City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, we'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. 4 o'clock, July 8th, 2026 at the Animal Control Commission. It's the Pledge of Allegiance. Please also silence your cell phones, please. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Hector Lawyer?

Yes, present.

Gary Blake?

Present.

Jody Croker? Present. Laura Mitchell?

Present. Angela Hoffman and Director Jasmine Clover-McNair.

Present. All right. Public comments?

We have one. Sharon agreed.

We will set a timer for three minutes.

I'm looking at the Animal Control Committee and I want to know how can you effectively oversee the animal shelter if you rarely, if ever, go to the shelter? I don't know if you know, but you guys are supposed to be coming up with ideas, supposed to be presenting things to the city council, and I never see anybody here. I never see any of you in city council meetings. But you guys should already know that. I mean, when was the last time you've been to the shelter? If you've been to the shelter. Okay, so, According to the city's description, the Animal Control Commission insists to provide advisory recommendations to the mayor, city council, and the city staff regarding animal welfare. Your responsibility seems to be helping develop policies that ensure quality care for the animals at the shelter, increasing public awareness of adoptable animals and addressing animal control issues affecting our community. Jodi, I know you're busy with working where you're at, but you know what, you guys, this is unacceptable, it really is. Do any of you know what's happened lately? Jake's warm. We'll use a rescue twice. Now we're going to be going again. Does anybody know what they're doing with the old cat room? They're turning that into a surgery center. I've seen the play yard. Play yard. You know what? If you are not here to help feed animals, then you shouldn't feed them. You shouldn't. It's just a label. That's it. It's really, really important that you get the public educated. Really important that you get them educated on what's going on. That's where we can end. Overpopulation crisis. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. All right, we'll go to the calendar. Number one, group of draft amendments from way back in January. Margo wants to take a couple minutes to read that over, and if I can get most of her approval. And somebody want to make a motion? We have a motion to approve minutes around January 14, 2026 and 30 seconds.

Second.

Okay. All in favor, raise your hand.

Do you need a verbal?

Okay. Can we do a roll call then? It's a motion to approve the minutes from January 2026. If you don't have any objections or no corrections, you would either vote yes or no.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Yes.

HAB-Terry Palmos- Right passes, thank you so good agenda number new Commission number of big students turn it over to now.

HAB-Masyn Moyer- It submission.

HAB-Terry Palmos- Oh okay does anybody on the Commission that any updates. HAB-Terry Palmos- That they want to share or discuss. HAB-Masyn Moyer- So we.

Okay, so I have two things. The first would be to discuss that next meeting that they've changed to for our small town. I was hoping to either talk about bringing meetings back. So we have, what was it? Either that or one of us, maybe one of us creating some kind of subcommittee because I'll be honest, I saw Shane's work that's going on this Sunday, because I saw it was by Billy Gaffigan. Because he happens to be a Facebook friend and I haven't been on social media much this summer. And then just, I guess, a better way to try to keep in touch. I also would love to think about this. I saw a poster about that. So we use the recipe also. Anything we could do to maybe maybe if HAB-Masyn Moyer- If without me then on the next agenda to talk about. HAB-Masyn Moyer- So we need.

HAB-Masyn Moyer- To need a motion for. HAB-Masyn Moyer- Ideas. HAB-Masyn Moyer- Well, okay. HAB-Masyn Moyer- Combined.

HAB-Masyn Moyer- to discuss bringing the meetings. HAB-Masyn Moyer- That makes sense. The second one. HAB-Masyn Moyer- question. Motion for discussion.

Same change on the commission.

No, yeah. Well, so I have that one already.

So we got to stick to, we'll make one motion, and then you guys can discuss that, and then you should vote on that, and then you should bring up your next item, and then make a motion for that, and then we can vote on that. Okay, so I guess.

So the first one, then I make a motion to discuss the change.

Is there a second? Okay, now we can go through the discussion. Does anybody have anything to discuss? Name change, so the name change would be, it would just be from Animal Patrol Commission to Animal Services.

But we discuss it now. Yeah, yeah. I know we're discussing it the next meeting.

