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IT'S 9:02 AM UH, I KNOW SAUNA'S RUNNING A LITTLE LATE AND WE'LL SEE IF ANYBODY ELSE POPS ON.
SO WE WILL BEGIN WITH ROLL CALL AS PER USUAL.
FIRST, WE'LL WANT YOU TO SAY YOUR NAME AND REPRESENTING DISTRICT, AND JUST A REMINDER THOSE IN THE ROOM.
PRESS THE SPEAK BUTTON AND PUT THE MICROPHONE IN FRONT OF YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU'RE SPEAKING SO WE CAN ALL HEAR YOU.
ALRIGHT, COMMISSIONER GEARING.
COMMISSIONER, UH, FOR DISTRICT TWO WITH JESSE MORENO.
UH, AND THEN WE'LL GO AROUND IN ORDER OF, UH, DISTRICT HERE.
BONNIE MATHIAS, DISTRICT FIVE.
JENNIFER BENNETT, DISTRICT SEVEN.
AND I SEE WE'VE GOT THE BACK AND FORTH ODDS AND EVENS.
UM, WE DO HAVE ASSISTANT, UH, CITY ATTORNEY DANIEL MOORE HERE, WHO WILL SAY A FEW WORDS TO US ABOUT WHAT A NON-JUDICIAL ADVISORY BOARD IS AND GIVE US A LITTLE, UH, INSIGHT ON THAT.
I'M WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
I WAS JUST ASKED TO BRIEFLY SPEAK ABOUT, UM, THE BOARD AND ITS ADVISORY ROLE TO THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY COUNCIL.
UH, THE, THE BOARD GENERALLY JUST MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS ON CHAPTER SEVEN, WHICH IS THE CHAPTER OF THE CITY CODE DEALING WITH, UH, ANIMALS AND MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL AND TO THE CITY MANAGER ABOUT WAYS TO IMPROVE CHAPTER SEVEN AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
SO, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY MORE DETAILED QUESTIONS, BUT GENERALLY YOU GUYS MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL WHO MAKES POLICY.
THANK YOU AND THANKS FOR BEING HERE.
ALRIGHT, OUR FIRST, UH, ITEM IS THAT WE'RE GONNA APPROVE, UM, LAST MEETING'S MINUTES FROM AUGUST 21ST.
SO WE'LL NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE.
DON'T FORGET YOUR SPEAKER BUTTONS.
UM, MINUTES APPROVED FROM THE LAST MEETING AND NOW WE WILL.
LAST TIME WE LOOKED AT THE MEETING DATES FOR NEXT YEAR AND THIS MEETING WE WILL APPROVE THEM.
SO AGAIN, WE'LL NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND TO GET NEXT YEAR'S MEETINGS APPROVED.
THESE ARE ALL GONNA BE ON A FRIDAY AGAIN, AND WE HAVE OUR TOMA MEETING ROOM SCHEDULED FOR THEM.
I, I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR PUBLIC COMMENTARY AND WE'VE GOT A FEW PEOPLE SIGNED UP.
MS. KLOW, WHO'S IN PERSON HERE.
YES, PLEASE HIT THAT SPEAKER BUTTON AND, UH, JILLIAN WILL GIVE YOU A START TIME.
IS IT THREE MINUTES? IT WILL BE THREE MINUTES.
IF YOU GIMME JUST ONE SECOND, WE'LL GET THAT GOING FOR YOU.
ALL RIGHT, MS. KUKULA, LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY AND WE'LL GO AHEAD AND START YOUR TIME.
SO MY FOCUS TODAY IS ACTUALLY PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND HOW IT TIES FOLLOW UP TO CITY COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY.
AND THANK YOU TO MY COMMISSIONER FOR REACHING OUT.
ONE, AS WE LOOK AT FOSTERS, I KNOW THAT, UM, WE USED TO BE ABLE TO, WHEN WE HAD THE EVERYDAY ADOPTION CENTER AT PETSMART, THAT WAS A REALLY GOOD FOSTER, UM, PICKUP AREA.
WE ALWAYS MADE SURE COMMUNICATION ALSO FROM A STERILIZATION STANDPOINT.
AND I DID HAVE, UH, ONE QUESTION TO PUT IN IS THAT FOSTERS EXPERIENCE, FOSTERS ARE RECEIVING COMMUNICATION THAT IS NEGATIVE AND NOT SERVICE FIRST ABOUT THE STERILIZATION OF THEIR ANIMALS, EVEN THOUGH THEY'VE ALREADY PAID FOR THEIR ANIMALS TO BE STERILIZED AND COVERED THE HEARTWORM TREATMENT.
SO I JUST WANTED THAT FROM AN ADOPTION STANDPOINT.
I KNOW THAT ONCE OPERATION KINDNESS TOOK OVER THE EVERYDAY ADOPTION CENTER FROM DAS, WE LOST
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THAT.I DON'T KNOW HOW WE GET THAT BACK, BUT FROM A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AS WELL.
ALSO, ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN TO THE POINT FOR, UNFORTUNATELY, THE BITE DOGS, THAT THEY, EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T LIKELY, LIKE ONE OF 'EM THE OTHER DAY WHO HAD SAT IN THE SHELTER FOR SIX MONTHS AND WAS OUT FOR 24 HOURS, OUR ONLY OPTION IS TO SEND THEM FOR RABIES TESTING.
