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[Animal Advisory Commission on February 20, 2026. ]
PARTNERS, UH, THE SPACE AND OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT WE NEED THROUGH THIS DRIVE THROUGH DRIVE-THROUGH PROCESS.UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAD SOME, UH, UH, DATA THAT NEEDED TO BE FIXED IN THIS SLIDE.
UH, I, I CAN'T SEE THE SLIDE TOO WELL, BUT I BELIEVE SPAY NEUTER NETWORK PROVIDED 430, UH, SUBSIDIZED SURGERIES WITH, UH, TCAP PROVIDING 543, UH, IN OUR PARTNERSHIP FOR OUR COMMUNITY CAT PROGRAM.
OUR OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY EVENTS.
DURING THIS FIRST QUARTER, WE HAD, UH, REOCCURRING PET FOOD PANTRIES.
WE HAD OUR COMMUNITY CAT FIX EVENTS.
WE HAD, UH, THREE SPAY AND NEUTER EVENTS THAT HAPPENED.
UH, EDUCATIONAL TOWN HALLS THAT WE PARTICIPATE IN, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WALKTHROUGHS.
WE, WE, WE PARTICIPATED IN, PARTICIPATED IN THREE DISTRICTS, UH, ADDITIONAL EVENTS.
WE HAD 35 TOTAL EVENTS WITH 220, UH, ANIMALS THAT ATTENDED WITH 113 OF THOSE BEING, UH, SHELTER DOGS WITH 11 BEING ADOPTED, 11 BEING FOSTERED AND, UH, TO ADOPT.
AND ONE FOSTERED SEVEN SHELTER CATS WITH FIVE ADOPTED 90 FOSTER DOGS ATTENDED WITH EIGHT ADOPTED, AND EIGHT FOSTERED TO ADOPT.
AND THEN 10 FOSTER CATS THAT ATTENDED WITH SIX ADOPTIONS AND TWO FOSTERS TO ADOPT.
DURING Q1 IN OUR MARKETING EFFORTS, WE HAD TWO EVENTS.
UH, ONE WAS COMING THE CANINES AND THE OTHER WAS HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
UH, THEY WERE VERY SUCCESSFUL AND WE APPRECIATE THE COMMUNITY'S SUPPORT AND, AND PARTICIPATION.
AND THEN YOU SEE OUR, OUR, OUR ANALYTICS BASED ON OUR, OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, UH, WITH OUR AVERAGE POSTS, UH, THE CLICKS, THE FOLLOWERS, AND THEN NEW FOLLOWERS, AND THEN THE POSTS THAT WERE SHARED BOTH ON INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK.
NEXT SLIDE, SOME OF OUR MARKETING TOP POSTS.
UH, WE HAD, UH, FEATURED FOR FOLLOW-UP FA FAUNA, UH, AND THEN BLUE TAKING OVER DESK DUTY, UH, THANKSGIVING FEATURE FOR ARIEL.
AND THEN ON INSTAGRAM WE HAD, UH, UH, UH, MIDNIGHT HOWLER, AND THEN OUR D 90 RUNNER ENGAGEMENT FEATURE.
AND THEN OUR BALLOU TAKING OVER THE DESK.
BALLOU WAS A, A HOT TOPIC FOR BOTH INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK.
IN OUR TRANSPORT AND RESCUE EFFORTS, UH, FOR Q1, WE HAD A TOTAL OF 25 OUT-OF-STATE TRANSPORT PARTNERS ASSISTING WITH 11 NEW PARTNER, UH, APPLICATIONS, AND APPROVED, UH, 29 TOTAL OUT OF STATE PARTNERS THAT ARE ACTIVE WITH, UH, TOTAL RESCUE TRANSPORTS OF 325 TOTAL ANIMALS.
TAGGED FOR TRANSPORT IN Q1 OUT OF TEXAS WITH 164 DAS PETS THAT HAD A POSITIVE OUTCOME OUT-OF-STATE ADOPTIONS AND TRANSPORTS, UH, ASSISTANCE ADOPTION, TRANSPORT PROGRAMMING ASSISTED WITH 28 ADOPTIONS ACROSS 18 STATES IN Q1.
AND THEN WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS SOME OF THE TEAM'S GOALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 26, UH, BUILDING ON THE EXISTING, UH, PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRANSPORT, UH, WAS, UH, ACHIEVED.
AND THEN CONTINUING TO ADD PARTNERS ON EXISTING MIDWEST AND NORTHWEST TRANSPORT ROUTES WAS ACHIEVED.
AND THEN THERE'S STILL SOME THINGS THAT THE TEAM IS WORKING ON, UH, FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
NEXT SLIDE, FOR OUR SUSPECTED ANIMAL CRUELTY.
UH, SO FAR THE FIRST QUARTER, WE'VE TAKEN IT ON AVERAGE OF ABOUT 2,800.
UH, WE'RE AVERAGING ABOUT 2,800 PER FISCAL YEAR, BUT, UH, THIS YEAR MAY BE AN ANOMALY 'CAUSE, UH, THE FIRST PART OF THE FISCAL YEAR SO FAR, WE'VE TAKEN IN OVER 2000, UH, THAT'S 2000 VICTIMS OF SUSPECTED ANIMAL CRUELTY THAT CAME IN THROUGH DAS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DPD AND OPERATION KINDNESS HUMANE SOCIETY, WHO'S PROVIDING THE FORENSICS, UH, AND, UH, TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT, UH, IN ORDER FOR THIS PROGRAM TO SUCCEED, UM, THIS NUMBER WILL GROW.
UH, I, I, I CAN FORESEE, UH, THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THIS FISCAL YEAR, UH, AND WITH THAT, THAT, UH, COMPLETES MY, UH, PRESENTATION.
THERE ARE SOME APPENDIX ITEMS, SOME RESOURCE LINKS FOR DATA.
AND THEN IF YOU NOTICE IN OUR DEPARTMENT CONTACTS, JILLIAN, IF YOU WANNA SCROLL TO THAT SLIDE, UH, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I THINK I'VE BEEN ABLE
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TO PRESENT THIS SLIDE WITH NO VACANCIES LISTED IN LEADERSHIP.SO WITH THAT, WE WILL OPEN THIS UP FOR QUESTIONS BY THE COMMISSIONERS.
AND, UH, WELCOME TO ASSISTANT DIRECTOR EARL AND, UH, MS. FREEMAN IN MEDICAL.
UM, TODAY, LET'S JUST GO IN ORDER OF DISTRICT.
SO DO WE HAVE DISTRICT ONE ONLINE? DO, YES.
SO EACH COMMISSIONER WILL GET FIVE MINUTES, UM, PER ROUND.
AS A REMINDER, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THE RAPID FIRE QUESTIONS.
IF, UM, YOU ARE ASKING SOMETHING TO STAFF AND THEY'RE RESPONDING, THAT'S WHEN WE PAUSE YOUR TIME.
IT ONLY WILL GO WHEN YOU SPEAK.
UM, AND THEN WHEN THE FIVE MINUTES ARE UP, IF WE HAVE TIME AND THERE'S A MOTION TO HAVE A SECOND ROUND OF COMMENTS, WE CAN DO SO.
AND ONE, ONE, CAN I ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THE QUESTIONS I'M ALLOWED TO ASK? YES.
I JUST, I JUST NEED YOUR VIDEO ON IT.
I DON'T KNOW WHY IT'S NOT SHOWN ON MY END, BUT THAT'S FINE.
YEAH, MY QUESTION IS ABOUT THE QUESTIONS I'M ALLOWED TO ASK.
IS IT ONLY, UM, IN RESPONSE TO THINGS THAT WERE JUST PRESENTED, OR CAN THERE BE ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT MY, UM, CONSTITUENTS HAVE HAVE ASKED ME TO ASK? IT SHOULD BE ABOUT THE PRESENTATION, BUT YOU CAN GET WITH, UM, STAFF AFTER, UH, WITH THE CONSTITUENT QUESTIONS.
SO WE CAN EITHER DO EMAIL OR YOU CAN REACH OUT TO PAUL AND MYSELF.
IF YOU'RE READY, I'LL GO AHEAD AND START YOUR TIME.
I THINK THAT WILL ELIMINATE THE MAJORITY OF MY QUESTIONS.
UNFORTUNATELY, I THINK MOST OF THEM WERE ABOUT, UM, THE, THE STORM AND, AND PROTOCOL, UH, WITH ANIMALS.
SO IS THAT SOMETHING WE CONSIDER MAYBE FOR THE NEXT AGENDA STORM PROTOCOL? WELL, ACTUALLY IT DOES HAVE TO DO WITH VOLUNTEERS ACT ACTUALLY, IT, IT DOES.
UM, IS THAT, IS THAT A QUESTION I'M ALLOWED TO ASK? 'CAUSE YEAH, IF, IF, OKAY, GREAT.
YEAH, LET ME, LET'S GO AHEAD AND START THE TIME OVER.
UM, I, I KNOW AMANDA KNOWS THAT I'VE ASKED ABOUT THIS PREVIOUSLY.
UM, WE HAD A LOT OF CHALLENGES IN DISTRICT ONE WITH, UM, FOLKS REPORTING ANIMALS OUTSIDE OR HAVING, YOU KNOW, OWNERS LEAVING THEIR DOGS OUTSIDE, WHATNOT.
UM, AND THEN FEELING LIKE THE, THEY WEREN'T BEING RESPONDED TO.
AND IN FACT, I PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED THAT, WHERE I, I, UM, HAD A REQUEST THAT I PUT IN A SERVICE REQUEST FOR THAT, AND IT WAS CLOSED OUT THE, IN THE SAME MINUTE THAT IT WAS ASSIGNED TO AN OFFICER IMMEDIATELY CLOSED OUT.
AND THE NOTATIONS SAID, UM, OH, WASN'T ABLE TO GET AHOLD OF THE PERSON WHO MADE THE REPORT, BUT HERE I WAS SITTING WITH MY PHONE IN MY HAND WAITING, YOU KNOW, THAT'S HOW I SAW IT HAPPEN.
UM, SO WE, WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND I CAN GIVE YOU, UH, A TON OF THOSE SR NUMBERS, BUT ONE OF THE PROPOSED THOUGHTS I HAD WAS, YOU HAVE SUCH ROBUST VOLUNTEERS RIGHT NOW, AND YOU JUST GAVE SOME EXCELLENT NUMBERS.
UM, THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF HOURS WAS, WAS FIVE.
UM, I WAS WONDERING HOW YOU WOULD FEEL ABOUT IF, IF I WAS ABLE TO ORGANIZE IT, UM, MAYBE A CALL TREE SO THAT THERE WAS SOME VOLUNTEERS WHO WOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE FIRST LEVEL OF TRIAGE.
BECAUSE WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, 3 1 1 WAS DOWN FOR, UM, FOR ANIMAL LACK OF CARE.
UH, THE 3 1 1 APP WAS NOT, YOU COULD NOT SELECT THAT IT WASN'T AN OPTION.
UM, AND SO MY THOUGHT IS THAT WAS DRIVING PEOPLE TO THE PHONES MORE.
AND WHAT WAS HAPPENING IS THE 3 1 1, YOU KNOW, OPERATOR WOULD PUT IN THE WHATEVER NOTES THAT THEY PUT IN, AND IT WOULD GO STRAIGHT TO AN OFFICER, AND THE OFFICER WOULD CLOSE IT.
SO MY THOUGHT IS IF THERE'S SOMEONE, IF THERE'S A LAYER IN BETWEEN THERE WHERE WE COULD DETERMINE, HAVE YOU ALREADY TRIED TO TALK TO THE PERSON WHO LIVES AT THAT HOUSE? IS, IS, IS THE ANIMAL STILL OUTSIDE SINCE YOU'VE MADE THE REPORT? BASIC THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, TO, TO REASSURE NUMBER ONE, AND KEEP THE COMMUNITY ENGAGED AND, AND WANTING TO MAKE THESE REPORTS RIGHT.
AND FEELING LIKE THERE WAS A BENEFIT.
THEY WERE DOING SOMETHING HELPFUL.
UM, AND THEN THAT INFORMATION COULD BE UPDATED INTO THE NOTES SO THAT WHEN AN OFFICER GOT IT, THEY WOULD KNOW, OH NO, THIS ONE IS LEGIT.
I REALLY NEED TO GET OUT THERE.
THAT KIND OF THING TO HELP Y'ALL PRIORITIZE.
'CAUSE I KNOW WHEN THESE THINGS HAPPEN, YOUR, YOUR OFFICERS ARE JUST, I MEAN, EVERYONE'S CALLING IN, THEY'RE LOSING THEIR MINDS.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THEY'RE OVERWORKED.
WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OFFICERS AS IT IS.
SO THAT WAS JUST A, A THOUGHT THAT WE HAD COME UP WITH BASED ON THE NUMBER OF KIND OF OBJECTIONS AND FRUSTRATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN EXPRESSED WITHIN OUR DISTRICT.
AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE POSTING STUFF ONLINE, YOU KNOW, DAS DOESN'T CARE.
THEY CLOSED OUT MY THING IMMEDIATELY.
UM, YOU KNOW, STUFF LIKE THAT, THAT'S NOT HELPFUL FOR US.
'CAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO, TO REALLY EMPHASIZE THE SUPPORT THAT Y'ALL DO PROVIDE, AND WE'RE TRYING TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY.
SO, ANYWAY, THAT WAS JUST A, A QUESTION THAT I HAVE IS, DO YOU THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT
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WE COULD WORK ON, OR A WAY THAT VOLUNTEERS COULD BE UTILIZED AS IT RELATES TO OUR CALL VOLUME? I DON'T KNOW PARTICULARLY IF THAT'S POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE CALLS COME IN THROUGH OUR 3 1 1 SYSTEM, AND THEN THEY'RE SENT OVER TO OUR DISPATCH TEAM.OUR DISPATCH TEAM THEN DIS DISSEMINATES THE CALLS TO THE OFFICERS.
THOSE CALLS DO NOT GO STRAIGHT FROM 3 1 1 TO THE OFFICER.
THOSE, THOSE CALLS HAVE TO BE ROUTED THROUGH OUR DISPATCHER TO THE OFFICER IN ORDER TO RESPOND.
IF A CITIZEN IS NOT GETTING THE RESPONSE THAT THEY THINK THEY SHOULD BE GETTING, WE DO HAVE A COMPLIMENT AND COMPLAINT SR.
YOU JUST NEED TO HAVE THAT ORIGINAL SR NUMBER AND THEN GIVE THE, UH, OPERATOR IN 3 1 1 THE INFORMATION AS TO WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT CALL.
UH, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE WAY THAT WE CAN TRY AND LOOK AT THESE CALLS TO SEE WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
I KNOW IN SOME CASES, WE DO GET A NUMEROUS CALLS ON ONE PROPERTY.
SO SOME CALLS MAY BE INSTANTLY CLOSED BECAUSE IT'S A DUPLICATE RESPONSE AND THERE'S ALREADY AN ORIGINAL CALL THAT THAT'S OPEN.
BUT THAT DOCUMENTATION SHOULD BE IN THE SR AND EXPLAIN TO THE CALLER.
SO IF IT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO LOOK AT INTERNALLY, THEN WE'LL DO SO.
AND, AND AGAIN, THE QUESTION I'M ASKING IS, DO WE THINK THAT, UM, AS A LAYER, UM, THERE COULD BE SOME COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER INVOLVEMENT? BECAUSE THE DISPATCH ISN'T REALLY, LIKE I, I KNOW I WASN'T CALLED ON ANY OF THE SRSS THAT I MADE, NOT A SINGLE TIME.
UM, AND THE NOTES WERE IN THERE THAT THEY COULDN'T REACH ME AS OPPOSED TO, YOU KNOW, CLOSED FOR DUPLICATE.
THEY WERE SAYING, OH, I WAS UNABLE TO REACH THAT PERSON.
THAT'S LIKE, NO, YOU WERE, YOU WERE.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE THING, IS THAT THEY'RE FEELING LIKE THEY'RE NOT HAVING THE, UM, HAVING ANY, ANY LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT.
NO ONE'S CALLING THEM, NO ONE'S RESPONDING TO THE ACTUAL THING.
SO THEY DON'T HAVE ANY VISIBILITY INTO IT.
UM, SO DO YOU THINK VOLUNTEERS COULD POTENTIALLY, AS YOU MENTIONED, THE DISPATCH, THEY GO TO DISPATCH FROM 3 1 1, IS THERE A LAYER IN THERE THAT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, A, A DISASTER CALL TREE PROTOCOL? RIGHT? WHERE IT GOES TO A VOLUNTEER TO TAKE THAT INFORMATION FIRST SO THAT THE DISPATCHER IS ABLE TO, TO ASCERTAIN IS IT A DUPLICATE? IS THIS NECESSARY? HAVE THEY TRIED TO TALK TO THE, THE HOMEOWNER, THAT KIND OF THING? YEAH.
THAT COULD BE DONE INTERNALLY.
AND UNFORTUNATELY WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO PULL IN A VOLUNTEER BECAUSE WE HAVE RIGHT TO PRIVACY RIGHTS, UH, FOR INFORMATION THAT'S WITHIN OUR SYSTEM THAT CANNOT BE SHARED WITH THOSE THAT ARE NOT PART OF THE CITY.
SO, BUT WE CAN ENSURE THAT OUR SUPERVISORS, WHEN WE HAVE THOSE TYPES OF CALLS, OR MAKING THOSE CONVERSATIONS MADE BEFORE THE ACTUAL, THE OFFICERS ACTUALLY DISPATCH.
BUT I, I, THE OFFICER IS SUPPOSED TO BE REACHING OUT AND MAKING THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND MAKING ATTEMPTS TO SPEAK TO THE INDIVIDUALS.
IF THE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED, IF THE IN INDIVIDUAL MAKING THE COMPLAINT, UH, OR CALLING IN THE SR PROVIDES A RETURN CONTACT INFORMATION, WE SHOULD BE REACHING OUT AND ASKING THOSE, THOSE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON.