No, no. Well, well.

Next meeting, so we have to.

you just take a vote.

So we'll put it on the agenda for the next. We can't vote on it now. We're going to put it on the agenda so that if the public wants to come and speak on it, it'll be on the agenda.

Okay, but we still have to vote to put it on the agenda for you guys to put it on the agenda.

Natalie, do you want to do a roll call? Okay. All right. Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Okay.

So that would be agenda item for next for. Yes.

And so the 2nd motion was to discuss. Maybe we could turn this into the same thing either bringing meetings back. discuss meeting frequency and ways to keep in touch.

Second.

Second. Okay. And we'll just do a roll call vote for.

Here. I'm sorry. For Angela's first motion. Angela makes the motion. And then who was the second?

Jody.

Jody.

And then on the second one, it's... Angela and Laura for the second.

Now let's discuss meeting frequency. Frequency and then also email chain or other, well, that's.

Inclusion. Inclusion. That is what we are proud of.

Well, it can be just like this. It can be DCC like we do for everything else. Yeah. That would be a concern if we were trying to get each other to vote a certain way.

So let me let you know of some things. Again, we can discuss it at the next meeting.

So we're just making a motion to put it on the agenda for October because then it'll be noticed for public comments. So we'll take a roll call on the second one.

So the motion is to discuss meeting frequency and communication.

Thank you.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right.

So let me, let me welcome Hector to the commission.

HAB-Masyn Moyer- On your on the first work. HAB-Masyn Moyer- Yes, sir, did you want to say anything you don't have to, but if you want to make a statement or why you're on the Commission or what you're both large mission you don't have to leave that.

HAB-Masyn Moyer- I am happy to be here, and maybe we can make some big changes or something. HAB-Masyn Moyer- All right.

HAB-Masyn Moyer- Oh. HAB-Masyn Moyer- So I guess I did not have to. HAB-Masyn Moyer- Yes.

I want to say that I was really happy to be able to donate some crates to be used for the music restroom. I've been to the shelter last time, just a couple weeks ago, and watched them do the play art, all the new buildings, and sometime back earlier this year, my council person went on a tour that Jasmine posted so that it's important that our council know what's going on there and you can't really know until you see. And Kim was really taken aback about the condition of the buildings, how old it was. And so now when I update her about things that are going on, she has a better picture of the site and what they need to find. Also, I'll be representing at the commission at our local community meetings that she will post to answer questions and update the community on what's happening. I haven't been doing much for any social media posts about the shelter. It seems like there's a lot of coverage that the shelter's doing other than well, that Sharon are doing to keep people advised of what's happening. I don't know how important that would be to me.

Well, I could just leave this in to number three then.

I just like to say something.

Sure.

So I was, a while back, went to, I think it was the Dog Donuts event, which was really nice. Started talking to some people in the community. I had hoped to get to the Shane Wars, but unfortunately I was told through the weather that weekend, so I didn't get to make it. Sounds like great things are happening at the Falters, and that's awesome. So are the players as well. They look amazing. So yeah, I would, I also, I would say what Angela said, if we could just get more information as to what's going on at the shelter, I think we all would like to get more involved to be there. I know I'm off on the weekends or weekend events. I'm definitely more available to come.

Like I said, that meeting is number three. So if anybody else has anything on your involvement, any type of activities,

I remember. Three is for me, actually, Gary.

Oh, it is? I'm sorry. That's okay.

The architectural renderings that Chris had drawn up a few years ago. Do we know anything moving forward? Is that a topic for discussion?

We would need to put that on the agenda for the next. Okay.

Okay. So you want to make a motion to- Yeah, can we make a motion to discuss either the old plan for a new facility, or are there any other plans for the facility?

One second. Second? Second?

Okay. So, right, make motion to discuss the building plans for a new facility.

Or update something. Yeah. I think we're getting it. Or I'll say it's deferred. Awesome. It's usually tested. Yeah.

And then I'm done.

Sure.

Okay. Hector? Yes. Terry Blake?

Yes.

Yes, Laura Mitchell. Yes. Yes.