UM, WHY WE'RE NOT USING, UM, BETTER DAYS, WHICH WE HAVE USED BEFORE FOR DIFFERENT THINGS OR A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP, UM, AS WELL FROM A COMMUNITY CAT SIDE.
I'M GONNA SHIFT GEARS REALLY FAST.
I KNOW THAT THE THREE ONE RUN APP LISTS NUISANCE CATS, AND I KNOW THAT'S HOW THE ORDINANCE IS WRITTEN, BUT IT'S VERY CONFUSING.
PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE IT.
THE LANGUAGE IS IN IT, AND IT'S CONFUSING FROM THAT STANDPOINT.
AND I'M UNDERSTANDING TOO, IF CORRECT THAT FOR 3 1 1, WHEN IT'S NOT WORKING, WE NEED TO LET 3 1 1 KNOW.
UM, AS WELL FROM THE BITE SIDE, I KNOW THAT, UM, THE ORR REQUEST IS IN ACTUALLY FOUR, THREE YEARS OF HISTORY TO SEE HOW IT'S CHANGED AT BOTH THE STATE LEVEL AND LOCAL, JUST TO GET A FEELING OF HOW WE NEED TO CREATE THE PARTNERSHIP.
UM, AND ANOTHER PIECE ON THE CATS AS WELL IS JUST PEOPLE'S UNDERSTANDING.
SINCE WE AREN'T OPEN INTAKE FOR CATS, WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO, THERE'S A TON OF CONFUSION AND WHAT CAT OWNERSHIP IS, AND IT'S CAUSING A LOT.
AND I THINK IT'S CREATING SOME FRUSTRATION IN THE COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE.
AND I THINK THE LAST PIECE, UM, WHICH WE'D LOVE TO EXPLORE SOME MORE, AND ALL OF THIS WILL GO TO THE COMMISSIONER AS WE LOOK ON STUFF, IS REALLY LOOKING AT THE SPECIAL AUDIENCES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS. AS WE SPOKE ON WEDNESDAY, THERE ARE ONLY FIVE KENNELS, UM, FOR DOGS AT, UM, THE FAMILY PLACE.
SO WE ARE GONNA WORK ON THAT AND WORK ON IT WITH THE DAS TEAM.
I THINK DANIEL IS VERY ADEPT AT THIS, BUT WE REALLY NEED A GROUP LIKE BETTER DAYS.
OH, UM, MADAM CHAIR, I JUST WANNA RECOGNIZE, UM, DISTRICT NINE, COMMISSIONER NOELLE DELGADO IS HERE.
COMMISSIONER, IF YOU COULD DO YOUR ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
NOELLE DELGADO, DISTRICT NINE.
WE'LL GO ON TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER.
UH, IS MS. UH, CHAMBLISS ONLINE? SHE IS.
UM, MS. CHALIS, IF YOU COULD GO AHEAD AND SHOW YOUR, UM, VIDEO.
WE NEED THAT IN ORDER TO HAVE YOU SPEAK.
UM, ALSO, COMMISSIONER JAMESON IS HERE, BUT SHE CANNOT UNMUTE, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT HER PERMISSIONS ARE.
I WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THAT ONCE WE GET YOUR TIMER GOING.
LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY.
I'M A DISTRICT ONE CONSTITUENT AND THIS WEEK ALONE I TRAPPED 15 COMMUNITY CATS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
JUST RELEASED THEM THIS MORNING, I WAS APPOINTED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CHAD WEST TO SERVE ON THE PA AND ORDER COMMITTEE WHERE WE WORKED TO DEVELOP AN ORDINANCE TO PROTECT COMMUNITY CATS FROM HARMFUL RELOCATION PRACTICES THAT WERE HAPPENING RIGHT HERE IN DISTRICT ONE.
FOLLOWING LEADERSHIP CHANGES AT DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES, I WAS EFFECTIVELY EXCLUDED FROM THE PROCESS.
UM, DESPITE REPEATED FOLLOW UPS WITH CITY STAFF AND COUNCIL OFFICES, COMMUNICATION COMPLETELY STOPPED.
I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN THE MOST RECENT DRAFT.
AND, UH, IT'S WORTH NOTING THAT NONE OF THE ORIGINAL COMMITTEE WAS NOTIFIED OF TODAY'S MEETING.
I THINK I'M THE ONLY ONE HERE.
UM, WHAT CONCERNS ME MOST ABOUT THIS IS HOW FAR WE'VE STRAYED FROM THE ORIGINAL INTENT.
WE'RE USING LANGUAGE THAT LABELS COMMUNITY CATS AS NUISANCE THROUGH 3 1 1 ALL WHILE THE CITY HAS ELIMINATED THE VERY TNR INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE WERE ALL ASSURED JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO WOULD REMAIN.
UM, I'M OUT HERE DOING THIS WORK EVERY WEEK, BUT I HAVE TO QUESTION WHAT WE'RE ACCOMPLISHING WHEN THE CITY ISN'T PROVIDING THE RESOURCES OR PROTECTIONS THESE CATS NEED.
