when i won't have to leave alone
about the time
i won't have to say
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kiss me and smile for me
tell me
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good morning
welcome uh it's 901 and so we'll call
the meeting to order if you would join
me in the pledge of the pledge of
allegiance
pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states
thank you um
uh
we do have a quorum i don't know if we
need to
say for the record who else present okay
so we'll get started are there any
changes to the agenda from from anyone
none
hearing none then i would entertain a
motion to approve the agenda manager
i'll move approval of the agenda
thank you
commissioner
sanchez
second by flores thank you councillor
are we commissioners counselor
councillor flores uh
it's been moved and seconded can we have
a vote please
foreign
yes board member sanchez yes for member
gandara yes
yes thank you board member that helps
that helps me call everyone the right
thing thank you
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i would entertain madam
sorry i i did want to make a note i
think miss ward is sitting in for uh are
you sitting in for mr macias today so
being that she's our third member from
the county can we also have her on the
record as a voting member yes
absolutely
she she's not an ex officer she's
no she's she's taking over as county
management is our third as our third
member from the
county
okay so um
board member ward
yes thank you very much sorry about that
thank you sorry thank you no problem i
just wanted to clarify thank you so much
uh
okay i think we're on to
the minutes i would entertain a motion
so moved second kandara
any any discussion or amendments to the
minutes
hearing none if we can have a vote
please board member ward
yes board member flores
yes board member sanchez yes former
gandara yes former koran yes thank you
next up we have reports and
presentations i think first are from the
coalition for pets and people we have
susan
peterson
yes please come one up if you're up for
giving your presentation and please
state your name for the record and and
we're looking forward to hearing from
you
here
it's um you can make the desk go down
and the mic go down there you go
you got it might be loud enough already
um good morning good morning my name is
susan peterson speak a little bit more
into the mic please all right not as
loud as i thought yeah thank you
how's that
i think that's good i think that's good
thank you
i can hear you but i don't think i'm the
best do you have oh you don't have a
presentation
okay no i'm just talking it's all you
that's
we defer to you please go ahead susan
okay
um
my sister
deborah
and i
have the two hearts four paws refuge
we are in radium springs
and
gosh we've been rescuing now
most of our lives so
in
2011 we decided to build a facility
and so we built a we call it our barn
and it's got
14 indoor outdoor kennels
so then we decided we could be a real
rescue and so
in 2014 we got our
501c3
and so now we're a non-profit
and so we started off with the bang and
we've been full ever since
so
we do um
adopt some out
we've gone to petsmart
for the past several years till covid
but it turns out that now
we're
well we used to help the shelter let me
say that we used to help the shelter i
could pull from there
and we would transport or keep them and
try to adopt them but then we started
taking in more strays and
dogs that
their owners had passed
so in a way
we're trying to
keep the dogs out of the shelter instead
of trying to you know
take them there and then get them back
so we have
several older dogs now and so we don't
have a big turnover
so we can't help a lot right now
we just
take in some strays bad emergencies
we have one
dog with cancer
so we're just keeping her comfortable
and we have
a couple that have bitten somebody
and they're great dogs but a liability
for adoption so we just keep them
so we're
actually an old
an old folks home for dogs but um but we
still come and take some um
we have uh
the ones that their owners passed we you
know we'll keep them because it's
traumatic for them to be adopted
so
we do have some that we
have taken to albuquerque to the paws
and stripes and they've been accepted
into their program so they help veterans
so that's a good thing
the fact that we can't really take in a
lot of dogs because we don't have a lot
of movement and we don't do cats we're
not set up for cats
but we try to help the community
so
if someone needs help with vaccinations
if someone needs vet help we've helped a
lot of people with fed bills
we've helped people spay and neuter
their pets
if we have any money at all
then we we help the community
we
we've given out dog houses
crates we've gone to their homes and
helped
the fences and the
kennels and things
so
we're more into that kind of thing if we
have extra food if someone needs dog
food
we'll supply that we'll supply cat food
so
you know that we're hoping
as dogs transition we can help more with
the shelter
and
everyone else because there's so many
strays
and
so that's mainly what we do now we're
not so much
active
actively saving but we will we'll keep
the ones we have we have five acres
and
in radium springs
and we have three acres that are fenced
in with several yards so they're not
stuck in the kennels they're out
at least twice a day to play and the
ones that get along they all play
together
so
it's not a real home but it's pretty
close to a home and
we live there so we're there all the
time
so our you know
we plan to help out as much as we can
eventually maybe get back to petsmart
doing adoptions if the
covet is
going to let us go
so um
so that's mainly what we do any
questions
i i i don't have any questions but i at
one point you said we we aren't helping
in this way but i i recognize that it
takes a village and it's
like what you do is really important and
connecting people to resources and being
a resource who just wants to help it
takes a village a pretty big village and
so i i just want to say how appreciative
we are that you guys are are there with
your own little sort of village of of
critters so thank you for coming and
presenting and talking about this and
letting folks know and i would assume
that you have a
a donation
page set up if you want to share your
website yes we've been very fortunate
with uh once we got our 501c3
with a lot of donations we have a lot of
people that support us which is you know
wonderful because we're
we're bigger than we thought we would be
and there's just the two of us and it's
a long it's a long enough way out there
we don't have a lot of volunteers but we
we get it done we uh
we get everybody spayed as soon as we
get someone we get make sure they're
spayed and neutered we get their shots
we're always at the vet you know so we
we take care of them the best we can and
you know the main thing is helping other
people
because times are tough
and
if someone needs medicine if we've got
it we'll take it or we'll help them get
it it's just
i just think it's important to
to help everybody right now and well
forever
but yeah yeah well i appreciate you and
are there any questions from from the
board members
just
thank you madam chair
thank you thank you so much for being
here and for your presentation and for
all the work and i agree with i'm chair
karan about it takes a village and so to
know that you're out there taking care
of our older animals is is i'm so
incredibly grateful so thank you so much
please pass
on my
gratefulness to your sister
thank you i will i will it's hard for
the two of us to go anywhere
so
i absolutely understand but thank you
for being here today it's a labor of
love
of course all right
well thank you thank you any other
questions okay uh board member flores
please uh thank you madam chair and and
thank you so much susan for everything
you and your sister do i i definitely um
agree with the chair and and
counselor gandara
and i would um
also
what is your website so that people can
go and make a donation
right now
we just use facebook with facebook page
for our rescue and we've got a donation
button there and
we had a website but
the money needed to go to the dogs
instead of the website so
and everyone's on facebook so
so we use that sometimes we in the past
we've had fundraisers and things like
that
but uh
kova changed so much that you know we'll
see maybe we'll get back to normal but
we'll keep us posted on the fundraisers
and thank you again and thank you madam
chair
thank you very much
board member sanchez please thank you
madam chair and i thank you councillor
flores i think that was oh i'm sorry
that's a problem i'm very new at this so
no no problem we appreciate you know
one of the things that i've actually
we've enjoyed i think working with a
coalition for pets and people has been
being able to actually
hear directly from the community
partners and so i want to say you know
thank you also for coming
and and telling us because i think we
get so much more not just from the
questions we ask but from understanding
you know
how how you provide the services to the
community what you're doing i mean it
takes a lot i think as as uh chair
uh as chair koran had mentioned it it
takes a a village
and especially that's what we see
because i think the ascmv plays a big
part in that but it without our
community partners
you know i mean god is they play an
extremely important part so i appreciate
everything you do thank you for coming
out and i appreciate counselor flotis
because i was curious as to how people
in the community can help or find out
more about what you do so it's at least
going to the facebook page um and i
guess that is that where i guess if you
go back to petsmart well that would be
the best place or you'll be posting that
information on your facebook page yes
okay
very good awesome but thank you so much
for for coming out and sharing uh all
the information like i said i appreciate
the um i know you said this is new but i
said that's part of the fun of this is
that we get to hear directly from our
community partner so thank you so much
for all you do it is a good idea i think
for for you to know who's out there and
you know everybody there's so many
rescues now and everybody has kind of
their own certain specialties so
it is good to know and
and i think you know and i don't know
i'll throw this out there i mean is
there anything else you can see and how
you can partner with the asmv or how the
asmv might be able to partner with you
i
um
currently because we would like to
get the dogs out of there that we can
but right now we we don't know
we don't have a place to put them that's
what we would like to do
is and even if we could get room
and
take the dogs temporarily that are being
transported there's a big need for that
and we would love to do that um
but
no very good and i i know like with
covet as you mentioned i think that kind
of really affected um the operations for
everybody for everybody but i think
that's where you know i think hopefully
um
my hope is that
you all you feel comfortable enough to
reach out to the board if you have ideas
suggestions um that way i think when we
hear directly from lake center community
partners we get a lot more on how we can
continue to work with the asmv and with
our community partners
yeah it's true it's a good it was a
great idea
so thank you so much for coming out and
uh best wishes well thank you thank you
very much thank you so much you did a
really good job we really are so glad to
hear from you and really appreciate you
being here please come back any time oh
okay all right
thank you
thank you so much i go am i done you're
good you're good you're good
thank you thank you so much again that's
that's susan peterson from two hearts
four paws animal rescue and you can find
them on facebook so i do want to give a
quick shout out to the the idea of
prevention of animals getting into the
shelter i think that's part of what
we're thinking about here and in
particular i know that this is a morbid
topic but i'm a public health person so
i'm always thinking about death
if you are thinking about your animals i
urge you to consider what will happen to
them
and think about a plan for your animals
and in the unfortunate case that you
that you pass on and so when i wrote my
will recently i i added in a donation to
a community partner and and
they sort of have a plan to to take in
animals in that situation and
and i have support for that written into
my
plans for death so morbid but i think
that understanding why animals end up at
the shelter or in community partners and
what that means for the animals
in our own lives is really important so
so it's a step you can take to
every every one of us can take that step
to prevent animals from going into the
shelter so
okay thank you again for for being here
we really appreciate it up next
are the city and county acl reports so
i will
defer to you all again please
share your name and for the record plea
welcome i think you have a present i
think you guys have a presentation yes
sure i think so okay so you're good
you're good with that or do you need
yeah
i don't think it's number two
okay yep all right thank you so much go
ahead
hello um i'm brian halsey i'm the
caseworker for donand county animal
control i'll be giving the presentation
for our monthly for january of 2022
for this month we had 266 reported stray
animals
we had 182 stray animals that we were
able to pick up
out in the field
out of those 182 animals we had 88 stray
cats and 94 stray dogs picked up
we also had 14 sick or injured animals
that
were in the county that we were able to
get
those consisted of six cats and eight
dogs
we also had 13 owner surrender animals
this month
for january
none of them were cats and all of them
were dogs this month
this is our four-year comparison chart
for
for the county
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as you can see on the far left
it's going to be a little vague just
because it's the start of the new year
but it'll it'll start to get filled in
throughout the year
and here's our four-year field return to
owner comparison chart
for january of 2022 we had 27 rtos
which was up from last year
of the 16.