Okay, now we'll turn on the agenda item number 3. Mission discussion, the engagement opportunities that the director.

Thank you so this item, I just want to present to the Commission members, this is an advisory board and so anything that you do is strictly voluntary it's at your discretion. But similar to along the lines of what a lot of you have already mentioned that you're doing I really just want to encourage that involvement. And so some of the things that you guys can be doing on your own, getting involved, like Laura mentioned, getting with your council members, making sure they're coming down and they have seen the shelter recently, doing blanket drives, doing food drives, just doing crate drives. There's all kinds of things that you guys can do on your own, you know, as in a volunteer status, like, I'm not making you do anything, so be purely on your own. But I really do just want to encourage you guys to get involved and do different things like that. You guys can go to meetings in your wards. If you need materials or things like that, we can provide those to you. So that's what this agenda item is referring to.

So from Muscovy Obby, about a month ago, I think it was in June or May, on our medium in Muscovy Obby, the association put together a dog parade. So all the neighborhood dogs came out. They had the first place, second place ribbons and stuff. There wasn't too many out there by seven or eight dogs, but it was an idea that, you know, we did for the neighborhood and stuff. So I don't know, maybe, you know, something down the line of something out to shelter like that or, you know.

Bringing shelter dogs to that kind of event too?

Yeah.

What? Bringing shelter dogs to that kind of event? Yeah.

Yeah, so you guys know of things going on. You can always let us know, and then we can see if that's something we can participate in.

Okay.

So that's all I have on that, and then we can move on.

Number four, to have data on the 2025 shelters statistics.

I'm very excited to talk about these stats. This is going to be for, oh, let's see.

Maybe I didn't clarify that the revised one was just that one document and the other document. So we'll just be, a lot of the information is in here. I think we can maybe attach, we can attach animal outcomes statistics to

It wasn't posted on LinkedIn online?

No, it was just the first and second page.

Sure.

Well, let's go through this. So these are comparing the last fiscal year, well, 24-25 fiscal year to our very last one, 25-26. So we have some really positive performance measures here. So we actually took in a 1,000 animals less, 1,007 animals less than we did last year, which is great. So that's a decrease of 8.9%, roughly 9%. Our overall save rate increased by two percentage points. So I don't have the other stats here where we typically look at large dogs, juveniles, and then we also break up adult cats, juvenile cats, And for dogs, I believe the save rate was 82%. For cats, that was 51% for adult and 63% for juvenile cats. So combined with the cats and the dogs, that brings us to 75%. But I do think that 82% for dogs. It's pretty much the trend that we've been seeing. So we're kind of on par there, but it's nice to see the overall. I think cats made the biggest difference here, bumping us up to percentage points. Adoptions went up 100 animals, so positive 2.7% increase. Shelter euthanasia decrease. This is great news. for us, so we've euthanized less animals this year. Owner surrenders down 147, straight intake down by 844, and then live outcomes It was 64 fewer, despite also having less intake. So what that translates to is basically while intake decreased 9%, our positive outcomes pretty much remained the same. So we took in less animals, but we did well with our live outcomes. So what this can show is improved operational efficiency and strong replacement efforts. Again, I'm going to attribute that to cats. And that brings me to our spotlight achievement. Our juvenile cat save rate went from 49% to 63%. So a increased 14% on that one. So that's huge. We do have two dedicated foster coordinators right now. And I think they're a big piece of that. So other operational trends, 19% in euthanasia. Adoptions increased despite receiving nearly 9% fewer animals. Surrenders decreased by over 21%. Really, this is where I think our diversion team played the biggest part. So we do have a diversion table that we try to have out as much as possible. And what happens when someone comes up with maybe a litter of kittens or a dog that they found, Our diversion team is really there to offer them resources so that that dog or cat doesn't need to come into the shelter. So we will vaccinate it. We will microchip it. We will give them food. We will give them supplies, whatever resources they need to take the animal home. We'll get the picture of the animal. It gets placed on our website and its mark is found. And so this way, if there is an owner looking for that animal, they can still see that it's on Our website, they can contact us, and then we can get in touch with the person that has it, and then we can reunite the pet with the owner.