THIS ORDINANCE IS NOT WHAT WE SET OUT TO CREATE, AND I JUST WANNA SAY THAT I OPPOSE IT IN ITS CURRENT FORM AND I DON'T WANT MY NAME ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
UH, COMMISSIONER JAMISON, CAN WE GET YOU TO DO A ROLL CALL, PLEASE? YES.
UH, LEE JAMISON, DISTRICT ONE, AND I HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
AS LONG AS YOU'RE HERE, 50% OF THE MEETING, YOU'RE COUNTED AS PRESENT.
ALRIGHT, WE HAVE, UH, MICHELLE RASKE VIRTUALLY.
I DO SEE, UM, MICHELLE ONLINE.
UM, I DON'T HAVE A LAST NAME, SO, UH, MICHELLE, IF YOU'RE WITH US, CAN YOU PUT YOUR VIDEO ON? YOU ARE OUR SPEAKER.
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I SURE CAN.WE CAN HEAR YOU, BUT WE CAN'T SEE YOU.
AH, THERE, CAN YOU SEE ME? AND JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY AND I'LL GO AHEAD AND START YOUR TIME.
I'M A DALLAS RESIDENT OF DISTRICT NINE FOR OVER 30 YEARS, A DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES VOLUNTEER WITH OVER $500 OF SERVICE AND A DONOR OF FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES.
I'M HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT D S'S FOSTER PROGRAM AND FRIENDS OF DASI AM SO GLAD DAS HAS A FOSTER PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS DOGS TO DECOMPRESS, GET BETTER NOTES AND SHINE TO THEIR BEST POTENTIAL TO GET ADOPTED.
I'M HERE TODAY TO REQUEST THAT ADDITIONAL TRAINING BE CONSIDERED FOR THE FOSTERS VIDEO TRAINING ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT VOLUNTEERS CURRENTLY ARE REQUIRED TO DO AND IN PERSON WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
IN ADDITION TO THE WELCOME EMAIL PACKET THAT THEY CURRENTLY RECEIVE, AND A FOSTER CALL HOSTED BY SARAH JONES, WHO'S ALSO A VOLUNTEER.
THIS WILL HELP BE VOLUNTEERS AND FOSTERS BETTER UNDERSTAND THEIR ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES AND WHAT SUPPORT THEY GET FROM DAS AND HOPEFULLY GET MORE FOSTERS ADOPTED AND OFF THE LIST SO THAT THEY CAN PULL MORE FROM THE SHELTER.
I'M SO GLAD TO SEE FOTIS IS HERE TODAY AND LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING THEIR UPDATE.
I HOPE THIS WILL BE A REGULAR OCCURRENCE SINCE THEY ARE THE ONLY LEGAL PARTNER OF DAS AND WE NO LONGER HAVE ACCESS TO THEIR DATA.
NOW THAT THEY ARE INITIATIVE UNDER THE NONPROFIT OPK, I'M INTERESTED TO KNOW TODAY, WHO SITS ON THE FOTIS BOARD AND WHO PAYS THEIR SALARIES, HOW THE SPAY AND NTA RELATIONSHIP WORKS IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP.
DOES DAS AND FOTIS PAY OPK FOR THE SURGERIES THEY DO? AND IS IT AT COST OR DO WE PAY A PREMIUM OR DOES IT COME OUT OF THE 1.1 MILLION TRANSFERRED WHEN THEY MERGED? HOW IS THE DUTY OF LOYALTY CARE AND OBEDIENCE IMPLEMENTED BY FO FOTIS WHILE UNDER OPK? AND IN CLOSING, WHAT IS FO'S VISION FOR THE FUTURE TO HELP DAS GET A NEW SHELTER AND TO GET THE NUMBERS DOWN, IS THERE A TYPE OF DOG OPK WILL PULL FROM DAS OR WILL THEY PULL ANY DOG IN NEED? THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TODAY AND YOUR SERVICE TO THE MANY ANIMALS IN DALLAS THAT NEED OUR HELP.
THANK YOU MS. ROSOW, AND THANKS TO ALL THE SPEAKERS FOR COMING DURING, UH, WORKDAY IN THE MORNING TO, UH, SHARE YOUR VOICE AND EXPERIENCE.
IT'S VALUABLE AND WE APPRECIATE YOU.
UM, WE'RE MOVING ON TO OUR OPERATION KINDNESS HUMANE SOCIETY, FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES.
WE'LL GIVE YOUR, UH, UPDATE HERE.
WE HAVE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER JORDAN CRAIG WITH US AND THE FRIENDS OF DAS, SENIOR MANAGER AND DONOR RELATIONS AND FOUNDER WENDY REINER.
AND I BELIEVE I WILL GIVE, UM, YOU GUYS WILL SPEAK AND THEN WE'LL GO IN ROUNDS WITH THE COMMISSIONERS.
DON'T FORGET YOUR SPEAK BUTTONS.
WE'VE GOT AJ UM, TRYING TO SHARE IT.
IF YOU JUST BEAR WITH US FOR A SECOND.
I'M WENDY REINER, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES, AND I WANNA THANK YOU FOR INVITING US HERE TODAY TO SHARE HOW WE HAVE SUPPORTED DAS IN THE LAST YEAR.
UM, I WANNA START WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF FRIENDS.
UM, I'VE BEEN A VOLUNTEER AT DAS SINCE THEY STARTED A VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, AND IT'S BEEN A WHILE.