UM, NE NEXT QUESTION THAT I WOULD HAVE.
UM, Y'ALL MENTIONED THE MARKETING, AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE TNR INITIATIVES THAT THE COMMUNITY CATS PROGRAM HAS BEEN, UM, PROVIDING.
BY AND LARGE, OUR CONSTITUENCY IS NOT AWARE OF, OF THE PROGRAM, UM, THAT IS AVAILABLE THROUGH COMMUNITY CATS.
AND THE ONES WHO ARE, HAVE HAD, UM, PRETTY MIXED REVIEWS ABOUT USING IT.
THERE SEEMS TO BE A KIND OF SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE KIND OF IN THE KNOW, AND I'M, I'M LUCKY TO BE ONE OF THEM WHO HAVE UTILIZED, UM, DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES SIGNIFICANTLY FOR TNR.
I THINK WE DID 120 LAST YEAR, UM, THROUGH DAS.
UM, I KNOW THERE WERE SOME CHALLENGES NOT HAVING A, A MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR A WHILE.
I KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN CHALLENGES NOT HAVING ENOUGH VETS.
BUT IN GENERAL, MY QUESTION IS, HOW IS THIS BEING PUBLICIZED TO THE COMMUNITY? AM I OF, AM I AUTHORIZED TO BE MAKING THE COMMUNITY AWARE OF THIS? BECAUSE THE PEOPLE I HAVE MADE, THAT'S YOUR TIMELY CALLED IN.
I'LL GO AHEAD AND ANSWER THE QUESTION.
WE, WE DO THE BEST THAT WE CAN WITH THE MARKETING RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE WITH FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM AND OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES AND SOME OF OUR PRESS RELEASES.
UH, WORD OF MOUTH IS THE GREATEST THING THAT COULD HELP US IN THIS EFFORT AS WELL.
UM, THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S GOTTA BE SOME EFFECTIVENESS IN WHAT WE'RE DOING BECAUSE LAST YEAR WE HAD ALMOST 4,000 SUBSIDIZED BAY AND NEUTER SURGERIES THAT WERE DONE.
AND A LOT OF THOSE WERE FOR COMMUNITY CATS IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO THE WORD IS GETTING OUT IS JUST, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE AS GOOD STEWARDS, WE'RE SPREADING THE WORDS OURSELVES TO OUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES AND PARTNERS.
DO WE HAVE SOMEONE FROM DISTRICT TWO HERE? YES.
AND JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY, COMMISSIONER, AND I'LL START YOUR TIME.
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GO AHEAD.UH, FIRST I WANNA SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
UM, WE'RE JUST, WE'RE GRATEFUL.
I, I KNOW, UM, NOT TO GET OFF TRACK, BUT ONE, ONE OF OUR DOBERMANS PASSED LAST TWO WEEKS AGO THAT WE HAD ACTUALLY GOTTEN FROM DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES THAT WE MAY BE BY THERE SOON.
BUT, UM, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE ANOTHER JOB, BUT, UM, WE'RE JUST REALLY GRATEFUL FOR YOU AND PAUL.
I KNOW YOU'VE, THERE'S JUST SO MUCH GOING ON ALL THE TIME AND THINGS ARE SHIFTING AND, AND ILLNESS BREAKOUTS AND, AND SEIZURES OF, OF LARGE AMOUNTS OF ANIMALS.
AND SO WE'RE JUST REALLY, REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THE WORK YOU DO.
UH, THE FIRST THING, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT'S NOT EASILY REFLECTED IN THE NUMBERS? IS THERE, ARE THERE THINGS GOING ON THAT THERE ISN'T REALLY A CATEGORY THAT WE CAN PUT IN THE REPORT? LIKE, ARE YOU SEEING A SHIFT IN ABANDONED DOGS AND PARKING LOTS, OR SALE OF DOGS IN PARKING LOTS? ARE YOU SEEING, UM, DOG BITES INCREASES? ARE YOU GETTING MORE CALLS ABOUT THAT? SO I WANTED TO KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER TRENDS THAT AREN'T EASILY REFLECTED IN THE SHE JUST BECAUSE IT MAYBE DOESN'T EASILY FIT INTO ONE OF THE CATEGORIES THAT WE REPORT ON.
IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT YOU'RE, DIFFERENT TRENDS THAT YOU'RE SEEING, I'D LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THOSE.
AND THEN TWO, UM, WANNA KNOW WHAT THE GREATEST NEEDS OF THE SHELTER ARE.
OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW THE BIG, THE BIG ONES, RIGHT? WE NEED MORE FOSTERS, WE NEED MORE DOCTORS.
WE, WE MIGHTY NEED A NEW FACILITY.
UM, AND I KNOW THAT'S A LOT OF US NEED TO WORK ON HELPING TO GET THAT MONEY SECURED WITH OUR, OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS.
BUT IS THERE ANY, WHAT ARE THE OTHER GREAT NEEDS? UM, AND OF COURSE, LIKE I SAID, I KNOW ONE OF THEM'S LARGE DOG ADOPTIONS.
I KNOW THEY'RE THE HARDEST TO MOVE, BUT ARE THERE ANYTHING, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU FEEL COULD FILL IN A LOT OF GAPS WITH, IS IT JUST YOU NEED MORE STAFF OR YOU NEED ANYTHING? I'D JUST BE INTERESTED TO HEAR WHAT, UM, THE GREATEST, WHAT YOUR GREATEST NEEDS ARE AS YOU LOOK ON THE HORIZON IN THE FUTURE.
AND TRYING TO, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU, UM, PAUL, SINCE YOU'VE BEEN HERE, YOU'VE HAD GREAT CONTROL AND YOU'VE BEEN RATING THINGS IN AND THE NUMBERS ARE LOOKING, ARE TRENDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
BUT IS THERE ANYTHING AS YOU LOOK ON THE HORIZON, YOU THINK WOULD, WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL? THEN I'LL PAUSE THERE.
UH, AS IT RELATES TO TRENDS, UH, I, IN LOOKING AT THE DATA, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I DID NOTICE, BECAUSE IT DOES COME UP A LOT, IS OUR ADOPTIONS LEADING TO A LOT OF ANIMALS BEING ABANDONED IN THE FIELD.
UH, AND I'M NOT REALLY SEEING THAT TREND.
'CAUSE WHEN I LOOK AT THE MICROCHIP INTAKE ANIMALS THAT ARE COMING IN MICROCHIP, THAT NUMBER IS VERY LOW.
SO I KNOW THAT THAT'S COME UP A LOT.
UH, ANOTHER THING IS WHAT I SPOKE OF EARLIER, WHEN THE CALL VOLUME DECREASES FOR LOOSE DOGS, THE BITES INCREASE.
SO IF WE CAN JUST KEEP THE COMMUNITY INVOLVED AND ENGAGED IN REPORTING, UH, SOME OF IT IS DONE THROUGH HEAT MAPPING, UH, SO THAT WE CAN SEE WHERE THE HIGH IMPACT AREAS AND DEDICATE OUR RESOURCES.
BUT, UM, I'M NOT REALLY SEEING ANY OTHER TRENDS AT THE MOMENT.
UM, THE, THE ONLY GOOD TREND IS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE DOING A LOT OF SPAY AND NEUTER.
UH, AND THEN, UH, FOR NEEDS CONTINUED SUPPORT, OF COURSE, UH, FROM THE COMMUNITY, FROM OUR CITY GOVERNMENT, AND FROM YOUR COUNCIL, UH, REPRESENTATIVES AS WELL.
AND THEN, UH, RESOURCES, UH, WE WORK, WE TRY TO GO OUT AND FIND AND, UH, PROVIDE AS MANY RESOURCES AS WE CAN.
BUT, UH, AND I THINK AMANDA COULD PROBABLY SPEAK TO THE LACK OF RESOURCES AS IT PERTAINS TO VETERINARY CARE IN THE COMMUNITY.
BUT I MEAN, THE MORE WE COULD DO TO DRAW PEOPLE TOWARDS D THE DALLAS AREA IN PROVIDING THOSE RESOURCES TO THE COMMUNITY WOULD BE GREAT.
BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE IN A RESOURCE DESERT RIGHT NOW IN THE CITY OF DALLAS COMPARED TO OUR SURROUNDING CITIES.
ADVOCACY IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THAT COULD HELP US, UH, IN, IN GETTING THE WORD OUT.
THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF, UH, BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING ANIMALS AT THE SHELTER THAT ARE READY FOR ADOPTION, FOSTER RESCUE, UH, UH, VACATIONS, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
THE MORE EXPOSURE WE CAN GET FOR THE ANIMALS, THE MORE LIVES WE CAN SAVE.
UH, AND I DIDN'T KNOW, DID, DID YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT THE, THE DESERT? WELL, AS I'VE MENTIONED LAST NIGHT AT OUR, AT OUR COMMUNITY CAT MEETING, UM, DALLAS COUNTY HAS A VETERINARY ACCESSIBILITY INDEX OF 48 OUT OF A HUNDRED.
ALL OF OUR SURROUNDING COUNTIES HAVE A 65 OR HIGHER.
THAT JUST MEANS THAT ACCESS TO VETERINARY CARE IS VERY LOW.
I MEAN, LESS THAN HALF OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE HAVE ADEQUATE ACCESS TO VETERINARY CARE.
UM, AND ALSO THERE ARE OTHER, THERE ARE OTHER WAYS THAT YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE.
UM, THERE'S A PET INCLUSIVE HOUSING INITIATIVE.
THERE'S A HUMAN ANIMAL BOND RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
THOUGH ALL OF, THERE'S THE ONE HEALTH CONCEPT THAT I WOULD, I'M TRYING TO BRING IN MORE, UM, TO DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES, UM, AND CITYWIDE.
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SO IT JUST, THERE THERE IS A LOT OF THING, THERE'S A LOT OF ADVOCACY.THERE'S TEXAS HUMANE LEGISLATIVE NETWORK FOR ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT, THAT WE CAN'T CONTROL.
I MEAN, WE ARE BOUND BY OUR STATE LAWS AND OUR CITY ORDINANCES.
WE CAN ONLY ENFORCE WHAT'S ON THE BOOKS AND, AND RESOURCES DON'T EVEN ALLOW US TO ADDRESS ALL OF THOSE THINGS WITH THE, WITH THE FERVENCY AS WE WOULD LIKE TO
SO, SO JUST MAINTAINING ALL OF THOSE THINGS AND BEING KIND, HELPING YOUR NEIGHBORS, PROVIDING THOSE RESOURCES FOR OUR, FOR THE PET PANTRIES, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU SEE YOUR NEIGHBOR NEEDS DOG FOOD, GIVE 'EM A PACK OF DOG FOOD.
UH, YOU KNOW, JUST LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, IF THEY NEED A RIDE TO THE VET CLINIC, OFFER 'EM A RIDE TO THE VET CLINIC, THEY'RE JUST, THERE'S ALL OF THESE WAYS THAT YOU CAN HELP THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO INVOLVE DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES.
SO, UM, YEAH, THAT'S MY LITTLE PIECE THERE.
AND IF, IF I COULD PIGGYBACK ONE LAST COMMENT IS THAT IN MAKING THOSE CO CONNECTIONS AND BONDS BETWEEN SPEAKING TO EACH OTHER, LAST NIGHT, WE ACTUALLY HAD THAT HAPPEN AT A COMMUNITY MEETING IN D THREE, UH, AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS DEALING WITH A COMMUNITY CAT AND IN A A A A CAT, UH, UH, ONE OF THE CAT LADIES WAS THERE.
SO WE MADE THAT CONNECTION SO THEY COULD HELP EACH OTHER OUT, WHICH IS GREAT.
UH, THAT, THAT, I MEAN, WE HAVE TO DIALOGUE WITH EACH OTHER TO, TO KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP EACH OTHER OUT.
YOU STILL HAVE TIME? IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS.
SO I WAS GONNA, I WAS GONNA SAY, SO YOU MEN MENTIONED THE PET INCLUSIVE HOUSING INITIATIVE.
IF THERE ARE A LIST OF, UM, INITIATIVES LIKE THIS THAT ARE, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THINGS THAT I THINK WE SHOULD BE MADE AWARE OF, IF THERE'S ANY WAY YOU COULD EMAIL OR HAVE, UH, ENABLE JILLIAN TO EMAIL THOSE OUT TO US, OR, OR IF THERE'S LIKE A PAGE WHERE WE CAN HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE.
UM, SOME OF US, MYSELF INCLUDED, ARE NOT VERY GOOD AT SOCIAL MEDIA, AND WE MISS SOME OF THESE THINGS.
UM, SO IF THERE'S A LIST OF, LIKE I SAID, INITIATIVES EITHER UP FOR IN CITY ORDINANCE OR STATE LAW OR THINGS LIKE THAT.
OBVIOUSLY I KNOW A LOT OF THE ONES THAT THLN DOES, UM, THESE ARE, BUT I, IF, IF WE COULD HAVE A LIST OF THOSE, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
WE WOULD LOVE TO SUPPORT THOSE AND PUSH THOSE ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
AND I'LL GIVE THE REST OF MY TIME.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING FOR THE, FOR VETS OF OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, I DID WANNA, UM, JUST TOUCH ON THE VET CARE AND GIVE, UH, OH, SORRY.
I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND START YOUR TIME.
UM, IF YOU JUST WANNA SPEAK A LITTLE, 'CAUSE I KNOW THIS WILL KEEP COMING UP.
THIS IS A NATIONWIDE SHORTAGE.
THEY CANNOT PRODUCE VETS OUT OF VETERINARY SCHOOLS FAST ENOUGH TO FILL ALL THE NEEDS IN OUR COUNTRY.
SO JUST KIND OF WHAT THE STRATEGY OR HOPE, OR REALISTIC EXPECTATION IS OF THAT.
'CAUSE THAT KEEPS COMING UP, OBVIOUSLY, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SUPPORT.
WE DO HAVE, UH, A PARTNERSHIP WITH R-S-V-P-A CONTRACT SERVICE WHERE WE DO BRING IN VETS TO FILL THE VOID SOMETIMES.
BUT IT, THERE'S A DESERT OUT THERE FOR OPPORTUNITIES.
IT'S A HIGH, HIGH VOLUME SERVICE THAT'S REQUIRED.
AND THERE'S NOT A LOT OF FOLKS OUT THERE THAT ARE WILLING TO FULFILL THAT NEED.
BUT WE ARE, UH, LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES AND WE WOULD JUST BEEN MADE, MADE AWARE OF ANOTHER.
SO WE WILL MAKE THAT CONNECTION AND HAVE THAT CONVERSATION.
UH, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO DO ALL WE CAN TO BRING IN THE RESOURCES THAT WE CAN TO, TO BOOST THOSE NUMBERS UP.
WHEN YOU LOSE, WHEN YOU HAVE TWO SURGEONS AND YOU LOSE ONE, IT'S A BIG IMPACT.
YEAH, NO, AND I UNDERSTAND ALL THAT, AND THAT IT'S VERY SPECIALTY AND VERY HARD TO FILL THAT.
I'M SORT OF ASKING MORE WHAT'S A REALISTIC EXPECTATION? AND YOU MAY JUST NOT KNOW.
WE JUST HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THIS PERSON APPEARS OR, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S JUST SORT OF ANY GUIDANCE ON WHAT WE CAN EXPECT AS FAR AS ANY CHANCE OF THOSE BEING FILLED,
YEAH, WE'VE HAD SOME PROSPECTS AND WE'VE HAD SOME INTERVIEWS, BUT I THINK THE SEARCH CONTINUES.
UM, THEN, UH, I ALSO, ON THE RESCUES DASHBOARD, HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR, UM, SIMILAR TO WHAT MS. KUKLA BROUGHT UP, UH, THAT WE GET A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A BREAKDOWN OF DOGS, CATS UNDER 30 POUNDS, OVER 30 POUNDS UNDER YEAR, OVER A YEAR, JUST FOR A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A PICTURE OF, UM, WHERE THE RESCUE SUPPORT IS, UH, YOU KNOW, HELPING WITH THE OVERALL POPULATION.
JUST A SORT OF A BIT MORE DETAIL ON THAT.
SO I DUNNO IF THAT'S POSSIBLE.
THAT'S A LOT MORE DATA TO BREAK DOWN, BUT YEAH.
AND I BELIEVE IT IS SOMEWHAT BROKEN DOWN WHEN IT SAYS ADULT NEONATE AND KITTEN.
UH, AND THEN, UH, WHEN IT SAYS ADULT NEONATE AND PUPPY, SO I DON'T KNOW IF, I THINK IT WAS SORT OF PER RESCUE.
I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S PRIVATE INFORMATION OR WHAT.
WELL, JUST TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW THE DIFFERENT RESCUES ARE HELPING, UM, WHICH THEY ARE HELPING.
THEN, UH, LET'S SEE, UM, I ALSO, WITH THE, UM, FOSTER TWO ADOPT DOGS, THOSE THAT LIST IS, UH, THE, THE DOGS AND
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FOSTER ALSO INCLUDE FOSTER TO ADOPT.AND SOME OF THOSE DO LANGUISH.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING TOO, JUST OVER THE YEARS THAT CHECKING IN TO FOLLOW UP, UM, SOME OF THE MAX OUT ON APPS, THOSE PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA THAT THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CHECKING AND FOLLOWING THROUGH.
SO ANY IMPROVED COMMUNICATION THERE.
AND THE, THE FOSTER DEPARTMENT JUST TO FOLLOW UP, OR EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE THEM CAPTIVE, WHEN THEY'RE PICKING THE ANIMAL UP, MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND ALL THE STEPS AND HOW TO FOLLOW UP, UM, ALL THE CONTACT INFORMATION.
WE HAD DO, DO, DO, DO, UM, OH, I WANTED TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE INFIELD MICROCHIP AND THE PLAN FOR THAT.