for our additional animals picked up
we had seven welfare holds and that
could be anything from if an officer
needs assistance if they arrested
someone and they had animals in the
vehicle or something like that
or someone just needed help with the
animal we would take them
to the animal service center under a
welfare hold
we had 16 shelter quarantines
at the animal service center we had five
home quarantines
we had zero court hold that's where we
keep our live evidence in case we need
them
for the january
for live evidence we currently have six
animals in our live evidence facility
waiting
on the judicial process to see what's
going to go on
and we have zero rabies submissions for
january
this is our
districts that we have
each district has certain areas that are
in those districts we keep that up in
case anybody has questions with it
this next slide
this is the animals picked up by
district for january
so that way we could kind of see what
our hot spots are for that month and we
can kind of see where
everything is projected
again this is for
per district for the cats that we were
able to pick up
and it just kind of breaks it down per
district so we could see which areas
we're getting more cats from
for that month and for the year
again this is for the dogs
per district
for our animals
for owner release we had seven
aggressive animals
they were just getting aggressive for
multiple multitude of reasons either
they were getting more aggressive
towards pets towards family members
towards people that were walking around
the streets
we had one vicious
that's the act of actually trying to
attack another animal or something along
those lines
we had one person that was unable to
care for the dog we had one that
killed livestock
we had to for health issues
and the health issues were the dog's
issues just getting older
getting sick things like that
and then we had one quarantine and there
was an owner's surrender and that was
for white sands missile range
so we ended up taking that in for them
and do you guys have any questions
thank you officer uh i uh
board member sanchez and then board
member flores please
thank you madam chair
mr holsey i just was curious when he
looked at the numbers for
cats and dogs i noticed that in
particular cats in district 2 there were
that were picked up and i didn't know i
mean that's such a huge
um
the disparity between all the other
districts i don't know if there was a
particular case or a reason why there
was such a large number
um
from what i've noticed from going
through the stats and everything we have
several people in district 2 right now
that are currently actively trapping to
get
cats away from their property for
reasons of being they're allergic
they're doing proper damage or they just
don't want cats on their property
okay
thank you and then in district 3 i think
the same question except with dogs i
mean we had 20 29 dogs
um you know compared to i think
with what's up district 4 had 16.
was there any particular thing that we
saw within that district 3 that drove
that number um
usually it's district four that we
usually see more of the strays in
i couldn't tell you for sure why we had
more in district three this
in january than we normally did
usually it's district four is where we
see the most
but i can't tell you why we have more
this in january than we did
okay grant thank you mr halsey
thank you madam chair
and i see did you wanna did you wanna
add something or did you have a question
right yes about my if i may i'm just
going to add to the district 2 on the
number of cats that were picked up to
that we do have a couple of uh like like
um officer hulsey was saying
we do have a couple of cases in district
2 alone
where we have some stray cats
so we have a resident and i think we
talked about it at the last board
meeting
where this resident lives close to the
river area
and they're um
they're hoarding well they're not
hoarding they have a neighbor who died
and that neighbor used to feed cats and
so
they're they're
trapping a lot because they don't want
the cats in the area and so we've been
going out there numerous times i think
the number that we ourselves have gone
out there to close to 40 times ourselves
picking up cats for this individual and
and the neighbors
and the shelter has gone and taken the
cats back out there after they've been
fixed so that increases our number on
here you're going to see our numbers
picked up
because of those individual residents
themselves so you might see a hot spot
in an area of cats going up and it's for
those individual reasons
so you'll see that
thank you you're welcome
board member flores
thank you madam chair
um
i had similar questions as
board member sanchez
and and i do have a question for
mary lou so mary lee the the um
the cats the those
the cats that were being taken care of
the ones that are being taken
to be um
to be spayed neutered
are they then returned to the site where
they were picked up or
uh would that then change in so far as i
mean how yeah you have do you have
statistics or data
that show the numbers going down after a
certain event like spraying neutering
thank you so that individual case itself
um
shows us responding to a cat in a trap
because that individual is calling for a
cat in a trap we pick up the cat in the
trap
our contract is to take it to the animal
services center where in in in turn they
take that cat
they're fixing that cat they're spay
neutering microchipping
that cat they're taking it back out to
that resident
and re and releasing it
that person doesn't want that cat back
within that area
that's that that's the place we talked
about last month where it's like within
100 yards from the river
and so they they don't want the cat back
so they trap set traps out again
and we're trapping and it's just a it's
just a circle
yeah and we're just going back and forth
and
the shelter keeps returning them and
then we're going back and forth
so you will see the numbers on some of
these
these um these areas increase because of
that
thank you so much you're welcome
and um
so that explains
the high well that's one reason why you
have high numbers in district two
so my question is where is district 2 mr
halsey and where is district three
so i see there you go so district two
mainly is radium springs fair acres in
donand area
um and then district three is over on
the east mesa by butterfield
the oregon
the white sands missile range the east
mesa home in that area
so it looks like it's
in areas where there are the population
the human population
isn't as dense as in
other areas
for the most part dona is pretty um
pretty populated as far as
what we usually have to go out there for
but the rest of like radium springs
that's pretty far out there so
great thank you so much thank you madam
chair
uh board member
thank you um chair koran thank you so
much for your presentation
so i i'm concerned about this because we
see it in other areas specifically in
the city of las cruces and
i i i think it's just not a good use of
our resources right it it so
what sort of things have you done to
communicate
with the
system
to try to mitigate that
um it seems like we would maybe reach
like do we have a bar a barnyard program
or something in that area where
we could contract with the individual so
that
we can and i get it i get why we're
doing that but this doesn't seem like
systematically that's the misuse of our
resources
to have
county and our city officials you know
acos keep going out and then someone
traps them and takes them back and i get
it you want to take them back you want
to fix them right it's the tnr program i
understand that piece then you send them
back to the same
area because environmentally it's the
safest and more humane thing to do
but
shouldn't we be looking at other um
solutions and strategies to address this
i know that's a very loaded question i
get it i understand that but it just
doesn't seem like it and i'm not in
charge of the acos
um
but it just doesn't seem like a good use
of our resources all the way around
um i do know that our officers when we
get someone new that's trapping or
anytime we get something that's trapping
we do go and we educate and we tell them
about the community cap program the tnr
programs um what to us to expect and
they either tell us well we don't want
them here because of
allergies
from
you know whatever issue that they're
having with them um
and then if they tell us that they don't
want them there we put it in our notes
um
if they say that that's fine they can
come back we don't put any notes in so
that way they could go back to where
they need to go okay so
based on that
do you have any more data that says
this is the second or the third right
the time that we've had to pick up this
animal
and now we're at this place where there
needs to be a different
tactic placed or solution to the the
issue
so if i can answer that that would be
something that we would have to get that
data from the shelter okay through their
shelter love system we also have in
addition to
like brian was saying
we talked to that individual in regards
to educational outreach
for these different programs
we have in our department the the solar
the
was it called ultrasonic
um
they're the little devices you set out
for people that deteriorates cats from
you know not deteriorates it
doesn't that tries to get them from
stopping from coming to your property
and it's it's some type of a
deterrent yeah deterrent that so you
don't hear you can't hear the sound but
they can hear it and it's supposed to
make them not want to come to your
property so we loan those out okay as
well
if they want those we've had people come
back and say that they don't work they
don't want them we've also have the
little devices that they can when they
jump on their fences they can lay them
across their fences and their little
spikes that come up they're rubber
spikes
but they're supposed to make them not
want to jump on the fences and things
like that to loan out to individuals
we have all those available to
to loan to the community as well some
have gone out and some have come back
where people you know
don't no longer want to use them for
whatever reasons
so we have that that process that we are
we have
for the community as well to to help
assist with this
um
and in addition to that every officer
has a cell phone on them and so when
they have new individuals that are
trapping that they know they haven't
been to this property yet they call them
before they even start heading out to
that house and say okay this is this is
a process that usually happens with
these these cats and it's more than
likely going to come back to your house
and this is what this is what we can do
and then they go back out there and they
repeat the process to them again so
they're hearing it twice from us
the same day
that usually doesn't change the fact
that they want us to pick up the animal
for whatever reasons
and so that's that's usually how we're
handling this mary lou thank you i know
there's a lot of education that's that's
um being
done conducted right and
i understand i understand the deterrence
but it just
i guess i'd like to see a little more
data right and then what can we do
strategically
unless you've pardoned me sorry
the allergies in the wind has been a
problem for me um this week excuse me
um
i just i just feel like i'm looking at
systems right and how we interface
and and i hear a lot from the public
related to this
around the tnr so in order for our tnr
program to work
um
we really have to address all these all
these other issues right have the
education have the deterrence
um but
i feel there's some still some missing
parts and i know this continues to be an
issue for that area we heard a lot about
it last month and i've heard between
last month and this month that it
continues to be an issue so i don't want
to belabor it i just feel like
if there's anything that the board can
do to help maybe it's through our task
force because the city also has those
issues
as well so
i appreciate you giving me the floor
chair and allowing me a little bit of
latitude in this i don't think that it's
completely the board's
responsibility but i'm just sharing my
concern about this thank you
thank you i appreciate your inputs and
thank you
board member ward for sharing
sharing your insights go ahead uh
board member sanchez please thank you
madam chair and miss ward i'm just
curious how many i know i missed i must
have missed the discussion last
as i was late to last month's meeting
but have we
in that particular case by the river has
there been
some deterrence or have we worked with
deterrence with that
that resident to try to minimize that or
what they're seeing
actually we have we worked with we we
sent officers out
i i've spoken to her
we've gone out there
several times clint himself was gone out
there and patrolled the area to try to
see what there was in the area that is
trying to invite the cats it's by the
river so there's everything available
for the cats it's within 100 yards of
the rivers so
there was a couple of houses within
several houses down that had maybe
an inoperable vehicle that we sent codes
out to go take care of the inoperable
vehicle there was a storage area with an
open door we can't make somebody close
their storage door there's no law that
that procrudes that
but we did go in and educate them and
say if you keep your door shut it's
inviting for for stray animals keep it
shut
um things like that to help you know
keep these cats away