SO IN 2019, UH, I WAS A VOLUNTEERING AND ANOTHER VOLUNTEER, AND I HAD THIS CRAZY IDEA OF GETTING KONGS FOR EVERY DOG IN THE SHELTER.
UM, WITH OVER 500 DOGS, IT WAS, UH, PRETTY EXPENSIVE, UH, ADVENTURE.
AND SO WE LOOKED AT OTHER WAYS THAT WE COULD MAKE IT HAPPEN.
WE FOUND OUT THAT KONG OFFERED DISCOUNTS IF YOU WERE A 5 0 1 C NONPROFIT.
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SO WE SAID, WELL, LET'S BECOME A 5 0 1 C3 NONPROFIT.AND WE WENT TO SHELTER LEADERSHIP, WHICH AT THE TIME WAS ED JAMESON, WHO IS NOW CEO AND PRESIDENT OF OPERATION KINDNESS HUMANE SOCIETY.
AND MY COLLEAGUE, JORDAN CRAIG, WHO IS NOW C-E-O-C-O-O AT OPERATION KINDNESS HUMANE SOCIETY, SHE WAS ALSO PART OF THE DAS LEADERSHIP TEAM BACK IN 2019.
WE WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH THEM TO COME UP WITH THIS MISSION AND TO STRUCTURE THE ORGANIZATION IN A WAY THAT WOULD PROVIDE THE MOST BENEFIT TO THE SHELTER AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PUTTING THEM FIRST.
UM, WE ARE A PRIVATE NONPROFIT ENTITY.
WE ARE NOT A GOVERNMENT ENTITY, AND WE ARE STRICTLY A FUNDRAISING ENTITY.
WE ARE NOT A, AN ADVOCACY ENTITY.
AND TO THAT POINT, WE HAVE PROVIDED OVER $3.3 MILLION IN SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING SINCE OUR FOUNDING IN 2019, WHICH I THINK IS PRETTY GREAT.
UM, IT'S, MOST OF YOU ALREADY KNOW, WE MERGED WITH OPERATION KINDNESS LAST YEAR IN ORDER TO LEVERAGE THE EFFICIENCIES OF SCALE AND OUR ALIGNED MISSIONS.
I AM EXCITED TO SAY THAT THE MERGER HAS ALLOWED ME TO FOCUS MORE ON DEVELOPMENT WORK, AND WE HAVE SEEN A PHENOMENAL INCREASE IN COMMUNITY SUPPORT WITH NEARLY 3000 NEW DONORS POST MERGER.
UM, AND THIS IS AN INCREASE OF OVER A HUNDRED PERCENT IN THE SAME TIMEFRAME, PRE-MERGER.
SO OUR MISSION REMAINS THE SAME.
THIS IS STILL OUR MISSION, SAME AS IT WAS IN 2019 WHEN WE STARTED.
UM, IF ALL FUNDS RAISED BY FRIENDS ARE EXCLUSIVELY USED TO SUPPORT THE SHELTER, THEY ARE NOT USED FOR OPERATION KINDNESS, GENERAL OPERATING NEEDS.
UH, SO WHAT DO WE DO AT FRIENDS OF DAS? WELL, AS WE ARE THE PRIMARY FUNDRAISING PARTNER TO A S WOO, WE
WE MEET YEARLY WITH THE DAS LEADERSHIP STAFF TO CREATE A BUDGET.
IN FACT, WE JUST FINALIZED OUR FISCAL YEAR 27 BUDGET LAST MONTH.
AND THEN WE CHECK IN WITH THE DAS LEADERSHIP TEAM EVERY QUARTER TO SEE WHERE WE ARE WITH THE BUDGET, WHETHER THERE ARE NEW NEEDS THAT WE CAN HELP THEM WITH.
AND THEN WE MAKE ADJUSTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AS NEEDED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PROVIDING THEM WHAT THEY NEED TO DO THEIR JOBS.
UM, AND THEN FINALLY, WE IMPLEMENT THE BUDGET VIA PROCUREMENT.
AND I WOULD HAVE A SEPARATE SLIDE TO TALK ABOUT THE FUND PROCUREMENT PROCESS.
SO WHEN WE, WHEN WE STARTED FRIENDS, WE KNEW GIVING MONEY DIRECTLY TO DAS WAS NOT GOING TO BE VERY EFFICIENT, JUST BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE CITY PROCUREMENT PROCESS WORKS.
AND SO INSTEAD, WHEN A NEED ARISES, DAS STAFF MEMBER WILL LET ME KNOW.
WE LOOK AT THE BUDGET TO SEE WHERE IT FALLS IN THE BUDGET, ASSUMING THERE'S FUNDING, WHICH I MEAN THERE PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS IS.
THEN I WILL MAKE THE PURCHASE MYSELF AND THE ITEM IS SENT DIRECTLY TO DAS.
UM, WE DO NOT GIVE DAS MONEY DIRECTLY.
AS I SAID, IT'S A LOT MORE, UH, I GUESS WE'RE MORE AGILE, I WOULD SAY.
SO WHEN THERE ARE ARE URGENT NEEDS, UH, WE CAN JUMP IN AND, AND GET THEM FULFILLED IMMEDIATELY.
WE ALSO DO NOT MAKE ANY OF OUR OWN PURCHASING DECISIONS.