SO WE'VE EQUIPPED, OUR OFFICERS ARE ALREADY EQUIPPED WITH MICROCHIP READERS, BUT WE'RE WANTING TO GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WHEN THEY COME ACROSS AN ANIMAL THAT'S NOT MICROCHIPPED IN THE FIELD, WHEN THEY'RE TALKING TO THAT INDIVIDUAL, BECAUSE THEY'VE IDENTIFIED WHO THE OWNER IS, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY TO MICROCHIP THOSE DOGS RIGHT THEN AND THERE, UH, AND TO GET THAT TAKEN CARE OF SO THAT IF IT EVER OCCURS AGAIN, WE KNOW WHERE THIS ANIMAL BELONGS.
ONE FOR THE PUBLIC'S SAFETY, FOR THE HEALTH OF THE ANIMAL, THE WELFARE OF THE ANIMAL, AND FOR OUR OFFICERS TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS WITHOUT HAVING TO BRING THE ANIMAL INTO THE SHELTER.
DO THOSE PEOPLE RECEIVE A CITATION WHEN THEY YES.
ARE DISCOVERED THEY HAVE AN UN MICROCHIP.
UM, SO THEN THEY WOULD GET A MICROCHIP RIGHT THERE, AND THAT WOULD SORT OF, UH, NEGATE THEM NEEDING TO GET A CITATION? WELL, THEY WOULD GET PROBABLY A DOG AT LARGE CITATION FOR, 'CAUSE THE DOG WOULD BE LOOSE.
I THINK IF WE MITIGATED THE ISSUE WITH THE MICROCHIP, WE, WE MAY HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THAT.
AS FAR AS A NOTICE OF VIOLATION.
BUT IF, IF THEY ALLOW US TO MITIGATE THE ISSUE RIGHT THEN AND THERE, I THINK WE COULD, UH, ALLEVIATE THE NEED FOR A CITATION.
AND THEN IF THAT DOG IS, UM, UNFIXED, WHICH I GUESS THEY WOULD ONLY KNOW FOR SURE IF IT WAS A MALE, IS THAT ALSO ADDRESSED AT THE SAME TIME? YES.
UM, THEN, UH, I ALSO WANTED TO BRING UP WITH, UM, SOME, A BUNCH OF THESE COMMUNICATION AND EVEN THE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES.
PAT MENTIONED THE LONG-TERM BIG PROJECTS.
I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE FO A BIT MORE INVOLVED IN THESE IF WE COULD GET THEM TO COME EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE.
I THINK THAT WE HEAR A LOT THAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND DON'T EVEN KNOW THE OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT.
WE HAVE BUDGET MEETINGS COMING UP, THESE MEETINGS, THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS THAT WE'RE ALL HAVING.
UH, WHICH BY THE WAY, I THINK WE HAVE, UH, DISTRICT ONE AND SEVEN BOTH HAVE MEETINGS SCHEDULED FOR COMMUNITY FEEDBACK FOR THE CATS.
IS THAT CORRECT? AS FAR AS WE KNOW, WE, WE, WE'VE BEEN TO DISTRICT ONE.
WE'VE BEEN TO DI WE'VE BEEN TO DISTRICT THREE.
UH, WE'VE GOT ONE COMING UP IN DISTRICT FOUR IN MARCH.
AND THEN WE HAVE ONE COMING UP IN DISTRICT SEVEN, UH, BUCKNER, UH, BUCKNER TERRACE HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION, I BELIEVE.
UH, AND WE'RE CONTINUING TO BUILD ON THOSE.
AND AT THE SAME TIME, THAT'S OUR OPPORTUNITY AS WELL, AS YOU SAW LAST NIGHT MM-HMM
WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RESOURCES.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RESPONSIBILITIES.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EDUCATION AND, AND, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE MEETING YESTERDAY WAS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, GOING TO THE SCHOOLS MM-HMM
AND TALKING TO THE KIDS MM-HMM
BECAUSE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE KIDS WILL TELL THE PARENTS.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE HELP TO SPREAD THE WORD.
BUT, UH, WE ARE LOOKING AND WE STOOD UP AN ENGAGEMENT TEAM.
THE ONLY ISSUE IS THAT HAVING THE TIME TO CARVE OUT FOR THAT TEAM TO DO THOSE EFFORTS, THAT IT'S, IT'S TOTALLY, I UNDERSTAND.
AND I'M SORT OF ASKING ABOUT, UM, UH, WHEN PEOPLE ARE THERE AND THEY'RE INTERESTED AND CONTINUING TO BE, UM, INVOLVED OR AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON, THAT WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A COMMUNICATION OUTLET FOR THAT.
AND THERE'S REALLY NOTHING IN DAS UNLESS YOU'RE ON, SAY, THE VOLUNTEER EMAIL, UH, OR THE FOSTER EMAIL THAT YOU WOULD BE FINDING OUT ABOUT HAPPENING.
SO I JUST WANTED TO PRO PROPOSE THAT MIGHT BE A GAP THAT PHOTOS COULD FILL, THAT PEOPLE COULD SIGN UP FOR THAT EMAIL LIST AND BE NOTIFIED ON VERY TOP LEVEL THINGS LIKE COMMUNITY MEETINGS OR REACH OUT.
I MEAN, THE, THE FRIENDS OF THE DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY, FOR EXAMPLE, IS VERY COMMUNICATIVE WITH SUPPORTERS ABOUT ALL THE WAYS TO SUPPORT THE LIBRARY.
AND SO IT WOULD BE GREAT IF OUR FRIENDS GROUP WAS ALSO ABLE TO DO THAT AND MAYBE ATTEND SOME OF THESE MEETINGS AND, YOU KNOW, FIGURE OUT WITH YOU GUYS WHAT WOULD BE GREAT TO COMMUNICATE TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THE SUPPORTERS.
WHICH, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE SUPPORTING FRIENDS OF DAS, THEN OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE THE SUPPORTERS.
SO JUST BEING ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, LET THEM GIVE THEM OUT, UH, RESOURCES TO PARTICIPATE IN SUPPORT A LITTLE BIT MORE READILY.
'CAUSE WE JUST HEAR PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT ALL THE INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS, ET CETERA.
AND THEN ALSO FOR THOSE LONG-TERM BIG PROJECTS, THAT WOULD ALSO BE A FO THING, YOU KNOW, LIKE WORKING ON THE BOND FOR 10 YEARS.
THAT'S A, A LONG-TERM PROJECT THAT THERE'S NO STAFF AT DAS THAT CAN TAKE THAT KIND OF THING ON, UNLESS WE HIRED OUT AS MS. RODRIGUEZ SUGGESTED.
UM, AND I THINK THAT THAT'S IT FOR MY QUESTION.
SO I'LL YIELD THE REST OF MY TIME AND WE'LL GO TO DISTRICT FOUR.
WELL, IF I COULD REAL QUICK, UH, A A LOT OF THAT TOO IS INTERNAL MARKETING.
UH, CODE COMPLIANCE ACTUALLY DOES A, A COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER, AND I WAS WANTING TO START THAT WITH DAS, BUT WE'RE, WE, WE'RE STILL WORKING ON A MARKETING TEAM.
WE'RE UP TO THREE, UH, AND WE ARE, UH, HOPEFULLY HAVE A, AN OFFER OUT
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FOR THE MANAGER OF THAT TEAM.SO THAT'S GONNA BE THE TASK FOR THE MANAGERS.
HOW DO WE GET THE WORD OUT? WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO? IS IT, IS IT DO, IS IT THROUGH PHOTOS? IS IT THROUGH, UH, UH, OUR, OUR MAILERS, DIRECT MAILERS? WE DO, UH, PROVIDE SOME, UH, INFORMATION FOR THE WATER DEPARTMENT TO PUT INTO INSERTS INTO THE WATER BILLS, BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE A MEANS TO GET THIS COMMUNICATIONS OUT TO THE PARK.
I, I THINK A, I THINK A LIST THAT'S SPECIFICALLY PEOPLE THAT ARE THE, YOU KNOW, FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES, ESSENTIALLY, UH, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH THAT ORGANIZATION OR NOT THAT IT'S, THE VOLUNTEER EMAILS, FOR EXAMPLE, ARE VERY ROBUST, BUT THIS IS WHAT'S COMING UP.
RIGHT NOW, WE'RE TOTALLY OUTTA BLANKETS.
WE NEED THIS, YOU KNOW, UH, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPORT IN THIS WAY THAT THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE MAYBE NOT IN THAT VOLUNTEER GROUP AND WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO, BUT THEY STILL WANNA HELP WHEN THEY CAN OR WRITE THEIR CITY COUNCIL WHEN IT'S IMPORTANT.
SO JUST FIGURING OUT SOME SORT OF EMAIL LIST OR, UH, CONNECTIVE REGULAR COMMUNICATION OUTLET FOR THAT.
AND AS IT RELATES TO THE BOND PROJECT, THE CITY HAS AN INTERNAL GROUP THAT WE WORK WITH IN THAT PROCESS, SO SURE, SURE.
BUT THAT'S, YEAH, I MEAN, YOU, YOU'RE THE THIRD DIRECTOR IN THE, YOU KNOW, SIX OR SO YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, ASSISTING OR, YOU KNOW, INVOLVED WITH, UH, DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES.
SO THE CHANCE OF ANY SINGLE LEADER AT DAS BEING AROUND FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS IS SLIM TO NONE TO CARRY THAT THROUGH.
AND SO IT NEEDS TO BE FOR, FOR MY MONEY.
I THINK THAT THE FRIENDS OF DAS WOULD BE THE ONE, I MEAN, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT, YOU KNOW, PUT TOGETHER THE PROPOSAL FOR THE LAST ONE.
I, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT IT JUST, IT WOULD BE A CITY REQUEST, SO IT WOULD HAVE TO BE SOMETHING THAT THE, THAT'S HANDLED BY THE CITY.
SO I, I COULD LOOK INTO THAT, UH, BUT I'D HAVE TO GET BACK WITH YOU.
UH, COMMISSIONER, IF YOU'RE READY, I'LL GO AHEAD AND START YOUR TIME.
UM, CITING TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE WORKING ON A MARKETING PLAN BECAUSE, UM, THAT WAS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAD, UM, REGARDING NEWSLETTERS.
UH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, IT'S DEFINITELY A CHALLENGE AT TIME FOR MANY CITY SERVICES TO GET OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
SO IT'S EXCITING TO HEAR THAT'LL BE A PROJECT UPCOMING.
UM, ONE QUESTION THAT I DID HAVE WAS THAT ARE, WILL THERE BE ANY, UM, FOR THIS YEAR, I KNOW PREVIOUSLY WE WERE, WE, YOU DISCUSSED, UM, ABOUT A HEAT MAP.
WILL THERE BE ANY TARGET DISTRICTS, UM, FOR PREVENTIVE MEASURES, UM, FOR THIS YEAR? IF THAT MAKES SENSE, WHERE YOU COULD BE PREVENTIVE FOR RESOURCES, UM, TO GET AHEAD OF SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE'RE PREDICTING? WELL, THAT'S PART OF THE ENGAGEMENT TEAM'S, UH, UH, UH, CHARGE IS THAT WE LOOK AT THE HEAT MAPS, WE LOOK AT THE MAPS AS IT RELATES TO LOOSE DOGS, NINE TIMES OUTTA 10, THE LOOSE DOGS ARE EITHER NOT VACCINATED, MI MICROCHIPPED AND SO FORTH.
SO THOSE, WHEN THOSE INDIVIDUALS GO GOING DOOR TO DOOR, THEY'RE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT, HEY, THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, BUT HERE'S IS WHAT, THIS IS WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU.
THESE ARE THE RESOURCES WE HAVE.
WE'VE ACTUALLY, ACTUALLY HAD, UH, SPAY NEUTER NETWORK OUT WALKING WITH US AS WELL, TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THEIR OFFERS OF SERVICES THAT THEY PROVIDE.
WE ARE USING THOSE HEAT MAPS, UH, RE RELATIVE TO LOOSE DOGS, UH, TO, TO TARGET OUR WALKS AND TALKS.
WE'LL, WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
AND, UM, ONE REQUEST I HAD IS THAT WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH JILLIAN WHEN SOME OF THOSE MEETING GETS SCHEDULED FOR SOME OF THOSE, UM, DISTRICT ACCOUNT, UH, DISTRICT ENGAGEMENT MEETINGS? I WOULD LOVE TO ATTEND AS MANY AS I CAN.
UM, AND ALSO NEED TO GET ON MY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR SCHEDULING SOME.
SO YEAH, ACTUALLY, WE, WE, WE SPOKE WITH YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER AND WE HAVE ONE COMING UP.
SO, UH, WE'LL BE, WE'LL BE GETTING WITH YOU, UH, UH, AS WELL, I BELIEVE.
THAT THING SAID IN MARCH, WE'VE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER.
SO YES, WE NEED TO WORK ON, UH, SCHEDULING ONE.
UM, AND I, CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN ON HARD WORK.
IT'S D EIGHT THAT WE'VE GOT SCHEDULED FOR, UH, COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS.
ALL RIGHT, BONNIE, AND WHEN YOU'RE READY, I'LL START YOUR TIME.
THANK YOU GUYS FOR YOUR HARD WORK.
UM, WHAT HAPPENS TO ALL THE, THE COX THAT YOU'VE GOTTEN THROUGH THIS HORRIBLE SITUATION? DO MOST OF THEM GET EUTHANIZED? YES, UNFORTUNATELY THEY CANNOT BE PLACED.
SO DO THEY, I MEAN, I'M JUST ASSUMING YOU BRING THEM IN AND FEED THEM FOR A DAY OR TWO AND THEN JUST START THE PROCESS OF, WE, WE PROVIDE, WE PROVIDE THEM ALL THE HUMANE CARE THAT WE CAN WHILE THEY'RE IN OUR CUSTODY, WE FEED, WE MONITOR, PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE THAT IF, IF, IF POSSIBLE, OKAY.
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WHILE THEY'RE WITH US, SUCH A DISGUSTING THING.IF WE ARE, IF YOU'RE UNABLE TO PERFORM A SURGERY ON AN INJURED ANIMAL, UH, WHAT HAPPENS TO THE ANIMAL? WE HAVE A COUPLE OF RESOURCES.
SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE WORK WITH.
A LOT OF TIMES WE CAN WORK WITH RESCUE TEAMS TO FIND A RESCUE THAT SPECIFICALLY TAKES THOSE MEDICAL CASES, WHICH IS GREAT IF IT'S AN ANIMAL THAT WE CAN STABILIZE AND GET TO, UM, A TEMPORARY FOSTER BEFORE THEY'RE ADOPTED AND THE ADOPTER TAKES OVER THE CARE.
SO WE HAVE, UM, A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT, AN AVENUES WE NORMALLY PURSUE FOR THAT.
AND DO WE ASSIST THOSE FOSTERS WITH THE COST OF EVERYTHING THAT'S GONNA TAKE TO, TO REHABILITATE THAT ANIMAL? UM, DEPENDING ON THE SITUATION, OF COURSE, UM, WE DO HAVE SOME FOSTER HEROES THAT DO TAKE ON THOSE COSTS THEMSELVES.
WE WORK WITH PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS AND WE DO AS MUCH AS WE CAN IN HOUSE PRIOR TO GOING OUT TO THOSE SITUATIONS.
I KNOW I'M CONSTANTLY SEEING THE FACEBOOK REQUESTS FOR MONEY FOR, UH, DIFFERENT HEALTH NEEDS.
UH, IS THERE ANYWHERE TO GET LESS EXPENSIVE VET CARE IN THIS CITY? I AM JUST APPALLED AT THE COST.
AND IF IT'S AN EMERGENCY, YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST FORGET IT.
WELL, AS YOU HEARD FROM ONE OF MY COLLEAGUE HERE, THAT, THAT, BECAUSE WE'RE IN A DESERT, YOU'VE GOT INDIVIDUALS WHO, WHO KNOW THAT THERE'S LIMITED RESOURCES AND THEY, THEY CHARGE WHAT THEY CHARGE.
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE'S NOTHING THAT WE CAN DO BASED ON, ON THOSE COSTS.
BUT, UH, WE, WE TRY TO PROVIDE AS MANY RESOURCES AS WE CAN FOR INDIVIDUALS.
UH, WE DO HAVE THE HEART THAT COMES OUT TO DAS, UH, THEY'RE SUBSIDIZED THROUGH A GRANT, AND WE PAY PARTIALLY FOR, FOR THAT SERVICE TO WHERE IN CERTAIN ZIP CODES IT'S FREE AS WELL AS SPAY NEUTER NETWORK.
THEY HAVE CERTAIN ZIP CODES THAT THROUGH A GRANT OR THROUGH DS THAT IS EITHER SUBSIDIZED OR FREE AS WELL.
IF I CAN JUST ADD TO THAT TOO, I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER, THE VETERINARY MEDICAL CARE IS VERY EXPENSIVE.
THERE'S A, THERE'S A, THERE'S A HUGE OVERHEAD THAT THEY HAVE TO MEET, AND WE ARE ONLY ABLE TO OFFER THE LOWER COST SPAY AND NEUTER AND THOSE ORGANIZATIONS THAT DO, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SUBSIDIZED FUNDING.
SO THAT'S TRY NOT TO BE TOO HARD ON YOUR VETERINARY TEAMS BECAUSE THEY
AND THAT'S WHY PET INSURANCE IS A VERY, VERY GOOD THING TO HAVE.
UM, WHEN YOU GO, WHEN YOU FIND NOT HURT, NOT LIKE THE, TELL THEM THAT IT'S REQUIRED, LIKE THE CHIP AND HAVE, CAN GIVE THOSE PEOPLE A CITATION OR CAN WE GIVE THEM LIKE A, YOU HAVE TO GET THIS DONE BY THIS DAY OR THIS BOX
SO IF WE GO OUT AND THEY'RE IN VIOLATION, DANIEL, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, IT'S AN AUTOMATIC CITATION THAT IS REQUIRED FOR THEM TO COMPLY WITH THE CITY ORDINANCE.
IF NOT, IT'S, IT'S GOING TO COURT EITHER WAY.