so we did canvas that area ourselves and
and talked to it's not just the one
person there it's several people within
that community because you know this
this person this it was an elderly
individual he he passed away and he had
been feeding these cats apparently for
some time
and so there's quite a bit of cats i'm
not sure brian will know since he's our
caseworker he's the one handling all the
cases he know he'll probably know more
than me about how many cats
we have probably picked up within that
area
maybe you can
comment on that brian but
um
how many brian i think we've probably
picked up i think they said around 30
last time we talked to them and they had
like about eight to ten more that they
wanted us to pick up
and so that so that was confirmed by the
shelter that they had over
maybe clint can comment on that maybe 30
gone back out there
so with that process of them going back
out there i know one of the one of the
comments that that resident had made and
she had complained about as well is that
the city ordinance doesn't allow for
tnr to be
released within so close of a proximity
to the river
areas and that was explained to her that
she's not
she she resides in the county not within
city limits
and
i think that that was going to be i
think my next point i think to what uh
mayor pro tem gandara had had kind of
mentioned i think is you know in terms
of uh trying to figure out what's our
best
use of resources and i think in the
county one of the things that um
i believe we need to do is go back and
revisit our ordinances because while the
while the
as the city worked for the task force i
know that that was updated last year
we in the county have
we'll need to do the same thing i think
for consistency purposes um as well as
just trying to make sure that we're up
to date in our practices
so i think that we might something we
need to take back to the county is to
kind of look back at our ordinances and
maybe see how we can update
or where there's updates needed actually
we have already started that process
with legal
okay very good thank you miss ward
thank you manager
thank you board member sanchez and just
so you guys you all know it was actually
at our t in our task force meeting
that's why this all might sound
different to you and familiar to us
because we had this conversation at a
different meeting so it wasn't at the
board meeting so just thank you
for sending me straight i must go to so
many meetings
them yeah it's not that you guys missed
it it was a different conversation board
member for us please
thank you madam chair so uh mary lou
in taking it to your legal department
are you looking at making it a mirror
mirror type
ordinance
as much as we can we are looking at that
there are some
some sections and some subsections that
we have to we know we need to revise
of course the the tnr being one of them
community cats tnr in in a whole that's
that's of course one of the sections and
then we're also looking at the
animals killing livestock portion of
that and fighting because it
doesn't exist in our ordinance right now
it only exists in the state statute and
so it ties our hands on the enforcement
part of it
because we cannot enforce state statute
at this point so we're relying on the
sheriff's department to take over that
part for us so if we let's say for
instance we wanted to
enforce an animal killing livestock
we could only go after them for running
at large we can't we
we file a petition
under the animals killing livestock that
that
that citation doesn't match the petition
we're filing with the courts so we need
to be we need to be more um consistent
with that
so we're trying to we're going to change
that as well
well with the existing ordnance
ordinances because there's probably
several that would apply
um
wouldn't there be isn't there like a
cruelty to animals type uh ordinance or
isn't there a state of new mexico law
that would uh cover all of that it seems
to me that there would be especially
since there's just so much open space in
this in i mean it's like the third
largest state in the country and we only
have two million people populating it so
there's a lot of open space and a lot of
animals so do you know yeah we do cover
animal cruelty in our current ordinance
but doesn't really go into detail in
regards to if we wanted to get really
detailed on
animal like cockfighting or something
like that
yeah but the it's when you get too
specific then it becomes a double-edged
sword because then it becomes exclusive
for other possibilities for that
ordinance to work but your legal's
working on it yes and you'll keep an eye
on that absolutely great thank you so
much marilyn thank you madam chair
and just so i may add to that cruelty
so we can cite for cruelty
but we could cite only as a misdemeanor
due to
what we could do
if we know that it's going to be a
felony
that's when we call in our sheriff's
unit and have them proceed as a felony
thank you so much brian thank you thank
you so much for your presentation and
sharing and giving us a lot of
background on
this are there any more questions from
the board
hearing none thank you so much i would
invite the
the city
acos to to come up thank you
good morning madam chair members of the
board
thank you for being here thank you my
name is gino gimenez i'm the animal
control supervisor for the city of las
cruces what i'm going to do is present
to you our january 22 numbers
so we responded to 456
straight calls for the month of january
of those 245 or goa goa meaning gone on
arrival the officer did not have contact
with that animal or they chased it and
it went into a desert and they weren't
able to capture it
of those we apprehended 211 animal total
animals
160 of those were impounded at the
animal service center of those 115 were
dogs and 55 were cats
we were successful in field rtoing 41
meaning that those animals are captured
by the animal control officer and they
were able to be returned back to their
rightful owner or a responsible party
we were unsuccessful in field rtowing 25
those were animals that had some sort of
identification
except
we weren't able to give it back to their
owners and a slide coming up will show
the reasons why so we had a total of 66
identifiable animals
so here is my
three-year comparison a straight call
comparison again like brian stated you
know it's going to only show as a dot
because we're at the beginning of the
fiscal year
or the calendar year so
for comparison there's our
456 straight calls
so a little bit less than last year and
way less than 2020.
here is our three-year field rto
comparison
again we were able to
rto-41 which is much greater than the
previous two januaries
here is a new slide a request of the
board it's our community cap program
back in november i was able to get with
central dispatch and they were able to
create a new call type for us it's
called cat and trap and this is going to
be more specific to our community cats
program
you'll see though that the numbers
really don't match between this slide
and my previous light because there are
very different call types
this one is specific to cat and trap
however we could have picked up a cat
because it's an animal in custody or it
could have been a
bite cat or it could have been
an owner surrender so it doesn't qualify
for
this particular
data so we're doing cat and trap
basically as the um
the stray cat the nuisance cat that
a citizen wanted to capture
so in my slide you'll see that
we responded to 32 calls for the month
of january to a cat in a trap
of those three were identified as a
community cat meaning they had ear
tipped microchip
the requirements for a community cat and
the officer was to able to release them
in that same area
and my next slide is the reasons for uh
citizens owner releasing their animals
10 were for the owner not being able to
care for them
six
were because of aggression either
towards people or other pets
one was a dog
euthanasia request due to its age
one the owner was unable to keep in the
yard or to care for
next is a dog because it was injured
during another dog attack
one was
the owner was unable to provide medical
treatment for it
and finally three were only released
for
signs of aggression
they were attacking the children in the
household
and here are our reasons for that we
were unable to field rto
six were
the owner was deceased and the um
the next of kin the family member the
daughter
would not take the dogs in
13 there was no contact by phone or at
the residence and you'll see in my notes
that one chip was
the address was in mccollum texas and
the other one we couldn't get a hold of
the
registered owner so it was
had to be taken to the animal service
center for treatment
then five the microchip was not
registered meaning they had no
phone number no registered owner
and finally one because the animal owner
was out of town and they couldn't make
it
they couldn't meet with the animal
control officer to take it before it got
to the animal service center
and you'll see that that one
where it comes out the chip was
registered in mclellan this is something
that we're really really pushing for
is if citizens were to update their
microchip information
we this dog may have
the family may have transferred from
mcallen texas to las cruces
but as far as the microchip is concerned
it was still registered to that
mcclellan texas address so it's kind of
a
not a hindrance but the animal could
have gone home rather than to the animal
service center if that microchip
information would have been updated
and with that i will stand for any
questions
thank you so much supervisor jimenez i
really appreciate you adding that cat
question so i do have two specific
questions one related to that slide five
i think or
so i just i'm just trying to think about
what this will look like going forward
since you've provided to us so three
were already sort of designated as tnr
community cats the other 29 i assume
are
then going to end up in the they're
going to go to the bottom
right so we would expect if we are
successful in our tnr program
that the number on the top
may remain the same but the number on
the bottom will keep increasing
is that sort of what we're hoping for
madam chair and
i think what we need to keep in mind is
that the tnr program and the community
cap program are brand new yeah um i saw
one of the questions that was posed to
officer halsey is why are they having so
many redundant calls to the same area
and i think that's part of the reason is
that the tnr program and the community
cap program are brand new so we are
going to have to go back to that same
area until they all get
microchipped ear tipped vaccinated
spayed and neutered and then we they
stopped producing offspring and then
we'll have a solid number
that's going to be three five maybe ten
years down the road but until then we're
going to have we're going to continue to
have those redundant calls to that same
address
and that number may even go up
i believe that next month for february
just looking at preliminary numbers
through central dispatch through our
calls
that number is going to go up as far as
cat and trap calls
but the number is going to stay the same
as far as community cats released
because we're not there yet we're trying
to get there but we're not there yet
and again that's going to be something
that we see a progression over time
but no that's that's great i think it'll
be a good it'll be a good place for us
to watch you know and a good measure for
us to see and then my last my other
question is related to the microchip
thing is there isn't a sort of a
universal way for people to change their
microchip
status is there
madam chair from what i understand
the dog owner or animal owner is
required to call that microchip company
and update their information
whether that can be done through the
animal service center or directly
through the manufacturer or the
distributor of the microchip
i'm not positive about but i know those
are at least two options right there
that which i mean is kind of a bummer
because
getting the microchip if you don't know
the microchip company you don't know the
address that requires an interface with
an aco or an animal agency that has a
scanner and so i i wish that back in i
could go get a time machine and go back
15 years when we started doing
microchipping and make it a universally
a universal system of recording it so
anyway i just wanted to clarify if there
was a way that we could say we could
tell people go to this website and
update your address so that we can make
sure but there isn't one so that's
that's unfortunate madam chair and to
expand a little bit more on that every
aco has like a placard um so the
microchip numbers are unique to the
manufacturer and to that distributor
some start with a
zero zero zero some start with nine nine
nine
and then a unique number is uh given to
that animal
um so every distributor and manufacturer
has that unique series
so
because of that we're able to pinpoint
who distributed and who's the
manufacturer of that microchip company
of that microchip so we're able to help
them if
need be
and i'm sure the animal service center
has that same ability
and i appreciate you guys helping i just
wish there was a way that didn't have a
cost like a like an effort related cost
for folks to do that okay um those are
my questions thank you so much
supervisory minutes i really appreciate
it and thank you for adding that
that graph other questions from from the
board uh board member sanchez and then
flores madam chair and i think it's just