UM, WE DON'T FUND ANYTHING THAT DAS HAS NOT ASKED FOR.
AND IF ANYONE HAS IDEAS ON HOW THEY FEEL LIKE FRIENDS' MONEY SHOULD BE SPENT AT DAS, YOU SHOULD TALK TO AMANDA AND HER TEAM ABOUT IT, AND THEY CAN DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT TO INCLUDE THAT IN OUR NEXT FISCAL YEAR BUDGET DISCUSSION.
UM, ALSO WHEN YOU SEE DAS MAKING A REQUEST FOR THINGS FROM THE COMMUNITY, LIKE TOWELS OR BLANKETS OR WET FOOD, IT IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE DECIDED THAT THEY DON'T WANNA USE DONOR FUNDS TO, TO MEET THOSE NEEDS.
THEY KNOW THAT THERE ARE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ACTUALLY ENJOY PURCHASING IN KIND GIFTS LIKE THAT.
AND SO, UM, THAT IS THEM MAKING THE DECISION OF HOW TO USE THE DONOR FUNDS IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY.
WE TRUST THE, THE DAS STAFF TO MAKE THOSE KIND OF DECISIONS.
SO WHAT DOES OUR SUPPORT LOOK LIKE? THIS IS OUR FISCAL YEAR 26 SPEND.
UM, IT'S PRETTY SELF-EXPLANATORY.
I INCLUDED A COUPLE BULLET POINTS UNDER EACH OF THE HIGH LEVEL CATEGORIES, JUST AS EXAMPLES OF THINGS THAT WE'VE FUNDED LAST YEAR.
I HAVE A COUPLE CALL OUTS I'D LIKE TO I HIGHLIGHT.
UM, ONE IS THE VACATION STAFF AND SUPPLIES.
WE HAVE A GRANT THAT FUNDS A PART-TIME POSITION AT DAS, AND THAT INDIVIDUAL IS ABLE TO FACILITATE VACATIONS IN THE AFTERNOON, WHICH WAS NOT FEASIBLE PRIOR TO RECEIVING THIS GRANT.
UM, SO FAR SHE HAS DONE AN ADDITIONAL 400 VACATIONS
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IN, I GUESS IT'S BEEN NINE MONTHS, AND WITH A 97% POSITIVE OUTCOME RATE FOR DOGS WHO GO ON VACATIONS.UM, WE'RE VERY PROUD TO BE ABLE TO, UH, PROMOTE AND, UH, ELEVATE THIS GREAT PROGRAM.
WE ALSO PURCHASED THE SUPPLIES THAT ARE USED FOR VACATIONS.
ANOTHER CALL OUT IS COMMUNITY CAT TNR.
FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN SUPPLEMENTING THE CITY BUDGET ON COMMUNITY CAT TNR SURGERIES.
UM, THIS PAST FISCAL YEAR WE SPENT $99,000 ON THAT PROGRAM AND WE IMPACTED ABOUT 1100 COMMUNITY CATS.
AND THEN FINALLY, UNDER GENERAL SUPPORT, THE FIRST FRIDAY EVENTS, UH, IS A FUN ACTIVITY OR FUN INITIATIVE.
WE GOT A GRANT FROM THE DALLAS FOUNDATION TO HAVE THE SHELTER OPEN UNTIL 8:00 PM ON THE FIRST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH IN AN EFFORT TO INCREASE FOOT TRAFFIC AND IN TURN INCREASE POSITIVE OUTCOMES.
I WOULD HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO ATTEND IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO.
THERE'S ONE IN TWO WEEKS, AND THE THEME IS WHO LET THE TURKEYS OUT?
AND FINALLY, THIS IS WHAT WE EXPECT TO BE SPENDING IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR.
THIS IS THE BUDGET THAT WE JUST WORKED WITH AMANDA AND HER TEAM ON, AND THE TOTAL SPEND IS UP 38% OVER LAST YEAR, WHICH IS GREAT.
UM, WE WANT TO BE AS SUPPORTIVE AND AS HELPFUL TO THE DAS TEAM AS WE POSSIBLY CAN, AND WE ARE VERY EXCITED FOR THIS UPCOMING OR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, MEDICAL HAS THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDING.
FOSTER HAS GONE UP BECAUSE WE ARE PILOTING A NEW PROGRAM THAT WILL PROVIDE TRAINING FOR FOSTER DOGS.
UH, IT'S KICKING OFF THIS MONTH AND WE HAVE A GRANT FOR THAT.
SO THAT'S WHY THE FOSTER NUMBER IS HIGHER THAN IT WAS LAST YEAR.
YOU'LL ALSO PROBABLY NOTICE THAT ENRICHMENT WENT DOWN.
THAT IS BECAUSE LAST YEAR WE MADE A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN CARA BEDS WITH THE FINGERS CROSSED EXPECTATION THAT THEY WILL LAST AT LEAST TWO YEARS
SO WE DON'T ANTICIPATE, UH, PURCHASING MORE THIS THIS FISCAL YEAR.
OF COURSE, IF THAT CHANGES, WE'LL REVISIT.
AND THEN YOU'LL PROBABLY NOTICE THERE'S A NEW CATEGORY HERE, SUSPECTED CRUELTY.
WE HAVE FUNDING TO SUPPORT THE DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT'S ANIMAL CRUELTY DETECTIVE UNIT.