SO YES, UH, BASICALLY WE DO GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO FIX AND PROVIDE THE SITUATIONS, BUT IF WE DO RECEIVE MULTIPLES, THEN YEAH, IT DOES COME UP TO A CITATION.
ONCE WE ACTUALLY DO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE RESIDENTS, WE DO PROVIDE 'EM SPAY NEUTER NETWORK WAYS THEY COULD GET THAT, UH, THAT ISSUE FIXED.
KIND OF LIKE YOU, LIKE STOPPED AND YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR INSURANCE CARD AND A TICKET, YOUR INSURANCE CARD, AND THEN YOU GO, YEAH.
THE THREE COMPLIANCE FOR VACCINATION MICROCHIP AND SPAY NEUTER ARE FIXING TICKETS.
SO ONCE THEY ACTUALLY GO TO COURT AND THEY DO GET IT FIXED, THEY SHOULD BE, THEY SHOULD DEPENDING, UM, ON THE JUDGE, BUT IT SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY.
ONE, ONE, ONCE THE CITATION IS, IT IS JUDICIAL DISCRETION, SO IT'S UP TO THE JUDGE, BUT NINE TIMES OUTTA 10, IF IT'S BEEN REMEDIED, THEY'LL, THEY'LL DISMISS THE CITATION.
BUT WE ARE WORKING CLOSELY WITH OUR COMMUNITY COURTS TEAM WHERE WE'RE NOW ISSUING, UH, COMMUNITY COURT CITATIONS.
THESE INDIVIDUALS THAT RECEIVE THESE CITATIONS HAVE TO GO TO COURTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
AND PART OF THAT, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THEM BEING REQUIRED TO TAKE A RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERSHIP CLASS.
AND IF THEY NEED TO, AND THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO
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PAY THE CITATION, THEY DO VOLUNTEER SERVICE, UH, COULD POTENTIALLY BE AT THE SHELTER.UH, AND, AND AVENUES TO ENSURE THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERS, MARKETING TO CHILDREN.
OH MY GOSH, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS SINCE 2005.
I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE STAFF, BUT WE DO HAVE SERVICES JUST LIKE THE LIBRARY OF THE LIBRARY, REALLY.
HE LOVES JUST LIKE TAKEN HOME TO PARENTS.
THEY LET THEM KNOW, THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
I TUTOR 5-YEAR-OLD AND HE'S ALWAYS TELLING ME GUYS, DOGS.
I, BUT HE'S OBVIOUSLY WITH HIS AND I JUST, THOSE KIDS, THAT INFORMATION THAT PETAL, YOU TALK ABOUT, UH, NEWSLETTER THAT GOES OUT TO HIS CONSTITUENTS.
UH,
WE DO A SPOTLIGHT IN THEIR, UH, IN THEIR NEWSLETTERS THAT GO OUT.
WE'VE ACTUALLY, UH, JUST RECENTLY HAD A CONVERSATION WITH SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS ABOUT ADDING SOME OF OUR INFORMATION TO THEIR NEWSLETTERS.
AND, UH, I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US IN UTILIZING OUR VOLUNTEERS AS WELL, UH, IN GOING INTO THE SCHOOLS.
UH, I MADE THE, THE, THE, THE REQUEST, UH, I THINK IT WAS LAST NIGHT, UH, THAT IF THERE ARE PTA MEETINGS, IF THERE ARE GROUPS THAT ARE MEETING THAT INDIVIDUALS KNOW ABOUT, LET US KNOW AND WE'LL MAKE THAT CONVERSATION TO SEE IF WE CAN GET ADDED TO THAT AGENDA.
UH, I KNOW OUR TEAM DOES GO OUT TO SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW, UH, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF SCHOOLS AND THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES.
SO WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE MAXIMIZING THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
NEXT WE HAVE, UH, DISTRICT 6, 7 7, AND, UM, COMMISSIONER BENNETT, JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY.
WE CAN SEE YOU, WHICH IS GREAT.
UM, YOU'LL, WHENEVER YOU'RE READY, WE'LL START YOUR TIME.
COMMISSIONER BENNETT, CAN YOU HEAR US? IT LOOKS LIKE, YEAH.
DO YOU WANT US TO COME BACK TO YOU? OKAY.
AND THEN, UM, COMMISSIONER HANSEN, IF YOU'RE THERE, WE'LL JUST NEED TO SEE YOUR VIDEO AND WE'LL NEED YOUR VIDEO AND A ROLL CALL.
AND JUST LET ME, STEPHANIE, YEAH, IF YOU CAN, UM, DO THE ROLL CALL PER CHAIR ELECT, AND THEN LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY.
WE'LL START YOUR TIME AFTERWARDS.
STEPHANIE HANSEN, DISTRICT EIGHT.
AND IF YOU'RE READY, I'LL GO AHEAD AND START YOUR TIME.
SO, UH, I WANTED TO STATE THAT DUCK TEAM SIX HAS A REALLY GREAT SCHOOL PROGRAM AND THEY WOULD LOVE TO GO OUT AND DO, DO THIS.
I MEAN, THEY HAVE A WHOLE PRESENTATION, UM, THAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING FOR A LONG TIME.
AND THEY WOULD LOVE TO, BECAUSE I'VE SPOKE TO THEM ABOUT THIS LIKE SEVERAL YEARS AGO, AND THEY WERE LIKE, WE'RE IN, WE WILL GO TO THE SCHOOLS.
SO THEY COULD BE A REALLY GOOD RESOURCE FOR THAT, GETTING INTO THE SCHOOLS.
UM, AND ALSO A LOT OF STUDENTS NEED VOLUNTEER HOURS TO GRADUATE, SO MAYBE YOU COULD GET WITH SOME OF THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND LET THEM PUT A PROGRAM TOGETHER AND TEACH THE YOUNGER STUDENTS AND THEY CAN GET CREDITS FOR IT.
SO ANYWAY, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT COULD HELP EVERYONE ALL THE WAY AROUND.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO THROW THAT OUT THERE.
AND THEN ALSO, I WANTED TO LET Y'ALL KNOW THAT YOUR CITY COUNCIL PERSON CAN PUT OUT BLASTS TO THEIR DISTRICTS.
SO LIKE WHEN WE DID THE PRE VACCINATION AND MICROCHIP CLINICS WITH THE PARKS AND DISTRICT EIGHT, WE DIDN'T EVEN LIKE PUT SIGNS UP OR ANYTHING.
THE, MY CITY COUNCIL PERSON PUT IT ON THE
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BOARDS AND PEOPLE SHOWED UP.I MEAN, WE HAD LINES THERE BEFORE WE EVEN GOT THERE IN THE MORNINGS TO SET UP.
SO GET WITH YOUR CITY COUNCIL PERSON AND JUST SEE LIKE WHAT INFORMATION THEY NEED FOR US TO PROVIDE TO THEM TO START LETTING THEM KNOW ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT EVENTS AND DIFFERENT THINGS GOING ON IN THE DISTRICT.
AND ALSO YOU CAN, LIKE, I KNOW THAT SOMEONE HAD MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, FO IS SUPPOSED TO BE PUTTING OUT THE COMMUNICATION, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING OF FOCUS IS THAT THEY ARE A FUNDRAISING PLATFORM.
LIKE, THEY, THEY HELP FUNDRAISE TO GET, OFFSET SOME OF THE THINGS THAT Y'ALL NEED TO GET, LIKE THINGS THAT YOU DON'T HAVE IMMEDIATE CASH FOR DIFFERENT THINGS.
WE'RE THE BOARD, SO WE'RE THE ONES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SUPPORTING YOU GUYS.
LIKE WE'RE THE INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN LIKE YOU GUYS AND THEN OUR DISTRICTS.
SO WE REALLY, IT'S, IT'S UP TO US TO REALLY HELP.
LIKE WE NEED TO HELP DAS AND WE NEED TO HELP THE RESIDENTS IN OUR DISTRICT AND, AND THE CITY BRIDGE THAT GAP OF THE COMMUNICATION, I FEEL LIKE.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN, WE ACTUALLY CAN DO
UM, SO YEAH, IF WE COULD GET A LIST THOUGH OF ALL THE MEETINGS FOR ALL THE DISTRICTS, BECAUSE I LIKE WHAT, UM, THE OTHER COMMISSIONER WAS STATING THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO GO TO THE DIFFERENT ONES.
AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT.
'CAUSE THEN WE CAN LEARN EVERY DISTRICT'S DIFFERENT AND EVERY DISTRICT HAS DIFFERENT NEEDS AND IT'S, THAT'D BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO, TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT.
AND THEN, UM, LET'S SEE, UH, OH, ON THE, UM, THE, THE CALLS, THERE'S, I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT DAS HAS TO GO THROUGH, UM, THIS PAST YEAR AND HOW MANY FRIVOLOUS CALLS ARE LOCKED, BACKING UP THE SYSTEM.
I MEAN, WE'VE GOTTA KIND OF GET IT UNDER CONTROL ABOUT MAKING REPORTS ON THINGS.
AND I KNOW LIKE WE MAY SEE SOMETHING OR SOMEONE WILL TELL SOMEBODY SOMETHING AND THEY THINK, OH MY GOODNESS, THIS IS AWFUL.
AND DAS WILL GET NUMEROUS CALLS ON SOMETHING THAT'S NOT EVEN LEGITIMATE, UM, THAT, THAT IS SUCH A WASTE OF THEIR TIME AND ENERGY, BECAUSE THERE ARE REALLY CRUCIAL THINGS THAT ARE, SO THAT WOULD BE AWESOME IF, IF WE COULD COME UP WITH A PLAN ON HOW TO KIND OF MITIGATE THAT AND TAKE THAT, THAT BURDEN OFF SO THAT THEY COULD ACTUALLY GET, GET THE REALLY NECESSITIES FINE.
AND THEN I JUST WANNA THANK YOU GUYS.
I THINK Y'ALL DOING AMAZING, PAUL, I'VE REALLY ENJOYED HAVING YOU AS A DIRECTOR.
YOU LISTEN AND YOU'RE VERY FAIR AND NEUTRAL.
AND IT'S, IT'S, IT'S WHAT WE NEED.
UM, AND I JUST WANNA TELL YOU HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE YOU.
UM, AND WELCOME TO OUR NEW ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.
UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING TO WORK WITH YOU SOME MORE.
AND JUST YOUR WHOLE TEAM, YOUR, UM, DANIEL ALBERT, JUST EVERYBODY HAS BEEN JUST AMAZING TO WORK WITH.
UM, EVEN UNDER SOME TOUGH SITUATIONS.
I HAVE REALLY, UM, ENJOYED LEARNING WHAT Y'ALL GO THROUGH AND LEARNING HOW HARD Y'ALL TRY.
UM, AND I JUST WANNA BE ABLE TO DO WHATEVER I CAN TO ASSIST YOU.
AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THOSE SUGGESTIONS.
I THINK YOU'VE BROUGHT FORTH SOME GOOD THINGS THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY WORK ON AND BUILD ON.
THOSE ARE SOME GOOD, SOME GOOD IDEAS.
AND THEN I GUESS THE LAST THING THAT I'M GONNA SAY IS, UM, I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE SETTING UP THE MICROCHIP STATIONS AT THE POLICE, POLICE STATIONS AND THE FIRE STATIONS.
UH, AND I'VE BEEN HANDING OUT, I'VE STARTED WORKING WITH LIKE DIFFERENT OFFICERS AND DIFFERENT, UH, FIREMEN AND HANDING THEM, GIVING THEM MICROCHIP SCANNERS TO KIND OF START PRACTICING WITH.
UM, SO I'D LOVE TO KIND OF GET WITH YOU GUYS AND TALK MORE ABOUT THAT.
AND I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE EACH, ALL OF US IN OUR DISTRICTS COULD SET THESE UP AND THAT WAY THEIR BOXES, AND NOBODY HAS TO BE THERE TO MONITOR IT.
IT'LL HAVE A CAMERA AND A BOX AND YOU KNOW, IT'LL BE LOCKED DOWN.
AND THAT WAY WHEN PEOPLE FIND PETS, THEY CAN GO AND SCAN IT.
UM, AND ALSO WITH THE OFFICERS AND EVERYTHING BEING TRAINED, THAT WILL HELP TAKE A LOAD OFF THEM HAVING TO WAIT FOR YOU GUYS TO COME IN CASE THERE'S A PET OR WHATEVER.
BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES WE ALL KNOW IF THERE'S A MICROCHIP PET, MOST OF THE TIME IT'S AROUND THE CORNER FROM ITS HOUSE.
SO ANYWAY, SO THOSE ARE JUST SOME THINGS THAT I WANTED TO THROW OUT THERE.
AND IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE COULD BE DOING TO HELP YOU OUTSIDE OF THE THINGS YOU'VE ALREADY STATED TODAY? UH, JUST AS WHAT WE STATED EARLIER, ADVOCACY.
AND, AND SOMETIMES YOU DO NEED TO COME IN AND SEE WHAT WE GO THROUGH IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE COMPLEXITIES TO THE CHALLENGES THAT WE FACE.
BUT I DO APPRECIATE THE FEEDBACK.
AND LET'S TALK OFFLINE, BECAUSE I, WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE MICROCHIP STATIONS AS WELL.
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SO YEAH, LET, LET, WE'LL, WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT.THEN CHAIR ELECT, DID YOU WANNA MOVE TO YES.
JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY AND I'LL START YOUR TIME.
UM, WELL FIRST OFF, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE HARD WORK, UM, THROUGHOUT THIS PRESENTATION.
THAT JUST THE VOLUME OF THINGS THAT YOU'RE WORKING ON IS, IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE.
UM, I WANTED TO SAY THAT, UH, OUR COMMUNITY CARES DEEPLY ABOUT REDUCING EUTHANASIA.
I WANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW OUR OPERATIONAL MODEL IS STRUCTURED TO PREVENT AVOIDABLE ILLNESS, PROLONGED LENGTH OF STAY AND SPACE EUTHANASIA.
UM, SO I'LL START WITH A FEW QUESTIONS.
DOES OUR CAPACITY NUMBER ADJUST BASED ON DAILY STAFFING AND MEDICAL AVAILABILITY, OR IS IT STATIC? UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT ME TO RAPID FIRE THESE AND THEN LET YOU RESPOND OR RESPOND TO EACH INDIVIDUAL ONE, BUT THEY, HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE
SO I, I CAN GO THROUGH THE QUESTIONS.
YOU MAY NOT HAVE AN ANSWER TO ALL OF THEM.
I JUST KIND OF WANNA UNDERSTAND THE MODEL THAT WE'RE OPERATING FROM.
SO I'LL JUST GO THROUGH THE QUESTIONS AND THEN YOU CAN FOLLOW THE LIST.
UM, SO DOES OUR CAP, OUR CAPACITY NUMBER ADJUST BASED ON DAILY STAFFING AND MEDICAL AVAILABILITY, OR IS IT JUST STATIC? UM, IF OUR POPULATION WERE MOSTLY SMALL, HIGH DEMAND DOGS, WOULD WE STILL CONSIDER OURSELVES OVER CAPACITY? UM, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF DOGS DEVELOP ILLNESS WITHIN THE FIRST SEVEN TO 10 DAYS OF INTAKE? UM, HOW IS THAT RATE IMPROVED AND WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO REDUCE IT SIGNIFICANTLY? UM, OF THE ANIMALS EUTHANIZED FOR SPACE, HOW MANY HAVE BEEN IN OUR CARE FOR OVER 30 DAYS? HOW MANY HAD BECOME ILL OR BEHAVIORALLY DECLINED DURING OUR STAY? DURING THEIR STAY? UM, TRANSPORTS REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT STAFF COORDINATION AND COST.
WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC GOAL OF TRANSPORT? UM, THAT, WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC GOAL THAT TRANSPORT IS SOLVING IN OUR SYSTEM? UM, WE ARE TRANSPORTING ANIMAL OR ARE WE TRANSPORTING ANIMALS THAT WOULD STRUGGLE HERE, OR ANIMALS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ADOPTED QUICKLY.
UM, HAVE WE EVALUATED WHETHER TRANSPORT IMPROVES OVERALL LENGTH OF STAY OR SIMPLY REDISTRIBUTES HIGH DEMAND ANIMALS? IT SEEMS LIKE MANY OF OUR EUTHANASIA OUTCOMES ARE DOWNSTREAM FROM OPERATIONAL BOTTLENECKS.
I'M INTERESTED IN HOW WE ARE PROACTIVELY MANAGING THOSE BOTTLENECKS.
YOU MIGHT HAVE TO GO THROUGH ONE BY ONE.
UM, I AM WORKING ON OUR CAPACITY FOR CARE, UH, FOR MY CAPSTONE PROJECT.
I'M IN A MASTER'S PROGRAM WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AND OUR SHELTER TEAM.
I CAN, I CAN ABSOLUTELY SAY THEY WORK TIRELESSLY TO PLACE THE ANIMALS THAT ARE IN OUR CARE.
WE ARE OPERATING OVER CAPACITY AND FINDING WAYS TO MITIGATE THAT IS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT.
UM, SHELTER, ANIMAL COUNT, SHELTER, ANIMALS COUNT DOES, THEY SURVEY OVER 4,000 ANIMAL SHELTERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
RETURN TO OWNERS ARE DOWN BY 27% OR SOMETHING CLOSE TO THAT.
I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THE NUMBER.
IT'S BEEN A MINUTE SINCE I, THE DATA, UM, RESCUE TRANSPORTS AND JUST RESCUE IN GENERAL, UH, PLACEMENTS IN RESCUE ARE D ARE LESS THAN.
SO THOSE ARE ALL CHALLENGES THAT WE ARE WORKING DILIGENTLY TO MITIGATE.
UM, ARE THOSE RELATED TO, SO YOU SAY THAT WE'RE OVER CAPACITY, GOING BACK TO MY QUESTION, I'M REALLY LOOKING AT OUR, OUR MODEL.
SO THE OPERATIONAL MODEL THAT WE'RE OPERATING, THAT THE PLACE THAT WE'RE OPERATING FROM.