a kind of comment to what you're saying
because i agree i think
but but not just not i don't think
knowing who i think on top of knowing
who the manufacturer is i think a lot of
times when we're moving
the last thing that goes to your mind is
is and unfortunately not not not the pet
i mean the pets you know you're you're
caring for them but i think it's their
microchip and i wonder if you know and
that i think
we had i had made us you know a thought
or a suggestion which was i don't know
if and i think this would go for all
uh maybe utilities or stuff that if
there's a checklist that can be like you
know did you also do this did you forget
to do that like uh you know just as a
reminder because i think um i think that
was honestly
the last thing i thought about when i
came when i moved here
and and we had one of my cats ran away
and i mean i i i don't know where he
went we never found him at the shelter
we didn't find him uh
i think he found a new home
with somebody
but but um you know
like i said i think that was the last
thing i thought about was the microchip
yes and now i know you know i think
where we have the technology with um
where we can i guess now you you
register and you get an email and i
think that's a reminder and that makes
it easier but i think back then when i
when i had my originally adopted my cat
in 2005 it was you know that was still
all new and i didn't think about it so i
don't know if there's a way that maybe
and i you know i don't know if
because there's so many different
utilities but i think the utility is
something that if we could find a way to
use
utilities as a reminder when they go
check in
with
changing or setting up new service
hey maybe
did you maybe you know here's like a
little guide or maybe you forgot to do
this because i think that would be a
great reminder
to remind people hey don't forget about
your pets or you know if anything else
they can think of that they may want to
register or change or do so but anyways
i just wanted to share that because i
think
um
like i said i think that that's just
something like when you have a huge list
of everything sometimes that gets
overlooked and i appreciate your comment
is exactly on point because
um you know like i said looking back at
my cat i wish i would have i wish i
would have updated the the chip
microchip information i'm about to make
a joke which i realize is not not
appropriate in the setting but there's a
good chance he's living in a van down by
the river
[Laughter]
you know but
no joke i swear i swear you know when
we've taken walks around the
neighborhood we're like oh god that
looks like him and like we caught we're
like
we don't want to be the the crazy like
random stranger going next to somebody's
yard trying to like call their cat and
to be like is that you
but uh you know we've seen and that's
what we've made us wonder but um yeah no
i appreciate
the comment i appreciate the joke i
think
i think that's a great idea and i think
we can we can talk with folks about that
possibility so board member flores
please madam chair may i before we move
on please
board member sanchez and i think what
happened there is years ago when we were
doing the the pet licensing it was an
annual requirement so it kind of made it
easy and now that we're doing the
microchipping which is a one-time deal
it's in the animal permanently um it
requires a little bit of work on as for
the part of the animal owner if there's
any changes and i think
again comparing it to the the pet
licensing and the microchipping the work
was already done with the microchipping
it's injected it's permanent it's going
to be there forever but now the work
falls back on that dog owner or animal
owner to update that information if
there's any life changes well absolutely
and i think that's but i think like
place i think what i've noticed with new
pets is like when i get the email now
they i mean they use it as a as
uh the companies as marketing like oh
you know buy the but you know buy your
pet a tag and buy them this and buy them
that but at the same time it's the
reminder that it's there like oh i have
this this is who my company is and so i
can go in and log in and get the update
the information and at the time there
wasn't there and i don't know how many
animals
i mean i don't know how many people even
get those i just know that's me for my
own case but yeah absolutely it's it's
it is absolutely on the owner and how do
we remind them that that is
um because it's absolutely i think
um a lot when it comes to pets that's
the one thing we see and i think that's
a common theme is that
unfortunately we see and i think the
animal service center the acos see
is sometimes there's that lack of
ownership by the people or or trying to
make sure they're they're truly um
taking care of their pets absolutely
thank you so much for your comments
you're welcome
thank you
board member flores please thank you
thank you madam chair and thank you geno
officer jimenez
so
in in so far as
a an animal being registered somewhere
else based on the microchip is there any
way that you can contact mcallen for
example
and
track down the information on the owner
or have them contact the owner since
they have the information a telephone
number for example is that possible
madam chair of board member flores
the officers have gone through all of
that by the time they've come to this
point yes ma'am okay and
we really don't have the contact
information for let's say mcclellan
animal control or
that county or anything like that
majority of these to be honest with you
are our nighttime
our night shift
because the other departments have
already shut down for the day or close
down for the day they don't work the
same schedule we do
these are where we're finding the
majority of those
in the daytime the daytime shift
we're able to hold on for the dog a
little bit longer we're able to make a
a second attempt before that animal goes
up to the animal service center
but as far as your question um
i believe that nationwide
once a chip is micro once an animal is
microchipped that animal registration is
entirely up to the pet owner so they may
have done it this initial time but they
didn't follow up to show that they had
possibly moved to las cruces
okay so if my dog gets out and
we can't find her
but someone else in the world finds her
and
she's microship chipped
would they be able to trace me back as
the owner based on that microchip
irrespective of where she's found
board member florida absolutely
let's let's just say for example i'm
just hypothetically you're in back home
in l.a
you take your pet home with you and she
escapes for some reason and somehow
la county animal control
gets custody over they're going to scan
the animal the microchip is going to
come back and it's going to come back to
the information that's registered to
that microchip it could be your daughter
it could be your son it could be
your husband
but whoever's information is registered
on that microchip is who the animal
control officers are first going to
attempt to contact
okay so
pardon me and usually there's an
emergency contact so for example it's
registered to you but you're unavailable
there's always that secondary contact
person
name and phone number okay so you can
track down the owner that way yes okay
absolutely and then the other is um i
know i had uh i was taking care of my
dog for about four years before my son
finally said okay she's yours
but and he wouldn't surrender the uh
microchip
because it was his dog even though he's
you know living on the other side of the
atlantic across the pond as they say and
um but he finally surrendered so frank
bryce
you know i called him and he came over
right away and microchipped dede
and so we do have
people who actually i mean it was
wonderful that he came to the home i
because he could see that she lived
there it wasn't just like a random
someone dropping you know dropping in
and maybe it's a stolen dog or something
you know a stolen pet
but so i think that those are two
remedies there
thank you very much
welcome and my understanding is many
organizations where you adopt animals
from put themselves as the emergency
contact and so if there's a secondary
sort of issue the dog is they can't get
a hold of you because you've changed
your phone or something it will go and i
know of the las cruces organizations
that do this most of them put themselves
so that they can go back and follow up
with the animals so that it's not
completely
without a reliable contact relatively so
that's also a backup i think that's
really works pretty well absolutely
thank you so much supervisor any other
go ahead
board member word please
um
as you as we discussed earlier we're
working on our updating our ordinance
right now so looking listening to this
and i'm glad this came up because
this is
jotting jotting something new for us on
our ordinance we do have microchipping
in our ordinance
so this is the perfect opportunity for
us to put in some verbage and some
language and of course with legals
blessing
to add that you know we talk about a
working microchip in the ordinance but
we can put some verbiage in there saying
that it needs to be an updated working
microchip upon
moving to the you know whatever location
you're moving to
it needs to be updated within x amount
of time just like with the driver's
license or something else it needs to be
updated within a certain amount of time
that might be something that we can do
in our ordinance and then once we go and
we scan an animal and it's not updated
we can do that enforcement because it
hasn't been updated and we can look at
it on that side aspect
in in connection with that
you know before this all rolls out
like when our ordinance rolls out we
always look at the educational aspect of
things like the county has the free spay
and neuter program with the vaccinations
the microchipping
this all goes hand in hand we go into
the communities and we
educate
when we educate you on your violations
we also bring resources out to you to
come into compliance this is the perfect
opportunity for that
so
this i think once this ordinance is
is finally on its final draft and
approved
and ready to go i think this would be
the perfect opportunity for that
that's awesome thank you so much that's
a great idea i'm glad that we're
thinking about that as just another
check and communicating with people and
making sure that we're getting folks to
do that so thank you again any other
questions from
you all okay hearing none thank you so
much you're welcome supervisor jimenez i
appreciate your presentation
director thacker please
thank you again
good morning madam chair hey cmv board
my name is clint thacker i'm the
director of the animal services
center messiah valley here to give you
the january
2022 report
so currently at the animal center as of
yesterday 424 animals
breaks it down to 333 dogs and 91 cats
at the center
our intake
for uh
before january sorry was
dogs 429 and cats was 218 with four
other and again those others could be
they're anything
other than dogs and cats
there's a list of our transfers in other
words they are
the rescue organizations
so we as you look through that list
you're going to see a lot of local
organizations and like i said before
that it really does take a village and
this just proves that
we ended up with 174 rescues that went
out in just the month of january
some of our returns we have and this is
kind of a high month i want to say with
having the 10 there
but
in dogs we have six and cats we have
four
again with any of the behavior or
lifestyle changes we always we have
roughed ready program that we mentioned
we have food assistance if they need
some type of financial assistance
veterinary insistence shots things like
that
that we do offer so but but sometimes
people just
don't want to take on that
responsibility any longer
okay our outcomes for january uh in
adoptions we had 24 percent reclaims was
rescued was 26 community cats was 19.6
and our euthanasia was 14.9 with overall
live release rate of 84.7 percent
are euthanasia regions reasons
again aggressive behavior dog has taken
the new
highest reason for that
again it used to be remember the feral
cats but that's no longer because we
were able to
trap neuter return that great community
cap program that we have
so
i believe it's it's always going to be
these two these are our number two and
three reasons
the medical respiratory issues and the
tx is treatments so the those are
animals that have were given the
treatments but they didn't respond
to those treatments so they had to be
euthanized
our volunteer program continues to excel
currently
have overall 713 hours that were done in
january
these volunteers are doing amazing
things everything from
doing
our goal i think believe this weekend is
to do a dog walk of over 100 or 100 dogs
is the goal to get out of the center and
go for a walk
we have close to 55 people that are
volunteers for the dog team it says 44
there but i know in our meeting we had
on
tuesday that she was hoping for 55 or 50
to come
everybody walked two dogs and then they
get pictures taken while they're outside
and then those pictures are updated on
their
on their profile that are online
uh cat teams are amazing again we just
put the word out see if anybody wants to
come and clean cats or help clean cats
in the center and people came
surprisingly enough so
that is amazing they also assist a lot
in the adoption places as well
and then our current active volunteers
is 174.