UM, THEY OBVIOUSLY WORK WITH THE DAS TEAM ON ALL SUSPECTED ANIMAL CRUELTY CASES IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
AND SO WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEIR WORK AS WELL.
UM, WE LOOK FORWARD TO 2027 AND WORKING WITH AMANDA AND HER TEAM, UM, SUPPORTING THEM AND AMPLIFYING THE IMPORTANT AND VERY DIFFICULT WORK THAT THEY DO.
AND WE'RE PROUD TO BE YOUR PARTNERS.
AND WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO JORDAN.
YES, AS WENDY SHARED, OUR MISSIONS TRULY ARE ALIGNED AND DAS IS NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART.
IT'S NEAR AND DEAR TO ED'S HEART.
IT IS AT THE CENTER OF A LOT OF WHAT WE DO, APPROXIMATELY 70% OF THE WORK WE DO AT OPERATION KINDNESS HAPPENS IN DALLAS COUNTY.
AND DAS IS BY AND LARGE OUR LARGEST PARTNER.
WE ARE SO THRILLED TO SHARE THAT WE BROKE OUR RECORD FOR A NUMBER OF POLLS TO DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES DURING THIS LAST FISCAL YEAR, EXCEEDING 1300 PETS, AND MAJORITY OF THOSE ARE DOGS.
UM, I DID SHARE SOME FACES OF THOSE DOGS THAT WE PULLED TOTO, WHO'S LOUNGING ON HER COUCH.
SHE WAS WITH US FOR ALMOST A YEAR, AND SHE HAD COME THROUGH SUSPECTED ANIMAL CRUELTY CASE, AND SHE WAS FANTASTIC, BUT SHE WAS A 10-YEAR-OLD BLUE PITY AND JUST NEEDED A LITTLE BIT OF TIME.
BUT SHE ENDED UP FINDING HER HOME WITH A PERSON WHO HAD BEEN ADOPTED HERSELF, AND IT FEELS LIKE SHE WAS WAITING FOR THE EXACT RIGHT PERSON.
I ALSO SHARED BAYMAX, WHO IS JOYFULLY AND PLAYFULLY PLAYING IN ONE OF OUR PLAY YARDS.
HE ACTUALLY BELONGED TO ONE OF THE DAS EMPLOYEES THAT UNFORTUNATELY PASSED AWAY THIS YEAR.
AND AGAIN, WHEN ERICA REACHED OUT TO ME SAYING, WOULD YOU TAKE HIM? I SAID, ABSOLUTELY IN A HEARTBEAT.
UM, SOLELY DOWN IN THE BOTTOM PICTURE IS HE WAS ACTUALLY OUR LAST POLL OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
HE JUST HAD HIS TAIL AMPUTATED.
SO IN ADDITION TO TAKING ANIMALS FOR OUR ADOPTION PROGRAM, WE REALLY DO HAVE A SPECIALIZED MEDICAL SUITE, AND WE ARE ALWAYS THERE.
I WORK WITH EMILY AND HER TEAM TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN PULL ANIMALS THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THE MEANS SO THAT WE CAN GET INTO OUR PROGRAM WHERE OUR VETS CAN THEN DO THINGS AND THEN WE CAN ALSO GET THEM, UH, INTO FOSTER HOMES.
SO AGAIN, REALLY EXCITED THAT WE, UH, SAVED MORE THAN 1300 PETS THIS YEAR THROUGH DAS ALONE.
AND ON TOP OF THAT, OUR OVERALL IMPACT WAS MORE THAN 5,400 PETS.
AND THE ADDITIONAL THINGS IN OTHER THAN PULLING ANIMALS, WE PROVIDE SPAY NEUTER SUPPORT, SPECIALTY SURGERY SUPPORT, OTHER MEDICAL SUPPORT, HELPING WITH EXAMS, HEALTH CERTS.
AND WE ALSO HAVE DIFFERENT EVENT PARTNERSHIPS, AND WE ARE WORKING ON EXPANDING THOSE.
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LAST FEW WEEKS WE'VE BEEN POSTING, WE ARE GOING TO BE TAKING OVER THE DAS THIRD WEDNESDAY PET FOOD PANTRY AS THINGS GET TOUGHER IN THE CITY.WE'RE LOOKING FOR WAYS THAT WE CAN FILL THE GAPS AND MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN AMPLIFY THE WORK TOGETHER.
AND THERE IS A PICTURE THERE OF THE TEAM.
THEY, WE WANTED TO KIND OF FIGURE OUT HOW EACH TEAM DOES IT.
AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND DID A GROUP EVENT.
THEY SHADOWED OURS, WE SHADOWED THEIRS, AND I AM REALLY EXCITED.
AND WHILE WE ARE DOING THESE AT OUR LOCATION JUST DOWN THE STREET, WE, DAS IS STILL HEAVILY INVOLVED.
WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE WE CAN BRING THE MOST PANTRY ITEMS TO THE DALLAS COMMUNITY.
IN ADDITION, WE ARE WORKING ON SOME JOINT VACCINE EVENTS AS WELL AS THEY'RE GONNA BE IN CONJUNCTION WITH SOME PANTRY EVENTS TOO.