IS IT THAT WE'RE, IS OUR CAPACITY DETERMINED DAILY? ARE WE, YOU KNOW, IT'S STATIC AT THIS TIME.
BUT THAT IS PART OF MY CAPSTONE PROJECT TO TRY AND FIND A WAY TO, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING.
FIGURE OUT THOSE FORMULAS AND UM, GREAT.
SO, UM, AND YOU HAD MENTIONED ESSENTIALLY THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE KIND OF CONSIDERING ALL THESE OTHER FACTORS.
HOW DO THOSE PLAY INTO LIKE, BECAUSE ULTIMATELY IF RESCUES ARE DOWN, BUT ADOPTIONS ARE UP, WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT THAT OUTCOME.
THAT, I MEAN, IT FEELS LIKE A WIN.
SO OUR, OUR NUMBER WISE, THE ADOPTIONS ARE DOWN.
I HAVEN'T, I'VE TASKED MY STAFF TO, UM, DO IT MORE AS A, A PERCENTAGE OF INTAKE SO THAT IT TELLS A BETTER STORY.
UM, SO WE'RE WORKING THROUGH OUR METRICS AND FIGURING OUT A BETTER WAY TO TELL OUR STORY TO COMMUNICATE WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR TEAM.
UH, SO WHAT THOSE NUMBERS ACTUALLY MEAN AND TO ADD SOME GUIDANCE IN THAT AREA.
SO, UM, A LOT OF THESE QUESTIONS I CAN GET THEM FOR YOU, BUT
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I DON'T HAVE THEM TODAY 'CAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE VERY SPECIFIC.UM, HOW MANY ANIMALS HAVE BECOME BEHAVIORALLY, UH, ILL OR BECOME BEHAVIORALLY DECLINED DURING THAT STAY? WE CAN FIND THOSE NUMBERS FOR YOU.
UH, IS IT SOMETHING UM, SO I GUESS I'M UNFAMILIAR WITH OUR VACCINE PROTOCOL FOR ANIMALS UPON INTAKE.
SO WE FOLLOW THE A SV GUIDELINES, ANIMAL SHELTER, VETERINARIANS.
UM, EVERYTHING IS VACCINATED WITH CORE VACCINATIONS WHEN THEY COME INTO THE SHELTER.
UM, ANIMALS UNDER 20 MONTHS OF AGE ARE VACCINATED EVERY, EVERY TWO WEEKS TO, UM, TO DEAL WITH THE, THE MATERNAL ANTIBODY INTERFERENCE.
IT'S, IT'S A LONG COMPLICATED, SO I WON'T BORE YOU TODAY, BUT THERE, THERE ARE.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE DO.
UM, WE FOLLOW THE A SV GUIDELINES THOUGH FOR INTAKE.
UM, AND AS ANIMALS LEAVE, THEY CONTINUE THEIR VACCINATIONS.
IF THEY'RE IN FOSTER HOMES, THEY CONTINUE THEIR VACCINATIONS.
I DON'T THINK THE OVERSIGHT THERE HAS BEEN QUITE AS DILIGENT AS WE NEED TO.
A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH STAFFING.
AND SO OUR SHELTER TEAM'S WORKING REALLY HARD TO FIX THAT.
UM, AND THERE ARE BOTTLENECKS AND WE ARE WORKING REALLY HARD WITH THE AGMS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THOSE BOTTLENECKS ARE, HOW WE CAN MITIGATE THOSE BOTTLENECKS.
UM, AGAIN, LEADERSHIP, EVERYBODY'S NEW
SO, UM, YOU'RE BUILDING A PLANE WHILE, YES, WE ARE.
UM,
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE DONE TO CHALLENGE STAFF TOO, IS THAT WE HAVE A TON OF PARTNERS WITHIN OUR REGION THAT WE COULD TALK TO.
IT'S, IT'S NOT AN ISOLATED THING.
WE'RE ALL DEALING WITH THE SAME THINGS.
HOW ARE WE DOING THAT? SO WE'VE RECENTLY MET WITH A NUMBER OF OUR PARTNERS, LIKE FORT WORTH, UH, ARLINGTON GARLAND, UH, AND THEY'RE, WE'RE CONTINUING THAT PROCESS BECAUSE IF, IF SOMEBODY'S FOUND THE MAGIC KEY, WE WANNA KNOW WHAT IT IS AND DISCUSSING SOME OF OUR INTERNAL CHALLENGES WITH SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON AS WELL.
AND YOU KNOW, YOU'LL SEE TRENDS THROUGHOUT ANIMAL WELFARE.
UM, AND I THINK THAT THE WAY THAT WE MITIGATE THOSE, UM, TO YOUR POINT WAS JUST ESSENTIALLY UNDERSTANDING WHAT, WHERE THIS DATA IS AND HOW DO WE ADDRESS IT.
UM, AND AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, LIKE A BIG PART OF THIS PRESENTATION WAS TRANSPORT.
UM, CAN SOMEONE SPEAK TO MY QUESTIONS ON THAT? SURE.
UM, UH, ERICA, SHE'S OUR SHELTER MANAGER, OUR A GM OVER SHELTER.
UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON, UH, IN FRONT OF YOU? YES.
DATA? I CAN, I CAN ASK YOU THE QUESTION AGAIN,
UM, I DID LOOK UP OUR SPACE EUTH NATURE.
SO WE HAD THREE THAT WERE EUTHANIZED BETWEEN OCTOBER 1ST AND DECEMBER 31ST, THAT WERE OVER 30 DAYS OUT OF.
THERE WAS 27 EUTHANIZED FOR SPACE DURING THAT TIME.
UM, I KNOW OUR NUMBERS ARE DOWN SPECIFICALLY FOR SPACE EUTHANASIA OVERALL, AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT.
SO WITH REGARDS TO TRANSPORT, UM, WE DID INCREASE OUR, THIS, I KNOW LAST MONTH IS NOT IN THIS PRESENTATION, BUT WE DID INCREASE OUR, OUR RESCUE TRANSFERS THAT INCLUDES TRANSPORT AND TOTAL RESCUES TRANSFERRED TO THE MAJORITY OF THE DOGS THAT GO ON TRANSPORT ARE ACTUALLY HARDER TO PLACE DOGS IN DALLAS.
SO 70 TO 75% OF THE DOGS THAT GO ON TRANSPORT ARE LARGE TO MEDIUM DOGS.
UM, AND SOME OF THOSE ARE AT RISK DOGS.
SO THERE'S ABOUT 30%, 25 TO 30% THAT ARE SMALLER, HIGHER PLACEABLE DOGS, I GUESS, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
UM, I CAN BREAK DOWN THE DATA WITH KIRSTEN, OUR OUTCOMES MANAGER FOR LIKE, HOW MANY HAVE A EXTENDED LENGTH OF STAY.
WE HAVE SPECIFIC GROUPS THAT PULL OFF OF OUR AT-RISK LIST TOO.
SO WE HAVE ONE GROUP IN BOISE THAT PULLS LIKE ONLY PIT BULLDOG AND THEY POLL MAJORITY ARE AT RISK FOR THOSE.
SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLACEMENT OF DOGS THAT HAVE BEEN LINGERING IN THE SHELTER SYSTEM.
AND THEN WE'RE ALSO ADDRESSING, UM, OTHER TYPES OF BOTTLENECKS WITH REGARDS TO LENGTH OF STAY AND TRYING TO DECREASE THAT LENGTH OF STAY.
UH, OVERALL, IF WE ARE ABLE TO DECREASE OUR LENGTH OF STAY BY ONE DAY, WE WOULD BE IN A CAPACITY THAT'S UNDER A HUNDRED PERCENT.
AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS THOSE.
AND SO EACH, EACH OF MY TEAM MEMBER, LIKE MANAGERS, IS WORKING ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS TO DECREASE THAT LENGTH OF STAY.
UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT THAT ONLY THAT ABOUT 30, ABOUT 30 PER 35% ARE
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SMALL HIGHLY ADOPTABLE ANIMALS THAT GO ON TRANSPORT.UM, AND, AND I THINK COMMISSIONER CASEY HAD MENTIONED A SIMILAR REQUEST TO FIND OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT, UM, THE BREAKDOWN OF OUR RESCUE PARTNERS PULLING, BECAUSE I, I MEAN, I WAS A FORMER EMPLOYEE AT A LOCAL RESCUE AND WE DID NOT PULL, UM, ANYTHING BUT HIGHLY ADOPTABLE ANIMALS.
SO, UM, I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THAT.
YEAH, SO WE DID HAVE, LIKE, OUR WORK INSTRUCTION DID HAVE, IF WE WERE UNDER CERTAIN PERCENTAGES, THAT THOSE ANIMALS WOULD NOT QUALIFY FOR RESCUE TRANSFER UNLESS LIKE THEY HIT THEIR STRAY HOLDER, WHATEVER THE QUALIFICATIONS WERE.
BUT SINCE WE'VE BEEN OVER CAPACITY THAT WE HAVE NOT INSTITUTED THAT RULE.
SO WE'RE STILL TRYING TO ADDRESS IT SINCE IT'S, WE NEED TO FIND PLACEMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
BUT WITH LAST MONTH'S STATS, SO OUR ADOPTION STAYED CONSISTENT AND THEN OUR RESCUE TRANSFERS INCREASED.
SO OVERALL, THE POPULATION OF ANIMALS OR DOGS, FOR THE MOST PART THAT GO TO RESCUE ARE THE SAME POPULATION THAT GO TO ADOPTION.
AND SO WE ACTUALLY EXPANDED THAT PLACEMENT LAST MONTH.
SO WE ARE WORKING ON THOSE THINGS AND WE'VE BEEN PUTTING STUFF IN PLACE TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES.
TO MAKE SURE, UM, SOME GROUPS, LIKE WE DO HAVE SPECIFIC RESCUE PARTNERS THAT WE USE WINGS OF RESCUE AND WE PARTNER WITH HS AND T FOR, BUT THERE'S OTHER GROUPS THAT ARE THEY LIKE DUAL BASED OR DUAL CITY BASED THAT GRAB STUFF THAT MIGHT NOT BE RELEASED FROM THEIR STRAY HOLD YET.
CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE, UH, CONVERSATIONS RELATED TO IF WE DO HAVE A RESCUE THAT PULLS A HIGHLY ADOPTABLE AND SOMEBODY COMES IN AND WANTS TO ADOPT IT, THEY NORMALLY WILL RELEASE THAT TAG? YEAH.
SO WE'LL REACH OUT IF THERE'S SOMEONE THAT'S INTERESTED, AND THEN WE WILL HAVE THAT TAG RELEASED.
UM, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO SPEED ALONG THE PROCESS FOR PLACEMENT.
SO IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S LINGERING, WE'LL ALWAYS REACH OUT TO THE RESCUE FIRST IF THERE'S SOMEBODY IN THE BUILDING THAT'S INTERESTED IN THEM.
AND HAVE WE LOOKED, UM, WITHIN THE STATE FOR TRANSPORT? YEAH, SO WE HAVE, I DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD THE NUMBER OF OF RESCUE PARTNERS THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE STATE, BUT WE DO HAVE A LOT, LIKE, WE HAVE LIKE HOUSTON BULLDOG PULLS FROM US, HOUSTON, UH, AUSTIN BOXER, LIKE WE HAVE DIFFERENT RESCUES ALL OVER THE STATE.
BUT AGAIN, I WOULD ASSUME JUST THE AMOUNT OF DOGS IN THE STATE IS OVERPOPULATED.
THERE IS A LEVEL OF SATURATION.
UM, AND I WAS PREVIOUSLY IN HOUSTON, UM, WHICH HAS PROBABLY MUCH MORE, UM, IN TERMS OF THE STRAY ANIMAL CRISIS THAN DALLAS DOES.
UM, OR ABOUT, ABOUT THE SAME, THE SAME INTAKE, ABOUT HALF THE FUNDING.
UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE, THERE STILL WAS WAYS IN WHICH DEMAND COULD BE BROUGHT DOWN.
UM, I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE'RE NOT DOING ALL THAT WE CAN, I'M TRULY JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW OUR PROCESS IS GOING, UM, SO THAT I CAN SPEAK TO THIS WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS AND, AND MAKE SURE I KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING.
NO, WE APPRECIATE THE FEEDBACK.
IF YOU'D LIKE, I, I CAN HAVE, UM, ERICA LOOK THROUGH YOUR QUESTIONS AND GET SPECIFIC NUMBERS.
ERICA, REMIND ME, GIVE YOU THIS.
ARE WE ON 10? UH, WE HAVE A VACANCY IN 10, BUT WE DO HAVE COMMISSIONER REPP ONLINE.
UH, COMMISSIONER REPP, IF YOU CAN JUST STATE YOUR DISTRICT FOR US AND WE'LL NEED YOU UNMUTED.
AND THEN LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY AND I'LL BEGIN YOUR TIME FOR COMMENTS.
UM, I'M ELIZABETH REPP FROM DISTRICT 11, AND I, I FIRST WANNA DITTO STEPHANIE, COMMISSIONER STEPHANIE ON WHAT A GREAT JOB YOU'RE DOING, PAUL AND YOUR TEAM.
AND, UM, I WOULD ALSO REALLY LIKE TO GET INVOLVED WITH GOING OUT AND TALKING TO SCHOOLS.
UM, I LOVE, I LOVE GOING OUT AND MEETING PEOPLE AND, AND THAT WOULD, I'M, I THINK I'D BE REALLY GOOD AT IT.
I'M ALSO INTERESTED IN GOING TO THE LOOSE DOG MEETING.
UM, YOU CAN INCLUDE ME ON THAT.
UM, I'M NOT SURE WHICH COMMISSIONER HAD THAT HE WAS INTERESTED, BUT I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THAT.
UM, THE OTHER THING I WANNA, I WANNA SUGGEST TO ALL THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS IS FOSTERING.
UM, I HAVE RIGHT NOW A MOM DOG, UH, PROBABLY A DALMATIAN MIX WITH MANGE AND HER SIX PUPPIES THAT I PICKED UP WHEN THEY WERE FIVE DAYS OLD.
AND, UM, IT'S JUST SO FULFILLING TO SEE HER DO WELL AND THE PUPPY SHOW UP.
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WOULD SUGGEST FOSTERING TO EVERYONE.AND ALSO I HEARD SOMEONE SPEAK ABOUT LOOKING INTO A NEW SHELTER.
UM, THAT'S SOMETHING I AGREE THAT'S GONNA TAKE PROBABLY, UNFORTUNATELY MORE THAN A YEAR TO GET IT ANYWHERE.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO, IF WE HAVE A SEPARATE COMMITTEE FOR THAT, UM, I WOULD LOVE TO THAT.
AND I, I GUESS THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
AND I APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A COMPUTER NOT GETTING ONLINE EARLIER.
JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY, COMMISSIONER.
HI, I AM LISA FAULKNER DE I'M WITH DISTRICT 12.
AND, UH, FIRST OFF, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT THE STAFF JUST DOES SUCH AN INCREDIBLE JOB WITH SUCH CHALLENGING JOBS, WITH HIGH BURNOUT RATES.
AND THE REASON THAT THERE'S TURNOVER IS BECAUSE THESE ARE SUCH INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT JOBS.
I MEAN, EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY, IN EVERY SINGLE WAY.
SO, UM, ANYWAY, I, I SPEND A LOT OF TIME LECTURING PEOPLE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD ABOUT THAT.
IT'S, IT'S JUST, THEY'RE DIFFICULT JOBS AND WE REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING.
AND I THINK YOU'RE, I THINK YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB.
UM, FIRST I OKAY, THEN I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT, OKAY, YOU SAID THAT YOUR INTAKE WAS DOWN BY 20%.
ARE WE DOING ANY MANAGED INTAKE NOW? IS THERE STILL 'CAUSE I'M, I'M HEARING THAT ANECDOTALLY, BUT I JUST, BUT I DON'T SEE THAT IT'S POSTED.
IF IT'S, IF THERE'S
THE ONLY, THE ONLY THING THAT WE MANAGE IS OUR OWNER SURRENDERS.
THAT'S BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE WANT TO TRY TO GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DIVERSION MM-HMM
FOR HOME TO HOME AND FOR OTHER OPTIONS BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY BRING THE ANIMALS IN.
WE WORK WITH A PARTNER ORGANIZATION TO DO SO.
UH, IT'S, IT, IT, IT'S WHAT WE TRY TO DO TO OFFER AN ALTERNATIVE TO SURRENDER.
UH, BUT FOR ANYTHING ELSE, IT'S, IT'S OPEN ADOPTION.
UM, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, I RUN A SMALL RESTAURANT.
OUR, OUR FOSTER AND OAK CLIFF, WE GET A LOT OF THOSE.
SO, I MEAN, A LOT OF THEM ARE, THEY'RE COMING TO US BECAUSE THEY, THEY PO THEY'RE POSTED ON NEXT DOOR AND SHE GOES, THE, THE SHELTER WON'T TAKE THEM.
AND, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE THEY JUST GO DIRECTLY TO THAT.
AND THEN WE, WE ENDED UP WITH A LOT OF THOSE DOGS.
YOU ALSO, WE TALKED ABOUT, I KNOW THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT TRENDS, A TREND THAT WE'RE SEEING AGAIN THROUGH MY OAK CLIFF.
UM, FOSTER WHO I, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S LEE'S DISTRICT, I'M PRETTY SURE.
UM, SO I KNOW SHE'S SEEING THIS, IS THAT WE'RE SEEING PEOPLE AGAIN POSTING OR JUST HANDING OUT DOGS AT KEITH PARK BECAUSE SOMEONE'S BEEN DEPORTED.
ARE YOU GUYS SEEING THE IMPACT OF THAT? OR THEY DON'T TELL YOU AND YOU WON'T KNOW BECAUSE THEY TURN THE DOG LOOSE OR THE DOG GETS TURNED LOOSE? I IMAGINE.
DANIEL HAVE, ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT? NO, I HAVEN'T HEARD OF 'EM.