we hit another spike on our visitors in
january of 22 we broke the 1000 mark
and our appointment
percentages were really i believe were
really nice the 95 percent of the 166
appointments in january were kept
and just over half of those finalized in
adoption so 57 percent
madam chair
uh
board member ellen did you did you want
to wait until the question section can
we wait till the question section to
to get
i just want a quick answer
how are they saturday appointments
going
where they're open to the public without
reservation
uh friday and saturday
are those and they're going okay
it's not a huge ginormous turnout but i
believe it was an accreditation to
bumping us over the 1000 mark for the
visitors
okay
because we got another letter
yes we did
and very long letter
thank you
so here is that information that that
you want to look at mr allen the
commissioner islands so the total
walk-in groups was 104
we have so just to recap so the board
and also the people watching understand
we have
friday and saturday from one to three
people can come in and see
uh very limited the animals that are up
for adoption in a specific kennel that's
right there off the front office
so
we had 104 groups walk in and that was
on average 13 per day
came in so a total adoptions of 23.
and i'm not sure what the average per
day means
because 104 averaged for two is not 13.
we'll have to look at that and tell you
but it resulted from 23 adoptions that
came in so
22 percent of the people coming or the
groups coming in
were
totaled in adoptions
i think there were eight days where you
had walk-ins so okay eight times
our website views
37 000
and that's about the average of what
we're getting
through this time
facebook views this one is is really
confusing
um we'll have a high month of low month
high month low month and it goes in that
cycle so we're trying to figure out what
is going on is it dropping off people's
facebook views or off their uh
off their oh what's it called
their feed
yeah their feed and then when something
comes on or a special they see it they
click on it and then it comes back on
their feed
so
we're looking at that to see
what and why and
what specials were being done in june
and versus july and so on
and these are our two
pets of the week stewie and indigo
any questions
board member sanchez please
thank you madam chair uh clint just uh
and i know going back on the facebook
i'm just curious and just a thought and
i don't have any data to back it up but
is there any way to look at also the
number of posts
and also the number i think like you
mentioned like the live
uh
the the live videos that come up just to
kind of see and be able to maybe
benchmark because i think you know like
you're exactly like you said right i
think i get a notification whenever you
go live from the aacmv
um and you're you know you're doing a
walk through or even even if it's not
live at least i have the notification
and i can still see the video later
i'd be curious to see if maybe that's
what attracts
the people because i think that's one of
the things i think we hear often is
exactly the point you said
it just gets buried on news feed but if
you're live and it's a video
man people will stop at least interact
and see what what's the video all about
what's going on what's clint up to today
so you know i'd be curious to
learn more and see if that's what's
driving those posts yeah we'll
definitely look into it thank you thank
you madam chair
thank you board member sanchez any other
questions we're in the questions phase
yes okay any other questions
from the board
okay hearing none thank you so much
director thacker
thank you i believe now we're into the
annual report
uh i think we're gonna do really quickly
committee reports um okay although
i don't know that we have a ton i think
you can probably stay up here i guess i
should say but i do
we
the finance committee um i talked with
do you want to come on up
sorry
clint you can take a seat for him for a
minute while we do the if you want
committee reports
thank you josh i didn't i didn't know
that you guys had a presentation so
please thank you
good morning madam chair members of the
board my name is josh saffel
and on behalf of the finance department
of the city of las cruces i would like
to present the unaudited financials for
the period ended january 31st 2022
first off we're going to look at our
statement of net position
in the general fund we had cash of 1
million four hundred ninety four
thousand two hundred and forty seven
dollars
receivables of two hundred and five
thousand six hundred and thirty six
dollars
giving us total assets of one million
six hundred ninety nine thousand eight
hundred and eighty three dollars
we had liabilities of fifty three
thousand two hundred and seventy seven
revenue collected in advance of a
hundred and ninety seven thousand eight
dollars
so that left us with a total unassigned
fund balance of one million four hundred
forty nine thousand five hundred and
ninety eight dollars
looking at our changes in net position
we had total revenue for the period of
two million three hundred seven thousand
seven hundred and sixty three dollars
and total expenditures of one million
six hundred and eighty five thousand two
hundred and eighty five dollars so that
gave us a positive net change or net
increase in fund balance of six hundred
and twenty two thousand four hundred and
seventy eight dollars
through the period
now if we look at our budget to actual
changes in net comparison the total
revenue of 2.3 million is 60.1 percent
of the budget
and the total expenditures of one
million six hundred eighty five thousand
are forty three point nine percent uh at
this time we're looking at about fifty
eight point three percent so
it's nice to see that our revenues were
slightly above that and our expenditures
were well below that
looking at uh the
monthly revenues versus expenditures
graph again we can see that it tends to
be that the trend is that our revenue
tends to be just slightly higher
than the expenditures and that's
continued uh this month as well
looking at our total expenditures again
our total expenditures were 1 million
685 285
of that fifty percent was salary
uh fifteen point eight percent was
benefits
eighteen percent was services
uh four percent were for temporary
services or use of attempt temporary uh
temporary employees
and then two percent insurance
seven percent supplies
and one percent in repairs and
maintenance other and capital
expenditures
and for that i will stand for any
questions
i i have one quick question just looking
at the detailed report thank you for
your presentation josh i appreciate it
um
i do it does look like and this might
also be a question for clint glant grant
revenue is lagging behind what was the
expected what would be the expected
amount and i'm wondering if that's
uh
specific grants that are just slow to
pay or if that's related to not getting
specific grants and if that's going to
be a shortcoming in the
as we as the year moves on
um
a possibility with that is the fact that
uh several of the grants we've received
are grants received in advance so we
actually receive the revenue in advance
but we can only recognize that when we
have expenditures and so it may be
the reason why we're seeing a slowdown
is that it's possible that
there's um
just a timing issue between when the
expenses are reported when we recognize
them as part of the grant and then when
we recognize the revenue okay thank you
that that helps me understand where that
might
what might contribute to that any other
questions from the board
not hearing none thank you josh very
much i appreciate it
okay just
very quickly to address the other two
committee reports
well to address the executive committee
reports because of a scheduling problem
on my end we the executive committee did
not meet this month but we've corrected
our scheduling problem and and we'll be
back at it next month so
thank you for bearing with me on that
the facilities update uh
board member gandra is not here um
so
i will
defer a facilities if clint is up for
making some
something like make a comment that that
was the same day that we had our big
cold snap and
a lot of the facilities were closed half
a day
so that did not go forward okay that
meeting so that meaning thank you very
much and now you can stay please and and
if you would be up for sharing the
action item which is resolution 2022-03
to accept the fy 2021 financial audit
report i believe i would entertain a
motion first before you would do the
presentation
are you talking i'm sorry
is he doing the presentation on the
annual report yes
well there's two separate things there's
an audit
and an annual report audit is going to
be handled by josh and the the audit
company and that's item six we're still
on item for
subsection c
and the
after the semicolon there's the
annual report so i went through the
committee reports too soon yes you guys
should put that check me on that okay
thank you
okay not doing it the end of the annual
report thank you sorry i can't do it now
how about that she forgot all about it i
forgot the abandoned child go ahead
please sorry about that clint you're
you're completely okay madam chair not a
problem
we're going to show you today i'm
pleased to present to you the 2021
annual report for the animal service
center messiah valley
i wanted to give a special thank you to
bernice
navarro who
gathered all the information she tracks
all this information
through spreadsheets throughout the year
and then compiles this report
she does it under
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well everybody else is also trying to do
all of their annual reports
she gets information from all of the
staff while they're still trying to do
their daily and also annual and monthly
numbers and works
what she does is invaluable to me and i
appreciate her so very much for putting
this together
mostly
at the last moment so i appreciate that
first to discuss the intake statistics
in other words and i'm going to be very
very
elementary here when i talk so those
that are watching this or listening in
the future
understand what i'm saying so intake is
animals that are coming into the center
for the city
it is
4071 is the total our highest form of
intake from the city
was from animal control
the second was unrestrained from the
public and then third was owner
surrender
and that mirrors also the county so the
county's total intake is 3810.