That's the ideal situation.

We give them information on where to post the pet that's lost so that it's out there on its door and ring and all the different places. We give them all of that. And so I think that diversion probably is reducing those owner surrenders. Do you have a dedicated team for that? It's usually just our customer service team. And like I said, we try to have them sitting outside before anyone actually gets into the building.

Did you say the part that was missing was the grid? Yeah, where it's like a breakdown.

Okay.

adults to be out like rescue without like all of the details okay yeah and then this is comparing the two years 2024 and 2025 to 2025 and then the first half of talking yes for this school year so

July 1st to June 30th.

So it's a fiscal year. Okay. Okay.

So it's not like waiting for the next six months. No, that's why it's fiscal year. So fiscal year operates July 1st to June 30th. Okay. So these are Apple's top.

Okay.

Okay. That's what I was thinking. All right. We'll wait until the end. No. Perfect. Okay. And then just items to monitor, our shelter inventory increased from 420 to 578, our starting shelter inventory. So that's when July 1st hits. We look at how many animals are already in the shelter, right? Because July 1st happens, and of course, we have a shelter full of animals. So last year at July 1st, HAB-Masyn Moyer- At the fiscal year and the. HAB-Masyn Moyer- For shelter and so starting July 1 2024 we had for 20 and then July 1 2025 we had 578 it's probably. HAB-Masyn Moyer- It could be yeah definitely could be because we started taking them to try first 24 yeah. So I would probably accept then for this one that it could be somewhere close to around 578 or roughly around there. And then animals that died in care increased from 330 to 405. This could be because of higher beginning inventory and the medical complexity associated with neonatal kittens and vulnerable animals. So just in review, despite beginning the fiscal year with a significantly higher shelter population, we reduced life intake by nearly 9%, increased adoptions, improved the overall save rate from 73 to 75, and reduced euthanasia by more than 19%. The most significant improvement was a 14-point increase in the juvenile cat save rate, demonstrating the impact of expanded foster rescue and diversion initiatives.

Died in care does not mean euthanized, right? What does that mean?

So died in care would mean that if we come in and let's say maybe there was a dog fight and we come in and there's a dog maybe dead in the kennel, then it died in care. It's different from being euthanized. Or maybe there's a litter of kittens maybe they're like eight weeks old and we come in and for some reason, one of the kittens is just dead in the kennel, or maybe they were sick and we were medicating them and they just didn't make it overnight during the day, that would be considered dieting care.

I'm trying to keep kittens alive. So does that mean it's a little soon?

I would, I could probably break it down. Between dogs and cats, but I'm not sure the percentage on each one. I think it would be both.

You also want to find out on the street that already passed away.

So that's different. That would be a different number. And actually, I'm going to make a note to include that on my next steps. We also, this last year, had a massive distemper outbreak, so that could be one reason that they died in care.

Okay, we'll move on to foster and volunteer programs. Okay, so from this fiscal year, from 2025 to 2026, we've had a total of 7,274 volunteer hours. And then within the last four months, we've had 88 active volunteers. So that's just someone coming in and dedicating a couple hours. for us. And then we typically do volunteer of the month. So what we try to do is we invite our staff members to nominate a volunteer that they recognize that goes above and beyond. And what we do too is get a picture of them, get a bio, and we share it with all of our volunteers and all of the staff members. So that way they know who our dedicated volunteer is. Yeah, so for our foster program, we had 879 animals who were fostered that were adopted and spayed and neutered. And we also had 234 animals who were fostered that were adopted and waiting. So they're just waiting to get older. And then we had a couple events from this last fiscal year. We did co-join Best Friends, their super adoption event that they had back in November. And we took roughly 30 animals and they all were either adopted and a couple of them rescued by Best Friends and a couple other partners there too.

I think out of all of them, we took 30 and I think we only came back with a handful of everyone

Yeah, we couldn't find the actual numbers. That's why I didn't list it. I just put successful out.

It was very close.