JUST HANDING OUT DOGS BECAUSE THEY GET DEPORTED AND WE HAD A MEETING, WE HAVE THEM
WE HAD A MEETING YESTERDAY IN D THREE, UH, THAT I BELIEVE PART OF THAT DISTRICT IS WITH KEITH PARK.
AND WE DIDN'T HEAR THAT LAST NIGHT, SO, OKAY.
WELL, I, I HAVE A HUSKY AND A, AND A CHIHUAHUA AND A SHIHTZU, IF YOU, YOU THAT WE JUST TOOK IN.
SO FOR THAT, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID THE REASON WAS, OF COURSE, MAYBE THEY'RE NOT TELLING THE TRUTH.
UM, THE OTHER IS ABOUT THE, UM, I KNOW TAMMY HAD TALKED ABOUT THE POSTERS THAT, UM, FOR THE FOUND DOGS, ARE THOSE STILL BEING PUT UP ON POLES AND, AND IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS WHEN DOGS ARE FOUND? OKAY.
AND HAS THAT BEEN USEFUL? IT SEEMS LIKE THAT WOULD BE SO HELPFUL.
UH, IT, IT'S, IT'S, THEY EVERY OFFICER'S EQUIPPED WITH A SMALL CAMERA AND PRINTER, SO THAT WAY THEY COULD PRINT OUT THE PICTURE AND PUT IT WITH THAT POSTER.
SO THAT WAY IT'S, IT'S BEEN USEFUL FROM OUR END SO THAT WAY WE COULD GET THE WORD OUT.
UM, I DON'T HAVE THE DATA OF IF THAT ACTUALLY YEAH.
HOW MANY ARE ACTUALLY RECLAIMED THAT WAY JUST BECAUSE OF THAT.
UM, AND, UM, THEN I'LL ALSO, AS FAR AS SPEAKING AT SCHOOLS, I ALSO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN, IN SPEAKING AT SCHOOLS IF YOU, IF YOU NEED VOLUNTEERS TO GO DO THAT OR AT GROUPS, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, I THINK PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND.
I MEAN, I'M JUST, I'M CONSTANTLY AMAZED AT HOW LITTLE INFORMATION PEOPLE HAVE ABOUT THE PET CARE CRISIS.
I WAS TALKING TO A GUY YESTERDAY AND HE WENT ON, HE WENT ON, ON ABOUT, OH, IT'S THE BREEDER.
SO I SAID, WHAT KIND OF DOG DO YOU HAVE? AND HE SAID, OH, I HAVE A GOLDEN DOODLE THAT I GOT FROM A BREEDER IN OKLAHOMA.
AND I'M LIKE, ARE YOU NOT HEARING YOURSELF? BUT I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST, PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE LIKE, IT'S OKAY FOR ME, BUT IF EVERYBODY ELSE WOULD DO THAT.
SO, I MEAN, IT'S JUST A, IT'S AMAZING TO ME.
UM, AND THE MICROCHIPS AT THE FIRE STATIONS, STEPHANIE HANSON, I WANNA TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT AFTERWARDS BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING WE WERE ALSO LOOKING INTO.
AND, UM, I I, I'M ASSUMING THAT WE'D HAVE TO SELF-FUND
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THAT FOR THE, FOR THE, UH, FIRE STATIONS.'CAUSE THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.
IF THERE WAS ONE AT EVERY FIRE STATION, THAT WOULD JUST, THAT'S JUST AN INCREDIBLE I, UM, IDEA.
AND WE'VE ACTUALLY, WE'RE LOOKING INTO THAT.
SO, UM, THAT'S, UM, I GUESS THAT'S ALL I ALL I HAD THE, UM, ALSO THE FOSTER PROGRAM.
YOU GUYS HAVE DONE SUCH A FABULOUS JOB.
THE FOSTER PROGRAM CONTINUES TO GROW AND I THINK IS REALLY HELPFUL TO PEOPLE.
IT ALSO HELPS PEOPLE WHO WANNA ADOPT, GET A DOG THAT THEY KNOW A LOT MORE ABOUT, WHICH I THINK ALSO INCREASES THE, THE ADOPTION LEVELS.
AND I WOULD SAY THAT IF ANYBODY HAS A CONNECTION WITH THE LOCAL SCHOOLS IN YOUR COMMUNITIES AND IN YOUR DISTRICTS, UH, LET US KNOW.
WE'D LIKE TO MAKE THOSE, UH, CONNECTIONS.
WE'VE GOT, UH, JAY IS NOT HERE, RIGHT? UM, WE WOULD HAVE COMMISSIONER SANDERS NEXT, AND THEN I KNOW COMMISSIONER SED MENTIONED HAVING TO JUMP OFF, BUT JUMP BACK ON.
AND THEN WE WOULD, UH, REDIRECT TO COMMISSIONER BENNETT AFTER.
UM, THIS IS COMMISSIONER SANDERS.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY AGAIN, THANKS TO THE, UM, SHELTER.
I'M GONNA GO THROUGH A FEW THINGS.
I DON'T HAVE A TON OF STUFF, BUT, UM, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME NASHLA.
I DON'T KNOW IF SHE'S THERE, I CAN'T SEE EVERYBODY.
BUT I WENT TO THE CALMING THE CANINES EVENT FOR, UM, JANUARY 1ST.
IT WAS AN AMAZING EVENT, AND I HOPE EVERYBODY TAKES THE CHANCE TO GO TO THE ONE IN JULY.
BUT, UM, SHE DID A GREAT JOB AND IT WAS VERY WELL ATTENDED BY THE COMMUNITY.
AND, UM, ANYWAY, JUST THANKS FOR CONTINUING TO, UM, DO THESE GREAT EVENTS THAT, UM, WELCOME THE COMMUNITY INTO DAS AND ALLOW THEM TO SEE ALL THE GREAT WORK YOU'RE DOING.
UM, THE SECOND THING IS THE PET PANTRY.
UM, THOSE ARE SOME BIG NUMBERS, AND I EXPECT WITH THE ECONOMY CHANGING, THOSE NUMBERS WILL INCREASE.
SO IF YOU COULD KIND OF GIVE US SOME INFORMATION ON HOW THOSE ARE FUNDED, WHERE THE SUPPLIES COME FROM, AND HOW WE CAN GET THE COMMUNITY MORE INVOLVED IN HELPING TO GROW THAT.
UM, I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THAT COMMUNITY CAT ORDINANCE MEETINGS, UM, I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH VICTORIA AND, UH, COMMISSIONER RIDLEY'S OFFICE TO ORGANIZE OURS.
WE SHOULD HAVE THAT SET UP PRETTY SOON.
IT'S GONNA BE AT THE LAKEWOOD LIBRARY, UM, IN DISTRICT 14.
AND ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO BE INVOLVED IN THAT CAN EMAIL ME AT, UM, DALLAS ANIMAL COMMISSION D FOURTEEN@GMAIL.COM.
UM, I ALSO, UM, I HAD A FEW MESSAGES ABOUT THE LITTLE DOG THAT WAS SITTING ON MY LAP.
SHE'S GONE BECAUSE HER MOM JUST CAME TO TOWN, CAME IN, BUT SHE IS NOT MY DOG.
SHE IS ADORABLE, BUT SHE LIVED ON THE STREETS OF BAJA.
AND THEN, UM, MY FRIEND WHO'S RETIRED HERE, ADOPTED HER FOUR YEARS AGO.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, SHE IS, UM, TOTALLY, UM, CAME AND WONDERFUL, AND A WONDERFUL DOG.
SO ANY DOG THAT LIVES ON THE STREET CAN STILL BE, UM, MADE TO BE A LOVING HOUSE DOG.
AND IF SHE'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE, THERE'S MANY, MANY MORE OUT THERE.
AND IT ALSO MAKES ME REALIZE I ACTUALLY WENT TO AN ADOPTION EVENT HERE IN THE CITY THAT I'M VISITING, AND I WENT TO THAT ON TUESDAY.
AND IT ALSO MAKES ME JUST SO APPRECIATIVE OF DAS AND EVERYTHING THEY DO.
I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY KNOWS HOW WELL WE HAVE IT
SO I WANNA SAY THANKS TO THAT.
AND THEN MY ONLY REAL QUESTION FOR DAS IS, UM, ABOUT THE $13 MILLION HAS BEEN, UM, ALLOCATED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS ABOUT THOSE SPAY AND NEUTER PROGRAMS. UM, I KNOW THAT THE GRANTS ARE, THE DEADLINE IS MAY 13TH, UM, AND ARE WE HOPING TO GET SOME OF THAT MONEY? HOW IS THAT ALLOCATED? AND IS THERE ANYTHING WE COULD DO TO DO WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS OR OUR COUNCIL PEOPLE TO GET THAT MOVING QUICKER AND TO DALLAS? SO THAT'S MY MAIN QUESTION, BUT I RESERVE MY TIME FOR LATER, UH, TO SPEAK ON YOUR PET FOOD PANTRY QUESTION.
WE, WE HAVE SOME GREAT PARTNERS THAT DONATE A LOT OF THOSE SUPPLIES.
UH, I DON'T BELIEVE WE'VE HAD TO PURCHASE, BUT I BELIEVE WE DID HAVE SOME SUPPORT THROUGH GO AHEAD.
VICTORIA BENNETT, UH, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.
UM, BUT ALL OF OUR, UM, PET, UH, THE CITY HAS NOT PURCHASED ANYTHING THAT'S BEEN DONATED THROUGH THE PET FOOD PANTRY.
I THINK OCCASIONALLY FOTIS HAS HAD TO STEP IN AND, AND OFFER SOME, SOME SUPPORT IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD ENOUGH FOR A SPECIFIC OCCASIONS.
WE'VE BEEN VERY LUCKY THAT MOST OF IT HAS BEEN,
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UH, DONATIONS THROUGH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND, UM, PRIVATE DONATIONS, UM, FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST BRINGING THEM IN.UM, BUT, UM, BUT BY AND LARGE, THAT IS ALL THERE.
AND GODA CAN SPEAK ON THE GRANT.
WE'RE, WE'RE CURRENTLY, UH, ABOUT READY TO SUBMIT FOR THE GRANT, UH, FOR THAT, UH, PROCESS.
WE, WE ACTUALLY WE'RE ON THE CALL WITH THE STATE, UH, WHO IS HANDLING THAT GRANT PROCESS AND WE'RE TRAINED ON WHAT'S REQUIRED.
I BELIEVE WE JUST FINISHED GATHERING ALL THE DOCUMENTS THAT WE NEEDED AND WE'RE ABOUT READY TO, UH, SUBMIT NOW.
WELL, WHAT I TALKED TO YOU ABOUT YESTERDAY.
SO WE WERE WORKING WITH, UM, WITH THE CITY'S GRANT OFFICE TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR STUFF IS, UM, CORRECT IN, IN ALIGNMENT BEFORE, BEFORE WE GET THAT, THAT SENT OUT AS WELL.
SO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE BEST, UM, OPPORTUNITY FOR SUCCESS THERE.
AND THE MORE, THE MORE THAT WE CAN PULL IN AND THAT WE CAN GET FROM THE STATE, THE MORE WE CAN OFFER THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUBSIDIZED BAY AND NEUTER.
AND THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO TO REACH OUT TO ANYBODY.
I MEAN, THAT'S KIND OF IN THE BACKGROUND, RIGHT? SO IS THERE, I GUESS, AND ALSO MAYBE, MAYBE NOT JUST THAT GRANT, BUT ALSO HOW, WHAT REGARDING ANY KIND OF BUDGET FOR SPAY NEUTER FOR THE CITY, SHOULD WE BE REACHING OUT TO OUR COUNCIL PEOPLE FOR ANY KIND OF BOND ABOUT THAT? I DON'T KNOW IF THE FUNDING HAS INCREASED OR DECREASED FOR SPAY NEUTER AND HOW WE CAN, UM, GET OUR VOICES HEARD THAT WE NEED MORE, UH, FUNDING FOR THAT, FOR THE, THROUGH THE CITY AND THROUGH THE STATE.
I CAN'T ADVOCATE FOR THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, BUT I MEAN, YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO TALK TO YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER ABOUT WHAT YOU FEEL THE NEEDS ARE FOR DAS.
WE'RE GONNA GO BACK TO COMMISSIONER BENNETT.
IT LOOKS LIKE COMMISSIONER SIDE'S NOT ONLINE.
FIRST OF ALL, UM, OF COURSE, THANK YOU TO PAUL AND THE ENTIRE TEAM.
REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE WORKING REALLY HARD WITH LIMITED RESOURCES, AND I GUESS THIS IS NOT, PROBABLY NOT, BUT THE GALLANT TIMES THE EVENT WAS REALLY WELL, UM, ADVERTISED AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA, AND I HOPE WE DO MORE LIKE THAT.
UM, I WANNA KIND OF PIGGYBACK OFF SOME OF WHAT THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS HAVE SAID AS FAR AS I WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION, UM, ON ALL THE DI DIFFERENT DISTRICT ATTENDANCE MEETINGS, MORE THINGS THAT WE CAN ALL DO TO MAYBE COLLABORATE AND GET TOGETHER AND KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, UM, WITH MEETINGS TO KIND OF HELP WITH, UM, GETTING, I GUESS, THE PUBLIC MORE INFORMED, WHICH IS, I KIND OF THINK WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING HERE.
SO ANYTHING WE COULD DO AS FAR AS LIKE A GROUP LIKE OR NEWSLETTER FOR MORE THAN JUST US, I THINK JUST AS MANY PEOPLE AS WANNA BE INVOLVED SHOULD GET AS MUCH INFORMATION AS THEY CAN GET SOMEHOW.
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
AND I LOVE THE IDEA OF THE CHIP BREEDERS AT THE, UH, STATIONS AND OR IF LIKE, OFFICERS CAN HAVE THEM.
SO, UM, AS FAR AS WHAT WAS ON THE AGENDA, I, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE CAT COMMUNITY.
I'M REALLY NOT, I WISH I WAS MORE UP ON THE COMMUNITY CATS AND UNDERSTANDING ALL THAT.
I'M REALLY TRYING TO GET A BETTER WORKING KNOWLEDGE.
BUT I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF CONCERNS ABOUT PROTECTION FOR COMMUNITY CAT CAREGIVERS THAT ARE GONNA BE FEEDING THESE CATS TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE I GUESS IN OTHER CITIES, UM, AT SOME PLACES THAT THEY PROSECUTE PEOPLE FOR DOING THIS.
AND THERE'S SOME CONCERN THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT COULD HAPPEN TO OUR COMMUNITY CAT CAREGIVERS.
SO, I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANNA GO, I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OTHER THINGS, BUT DO WE WANNA ADDRESS THESE LIKE ONE AT A TIME? THAT'S MY COMMUNITY CAT QUESTION.
UH, AS FAR AS THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS GO, WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT WE'RE NOT CREATING A WALKING QUORUM BY HAVING, UM, A BUNCH OF YOU GATHER IN ONE PLACE.
SO, WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE TO DISCUSS THAT.
UM, THE MICROCHIP READERS, WE ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THAT FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS NOW.
UH, WE'VE, UH, BEEN HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH DFR, UH, THEY'RE ON BOARD AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE READY AND WILLING AND ABLE TO, TO SUPPORT.
UH, WE, UH, ARE LOOKING AT POSSIBLE FUNDING FOR SOME MICROCHIPS, UH, STATIONS.
UH, BUT THAT'S AN ONGOING CONVERSATION.
BUT WE WOULD BE WILLING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH, UH, WHOEVER'S THE POINT PERSON ON THE COMMISSION, UH, COMMISSIONER HANSEN YEAH.
TO, TO CONTINUE THAT CONVERSATION BECAUSE
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IT'S SOMETHING THAT, AGAIN, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IN THE BACKGROUND, BUT WE DIDN'T WANNA, UH, PUT IT OUT THERE YET BECAUSE IT WAS STILL IN, IN, IN PRO IN, UH, IN PLAY.SO, UH, AS IT RELATES TO COMMUNITY CATS, THAT'S THE REASON WHY WE'RE DOING THESE, UH, LISTENING SESSIONS TO HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY SOME OF THE CONCERNS RELATIVE TO SOME PROPOSED, UH, SUGGESTIONS BEING MADE, UH, BEFORE WE GO BACK TO QUALITY OF LIFE WITH A, WITH A, A DRAFT.
UH, BUT WE ARE, WE WERE ASKED AT QUALITY OF LIFE TO BRING IT BACK BEFORE THE COMMISSION FOR REVIEW, UH, BEFORE APRIL'S QUALITY OF LIFE MEETING.
THAT'S, THAT'S NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO HAPPEN BECAUSE WE DON'T MEET AGAIN UNTIL MAY.
SO WE'D HAVE TO PROBABLY TAKE IT BEFORE QUALITY OF LIFE IN JUNE.
BUT THAT'S CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE US AND THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND THE, THE CHAIR OF THAT COMMITTEE.
BUT WE WILL ADHERE TO THE REQUEST.
SO THAT, THAT IS THE REASON FOR THOSE COMMUNITY MEETINGS TO ENGAGE AND TO LISTEN AND TO HEAR SOME OF THE CONCERNS LIKE YOU'VE EXPRESSED ABOUT THE, UH, THE FEEDING AND THE, THE ACCOUNTABILITY, UH, PERCEPTIONS FOR THAT.
UH, BUT WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HEAR THE COMMUNITY, WE UNDERSTAND THE CONCERNS, AND IT'S BUILT INTO THE ORDINANCE.
AND THEN PAUL, WHAT, THERE WAS A GROUP THAT WE, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SINCE I GOT ON HERE ABOUT TRYING TO GET THEM QUALIFIED TO GET THE SPAY AND NEUTER GROUP.
AND I'M SORRY, I DON'T, I DIDN'T WRITE DOWN THE NAME.
HAS THAT HAPPENED YET? SPAY NEUTER SOCIETY.
OH, YOU'RE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SPAY NEUTER SOCIETY IN, IN, UH, YEAH.