again the highest form
or method is unrestrained from the
animal control officers
and the next highest is unrestrained
from the public and then owner surrender
total combined 7988.
so nearly 8 000 animals came into the
center in
the
largest form of intake was again from
animal control but the number from
owners surrender and unrestrained from
the public and this alarms me every
single year and this is something that
is on the
um our action plan is the owner
surrender number and the unrestrained
from the public that owner surrender
number is ridiculously high it is only
number three by i believe like if i did
the math before but i can't remember
it's it's like around 200 animals is all
i don't care
board member ellen clint what does
unrestrained from the public mean
mr commissioner that means that an
individual in the public was out walking
and they found a dog and they brought it
to the ascmv
or found a cat
and unrestrained from animal control
that means animal control brought it in
okay
thank you
and then owner surrender means
that uh owner no longer
could could own or wanted the animal so
they brought it to the center
so here's our comparison through 2009
so you see that the nearly 000 animals
is lower than what it was previously
however i'm worried that 2022 if we
don't do something differently
is going to be
etching back up to that 10 000 mark
which is where we do not want to be
here's our monthly intake as you can see
it is it is a cycle
in the colder months we get less
summer months we have more
dogs always or continue to be our
highest intake over half of our animal
impounds were dogs the other the other
close 42 percent were cats
and then scattered in between there are
the small ones
wildlife avian is birds rabbits pocket
pets is like mice or
guinea pigs or hamsters
and then reptiles and some livestock
now these are the stats of the animals
that left the center or how they left
the center
as you can see transferred to rescue we
had 31.7 percent of all of our outcomes
went out in the rescue euthanized is 20
percent
adoption is 19.7 percent
return to owner which is owners that
came and redeemed their animals from the
center
is at 12 percent community cats
is 11 almost 11 and a half percent i'm
expecting that percentage to go up that
we have a full year of community cap
programs running
in 2022
the expired and center uh two percent
expired and foster one percent
and then there's some missing and some
wildlife releases there
so the adoption comparison the actual
number of adoptions is the lowest we've
ever seen in uh the ascmv since 2008
when records were kept
however you know i'm a big person on on
numbers and percentages as i that number
really alarmed me when i look at that's
the lowest we've ever had but when i
look back with our yearly reports that
go back to 2012
the
if i remember right it was 19.7
is what we had in 2021
of adoptions
if you look back from 2012 all the way
up until 2017
it was all within that 20 percent it was
19 it was 20 it was 21
and then in 2019 the numbers shot up to
of adoption
adoption rate
so we and then in 2020 it was also a
high 20 month but that was because we
didn't have a lot of animals coming in
so we're still percentage wise in the
area
but we're looking at ways that that can
increase for sure
again we always do more dog adoptions
than cat adoptions so 65 percent of all
of our adoptions were for dogs
34 for cats
our transfer number
as you can see 2021
animals went out for adoptions
a live release rate
we have three years up here so you can
get a good comparison of them
2021 83.6 percent for dogs and 72.4
percent for cats
cats is usually in that 70
percentile as you can see in cats
in 2019 was almost 80 we're almost there
and so total live release rate
altogether was 78.8 percent
for the animal service center the live
release rate is the
rate of animals that left the center
alive
so 78.8 percent of our animals left the
center alive in 2021.
83.6 in 2020 and 80.9
in 2019
euthanasia breakdown again the number
one reason in 2021 for euthanasia was
feral cats
the next one down is respiratory signs
and again the tx means treated so we
already treated those animals they did
not respond to the treatment so they
were euthanized
i do want to go back
maybe it's the next one all right here's
the next one
uh
so you can see in 2021 we euthanized
but i want to just point out that it
continues to go down
throughout the years
i i cannot imagine
even being in 2015 and euthanizing 3 000
animals
but especially in 2008 when the
when this started of euthanizing over 10
000 animals
so i'm grateful for
where we have come from
because we learned from our past
and
is too much for us but we are a far cry
from what we used to be as we continue
to learn
we continue to have great public service
and outreach
programs the our surgical center is one
of them
in trap neuter return we did and this is
all surgeries that we've done a total of
four thousand and thirty just a
phenomenal number remember we have
limited veterinarian staff and we also
have
this is all with limited vet
veterinarian surgical staff as well
but we had 1 311 trap due to return
surgeries we had 889 shelter surgeries
these are animals that are property of
the center
and that needed to be sterilized prior
to adoptions and then 824 adoption
surgeries and those are animals that
were adopted
uh but needed to have surgery
rescue those are animals that would go
out to rescue if they were sterilized or
that went out to rescue and were
sterilized was 389
snap that is the spay neuter action
program that is our public spay and
neuter portion that we that we
implemented
earlier this year
in or last year
and
we did want to bring back public spay
and neuter because it was suspended for
a period of time but we wanted to do it
in a way that would
incorporate or bring in
some of the low income so we partnered
with snap to do that so 304
surgeries for that return to owner is
are next with 184 those are owners that
came and got their animals from
the ascmv they redeemed them we call
and the law sites states that if it's
the second impound
i believe in a year they have to either
purchase a sterilization voucher or they
have to have the the animal sterilized
so
that is why
that option is there so 184 animal
owners took
took advantage of our reduced cost
sterilizations and then 129 other
surgeries and that could be anything
from
hit by car amputations
you know a dewclaw removal any just any
other injuries that need to be done
total visitors 8 652 came to the ascmp
in 2021
as our sign-in forms indicate
facebook views
again a little bit of the up and down
we're going to be looking into
our website views are continuous
around average of 37 000
website hits each month
we do have a lot of programs that we
continually push
throughout the year
we have an incredible volunteer program
we're going to get into here in a little
bit we have articles that go out in the
newspaper we get a lot of feedback from
those we're grateful for our grant
writer
that completes those we have pet of the
weeks that go out to radio stations and
the newspapers we're on instagram
facebook snapchat
i'm particularly
proud of our staff and what we do with
the drive-through clinics that we do
throughout the year we did two of them
this last year we've microchipped over
500 animals and
literally saw thousands of animals
and people
we do
radio interviews and we also have
conversations at the center
where people can post questions to me
the first friday of every month
our volunteer program is a huge success
i love our volunteer program
coordinator on how she handles this
she's doing she's having the volunteers
work closely with the ascmv but also
on their own
meaning that they can go and they can do
a
program all on their own they don't
they're not hinging on
how many of the asuv staff have to be
there they do adoption programs
they also come and help us out and help
set up
at many many places so as you saw over a
hundred
of volunteers are active and love having
them and our volunteer coordinator has
reached out to some great places between
the college
the medical college in town
boys and girls clubs just great places
and getting some fantastic people that
love animals
as our finances
for those that do not know the jpa
or the ascmv is a jpa meaning a joint
powers agreement which means two people
or two groups got together
and said let's create something from
both of us and that's how the animal
service center mississippi messiah
valley came to be
the city does do all of our finances
so we follow their policies which is why
josh is up here he's a city employee
talks to us about our finances
the budget for the ascmv runs on a
fiscal year with the city and that's
from july to june
and that is our fiscal standings there
and that concludes our annual report
i'll stand for any questions
um
board member ward please
clint can you go to slide five
i just have a question
so when you talk about county intake and
you talk about including anthony hatch
messiah at sunderland park white sands
now i know anthony itself and and
son like
like well let's just say anthony itself
has their own animal control officer
now when you include those numbers are
you including
the municipality of anthony itself in
these numbers
are you just saying what are you
including
yes it's included in there bernice is
shaking or nodding her head yes
okay
thank you
thank you i i had a you're good
okay i had a question you mentioned
on slide probably like 15ish if i see it
i can identify it again
uh no maybe
it's on the spay and neuter
period so maybe a little bit further
down
that one no total surgeries perhaps
sorry i'm pointing like you can see what
i'm pointing at um
so i'm curious about something that you
said while this was up specifically
about the law
suggesting that if they are impounded
twice they'll be sterilized
no it's they have to purchase a
sterilization
certificate
so they can they can decide whether to
to redeem that certificate or not but
they have to at least purchase one
so but after one
impound they don't have to do that and
is that a sit where is that law it's a
state okay
um
okay
thank you that helps me understand
because i feel like
that's a place where we could to me if
if an animal is is stray there that
suggests i wouldn't
infer a level of kind of
not not as cared for and so i would
think that
we would want to intervene as soon as
possible in those types of situations
especially if we're doing things like
spaying and neutering feral cats so i
feel like
um that's a place where i would say if
it happens once they should probably
have to do that and i do understand
matter chair and i when i was in utah i
was part of a team that
we worked towards getting this exact
same law passed in utah through the
legislation and the first strike
it was not a go at all people were
saying well there's there's always the
oops there's always the dog ran off
without its collar there's there's we
need to give some you give people at
least one chance to return it
and so that's what we did and it looks
like new mexico thought the same way
is that there's always that one time the
difference between the community cats is
as a community cat definition is is this
has no sign of ownership i mean llc if
you look at the percentages of the
animals coming in that are redeemed dogs
are redeemed a lot more than cats so the
higher probability of it so it's kind of
that one strike that's what they get i
have to admit that if an animal is
unaltered that already was the strike
and the person gave up their chance to
to
be irresponsible with them not having a
collar so admittedly i i would love if
we were more strict on that
but thank you that helps me understand
any other questions from the board board
member ellen's please madam chair
glenn
is the
vacancy problem in surgical
has it been solved or we still
have some vacancies
if i remember right we currently have
one vacancy
and that has been posted
and we're waiting for applicants to be
done that's the only so it is in the
realm of being completed
the
there's still a vacancy in the surgical
department and that's the veterinarian
or the surgical veterinarian so we're
working on that one
what's the nature of the vacancy that
you're posting
well we so we have
well the posting is of of um i'm sorry a
veterinarian surgical assistant is the
one that is posted
does that require
a veterinarian degree
