we will however
since we did not budget that in his
fiscal year 21 budget
we will at the next board meeting bree
bringing a resolution
to bring that budget in not the money
the
budget in so that way mr thatcher can
use it
now also wanting to maybe answer
um the board chairs um
concerns about where the money you know
moving the money around
think of this as your bank account
counselor floors
uh think of your own personal bank
you've got a bank balance
so to get at the end of a fiscal year
let's say you know you've got a nice
little balance there
well if you um you know personally we
don't actually you know like have a
program
where we budget but here we have you
know because we're government funded
unless we have permission which the
budget is permission
to spend that money you can't spend it
you can't use it so pretty much what the
budget does is
it allows you to have the capacity to
spend that money
to to make to make purchases
to buy things uh to buy dog food in this
case okay
so uh without budget you know the animal
service center is not able to purchase
things
so at the that's why we budget at the
beginning of each new fiscal year
sometimes if we have some expenses that
maybe
just in this case like the cat the cat
cages or whatever
did not come in we have to carry though
over the expenses and we have to carry
over the budget
so that way they can pay for it when
that item comes in
so hopefully that answers your questions
but just you know sometimes to take it
down to like thinking of your own
personal
you know bank account
yes and you've made that very clear um
and i've always said you know
simpleton here when it comes to the
professional aspects of
budgeting but it's like uh you know you
have
x amount of money there's x amount of
money that has to be spent on certain
things like utilities
and food and mortgages or insurance
and car payments and then you just don't
spend and anything that's over you just
put it into savings and then
you know that encourages to save any
even more money
but that's just from a very you know
household type of financing
and i've never been in debt so
um but this this concerns me um
because as a board um
and uh and it isn't again i have to make
it very clear it's
it's not to cast any doubt on anyone
personally
i i just take at this uh
role uh as being supremely uh
one that i watch over i mean i it's of
supreme
uh importance and um and being
really the fiduciary i mean in some ways
we're the fiduciary agents here
so you know we have the fiduciary duty
so
um so that's why i ask all these
questions i just want to make sure that
heaven forbid um you know something just
doesn't
you know pass by us that's all
um no these are really great questions
and some
sometimes you know um it it can be
confusing
even you know sometimes i have to go
back and
and look at something and as well so no
these are really great questions i also
want to let you know
uh because um the city is the fiscal
agent
for the animal service center all of the
resolutions that you as a board
pass budget
we put in the uh the bars
you know to move this you know to
transfer money and to give them budget
but all of these resolutions we can't do
that we can't put this into our immune
system without that resolution
that resolution is actually attached in
munis as well
and we even have to send all of those
resolutions that you pass for budget
adjustments
we send all of those resolutions to the
department
finance administration with the state as
well
so i do want you to know that we do
document everything and that we do send
it to dfa as well
okay great well thank you so much mr
moosh it's always your
it's just enlightening and edifying so
thank you very much
and thank you uh mr emma door um
councilor betastubie do you have another
question
i do follow-up work um there's only one
other follow-up i'd like to have
from our um finance report and that was
regarding we still had it looked like
three um payments
to follow through on um at the center uh
one was for
centurylink and for about 550 dollars
um south solid waste authority for about
and for the rental of the pods for 600
and i'd just like to check in to see if
those have been paid yet
madam chair and major gentlemen on the
board um as far as accounting firm
and fy 20 i worked with uh bernice on
friday
to make sure they got recorded in fy
fy20 and they're reflected in the fy 20
uh financial
statements uh as far as being paid i
believe um
um bernice was preparing the request for
checks
to be paid in fy 21. so we
we posted the accrual and then
and then the payment will be paid in fy
21.