UH, WE JUST RECENTLY HAD TO REVERT TO CONTRACTS.
SO WE'VE, UH, WE'VE, WE'VE GOT SOME CONTRACTS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN DONE, UH, THAT'S JUST THAT NOT WE'RE, WE'RE STILL PROCESSING, BUT THAT'S NOT ONE OF 'EM.
UH, BUT WE DO HAVE SOMEBODY HERE WHO'S VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT GROUP, UH, THAT WE CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH, UH, TO SEE IF WE CAN, WE CAN BRING THEM ON BOARD.
WELL, YOU KNOW, ANY, ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO SPAY AND NEUTER AND THESE CATS SO THAT WE DON'T, YOU KNOW, SO THAT WE'RE NOT EXPANDING OUR COMMUNITY IS GONNA BE REALLY HELPFUL IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF ALL OF THIS.
UM, UH, I THINK THAT THE MORE TRANSFER TRANSPORT WE CAN DO TO OUR HIGHER RISK, OUR LAR LARGE DOGS, OUR PIT BULLS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE ANIMALS THAT WE HAVE A HARDER TIME ADOPTING OUT, ESPECIALLY UP NORTH WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE THE PROBLEMS THAT WE HAVE, IT'S WONDERFUL.
UM, I THINK IT'S AMAZING TO ME HOW MUCH OF THE COMMUNITY DOESN'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE THIS PET CRISIS AT ALL.
UM, WHEN I TALK TO PEOPLE THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THIS ARENA TALKING ABOUT GETTING THEIR DOGS FROM THEIR BREEDERS, THEY DON'T GET IT.
AND I WANT THEM ALL TO COME DOWN TO DAS AND SEE.
BUT ANYWAY, UM, THE LAST THING I REALLY WANNA TALK ABOUT, THE ANIMAL CRUELTY, UM, AND THE CALLS FOR SERVICE.
UH, YOU KNOW, I KNOW YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE, UM, LIKE FIELD OPERATORS THAT DEAL WITH ANIMAL CRUELTY SPECIFICALLY.
I KNOW THAT THOSE, SOME OF OUR CITY ORDINANCE ORDINANCES, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE WORKING ON THIS.
LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, AND I THINK THIS IS ON OUR LIST 'CAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ANIMAL CRUELTY, YOU KNOW, WHEN DOGS ARE TETHERED, WE'VE HAD, I HAVE HAD SOME COMMUNICATIONS WITH PEOPLE AND, UM, THERE'S, THERE SEEMS TO BE A DISCONNECT.
LIKE WHEN THERE, THERE'S CITY ORDINANCES AGAINST THE TETHERING.
I THINK, AND YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT WHEN THERE'S TETHERED DOGS THAT ARE BEING, UM, CITED, LIKE WHAT? THERE'S HOMELESS COMMUNITIES THAT ARE TETHERING DOGS, AND THEN YOU GUYS WON'T PICK 'EM UP.
AND ONE OF YOUR PEOPLE EVEN ACTUALLY SUGGESTED THAT THEY WOULD MAIL A NOTICE AND IT WAS A HOMELESS COMMUNITY.
SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT WOULD WORK.
SO I'M CURIOUS WHAT WE CAN DO TO TRY TO HELP WITH SOME OF THE ANIMAL CRUELTY SITUATIONS, UM, THAT I GUESS DON'T RISE TO THE LEVEL THAT YOU GUYS CAN SEIZE THE DOGS.
SO FOR A TETHERED DOG, YOU GUYS CAN'T SEIZE THEM, IS THAT RIGHT? I, HERE'S THE, HERE, LET ME SEE IF I CAN BREAK THIS DOWN.
SIMPLY IF, IF IT'S A TETHERED DOG THAT IS MAYBE SUSPECTED ANIMAL CRUELTY BASED ON WHAT WE SEE AS A WHOLE, UH, WE WILL MAKE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR DPD COUNTERPARTS AND THEN MOVE FORWARD WHATEVER WITH WHATEVER SUGGESTIONS THEY MAKE.
IF IT'S JUST A TETHERED ANIMAL AND
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IT'S NOT A SUSPECTED ANIMAL CRUELTY, YES, WE WILL ADDRESS THAT.UH, WE WON'T SEIZE THE ANIMAL, BUT WE WILL ADDRESS IT THROUGH WHATEVER MEANS THAT WE CAN TO ENSURE THAT THE ANIMAL, THE ANIMAL CAN BE TETHERED WHILE IT'S IN THE POSSESSION OF THE OWNER, BUT IT CANNOT BE TETHERED OUTSIDE OF THAT.
SO IT WOULD BE DEPENDENT ON THE SITUATION, UH, THAT WOULD DETERMINE WHETHER WE TAKE INTERNAL ACTION OR WE REFER IT UP TO DPD.
WELL, I THINK, AND IF IT'S A HOMELESS PERSON THAT'S, THAT, THAT, I GUESS THEY CAN BE THE OWNERS.
SO IF THEY'RE TETHERING THEM AND THEY DON'T LOOK, THEY'RE NOT STARVING, THEN THEY'RE GONNA STAY WITH THE TETHERED HOMELESS PERSON, I GUESS, RIGHT? YES.
THE, IF, IF IT'S WITHIN THE, THE REALM OF THE, UH, AREA OF THE PROPERTY, THE PERSON WHO OWNS THE DOG, WE WOULD NOT SEIZE THE ANIMAL.
UH, WE WOULD HAVE A, WE DO HAVE A HOMELESS ACTIONS RESPONSE TEAM THAT ACTUALLY GOES OUT TO THESE SITES WITH THE, THE OFFICE OF HOMELESS SOLUTIONS TEAM.
UH, AND WE, WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD BE HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM AT THAT MOMENT ABOUT THE TETHERING LAW AND REQUIREMENTS.
DANIEL, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
NO, THEY DO, UH, GO OVER THAT AND PROVIDE ANY ASSISTANCE THAT THEY CAN BY PROGRAMS THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR US TO HELP PROVIDE.
WELL, I, I FEEL LIKE ONE AREA THAT WE ARE, THERE'S A LOT, BUT ONE BIG AREA THAT THERE'S PROBLEMS IS THE WHOLE SITUATION WITH ANIMAL CRUELTY, AND THEN BASED ON YOUR LIMITATIONS RESPONDING WHEN PEOPLE CALL, THAT'S YOUR TIME COMMISSIONER.
AND WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH OUR DPD PARTNERS ON THE CRUELTY ASPECT, AND I THINK THERE'S A, IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER REGIONAL TRAINING WITH, UH, THE A-S-P-C-A ON IDENTIFIERS FOR CRUELTY.
'CAUSE WE DID THAT BACK, I BELIEVE, TWO YEARS AGO, UH, HERE IN DALLAS, WHERE WE OPENED IT UP TO THE REGION.
UH, BUT I, I, I THINK IT'S TIME FOR THAT BECAUSE WE'VE HAD A CHANGE OF, UH, STAFFING, UH, IN OUR FIELD OPERATIONS UNIT.
BUT WE DO GET, WE, THEY'RE UP TO SPEED WHEN THEY'RE TRAINED ON WHAT TO LOOK FOR.
AND THEY ACTUALLY, IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, THEY DO CALL THE SUPERVISOR TO PULL THE SUPERVISOR IN, HEY, I HAVE THIS SITUATION, WHAT SHOULD I DO? YEAH.
IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO DO A QUICK ROUND OF ANY FOLLOW-UP, WE WOULD NEED A MOTION TO HAVE A SECOND ROUND.
SO, AND THEN DO WE NEED A SECOND? ANYONE WANNA SECOND THAT MOTION TO HAVE ANOTHER ROUND? A SECOND.
SO WE'LL GO THROUGH BY DISTRICT.
UM, YOU CAN YIELD YOUR TIME OR YOU CAN BRING UP A FOLLOW UP TO SOMETHING THAT WAS BROUGHT UP OR THAT YOU DIDN'T GET IN, IN YOUR TIME.
UM, I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT, UH, TETHERING.
JUST, I JUST UNDERSTOOD THAT YOU DO NOT PICK UP ANIMALS IF, IF, IF SOMEONE FINDS AN ANIMAL AND IS TRYING TO DO THE LOOSE DOG CONFINED, AND THAT ANIMAL IS THEN TETHERED AS A MEANS OF CONFINING IT, ARE YOU SAYING THAT, THAT THEY CANNOT BE PICKED UP BY OFFICERS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT BEING TETHERED BY THE OWNER? NO.
IT, IT, IT IS, IT IS DEPENDENT ON WHERE THE ANIMAL IS TETHERED.
IF IT'S ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, WE HAVE TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER AND THE OWNER OF THE DOG.
IF THE DOG IS, LIKE, WE'VE HAD A SITUATION WHERE A DOG WAS TETHERED AT A SCHOOL AND IT WAS OBVIOUSLY SOMEBODY ABANDONED THE DOG, WE WILL SEIZE THAT ANIMAL BECAUSE IT'S CONSIDERED A LOOSE STRAY.
UM, I DID HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT, UM, FO UM, AND POTENTIALLY THEM RAISING FUNDS TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE STIPENDS POTENTIALLY TO SOME OF THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING A MAJORITY OF THE TNR WORK THAT THEY ARE BRINGING INTO DAS.
UM, HATE TO HATE TO SAY IT, KIND OF LIKE HEADHUNTING, SORT OF, BUT IS THERE, IS THERE ANY APPETITE FOR THAT AT ALL? 'CAUSE I KNOW Y'ALL HAVE SAID, GOSH, OUR OUR ANIMAL OFFICERS ARE JUST NOT REALLY ABLE TO, TO GO OUT AND TRANSPORT THESE CATS FOR TNR.
WE'VE GOT A TON OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING WORK, UM, THE, ESSENTIALLY WRITING A GRANT.
AND I'M HAPPY TO HELP SPEARHEAD THAT IN DISTRICT ONE, UH, TO PROVIDE SOME COMPENSATION FOR THIS WORK THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING.
WE'RE ALWAYS OPEN TO HAVING CONVERSATIONS IF THERE'S A GRANT OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO DO SO.
UH, OUR FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES GROUP, WE, WE, WE DO JUST LIKE THE CITY, WE BUDGET OUR, OUR, UH, WE DO A BUDGET DISCUSSION EVERY YEAR,
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BUT WE HAVE SPECIFIC TIERS THAT ARE BUILT INTO THAT BUDGET THAT COULD, THE MONEY COULD ONLY BE USED FOR, UH, THEY HAVE, UH, PARTICIPATED IN, UH, DONATING, UH, UH, MONIES OR OPPORTUNITIES FOR, UH, INCENTIVES.BUT THAT WOULD BE A CONVERSATION THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE DISCUSSED BETWEEN US AND PHOTOS AND WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE FOR POTENTIALLY NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.
UH, BUT IF THERE'S A GRANT OPPORTUNITY, YEAH.
BUT WE WOULD LOVE TO EXPLORE IT.
UM, IT HAS TO DO WITH THE HOURS AND AVAILABILITY OF INTAKE.
UM, I HAVE, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE ME UP THERE ALL THE TIME.
I'M THERE MULTIPLE TIMES A WEEK, UM, BRINGING IN ANIMALS FOR PEOPLE AND MY CONSTITUENTS WHO CAN'T NECESSARILY DO IT THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF THE TIMING.
UM, HAS THERE BEEN ANY THOUGHT OR CONSIDERATION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, FOLKS WHO WORK, UH, WHO AREN'T ABLE TO BE THERE FOR, FOR SOMETIMES TWO HOURS, UH, DURING THE DAY WHILE THEY'RE WAITING? UM, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE TO WAIT THEIR TURN.
I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT IS, HAS THERE BEEN ANY THOUGHT TO EXTENDING HOURS OR STREAMLINE THE INTAKE PROCESS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT TRYING JUST THERE TO DROP OFF AND IT, YOU KNOW, I'M HAVING CONSTITUENTS TEXT ME.
I'VE BEEN HERE FOR TWO HOURS, AND THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE WAITING, THEY'RE STILL WAITING TO BE SEEN.
WHAT IS THE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT? WELL, AT, AT THE MOMENT, WE'RE HAVING, IF YOU, IF YOU EXTEND HOURS, YOU'VE GOT TO EXTEND THE STAFF'S TIME IN, IN THE BUILDING.
AND THEN THERE'S BUDGET IMPACTS RELATIVE TO THAT.
BUT, UH, WE HAVE TO MAKE, MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE DO BRING ANIMALS INTO THE SHELTER, THAT WE'RE DOING IT DILIGENTLY.
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T, WE DON'T HAVE A LARGE WAITING ROOM FOR FOLKS TO SIT THERE AS THE ANIMAL'S BEING PROCESSED.
UH, BECAUSE EVERY ANIMAL THAT COMES INTO THE SHELTER HAS TO GO THROUGH AN INTAKE SCREEN FROM OUR MEDICAL TEAM.
SO, OF COURSE, I, I, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I, I DON'T, UH, OR THAT I CLEAR UP ANY MISCONCEPTIONS.
ANIMALS DON'T COME TO THE SHELTER AND JUST AUTOMATICALLY GO INTO A KENNEL.
THERE'S A PROCESS, JUST LIKE IF YOU GO TO AN ER, CORRECT.
THEY HAVE TO BE PROCESSED, THEY HAVE TO HAVE PHOTOS AND A AND BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY GET TO A KENNEL.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, IT DOES TAKE TIME AND WE APOLOGIZE FOR THAT.
BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO DO.
UH, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO EXTEND THE HOURS BASED ON OUR CURRENT CAPACITY, UH, AS IT RELATES TO STAFFING.
I KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD SOME FOLKS REALLY STRUGGLING WITH, UM, MAYBE THEY'VE HAD AN ANIMAL FOR A WEEK THAT FOUND BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST DAY THAT THEY COULD POSSIBLY GET IN, THAT THEY WEREN'T SCHEDULED FOR WORK.
AND THEN THEY'RE BEING TOLD THEY'VE HAD THE ANIMAL TOO LONG.
NOW IT'S CONSIDERED OWNERSHIP, AND THEN THEY'RE TOLD THEY HAVE TO MAKE AN OWNER SURRENDER APPOINTMENT.
SO THEY'LL WAIT FOR, YOU KNOW, MAYBE TWO HOURS AND THEN GET TOLD SOMETHING LIKE THAT IS HOW CAN WE, HOW CAN WE WORK ON SOME KIND OF WORKAROUNDS FOR THAT? BECAUSE THAT'S NOT FAIR TO SADDLE THESE PEOPLE WITH AN ANIMAL THAT ISN'T THEIRS WHEN THEY'VE JUST BEEN TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN'T GET OFF FOR AN ANIMAL.
WELL, WHAT I SUGGEST IF THAT THE ANIMAL'S ON THEIR PROPERTY THAT THEY CALL US AND LET US KNOW THAT THE ANIMALS EITHER CONFINED A STRAY, CONFINED ON THE PROPERTY, OR IT'S JUST A STRAY SO THAT OUR FIELD OPERATIONS TEAM CAN DO THE, UH, ACTUAL PICKUP AND, AND, AND, UH, UH, BRING THE ANIMAL IN SO THAT THEY'RE NOT HAVING TO COME TO THE SHELTER.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY, A LOT OF TIMES THAT THAT DOESN'T WORK FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN APARTMENTS, AREN'T ABLE TO BRING THE ANIMAL, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN'T BRING THE ANIMAL INTO THEIR APARTMENT.
THEY CAN'T RISK GETTING EVICTED.
THEY HAVE A RENTAL AGREEMENT, WHATNOT.
SO THESE, THESE ARE FOR PEOPLE WHO TRULY, OR MAYBE THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY TO WORK, THEY FOUND AN ANIMAL, THEY'RE TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT, I AM VERY LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
AND I MEAN, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LOOK AT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THAT, THAT IS THE PROCESS THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, UM, SUGGEST.
SO THEY HAVE THE ANIMAL FOR A WEEK, FOLKS.
I UNDERSTAND THE INTENT AND THE COMPASSION FOR FOLKS WHO WANT TO PICK UP AN ANIMAL AND BRING IT IN AND BRING IT TO THE SHELTER.
THERE'S A SAFETY ASPECT TO THAT, AND SOMEONE COULD GET INJURED AND BIT, AND THEN WE'RE DEALING WITH A WHOLE DIFFERENT SITUATION.
SO IF, IF THEY COULD AT LEAST CALL US AND LET US KNOW IF THE ANIMALS IN DANGER TO ITSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE, OR IT'S ON THE STREET OR THE HIGHWAY, OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, LET US KNOW THAT IN THE COMMENTS SO WE CAN PRIORITIZE THOSE CALLS AND WE CAN GET OUT THERE QUICKLY.
I THINK THOSE ARE MY MAIN QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW.
UM, I'LL JUST SAY A FEW THINGS.
UM, LEE, YOU'LL BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND ANOTHER SHELTER, UH, THAT'S OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK UNTIL 7:00 PM SO DAS DOES HAVE PRETTY GOOD HOURS, AND IT'S JUST ALWAYS A
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STRUGGLE FOR, YOU KNOW, THE 24 7 OPS.UM, I AM HEARING FROM EVERYBODY THAT, UH, AT THE NEXT MEETING WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PUSHING THROUGH PROJECTS, UM, LIKE THE MICROCHIP, HOW TO WORK, UM, WITH CROSS, UM, CITY DEPARTMENTS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, UH, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT GETTING THAT ON THE AGENDA PRETTY SOON.
I'VE HAD TO ACTUALLY PUSH, UH, INITIATIVES THROUGH THEN.
UM, I ALSO JUST WANTED TO SORT OF FOLLOW UP ON ONE MORE THING WITH FOTIS, WHICH IS THAT FRIENDS GROUP CAN KIND OF BE WHATEVER YOU GUYS AS THE LEADERSHIP AND COLLABORATION WITH THEM DECIDE IT TO BE.