no no sir it does not
what kind of training is required then
i believe the job description states
like a couple years of knowledge of
surgical experience
in the veterinarian setting so
they all they prep the animal for
surgery they
get the animals
or the instruments all sterilized
so they they have to know that process
and understand it okay thank you
any other questions from the board
all right thank you very much clint i
appreciate it and i apologize again for
mixing up the agenda
um
now i believe that we're moving on to
six item six action items josh thank you
for coming up thank you again clint for
that presentation and bernice thank you
so much for collecting all that data i
know it's
it's
it's a lot for you so thank you for
for supporting that
go ahead please josh
so once again good morning madam chair
members of the board my name is josh
saffel and once again on behalf of the
finance department i would actually like
to introduce our external auditor uh mr
chris garner he's coming to us via the
telephone um i'll be handling his
presentation materials
but he will be speaking uh hopefully are
you on are you
are you on chris
can you hear me
ma'am chair
um i know
i have to leave at 11
okay and will we have a quorum
yes we'll still have this
okay thank you
four
so yes we'll still have a quan thank you
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this is
the worst seance ever i'm not sure is it
are you there chris
chris right
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i think we're working on figuring out
the
technical difficulties
can you hear anything
we almost had you for a minute there
chris
okay uh can you hear me now yes yes
okay perfect
thank you josh uh thank you madam chair
and board members
what we have here
on this presentation is the highlights
from the exit conference that we had
back in
november
at the end of the audit and so i'm just
going to go again over some of the
highlights so josh if you'll move to the
next slide
this first slide talks about the results
of the audit and the report that we
issued
and so as we went to the audit
and we issued what we call an unmodified
opinion
um in essence as you can see i put on
that
on the slide a clean opinion so the
opinion that we issued is in essence the
type of reports that you want to receive
and it states that the financial
statements are fairly presented in
accordance with the
standards that we have to follow so
this is the highest level of assurance
that we as auditors can give and so this
is the type of report that you want to
receive
as we go the next slide
this next slide is talking about
what we call a yellow book audit in new
mexico the state audit rule requires
that
we do a yellow book audit which expands
the type of testing that we as your
auditors have to do
throughout the audit so what happens is
with just regular auditing standards
you know we could take one transaction
get an understanding of it we don't have
to test
that control process well with the
yellow book audit we have to pick
samples test internal controls
and then what we do is in this report we
we talked about how we've expanded our
testing and what we're doing differently
and then we have to report our findings
and as you can see we did not have any
findings as we completed that yellow
book testing
in new mexico the state auditor has
expanded the type of
yellow book audit that has to be tested
so in new mexico we're required to look
at about
there's approximately 15 other items
things like traveling per diem use of
credit cards
procurement so there's an expanded
amount of transactions in new mexico
that we have to test and the one thing
in new mexico too that the state audit
rule does is it takes the threshold of
findings in essence down to the ground
level so in new mexico if we have any
exceptions whether it's a significant
exception or it's not it doesn't matter
all findings have to be reported in your
audit and based upon our testing we did
not have any exceptions even with the
expanded items that we had to look at
for the single audit
if we go to the next slide
in this slide we are as your auditors
required to report any difficulties
encountered performing the audit
and as you can see on this slide we did
not have any the audit went extremely
smooth
when we asked questions or for
supporting documents
that information is given to us in a
timely manner it was given to us in good
order so that we could complete the
audit process so
the reason i left this presentation or
this slide in the presentation is i
think it's really important for the
board to know that the finance
department is maintaining your records
well so that they could respond to our
questions
respond to the supporting documents that
we have to be given
and um you know it just shows that your
financial records are being maintained
in a good order and so again i think
that's really important for the board to
know that
if we go to the next slide
this talks about audit adjustments
and the reason i i think this is
actually one of the more important
communications that we as your auditors
have to make
if we're going in and having to make
lots of adjustments as you're making
financial decisions as josh presented
your financial information earlier if
we're making lots of adjustments you
would maybe have a little bit of
hesitate hasn't hesitancy relying on
those numbers but as you can see here we
had no audit adjustments
all the numbers were correctly reported
and again i think what that does is that
lets the board know that you can feel
confident as you're reviewing those
financial information throughout the
year and that you can rely on those
numbers until good about it
we go to the next slide
talking about findings
again i want to emphasize in new mexico
we have a higher standard that we have
to look at the state auditor has
specific items that they expand
that auditing standards don't require us
to look at and even with
the expanded populations and expanded
items that we have to test
and with that lower threshold
of
findings that we have to do in new
mexico again if we have any exceptions
whether it rises to
a more problematic finding or not it
doesn't matter all findings have to be
reported and even with that level we did
not have any findings as we tested the
internal controls and we tested the
transactions related to your
organization so as a result of this year
and last year there were no findings
for either year
to go to the next slide
this is just a financial highlight
as you can see you know the expenses
ever made over the last uh since 2018
have remained fairly consistent
um but your revenues did increase
um
about 500 000 from last year
and what that
increase really relates to is the city
of las cruces
increased their contributions to the
organization um between
2020 and 2021 so that's really
the reason for the increase in revenue
but again your expenses have remained
fairly consistent they did decrease a
little bit over the last three years so
your net income has gone up over the
last uh
last couple of years
because the next slide
i'll
entertain any questions
josh thank you for your support and
chris thank you for the audit um
are there any questions from the from
the board members who are here
board member flores please i don't have
any questions i just want to thank you
josh
um for
keeping everything
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to the high standards that new mexico
requires it's above the normal
auditing uh processes that are taken by
accountants nationally so
um that's definitely a feather in your
cap so thank you very much thank you and
thank you clint for keeping the
expenditures
at the same level even though with we
have higher revenues and thank you
bernice thank you all
thank you madam chair
thank you any other questions from from
the board
hearing none
again josh thank you so much for for
presenting this and keeping us on track
in this way
manager i'll make a motion to accept the
fiscal year 2021 financial audit report
thank you
moved by commissioner sanchez second by
flores
second by flores
may we
any any further discussion
then i would ask for a roll call vote
please on approving
the 2021 financial audit report
resolution 202203
board member ward
yes board member ellens
board member flores
yes board member sanchez yes
board member quran yes thank you
madam sheriff i could just correct one
thing that i said before is i got a text
from our
our manager's office manager and she
stated that it is the first impound
unsterilized animal we charged a 25
sterilization deposit or
certification fee on the first impound
so i was incorrect in speaking
and it's every time the animal is
impounded so and then they get the money
back when they show it can go towards
the sterilization with us if they choose
to do with us
or they can get the money back after
they show proof of sterilization within
30 days okay thank you very much i'm
glad to hear that thank you
and madam chair i also have one more
thing i like to share with the board and
also with the public
about walk-throughs public walk-throughs
if that's okay i don't know when you'd
like me to do that um
uh i think now before we start into
public input we also have one other
business item
that we need to get to so go ahead okay
so
we did receive a letter
and it was it was regarding our
walkthroughs and why we currently cannot
do walkthroughs right now and i wanted
to lay this out and show you the reason
why
so i want to show you what before
it was is we had animal control officers
would pull in here and we had an area
kennels back here where they would
impound the animals
from here they would go into this kennel
and then they would go into this kennel
and it was it was like almost like a
snake pattern okay so the animals would
move each kennel each day
go down because we needed to have an
empty kennel to clean
so it would move it would be to see and
then they'd end up over here in l and s
and these were the only these two were
the only kennels available for public
walk-throughs
since i have started working here in
2017. so people would come into the
lobby they'd say i want to look at dogs
we'd say sure they walk through this
door they look at the
s kennel then they look into l kennel
now if they wanted an entire walk
through
we would have to have somebody come and
meet them like if they're missing their
dog or or their cat
then we would have staff walk them
through these areas over here
so that's what it was however we have
lost this entire area
because of construction
there is there's no longer a gate right
here that's blocked off for construction
animal control officers now drive this
way through our gate they park here and
they impound in our eye kennels
then those animals come into l
so this is a stray holding animal these
animals are not available for adoption
these kennels are
these animals are waiting to be redeemed
or for their time to go by so we do not
allow people here after here they come
into c
and then and then they go into b and
then they go into a m is our medical
so if there's any medical item or any
medical cases
we like to have them back into medical
q is our quarantine
area
bytes
of that nature stay in quarantine so
public is not allowed there and then r
over here is our green roof area that's
clear over here
so once people come in and walk
we say right now on friday and saturday
you can come and you can see these dogs
that are right here in s
because those are the only ones in this
area that are available i have no way
to get staff or i'm sorry to get public
to come all the way through and see the
animals that are available for adoption
in a or
c they would have to walk through
areas where dogs are out loose there's
needles
the animal controller walking through
i i just don't see a way and also this
sidewalk right here it's a construction
fence that borders and construction is
happening right out here
so we can't walk around they would have
to go through the actual center and
through these kennels to get to the
available dogs in a and b we have our
euthanasia room right here and our dish
room so this isn't this isn't me being a
stickler or being a jerk not wanting
people to walk through the center i
absolutely
we are going to get there in fact when
the new center is built
in hopefully to be completed between
september and january of this year
well i should say september of 22