okay and this is bernice navarro
and um yes uh the ones for the request
of checks
those were finally able to be entered
i was having some serious computer
issues we had to get the company into
assist we got them fixed so those were
entered
and as far as the pods we have been
working with that vendor and getting
that all
completed so that should be taken care
of here
um this week also okay
thank you and thank you madam chair
you're very welcome counselor and um
well are we done with uh the finance uh
counselor of ada scooby are you done
with a
finance report i am
very thank you thank you very much um
the next is the executive uh and the
executive committee which is comprised
of mr sanchez
uh mr allen's um and clint and i
uh did not meet i did call and speak
with uh i believe i spoke
i definitely spoke with mr thacker and i
believe i spoke with mr sanchez and i
couldn't reach mr allen's
um and um we really didn't we didn't
meet
we didn't feel that there was anything
to meet about and so there's nothing to
report
next is facilities and the committee
chair is
um cassandra mayor protem cassandra
gandara
do you have anything to report madame
thank you chair thank you um we did
meet and we meet the first thursday of
every month
um clinton i spoke
related to the facility got an update
about the hvac and where
they were at what they were doing
um and things are moving along in hopes
um i hope clint um for an
august um completion did i get that
correct
trying to do this from off the top of my
head sorry yes ma'am we're on
support for the end of july completion
date yes yeah
so i was really excited about about that
um and finally um as promised we
and clint gave me a tour of the facility
and at that point
that early in the morning um the you
know
staff was out cleaning making sure
things were in top condition i saw
some mamas with puppies um
and and things looked good um staff
looked
um i was happy to see people and i think
clint was happy to see people so
um i i think that we talked a little bit
about
um you know stuff getting antsy being
remote
um kind of what what
steps might be put in place to meet a
little more frequently
but that that really is it nothing
nothing
a major to report other than that we do
consistently meet we have the tour
um i don't know clint do you have
anything else to share
the only thing i have to share is we
have 90
drawings completed for the new animal
center that's being built right next to
the
existing center uh we gave feedback on
those
i had great conversation with gino and
mary lou
about the sally port and officers how
they're going to access that
we're able to work through those
concerns gave feedback
to the architects and they took it
and we're going to make a little slight
changes
and we're excited it's all moving
forward fairly quickly
thank you clint that's it madam chair
any i stand for any questions
any questions for um mayor pro tem
gandara or for mr thacker
about facilities clint good
clint i have a question for you you
mentioned facilities
um how how um how are we coming along
with our new facility
on valley or wait a minute
no no the new i'm sorry i'm confusing it
okay how is our new facility coming
along
is are we on schedule
our new our new center yes
yeah things are going really well like i
said they completed the ninety percent
they turned in the ninety percent of
that
drawings yeah and so we're right on
track hopefully by october november-ish
we'll have some bids out
and we can uh get that process settled
and done
so yeah because we have to get all that
done
pursuant to the go bond right i mean we
have
uh we have to comply with certain
timelines
so the completion date for the center is
december 2021
and and it's on schedule yes yes ma'am
how about the artwork because i know
that there was a public art uh
money i think it was one percent was
allocated for public art
and the city art board hasn't been able
to meet
because it's been
difficult to get everybody together i
think
and so i know that the quality of life
department right now is working on
trying to get it
so that the cab the uh
city art board can meet and then the
current uh
chair uh resigned um and so they're
you know trying to reorganize in that
regard but
um so have you heard anything about the
um
public art or have they
it's been in discussion about the one
percent we know and we're all aware of
it
and we will be having that in there um
as far as
when and where it has not been discussed
i know that tony well i know in our
discussions we've we've talked and
we're aware that the one percent needs
to happen and what the one percent
pertains to
right um but tony i think it's trevano
or trevino would be able to travino
yeah be able to answer that better okay
architects know about it yeah okay i
just wanted to make sure that you were
in the loop too though
i mean you know you're the director but
um
kovid's really thrown a wrench into
everything in terms of communication not
you know just getting together and stuff
so great thank you so much um
so um we
have uh chair and board comments
um and i don't i can
thank you doesn't that coalition's
report come now
i'm sorry
yes i'm sorry yes absolutely gene i i
it's so tiny on my agenda for some
reason
i know because i've written all around
it yes gene please proceed
okay thank you and i want to thank
clint and bernice for having me here at
the ascmv to
use a workstation here excuse me a
minute
here is the list of animal organizations
that will be represented in this
july report by the coalition for pets
and people
and groups that aren't represented or
aren't
here will be in next month's report
turn please
here is some of the work of the