BUT WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE CAN SUPPORT DAS BECAUSE I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO BE IN YLC, AND I KNOW HOW HARD YOU GUYS ARE WORKING, AND WE WANNA BE THERE FOR YOU GUYS.
NOW WE CAN GO AROUND TO EVERYBODY.
UM, WE'LL START IN THE ROOM AND, UH, UP TO FIVE MINUTES IS, UH, YOU DON'T WANNA DO IT,
MAYBE WE'LL DO, UH, ONLINE FIRST THEN.
I DO NOT SEE COMMISSIONER JAMISON STILL ON VIDEO.
IS SHE STILL THERE? ALL RIGHT.
UM, YEAH, LET'S START WITH YOU.
YOU HAVE, UH, FIVE MINUTES TO ASK QUESTIONS AND, UM, DAS FO AND OPK HUMANE SOCIETY STAFF CAN ALL ANSWER THE QUESTIONS YES.
AND WHICH WILL NOT KIND OF GET TIME.
SO YOU CAN EITHER ASK A QUESTION, WAIT FOR ANSWERS, OR YOU COULD PEPPER OUT A FEW QUESTIONS AND THEN WE'LL FIGURE OUT WHO ANSWERS EACH.
UH, THIS IS A QUESTION FOR DAS.
UM, WE WERE MADE AWARE OF A, WHAT TH UH, WHEN THE NEW VETERINARIAN WAS BROUGHT ON, I BELIEVE IT WAS 3,500 SURGERIES, UH, STERILIZATION SURGERIES BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
I KNOW THAT A LOT OF THAT WAS FOCUSED ON THE ANIMALS WHO WERE, WHO WERE THERE AT DAS AND WITHIN THE FOSTER PROGRAM.
BUT DOES THAT ALSO INCLUDE TNR? EMILY MAY BE BETTER TO ANSWER THIS, BUT IT DOES NOT INCLUDE MANY DN END.
WELL, LEMME INTERRUPT YOU, UH, MR. JASON SMITH, THIS IS JUST, THESE QUESTIONS ARE JUST ABOUT THE FO PRESENTATION, AND THEN WE'LL DO THE FULL, UM, DIRECTOR REPORT WHERE YOU CAN ASK THE GENERAL QUESTIONS BASED ON THAT REPORT.
SO THIS IS, THE QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW ARE JUST TO FO AND OPK AND IF, UH, DAS STAFF NEEDS TO POP IN, CORRECT.
THAT WAS A QUESTION THAT WOULD THEN GIVE CONTEXT FOR MY NEXT QUESTION.
WHICH GREAT IS ABOUT THE PRESENTATION WE JUST HEARD.
SO I JUST HEARD THE, UM, THE, UH, 99,000, UM, THE FO ALLOCATED TOWARD, UM, I GUESS, UH, FOR TNR AND THERE WAS 1100, UH, CATS, TNR OUT OF THAT.
SO THAT BREAKS DOWN TO $90 PER CATT.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT BUDGET, THAT THAT, UM, YOU JUST CLAIMED FOR THAT, THAT WAS THE DIRECT RESULT.
OR DID SOME OF THAT BUDGET GO TO OTHER THINGS BEYOND THE 1100 CATS? JUST, I WANNA CLARIFY THAT.
NO, IT WAS, ALL OF THAT WAS SPENT ON TNR SURGERIES.
WE BASICALLY TOOK OVER WHEN DAS RAN OUT OF MONEY, UH, THE PAYMENT OF THE SR, UH, THINGS.
SO WHEN, WHEN THE PUBLIC WOULD GO TO, TO TCAP OR SNN TO GET THEIR CATS, UM, TN NARD, THE BILLS WERE SENT TO US.
THAT WAS MY QUESTION IS WHERE WERE THESE SURGERIES DONE? SO THAT WAS DONE AT THE OUTSOURCE PARTNERS THAT, UM, WHEN PEOPLE NOW CALL INTO THREE ONE ONE, THEY GET THE LIST OF RESOURCES.
UM, WHEN THEY'RE GETTING THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SR NUMBERS, THIS IS THE BUDGET THAT IT'S TAPPING INTO AND THE SURGERIES ARE DONE AT THOSE PLACES.
UM, AND IS OPERATION KINDNESS INCLUDED IN THAT LIST, UM, WITH WHAT THEY'VE DONE, OR IS THAT JUST THE SPAY NEUTER NETWORK? TCAP, UM, PLACES? I BELIEVE IT'S, WE PAID TCAP AND SPAY NEUTER NETWORK EXCLUSIVELY.
I JUST WANTED TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THOSE WERE HAPPENING.
SO WHENEVER, UM, WHENEVER, SORRY, THIS, SORRY LEE.
UM, SO JUST TO KIND OF INTERJECT, SO, UM, WHEN WE PAY OPERATION KINDNESS FOR THINGS SO THAT THAT'S MONEY THAT COMES OUT OF THE CITIES GENERAL FUND BUDGET OR, OR OTHER RESOURCES BUDGET, UM, WE TRY TO AVOID HAVING ANY PHOTOS, MONEY GO DIRECTLY TO OPERATION KINDNESS.
THAT ANSWERS THAT QUESTION AS WELL.
UM, JUST SEEING IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE SPECIFIC TO THAT.