january of 2023
that
people can come and walk through anytime
they want because we're going to be if
they're indoor outdoor kennels and
that's going to be the huge advantage of
that
so that's currently the situation
we we are looking at extending the hours
that people can come and walk through
because now that we're the mandate's
been lifted
we have those possibilities
so we're looking at options of lifting
mandate or lifting
increasing the hours that animals can be
viewed in s another thing
the advantage of the
appointments
animals can be seen
online
any animal in the entire center if
they're marked as available
can be seen online
so if there's a dog back in b
in b1
right here
if they want to see it for an
appointment for adoption they just need
to call make an appointment and we can
grab it and and they can meet out back
out here
so that's the advantage of the
appointments otherwise the animals
like i said before that were walked
through were just these two kennels
never have we ever let anybody walk
through the center and look at every
single kennel that they want to and
choose a dog to see
since i've been here
so there's a little bit of confusion in
in the public about
what
open the center back up
well that only means where we were in
2019 before we shut down and that was
just these two kennels
again we are going to get there
but we need to have patience as we get
the right things in place so i'll answer
any questions there may be
thank you for that clarification it does
address a number of things and i
appreciate hearing that that increasing
the number of walk-through appointments
i do think that that also just builds
goodwill among people and so i
appreciate that you all are looking to
to make space for that even with the
restrictions that it that it's clear a
result of kind of both
construction and
and moving and all that you have going
on so i appreciate
both aspects of that and that you
clarify this for the today and madam
chair we would most likely go to
adoption-based
appointments anyways with the
construction
because again there's no way to get
people through
these areas so we would most likely even
if the the kobe 19 pandemic never
happened we probably would have done it
anyways for ease of getting animals seen
and
i i completely understand that i also
think um the com we're about to have
another conversation about geo bonds and
so i think it's really important for us
as as a city specifically to be able to
articulate what this
has what this means what the progress is
on the geo bonds and what that means for
the future of how that's going to be so
i appreciate you you making that clear
and letting us know about the
the next phases so are there any other
questions from the board about this
madam chair
board member ellen please clint when a
person reviews the
animals on the website
and makes an appointment to come in and
see it
is the animal then brought down to the
what is now the very small public area
the small public area
like out here
no no s no no the animal if the
individual makes an appointment and they
can they can reserve like say they make
an appointment for a dog in b right here
uh we can meet we meet them outside
and it's in covered or play areas out
here we call them get acquainted areas
that are back here
so
so the the individual does not get to go
back
to these
more remote candles to view the dog no
okay
thank you board member ellen's board
member award please
um clint out of 400 and some odd animals
that you have in the facility right now
um
approximately how many of those um dogs
are adoptable dogs right now
i i couldn't
probably over 300
i mean because you have you have these
kennels here that have dogs in them you
have these kennels here that have dogs
that aren't available and then some of
our metal case medical cases aren't
available because they're under medical
watch but the majority of these kennels
a b and c
are all available animals majority of
them
so i'm just looking like at if you look
in the s kennel
oh i'm sorry and s yeah the s is
available for adoption so s is where the
public's allowed and where they're
available so that's that's a minimal
you're looking you can house what 14
animals in there right now
and
that's all that they would actually be
able to view if they went in for a
for a visit
without going on the website and they
did a walk just to walk in they'd only
be able to see 14 animals is that
correct no it's what's in there in
kennel s there's 18 kennels 18. and we
usually have
you know depending on the size of the
dog there's sometimes two kennel or two
dogs per kennel
i know one kennel in there right now has
three because they're three small breed
dogs
so there's more than just 14 dogs in
there and we also when people come in we
also tell them all of our animals are
available we have a qr code that they
can scan with their phone and it takes
them directly to our adoptable animals
online
so and also the individuals that are
coming in to do a walk through they also
need to do an appointment
so they'll have to stay and wait until
we can squeeze them into an appointment
based during those one to three
so just another suggestion and you might
be doing it already so when an
individual comes let's say they just go
into the s area and they don't go any
further than that
i don't know if you had guys have a
kiosk like a big tv screen or something
with a total screen that's just a
rotating of just the other animals and
other other areas that they while
they're viewing they can see other
animals in other areas that are up up
for adoptions that they can come and ask
you about with maybe an identification
number
that they can see that they would not
have seen otherwise
just a suggestion if you're not already
doing it you might we we started working
on that
mary lou and the problem behind it is is
we would have to have an internet
connection
with a web page on our tvs to view the
adoptable animals and our tvs currently
don't don't have the web browser on them
we and so the other idea would be is
well we could do a almost like a
powerpoint slideshow of available
animals and then you're looking at and
we want to do those for like the the
long-term animals so people can see them
but then you're looking at continually
updating those almost every day
but it has been talked about and again
it's something that we're looking into
thank you thank you
thank you board member any other
questions
okay thank you for that update clint i
appreciate your responding to the
to the
community inputs so thank you for that
um
before we get to public comment it was
brought to my attention and again i
don't think that robert's rules allows
for a friendly amendment
but
there was something on our minutes that
suggested that the meeting started at 9
last time and it actually started at 8
and then the meeting was called to order
at 903 and i think it was probably
called to order around 808 33 so if
that's a friendly amendment i don't know
can we ask robert about this
whatever you say robert says i support
um i think bernice can do a quick change
on the minutes
we can hand write that real quick and
it'll be fine to go through okay thank
you
roberts is only um it recommends
procedure there's no law and that we go
but i just didn't want to no i think
we should we could make that note and
so thank you thank you for pointing that
thank you bernice
it's just that we're so used to meeting
at nine it seems yeah thank you thank
you
uh we're now on item seven public input
so uh thank you for those of you who
have bared with us from the public i
don't know if there is any public input
please sir any other i don't seeing one
person please come up
and state your name for the record
well name's gary gayle
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just on the microchip issue
when i moved down here from
omaha nebraska 17 years ago
in the moving packet that the realtor
handed me was a checklist
for taking animals which had microchip
notify carrier
food water it had a whole whole page of
of listing and that might be something
we need to
speak with the local realtors and maybe
get them to you know build a packet or
to get together or we build help them
put something together in their
relocation packets and something maybe
to get a hold of like realtor.com and
some of the big
relating companies um to you know
try to see if they could when they give
their um sales packets or moving packets
to the
to the individuals that other that is in
incorporated
with with the packet um just as a uh as
in a checklist and even the title
companies when they give the
all the checklists and go through all
that that uh yeah it's kind of like a
reminder that might be another error
ready to look at too
to maybe enhance the mic being the
microchip concept of changing your
address your phone number etc etc it
really helped me a lot because with with
going through the sales and the moving
and everything else
um it's you know you're taking your
animals but boy that's the one part of
it you just completely is oblivious to
you're just more concerned about getting
the cages the food the water what do you
need to do how are you going to
transport them and the microchip just
wasn't there when i saw that on the um
on the checklist it was like oh wow okay
so it was that wasn't easy that was an
easy thing to do when i moved so it's
something we might want to address to
really as i said the real interest in
the moving community thank you
thank you so much that's a that's a
great idea and i know there are a lot of
realtors who are animal advocates so i
think that might be a great other
opportunity so thank you for that
comment any other public comments
seeing none hearing none
we're on to chair and board comments
i'll start
with board member ward and we can work
our way down um on tier on board
comments please i have nothing thank you
board member flores
it's your time to comment
i was busy doing in ministerial work
anyway
my only comment is thank you very much
clint for the work you do
gino mary lou
bernice and the public and
officer withella thank you so much all
for uh doing
such a fantastic job
and i think that the audit report
said a lot because you kept your
expenses down revenue was up
so
that's a really good show and thank you
so much to clint for your thorough
report daniel report thank you thank you
madam chair
board member sanchez
i'm good thank you madam chair
board member gandra thank you
i apologize for stepping out i had to
address a safety issue with the business
and law enforcement and so here i am
back at the meeting
i'm sure it went while i read the packet
so
i appreciate the
everybody's work
and i'll turn it back over to you chair
thank you very much i also want to echo
the gratitude for keeping this moving
getting us updated and especially
updated data
and information in response to public
the public
so thank you for for keeping us on track
i do want to follow up i know that we
have a couple of things especially
related to tnr we're continuing the
conversation we we we know that we have
to be working with you all
collaboratively on that and
uh
clint i appreciate your sort of
referencing it in your presentation but
i think
we can continue to work on that to make
sure that we're doing the best that we
can for our community so
so please uh we will
be in touch and keep keep that
conversation going so
i'm sorry madam chair i just have one
more thing i need to let you know the
board know is that
the jpa edits that we're working on just
went through the second
draft yesterday and we got more
um
i guess we were mary lou we're more or
less voluntold
to to get some things finished or get
some input on that so we have another
meeting coming up in two weeks on the
jpa so that will be draft number three
so that is in progress going forward
thank you that's the second big project
that i think we've been talking about so
i appreciate your update on that as well
and we'll look forward to seeing it as
it comes through in its new iteration
um
all right uh
hearing none here being at the end of
the agenda i would entertain a motion to
adjourn
so moved
by board member sanchez on second did in
passing by by board member flores if you
couldn't hear it uh
please can we
take a vote on the adjournment please we
don't need to take a vote we don't need
your ticket no you just didn't
work with your feet thank you
thank you
you