It was very successful. I think it was like 24, something high. Like we only brought back a little bit on Sunday. And then we also had spring into love and that was on April 18th. And we had 27 adults adopted during that time. And then just recently we have changed for adoption and rescue event. So as some of you guys have seen, it was a four day event. And between June 25th and 28th, we had 114 animals that were placed with members of the public, adoptions or rescue partners. So that was really cool. And then we also are partnered with PetSmart. And what that is, we go out there and they, help us to try to promote them. They post on their social media. So when we go out there, we usually have pretty good turnout. And this recent one that we had, all of them were adopted. So 12 animals except for adopted, which is great. And then on June 12th, we did our very first wings of rescue flight and sent seven of our dogs to Van Nuys Airport. And they had great placement opportunities in Delaware. And this just marks a new exciting chapter and expanding positive outcomes. And we will be having more to come. So hopefully in the next couple of weeks, we'll be doing more and we'll be updating you guys as that comes through. And the last fiscal year too. So the pet food pantry, we gave out 258 bags of dog food, 161 bags of cat food, and then 93 bags of cat litter. And then what we do with the food pantry, we have it with us as well at the shelter. You guys can look through the food pantry that we have. But also that data is coming from the helper's event that we go to down with the pastor. And it's typically two locations. So it's every other Friday that we go down and help those that are at risk or if they're experiencing homelessness. So we're there to provide their pets as well, like food, all of that, but also vaccines and other things as well. And then from diversion, from February to June 2026, we had a total of 265 animals that were diverted from impound from the shelter. So this may correlate with the decreased number of total animals that we've talked about earlier that were not impounded. And as Jasmine explained earlier, what we've really tried to do is encourage them to hold on to the pets. We vaccinate them. We microchip them, get a picture of that, and post them online for a couple weeks. So that way, if an owner is looking for them, they can see them on 24-Hour Pet Connect, just like with the rest of our population.

And yeah, that is it for our stats.

I was just wondering with the diversion program, have you guys thought about like finder to foster? So then you can also adopt the animal through the shelter and save it or the pet as well. What is this? So finder, foster, and then initially to adopt her. So someone finds a dog, They talk to the diversion team, you guys make your chip, but you vaccinate it. And then they become a foster for you during that stray hole period. And then after that stray hole period, the animal becomes available. And then you can then adopt the animal to that resident. Yeah, they do know that.

They also know that they can bring the animal back into us. So the nice thing is that sometimes we can just convince them to hold on to it for a week. or even three or four days. But during that time, the animal can build immunity from being vaccinated. And so that's also an option for them as well, because we know that there's not good disease control in our shelter. And so really getting those vaccines on board and letting them be at home for just a week is so much better than coming into the shelter right away. So yeah, they do know about all those options.

Just because they're nice to spay and neuter those pets.

we just call it diversion all right so the community holds mine is it the same as if they were in foster

It's in the diversion program. That's when people are basically doing the straight hold, right?

And it's the straight hold time. There's no straight hold time, but we posted on our website for, I think, two weeks. Two weeks. So there's no legal straight hold time because we're not legally, it's not impounded in the shelter.

Oh, we're not considered sheltered.

The only time to consider a shelter and I found it, let's say they felt on to them for a couple of days and they're like, yeah, I really can't anymore. Then we'll put them in the system. Yes. And then it's all for the legal holder.

Okay. And then if the community does the same and they notify you, like they found the dog, I don't want to get to the shelter for the whole day. Is two weeks a legitimate strangle period of time if they did bring to the shelter? Yes. But they reported balance.

I don't understand. Two weeks is extended, actually. So the straight hold period is what?

No, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, like, we'll take a visual time frame. People just have to do their due diligence.

Yeah, there are a lot of people that say, oh, it's 30 days.

That's common.

And there are a lot. Well, there is our city ordinance states 50 days.

Yes.

We do have a city ordinance. Yes. And it stays what? 15 days. 15. Okay.

But I typically don't hold people to that. If you come to me and you say, I found this dog, you know, three, four weeks ago, I can't hold it. I'm not making, yeah, I'm going to take the dog. I think 15 days is a little strict. Yes.

Okay. Yeah. Do you still have the Amazon partnership for food?