coalition for june and july
rick is the chair and he and i hold um
meetings a couple times a month and
we've been involved with the task force
we continue to maintain our facebook
page and we do
outreach and we do email
distribution work and we're part of the
pet
pet network thank you
next slide please this is i'm almost
home and they're home based in el paso
and they but they do serve animals here
in the las cruces
community and and south valley and halo
was found dumped off the interstate
between
las cruces and el paso and she was
dragging her back legs
and nearly starving she'd been shot
several times with a pellet gun but
fortunately she was rescued
by i'm almost home which is diane avery
is the um director of the organization
and after a few months this dog has
really made
remarkable progress in fact she doesn't
need to use her will card now and
she's in water therapy so this is a
really wonderful success story about
this
this precious little dog
and okay next
the las cruces dog park um
were among many residents helping
animals that were scared by the
explosions of fireworks
during the 4th of july and animals that
escaped their homes or got out of their
yards
citizens and the pet network reported
many lost and found pets that were
affected
by the fireworks and this seemed to go
on for about a week's
week's time please next slide
here you see a picture of a city worker
who's watering down the
dog park the dog park is located at
4 30 north hermasa south of marshad
center and the park we opened in june
kevin armstrong is the president of the
dog park
and he reports that social distancing
has been easy to do
uh there at the park and here as i noted
a parks and recreation worker where the
water tank is spraying down the park
and this is something that they'll be
doing a couple times a month
as well as power washing the posts
cements and boulders
at the park and in the meantime
members of the dog park volunteer to do
the maintenance between the times that
the
city parks and rec comes
the las cruces pet network has been in
existence
for several years and randy myers is the
primary person who sends email notices
to a large distribution list
and this is about lost and found
animals and those that need re-homing
like these two cats
and this is an example of a work between
an agency and animal organizations
because
mary lou ward reported these two cats
person wanting to uh surrender them and
so mary lou came
to the pet network and it's my
understanding that these two cats have
been placed with
action programs for animals
next slide please forever homes
animal rescue is home based in
alamogordo and they assist
animals in southern new mexico
jamie jones is the las cruces rep
and forever homes has transported 40
they transported 41 animals in june
and they went to rescues in new mexico
arizona texas
colorado and other states the shepherd
puppy
uh pictured here in the duck are both
animals from our shelter
that were held by forever homes
okay next slide thank you safe haven
animal sanctuary has had several
adoptions this summer
including the adoption of little henry
higgins pictured here
uh safe haven opened their thrift store
uh
may 20th and with a change in hours
in our supposed europe
um they set up their store
with the uh with covet guidelines as you
can
buy the picture and they're limited to
uh shoppers at a time in in the store
for a social distance
okay in the next slide please
bay neuter action program didn't have a
report for us this time that
um uh and they are closed um
their offices are closed right now but
callers can
people can call their office and they
will respond to the voicemails
and then they will set up phone
interviews uh talking to
uh clients who are interested in getting
their guests
that did submit a comprehensive report
to the dona ana county government as it
related to
their contract and uh they'll share
their voucher numbers uh you know in a
future
um i'll have those numbers for you at a
future
meeting next slide please
and this is uncaged pause here you see
denise fire with ranger
and um they 17 dogs from
las cruces uh were include
yeah including the two puppies pictured
here
affiliated with uncaged paws were on the
june 20th dog dog is my co-pilot
uh flight which flew out of el paso
and uh those and the animals went to
rescues
in portland or in in oregon
a total of 64 dogs are on the board of
that
june 20th flight and the majority of
them were from
el paso and kate paz
continues to participate as a partner
and dog is
is my colleague dog is my co-pilot their
flights are on ongoing and their
uh uncaged paws services also include
foster and adoption and transport and
networking for animals and they
are working they have made a lot of
efforts into their bark
house which is to establish a spay
neuter microchip and vaccination hub
here in las cruces
okay next slide please
this is uncaged paws again last sunday
they flew
um dog is my co-pilot flew
out 75 dogs from el paso
and they went on flights to rescues in
oregon idaho and utah the majority were
from the el paso services center and el
paso
area rescues and some of them were from
las cruces uh through uncaged paws
pictured here you see uh the founder of
dog is my co-pilot which
who is peter work pictured in right
and uh on the left is pilot carter who
also flies with dog as my co-pilot and
he's
down here loading loading a dog
okay next slide please this is about
summer heat
and it requires us to keep our pets at
home
where they have air conditioning and and
when outdoors they need to have ample
shade
and continuous access to clean water
and as you'll note here by this chart i