SO LIMITING IT TO ONLY FUNDRAISING, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE HAVE OOPK, WHICH HAS IMMENSE EXPERIENCED RESOURCES BEHIND IT TO CONTRIBUTE WITH MARKETING AND THEIR LEGAL AND GRANT WRITING TEAM.
I WOULD JUST, YOU KNOW, SUGGEST HAVING MORE OF AN OPEN MIND IN THAT FRIENDS OF LIBRARY GROUP, OF COURSE THAT'S BEEN AROUND FOR 75 YEARS OR WHATEVER,
BUT JUST THERE, THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER WAYS THAT THEY CAN SUPPORT THE SHELTER BEYOND JUST THE FUNDRAISING.
AND THEY'VE BEEN A GREAT ASSET AND SUPPORTER OF DAS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AND, AND NOW WITH THE, THE GREATER RESOURCES THEY HAVE WITH THEIR CONNECTION WITH OPERATION KINDNESS.
THE ONLY THING IS WE'RE BOUND BY AN MOU AND THAT MOU SPECIFICALLY OUTLINES THE THINGS THAT WE CAN UTILIZE PHOTOS FOR, AND WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STAYING WITHIN THOSE BOUNDARIES.
OH, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SHARED OR IS THAT PUBLICLY POSTED? I BELIEVE THAT'S BEEN SHARED.
THE, THE, I DON'T THINK WE'VE DONE IT'S, THERE'S SPEC THERE'S SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS WITHIN THE MOU OF, OF HOW THAT PARTNERSHIP IS TO OPERATE.
I THINK, I MEAN, IF THAT'S AVAILABLE TO QUESTION, I MEAN, THERE'S NOTHING THAT, THAT WE'VE APPROACHED FO OTIS FOR IN SUPPORT THAT THEY'VE ACTUALLY DENIED.
SO IF, YOU KNOW, JUST EXPANDING, OR IS THAT, IS THAT MOU PERMANENT OR IS THAT SORT OF THE MOU LOOKED ANNUALLY? THE MOU IS THE BASIC GUIDELINES OF HOW THIS OKAY.
UH, I'LL YIELD THE REST OF MY TIME.
SOMETHING ELSE I'D LIKE TO SEE ON OUR NEXT AGENDA.
UH, LET'S START TALKING ABOUT REPLACING THAT SHELTER.
WE HAVE, IT'S GONNA BE A BOND.
WE KNOW THAT, BUT WE'VE GOT TO START LOOKING AT THE COST AT A LOCATION.
ARE WE GONNA REPLACE WHAT WE HAVE, WHERE IT IS WE GONNA FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE? IS THERE, ARE THERE ANY EXISTING STRUCTURES THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS OWNS? BECAUSE WE KNOW WE HAVE TONS OF PROPERTY SITTING VACANT.
WELL, I COULD TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE IN THIS LAST GO ROUND, 'CAUSE WHEN I CAME IN, THAT WAS ONE OF MY PROJECTS THAT I WAS GIVEN, WAS TO TAKE ON THAT WITH THE DI THE FORMER DIRECTOR.
UH, WE HAD A CONSULTANT FIRM THAT CAME IN AND DID THE RENDERINGS AND THE BLUEPRINTS.
I ACTUALLY LOOKED FOR PROPERTY THAT WOULD BE COMPARABLE TO WHAT WE NEED FOR THAT SHELTER.
YOU ARE LOOKING AT ABOUT 20 TO 22 ACRES MM-HMM
AND THERE'S NOT A LOT OF LAND OUT THERE THAT YOU REMEMBER.
IT HAS TO BE ZONED THAT ALLOWS THAT OPERATION TO EXIST WITHIN THAT AREA.
SO I HAD A GOOD PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, UH, BUT EVENTUALLY WE DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT IN THE BOND.
BUT YES, WE COULD REVISIT HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS ON WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO GET THAT PROCESS GOING.
YOU GOT 15 PEOPLE SITTING HERE SAYING, WE'VE GOT TO HAVE IT.
I WAS ON THE ANIMAL SHELTER COMMISSION WHEN THAT BUILDING WAS OPENED.
UM, HOW MUCH ARE CHIP READERS? HOW MUCH DO THEY COST? IT VARIES.
I MEAN, YOU CAN GET THE LOW END, UM, SOME CHIPS ON, CHIP READERS ON AMAZON FOR 30 BUCKS.
BUT THE GOOD ONES, UM, YOU KNOW, THE HOME, AGAIN, SCANNERS THAT AND THE 24 PET, THOSE CAN BE UPWARDS OF, UH, $250 A PIECE.
BUT I'M THINKING THERE COULD BE AN RFP, UH, FOR, FOR CHIP READERS, FOR THE FIRE STATIONS.
I'M SURE THAT WE WOULD GET A BETTER DEAL IF WE WERE ABLE TO BOTH.
I MEAN, I WONDER IF THE FRIENDS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, WELL, HERE'S THE THING THOUGH, AND I WANNA MAKE THIS CLEAR.
WE DON'T WANT TO ADD ON ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITY TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
NO, THAT'S NOT WITHIN THEIR SCOPE.
HOLD ON, LET ME, LET ME FINISH WHAT I'M SAYING.
WE ARE CURRENTLY TALKING ABOUT MICROCHIP STATIONS WITH THE VERBIAGE AND EVERYTHING, WHERE IF YOU FOUND A DOG, YOU CAN GO UP TO THAT STATION AND DO IT ALL ON YOUR OWN.
SO WE WE'RE LOOKING INTO THAT AND WE'RE LOOKING INTO THE COST OF THAT AND A POTENTIAL PARTNER TO HELP FUND SOME OF THOSE.
AND I'M TRYING NOT TO GIVE TOO MANY DETAILS 'CAUSE WE'RE GETTING INTO Q2, UH, THAT WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE AND SOME OF THE, THE PILOT, UH, FIRE STATIONS THAT, BELIEVE ME, WE'RE WORKING CLOSE WITH DFR AND WE'RE WORKING, WE'RE GETTING A LITTLE AHEAD OF OURSELVES, BUT IT'S, IT'S ALREADY
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IN PLAY.YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HAVING TO MOVE OUR PRESENTATION FOR COMMUNITY CATS TO JUNE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GONNA MEET TILL MAY.
IS IT PERMISSIBLE FOR THIS COMMISSION TO MEET ONLINE TO MAKE A DECISION SUCH AS THAT, SO THAT WE COULD GET THAT INTO THE MAY QUALITY OF LIFE MEETING THAT DID? NO, THE MEETINGS THAT ARE ALREADY VOTED ON ARE, THAT'S A NO, ARE ALREADY IN PLACE.
THE, THE, THE THING ABOUT IT IS, THOUGH, IS WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING THIS.
I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A CITY PROTOCOL, RIGHT.
IF WE WANTED TO HOLD AN OFFICIAL MEETING THAT IS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME, GO BY ALL THE PROTOCOLS AND, BUT EVEN PROBABLY GETTING THAT SET UP AND
SO IT'S A CHALLENGE TO DO IT AS OFFICIALLY WITH THE TOOMA.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE, THE, THE MEETING WITH THE A C IS AFTER I KNOW THE PROPOSED.
WE, WE, WE TRIED AND WE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT, BUT YEAH.
DO WE HAVE SOMEONE BETWEEN YOU GUYS ONLINE? I FORGET? UH, COMMISSIONER BENNETT.
THEN NOAH, UM, JUST WANNA COMMENT AND SAY, I'M REALLY EXCITED, AMANDA, FOR YOU TO JOIN AND REALLY, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE PLANS.
I KNOW, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE OBVIOUSLY HISTORICALLY STRUGGLED WITH IS FILLING OUR ROSTER.
SO IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE THAT WE ARE THERE.
AND OBVIOUSLY THE WORK FROM HERE IS A LOT.
SO, UM, I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE HARD WORK THAT YOU ALL ARE PUTTING INTO ALL OF THIS.
UM, I WANTED TO ALSO COMMENT TO, UM, DO WE HAVE A, A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE ANIMAL SHELTER ITSELF? THE, THE CITY HAS A OVERALL STRATEGIC PLAN.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON, UH, A STRATEGIC PLAN WITH, FOR DAS.
UH, THE UNFORTUNATE THING IS THAT LEADERSHIP HAS CHANGED MM-HMM
SINCE THAT ORIGINAL PLAN WAS DEVELOPED.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO BACK AND RELOOK AT IT.
UH, REEVALUATE IT AND THEN SEE IF IT STILL FITS WHAT WE'RE PROJECTING GOING FORWARD.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE WERE TALK, LIKE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW SHELTER, YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT FEELS LIKE A BIG STEP IF WE'RE JUST GETTING OUR OPERATIONS IN ORDER.
UM, AND SO FOR ME, I WOULD LOVE TO FOLLOW ALONG OF LIKE, OKAY, WHERE ARE WE ON THE STEPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE A PLAN LIKE THAT, BUT, UM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING OF VALUE FOR ME SO I CAN FOLLOW ALONG WITH WHERE YOU ARE AT.
BUT OVERALL, UM, YOU GUYS ARE DOING A GREAT JOB AND REALLY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THIS NEXT MEETING BRINGS.
WE HAVE THE, THE LEADERSHIP IN PLACE NOW.
UH, AND IT'S, AND IT'S NOT THAT FOLKS LEFT FOR NO REASON AT ALL.
EVERYONE THAT LEFT, LEFT FOR A PROMOTION.
SO OUR LAST TWO ASSISTANT DIRECTORS ARE NOW BOTH RUNNING, UH, SHELTERS IN OUR AREA.
UH, AND, UH, THESE FOLKS, UH, EMILY, WE, WE WERE THANKFUL TO BRING EMILY ABOARD, UH, TO NOW HEAD UP OUR MEDICAL TEAM.
DANIEL'S, UH, STEPPED UP AND TAKEN OVER FIELD OPERATIONS.
AND THEN ERICA, WHO'S BEEN FOR A MINUTE, IS, UH, DOING AN AMAZING JOB WITH OUR SHELTER TEAM.
NOW THAT WE HAVE EVERYBODY IN PLACE, WE CAN REVISIT THAT AND, AND PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER.
I THINK, ARE WE ON 11? IT'S HARD TO KEEP TRACK IN THIS THE WAY IT'S LAID OUT HERE.
ELIZABETH PP YES, IT WOULD, IT WOULD BE COMMISSIONER.
COMMISSIONER SHR, DO YOU HAVE ANY FOLLOW UP? YEAH.
UM, RACHEL, COMMISSIONER RACHEL BROUGHT UP A M OOU.
I WAS JUST WONDERING WHAT THAT STANDS FOR.
IT'S A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.
BETWEEN OPERATION KINDNESS AND, AND US? YES.
BETWEEN OUR OPERATION KINDNESS, FRIENDS OF INITIATIVE AND DS.
IS THERE A WAY I COULD GET A COPY OF THAT? OR HOW DO WE FIND THAT? UH, YOU WOULD HAVE TO FILE AN OPEN RECORDS.
COMMISSIONER FAULKNER DUNN 13.
SO THEN WE HAVE CAN, UH, COMMISSIONER SANDERS.
UM, I JUST WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANKS TO PAT RODRIGUEZ AND KAREN BROPHY STEVENSON FOR COMING TODAY TO TAKE THE TIME TO SPEAK TO US.
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AMANDA AND EMILY TO THE TEAM.AND, UM, THANK YOU ALWAYS TO PAUL FOR RESPONDING TO ME SO QUICKLY VIA EMAIL.
I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR NEXT MEETING.
COMMISSIONER SAYED IS NO LONGER ON.
I DO THINK WE SKIPPED COMMISSIONER HANSEN.
SO, UM, I WAS GONNA SAY BACK IN, I THINK WHEN Y'ALL FIRST STARTED WITH FRIENDS OF DALLAS, BACK WHEN ED WAS HERE, WE HAD A MEETING OVER IT.
SO ALL THAT INFORMATION MIGHT BE BACK IN ONE OF OUR OLD MEETINGS.
IF Y'ALL WANNA GO BACK AND, AND LOOK THROUGH THAT TOO, I'LL GO BACK AND LOOK TOO AND SEE IF I CAN FIND IT.
AND IF I CAN, I CAN SEND THAT OVER.
UM, BUT I AM REALLY GLAD TO HEAR EVERYONE TALK ABOUT THE SHELTER BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN HEAVY ON MY HEART SINCE I EVEN STARTED RESCUE.
LIKE I DIDN'T INTEND TO BE A RESCUE.
UM, I WANTED TO HELP THE CITY, YOU KNOW, GET A NEW SHELTER AND KIND OF BE MORE OF A SUPPORT, UM, THAT WAY.
BUT I'M GLAD I DID RESCUE 'CAUSE I LEARNED SO MUCH MORE, UM, THROUGH ALL OF IT.
BUT, UM, THERE'S A, THEY, YOU KNOW, WITH THE WHOLE BOND THING, I FEEL LIKE IF, IF WE WERE MORE AS A COLLECTIVE GROUP, WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO GET A WHOLE LOT MORE DONE THAN IN THE PAST THAT EVERYTHING WAS KIND OF DIVIDED.
SO IT WAS LIKE NO REALLY, YOU KNOW, LIKE EVERYONE WAS KIND OF CONFUSED AS TO WHAT WAS GOING ON OR, YOU KNOW, OH WELL THEY'RE DOING IT, THEY'RE HANDLING IT.
WHEN REALLY IT'S LIKE WE EACH, SINCE WE'RE ALL KIND OF REPRESENTING A DIFFERENT DISTRICT, WE ALL NEED TO LIKE REALLY, YOU KNOW, RALLY THIS TO OUR, OUR CITY COUNCIL AND EVERYTHING AND KIND OF GET THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND LET PEOPLE KNOW LIKE, THIS IS IMPORTANT.
LIKE, WE ALL DO CARE AND A LOT MORE PEOPLE CARE THAN ACTUALLY KNOW TO EVEN VOICE.
I WOULD LOVE TO GET SOMETHING.
I MEAN, STEPHANIE, IS THIS SOMETHING, UM, THAT WE COULD DO A SPECIAL MEETINGS ON LIKE
SO EVEN ON EMAILS OR TEXT THREADS, UH, IT HAS TO BE LESS THAN QUORUM.
SO THAT'S PROBABLY A SUBCOMMITTEE TERRITORY, WHICH WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A FEW TIMES IN, YOU KNOW, DURING MY TIME ON THE COMMISSION WHERE YOU COULD MAYBE GET TOGETHER A TOTAL OF FIVE PEOPLE AND WORK THROUGH IT THAT WAY.
AND YOU CAN CON YOU KNOW, HAVE SMALL GROUPS THAT COMMUNICATE.
BUT IF YOU HAVE QUORUM OR ABOVE, IT HAS TO BE AN OFFICIAL CITY MEETING THAT IS PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, ET CETERA.
WELL MAYBE SO THAT WE COULD INCORPORATE LIKE EVERYONE, 'CAUSE EVERY DISTRICT MATTERS.
AND AGAIN, I THINK LIKE IF WE START LEARNING WHAT EACH DISTRICT, LIKE THE NEEDS, YOU KNOW, LIKE SOME DISTRICTS I THINK HAVE MORE OF A CAP POPULATION.
SOME OF THEM ARE LIKE DISTRICT EIGHT, YOU KNOW, IT'S A DUMPING GROUND.
UM, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE DIFFERENT PLACES HAVE DIFFERENT NEEDS AND YOU MAY HAVE LIKE MORE OF ADOPTERS IN, IN A DIFFERENT AREA.
IF WE COULD KIND OF ALL GET TOGETHER AND THEN KIND OF PUT THAT INFORMATION TOGETHER, I THINK THAT WOULD ALSO HELP US COME UP WITH PLANS AND, AND THINGS AS WELL.
UM, YEAH, I, I MEAN I WOULD SUGGEST FOR THINGS LIKE THAT, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, AT THE NEXT MEETING WE SHOULD JUST TALK ABOUT PUSHING THROUGH INITIATIVES AND HOW THAT CAN GET DONE.
BUT WHAT I WOULD RECOMMEND PERSONALLY IS IF YOU WANTED TO TAKE THAT ON, YOU COULD SPEAK WITH EACH COMMISSIONER INDIVIDUALLY AND THEN SORT OF TASK THAT OUT TO COMMUNICATE WITH CITY COUNCIL OR AT THESE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, YOU KNOW, GET FEEDBACK, FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THAT FEEDBACK, WHAT'S THE GOAL OF IT, ET CETERA.
UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WORK, WORK THROUGH IT LIKE THAT.
THERE'S JUST NEVER ANY, THERE'S NO DAS STAFF RESOURCES TO MAKE THIS KIND OF STUFF HAPPEN.
NO, I DIDN'T EXPECT THE STAFF TO.
YEAH, I WAS TALKING ABOUT, LIKE YOU WERE SAYING, WE CAN HOLD A PUBLIC MEETING, UM, SO THAT WE COULD ALL GET TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT, THAT'S WHY I WAS JUST ASKING IS THERE YEAH, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD BE A SEPARATE, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE ORGANIZED THROUGH JILLIAN AND YOU CAN ALWAYS SEND THINGS TO JILLIAN THAT SHE CAN DISTRIBUTE TO EVERYONE, BUT WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO QUORUM ON.
THERE'S JUST A LOT OF RULES AROUND THAT.
SO IT'S BETTER TO BE, YOU KNOW, SAFE THAN SORRY IF PEOPLE START BEING BCC'D OR WHATEVER IT IS, JUST TO SORT OF RUN THROUGH, THROUGH JILLIAN OR HOLD OFFICIAL MEETINGS OR GET US SUBCOMMITTEES TOGETHER, SMALLER GROUPS SO WE DON'T ACCIDENTALLY, YOU KNOW, DO SOMETHING WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO.
AND THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, BUT
ARE YOU, UH, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE, COMMISSIONER HANSON? NO, THAT'S IT.
SO, UM, THAT IS OUR MEETING AND UH, WE NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND TO ADJOURN MOTION.
SO THAT IS OUR Q1 WRAP UP MEETING.