Yes, we do. Okay. We can as much as we can, but things have been decreasing a little bit, which is why we not have that food entry the last two months. Okay.

Before we do any kind of food or litter and division, would you prefer that we, because I remember there were times there was like huge stockpiles that started like that. So just get in touch with you and find out what's the biggest need?

Yeah, you can always reach out and we'll let you know what we're in need of. What do you want to let us know? I would say canned food, canned dog food or cat food is probably the best thing for donations. because that's going to last the longest, and we always need it, because we use the canned food to get out medication. We use it for puppies, nursing moms, and any seniors that maybe can't eat kibble. And then, of course, for kittens. Are there any restrictions? So for kittens, we don't want the chunky cat food.

Cat food. Not shredded, but like the ground food, like for pedigree, it's ground or cat food.

Uh, as far as, uh, Shane's floor was, did you rescue some, some things? No. Okay.

For a minute I was like, but it wasn't like, but we can, so we can't, we can look at doing that extra.

Yeah. And they do other shelters in the area. So welcome.

It was just our rescue partners, our animals. I was trying to get out as many animals as we can. Yeah, in preparation.

I don't know where he goes. National. And then what sizes of wreaths did Wings of Rescue take? Smalls. Smalls. So they got under 20, under 10. They were all under 20. And then another Wings of Rescue. On the 18th. The 18th of July.

Oh. And this time we're hoping to get 30, 35.

30. Yes, a couple. Yeah. How do we get... Yes.

We actually just posted... If you guys are wanting to, like, download that PDF, it's better for it not to be sent to you guys, but that's what we're in need of right now. It's great. It's, like, that's, like, biggest cost for Fairline upgrades. What's that? Yes. And then the only one, so it's not in there, but it's Midwest 3 crates. Those are the only ones. And we'll put that in there. Can you definitely email?

Yeah. And there's another post as well that a community member has posted on Nextdoor and other places that actually shows you a picture of the approved crates and the crates that you shouldn't be using. So if you see that post, yeah, that one gives you a good idea of what you shouldn't be providing. Do you guys know the Amazon wish list? Yes, and they are on our Amazon wish list. And then the other thing that we are asking for is, which we're going to add to the Amazon wish list is the bowls that you can attach in the crates. Because they have to go in frozen water. So when you use just like a regular paper cup, it flips easily or they tear it down. Yeah.

Perfect.

Right, sir.

Sub-operations. Spay and neuter surgery stats. Over the past fiscal year, seven veterinarians completed a total of 2,615 spay and neuter surgeries on our mobile bus, 1,840 dogs, and 725 cats were halted. The Lane Foundation provided spending neutral vouchers, 1,286. They have returned owner assistance with feed, 93, medical assistance with 15, pet food supply assistance with 60, pulled animals from the shelter with 119, and animals intercepted did not enter our shelter, 43. Construction on our shelter, all kennels are now in operation, which brings the total number of kennels shelter-wide to 274. The water department parking lot is complete and allows for staff parking and product storage. Our play yard, play yards have been outfitted with artificial turf, shade, structure to build the equipment, and pools for dogs to be given enrichment. Dedicated staff are training on dogs playing for life to learn play group standards. Field services and dispatch activities, sanctations, total count of sanctations issued were 120. Dispatch calls, a total incoming call of 52,719. Total outgoing call of 2,649. Total call of 55,368. Officer activities, the top total officer field activities that were placed was 8,777. And then the existing other agencies we assisted fire 22 times, at least 367 times, were put in force at 26 times.

Reference to citations, do you guys monitor if they're getting paid or not? And if they don't get paid, does it go to collections or city attorney's office or...

So I'm not exactly sure. I actually was going to bring it up at my next department head meeting to find out who's, if it's going to franchise tax forward, who's getting those funds. Because right now it's roughly, what we've collected is somewhere around like 11,000, but what we're owed is somewhere around like 52,000 for citations. So when I saw the report,

um i made a note for next week at my meeting to ask how we collect on these fees yeah because uh when i when i when i worked there we would we would issue citations to the homeowners when we went to the door um and Most of them applied, but a lot of them didn't. And it would just get kicked to the city attorney's office and they put them in a box and threw them in storage. Pretty much. I'm just kind of curious. If you're going to get your citation and people are like, well, I'm not going to pay it and you're not going to get something.