thought this was something that
is important information for all of us
to see how fast
the temperature in the cars can go up
if a dog is uh taken in a car
and so we strongly encourage that all
animals stay home
and out of the summer heat
in the next slide please
there are many animals in need of
fosters and this
is certainly a good time for families
and individuals who are working from
home
and are homeschooling to consider being
a
foster for our animal shelter uh
any for pets here at our animal shelter
and for area rescues coalition
certainly encourages this and if you
can't foster
please consider volunteering in other
ways and
there are suggested ways here with a
couple of
observances that are coming up with uh
national um
in helping um
excuse me by donating food
you could donate food to action programs
for animals or really to any of our area
rescues
or by donating money also to an area
rescue
my i'm not getting okay that's the end
thank you for your attention are there
any questions
thank you ms gilbert there are no
questions no one has their hand up so
uh let's move on thank you so much gene
um
so the next uh is the chair
and board comments
i have um nothing to declare today
thank you so i'll just move on to
i'll just go down the list here
uh mayor pro tem gandara
i'm nothing for me chair just thank you
everybody who
takes the time to view but also
clint and your staff the board
and city staff that that takes time to
put everything together for us i
appreciate it
thank you madam chair
uh let's see let me see let me move this
up
okay i'm just trying to see everybody
here
um
mr ellens
mr allen's any comments
you're muted commissioner
i think you have to unmute on the
computer
i believe he can press his uh space bar
yeah i can speak if you hold down your
your
space bar you can talk
mister
well okay we have to move on um
so the next person here i see is
oh wait
commissioner sanchez thank you madam
chair
i'll just i i don't have a lot to add at
the moment i i've just been
uh appreciative of those uh i know we
had uh
the public comments that were made
earlier um particularly by volunteers
uh giving feedback and and appreciate
mr thacker's uh responses and i think uh
you know it's always good hopefully you
know
to bring it to the board but also um
hopefully there'll be some
they'll be more empowered uh to bring it
up with mr thacker and the staff because
i've
i believe he's been pretty responsive
and and definitely always looking
at uh improving uh looking at
opportunities to improve which i've
always
appreciated of mr thacker and the
organization you know
that they've been open to feedback
especially even from the team
uh the other thing is is i think as we
as we've gone in further along with the
uh
public health emergency i've been
appreciative of all uh my colleagues
in the county and the city um with
continuing on with the work of making
sure everything's functioning as we've
talked you know through facilities and
everything
um the work doesn't stop and so to each
one of you thank you all for
everything you do um and especially you
mr thacker and your team
at the animal service center uh for for
continuing on uh
with with everything that you all do so
thank you all and
stay safe everybody beautifully stated
commissioner sanchez ditto
uh next is um
council rebate to study thank you madam
chair
uh and thank you commissioner i think
you said it better than anyone
um i also want to thank the rescues i
know that they've been working kind of
over time
um it is a health emergency
um and i've seen a lot of lots of
uh friends quarantine puppies
during this time um and i do think it's
it's very good for a lot of different
families i do want to just say
that if you are a family with
homeschooling and everything
it is going to take up a lot of time and
attention and puppies
and dogs do as well so just make sure i
think it's a great idea to do if you
want to add to your family
uh or to foster but do really um
to talk about with the whole family and
with the kids about the responsibilities
um that are necessary for fostering
and or adopting and make sure that you
can give that time and commitment and
care to those animals because there's
going to be a lot going on
and we want to make sure that we're
doing our service to those animals
well thank you
thank you uh councillor beethoven that
too
is very very words of wisdom
sounds like beware if you're gonna get
you have kids and
puppies and all this stuff going on
be very mindful and say very mindful yes
thank you uh did i miss anybody who's on
the board
madam chair can you hear me now no yes
yay yay i had a question for clint
early earlier you said that there are
two teams
a and b and if somebody
gets the virus on a then b comes in
what happens is somebody has the virus
on both
teams how do you deal with that
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that will not happen because we know
that covet stops at five feet 11 inches
and only lasts for 10 days
it's it's something that we have not
planned for honestly
if that's the case then we are going to
be calling in
volunteers and supervisors and
everything else to
carry on and to clean
if it was to occur we're looking at
minimum food water and shelter at that
point to get the animals taken care of
and also basic medical care and medical
needs
all right thank you and thank you mr uh
commissioner ellens
um if there's nothing else at this time
i've
um this meeting is now adjourned thank
you
very much everybody be careful be safe
love you all
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adjourned at 11 27.
bye
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