Yeah. So I'm curious. I'm going to be asking that next week.

How is the full-time shelter bed search a thing?

But we're actually going to be removing the full-time shelter vet search. We've been recruiting for over three years and nobody's coming to work at our shelter. I've had several vets, vet students come to take a look. They're going to be graduating this year and our shelter is not conducive to any veterinarian or new grad wanting to work there. We don't have the technology. We don't have We don't even have a surgical suite right now. So any doctors operating on the bus, which we love the bus, we're very, very fortunate to have the bus, but it's very cramped. We can only stay and neuter up to a certain size on the bus. In the summertime, it gets very hot. You can only have three people on the bus. I have one surgeon who's six foot and she is very cramped in the back. So, but what we have found is that it's been very successful getting the per diem vets. And so I think that that's where we're going to be putting our focus is looking for per diem veterinarians to come in and help us in shifting those funds to the per diem part-time salary fund.

Are the seasonators backed up?

Yes. And so are they going out on a state-of-the-art contract? So they have the option to take a voucher, and they can take that voucher to one of our partnered veterinarians.

How does that follow up on? Is it the same way for rescues? So it's like a tracking? Yes, so we run a report. So just like rescues, they get

have a modernized system that's looking for anything that's not altered.

It's a little bit different where we're holding you to the standard of getting it done versus the public waiting for a spade or a spot to open up or to get in with their voucher. But it is backlogged.

Okay. Just so we can I guess help explain because there is the idea that thoughts are going out They are. And so I want to be able to explain it.

It's on a senior contract.

Yes, on deposit. Once it's completed, then they donate it so we can put it towards another project. Or they can get it refunded. They get a link from us and they can just check it on it and we get our review. When they sign up, then they can see the dates. Like right now, I think it's a month and a week. So there's spots. It's just like not right away. It's taking up someone.

It used to be like three or four.

Yeah, and it's getting better. And what we're trying to do, so our approach right now is that If someone comes in today and adopts and I'm reserving spots for the next spay and neuter day. So let's say I'm going to have a doctor in within 48 hours. If you adopt today, then I'm not allowing your pet to go home. I'm going to keep your pet because it's only going to be two days and I'm going to keep them for surgery. And then you have them pick up after surgery. If it's going to be a longer length of stay, then that's when we're letting the pets go home with the deposit done. And we can give them the voucher or we can just get them, they can schedule when the next appointment pops up. So we're trying to tackle it from like all ables and doing our best. But getting more per diem veterinarians is the ticket to having every day.

Every single day right now. Yeah. Maybe twice, maybe three times a week. Yeah.

And a space that people aren't eyeballing. Of course, that's the other challenge. And then you have to find pretty veterinarians that are skilled in high quality, high volume spay and neuter. Like I have one right now and he's not. So he's doing what he can, but he can only maybe do like 10 versus other doctors who could do, you know, 25. So it's getting them trained up to do high quality, high volume.

I guess we can move on to agenda number five, animal outcomes.

And I'm sorry, I don't think that we could go over those because we don't have the report available to the public and to the commission members. Sure. We will post it. We'll make sure it does get posted. Even though we're not going to discuss it, it will be posted. And I'll be posting not only 25, 26, but we're going to be posting 24, 25 so that you guys could compare the data. It's posted where? On PrimeGov. So it'll be posted with the agenda online.

And then maybe just in October, go ahead and just attach it? Sure. So we can move on to number six, the director updates.

I guess we should change it to new director. Yeah, new director.

We should take off new. No, yeah. So yeah, we'll go director updates.

Well, I guess, actually, Angela, we kind of have to talk about one of your items. Yeah. So things are, you know, we're moving fast, yet it seems kind of slow. But we, I also hired our deputy director, Kyle Stevens. And so he's on board with us. And we are doing a lot at the shelter. We have removed a lot of fencing. before you may have noticed that it was like a maze going around and there was a clear gates and locks and everything around. So we've actually removed tons of fencing to make it more accessible for everyone. And so we, the play yards was huge for me. I really, really wanted to get those done. And that was very, very special to be able to open those up. I got a little emotional just because it's something nice at our shelter and the animals there deserve something nice. And so to see that open up for them and just knowing the pictures that we're gonna get, the videos that we're gonna get, it's like finally there's something nice for them to be able to utilize.

So was that just regular funding or did you get additional outside funding?

So, It's kind of a loaded question. So yes, we're using our budget to pay for it. My hope was to use donated funds to pay for it. But unfortunately, the donated funds has to go through this whole legal thing for me to be able to use. But I didn't want to wait. So we just use it out of our regular funding that we have. And then we can turn around and use donated funds to Yeah, for other projects. Like, one of the things that I'm thinking of is a transport van for these Wings of Rescue transports, now that we're on board with it. We need a way to get them to there. And even when we did, Leslie and I drove the first set of seven.

We were lucky that their crates fit in, like, the truck, like, the individual kennels. Well, no, two did.

Oh, yeah. So, I was like, just get them in the truck, because we were running late. I mean, the whole thing was... chaotic, but we did it. So we were, I was like, just put them on your lap, just carry them inside. And so that's kind of what we did. So we need a transport van to be able to continue doing these things. And we're also planning a big transport with my friends and we're going to meet them like halfway to Utah. And so they're hoping to take like 40 cats from us. And so what I'm thinking is maybe with those funds that I technically didn't use for the play yard, I might be able to do a transport van to facilitate all of these big rescue transports. So yes, we also renumbered all of our kennels. One of them mentioned all of our kennels are operational now. So we're making progress, but there's still a lot to be done. The shelter, Kyle and I just had a meeting today to talk about a new shelter. And so it's going to be a long process for that. I don't think that that's anything that's going to be quick. You know, we need to figure out how we're going to fund it. That's the biggest thing.

Yeah, we'll be starting.

Is this still going to be in the same parcel?

It'll be in the same. It'll still be the property swap with the water department. It'll still be there. That'll be the site. But we'll be getting new drives. Everything has changed anyways. We've taken on the contract cities. The other piece of that is that the contract cities, their agreement is only through 2027. So June 30th, 2027, their contracts expired. So County of San Bernardino is also opening up their new shelter, their big built new shelter in Bloomington. And they have reached out to the contract cities to see if they want to go over. So I think there's a lot of things up in the air right now, just timing wise, that I don't know that those drawings from several years ago would even still apply to what we're going to have going on after 2027. I may have all of the contract cities stay. Some of them may leave. I'm not totally sure. I think just timing wise, because it's only in a year, it would be wise to wait, see what everything looks like before we start, you know, working on a long-term, you know, plan for the shelter. I don't know. I'll be engaging with them within the next six months because I do think that I would like to know, you know, before the end of the contract, whether you're thinking of staying or going, I think it would be nice for everyone to know and for them to plan to. And I don't know the opening date of county's facilities. So, you know, maybe they want to do some kind of month-to-month thing if they're planning, you know, because I don't want to leave anyone high and dry. We still want to care for those families. So, yeah, it's going to be a big, bigger kind of discussion and just seeing where we all, where we are and how everything pans out. There's just a lot of big pieces.

And I think that's all I have for kind of our updates. That's where we are. We're sheltered.

One of the things in our updates I would like to point out is that we have basically gone paperless at our shelter. So that is a huge, huge accomplishment. And it's all thanks to Leslie here. She's worked very, very hard to get us to be paperless. And so that saves a ton of time. It's more efficient. It saves paper. All the things, storage-wise, we don't have any place for storage at the shelter. We're so limited on space. So boxes of papers that now we don't have to store. It's great. So that's one more. One more update.

Yeah. Rescue coordinator accounts?

We have two rescue coordinators.

We have Lisa and Jessica. I just want to say they're always very quick to respond. Very easy to work with.

Yeah, so thank you for that. Can you have a great team? That ends my updates.

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