I THINK THOSE ARE MY, THOSE ARE MY MAIN QUESTIONS FOR CONTEXT FOR THAT, AND I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH OTHER QUESTIONS LATER.
ALRIGHT, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER JAMISON.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO, UH, COMMISSIONER GEARING.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH.WE'RE HAVING SOME ISSUES WITH OUR SHARED TIMER.
YEAH, I'M SORRY GUYS FOR THAT TIMER NOISE.
YEAH, I DON'T, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
WE'RE GONNA TRY
WE'LL USE THE PHONE, BUT, ALL RIGHT.
UM, IF THIS IS TOO LOUD, WE'LL JUST GO TO THE PHONE, BUT I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND START YOUR TIME NOW, IF YOU'RE READY.
THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
MY, MY FIRST QUESTION IS, AND YOU TOUCHED ON THIS A LITTLE BIT IN THE PRESENTATION, BUT IF YOU COULD EXPAND ON IT, THAT'D BE GREAT.
UM, YOU SAID THAT, UM, THE PHOTOS TEAM, YOU SAID HOW THIS IS, THIS PARTNERSHIP HAS REALLY HELPED YOU ALL STREAMLINE AND FOCUS ON OTHER THINGS.
CAN YOU, UH, GO INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ABOUT HOW THIS HAS HELPED YOU ALL BE MORE PRODUCTIVE AND HOW THIS MERGER HAS, HAS MADE YOU ALL MORE EFFICIENT? UM, I THINK THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE MY FIRST QUESTION BECAUSE I, THAT'S WHAT, WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE, BUT I'D JUST LOVE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT IT.
AND THEN ALSO, UM, GOALS GOING FORWARD HAS WITH THESE NEW EFFICIENCIES, AND OBVIOUSLY YOU'VE SHARED WITH US THE, THE GOAL AND THE WHERE THE, THE FUNDS ARE GONNA GO FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
BUT IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL LONG-TERM GOALS OR WAYS IN WHICH TO KIND OF GROW THE CORPUS, I'D LOVE TO HEAR THAT.
UM, AS FAR AS EFFICIENCIES OF SCALE GO, I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SPEND A LOT MORE TIME FOCUSING ON FUNDRAISING NOW THAT I DON'T HAVE TO DO ACCOUNTING AND MARKETING AND WRITING CHECKS AND ALL OF THAT ADMINISTRATIVE TYPE OF THING.
SO THAT IS WHERE I ALSO HAVE, UM, I HAVE TO SAY I'M PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM AT OPERATION KINDNESS AND THESE, UH, INDIVIDUALS HAVE MUCH MORE EXPERIENCE IN THIS SPACE THAN ME.
UM, SO IT'S BEEN REALLY, REALLY INCREDIBLE FOR ME TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE PEERS THAT I CAN BOUNCE IDEAS OFF OF, GET NEW WAYS OF THINKING, UM, THINGS I JUST NEVER HAD THE LUXURY OF TAKING TIME ON PREVIOUSLY.
AND THEN HER OTHER QUESTION WAS LONG TERM SORT OF CLOSE.
WE OBVIOUSLY ARE SO THRILLED TO SEE THE GROWTH THAT WE'VE HAD, AND WHEN WENDY TALKS ABOUT HER FOUNDING STORY, THE FIRST YEAR, I REMEMBER SITTING DOWN AND DOING A STRATEGY MEETING WITH THEM, AND WHITNEY AND I WERE LIKE, WE NEED A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM YOU THIS YEAR.
AND WENDY WAS LIKE, NO, WHAT DO YOU MEAN A HUNDRED THOUSAND IN THE FIRST YEAR? AND WE'RE LIKE, WE BELIEVE IN YOU.
AND THE FACT THAT WE THIS YEAR ARE GONNA BE ABLE TO SUPPORT $900,000 TOWARDS THE MISSION IS INCREDIBLE.
AND SO WE WANNA CONTINUE GROWING THAT.
WE DO BELIEVE WITH GOOD STEWARDSHIP AND AS WELL AS CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP WITH AMANDA AND THE TEAM THAT WE CAN GET THERE.
BUT OUR FOCUS IS STILL THOSE FOUR PILLARS.
WE WANNA FOCUS ON ENRICHMENT THAT WAS CORE TO WHAT WENDY WANTED AND WHAT SHE BELIEVES IN, AND ALSO WHAT WE FEEL WE CAN SUPPLEMENT THAT THE CITY DOESN'T NEED TO PUT THAT MONEY IN OR ASK FOR MORE BUDGET.
SO WE ALSO ARE REALLY FOCUSING, THIS YEAR THERE'S A LOT MORE MONEY PUT INTO MEDICAL BECAUSE THAT IS A NEED AND EMILY'S BEEN WORKING WITH US ON THAT.
SO WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO PIVOT AS THE SHELTER AND AS AMANDA'S TEAM DECIDES WHAT THEY REALLY NEED TO MAKE THEMSELVES SUCCESSFUL.
AND AGAIN, WE ARE ABSOLUTELY VIGILANT.
WE WATCH ALL THE BUDGET MEETINGS.
WE KNOW WHERE, AND WE WANNA BE PREPARED IF THERE'S OTHER THINGS DOWN THE LINE.
WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A TOUGH TIME FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS.
COMMISSIONER GEHRING, YOU HAVE ABOUT FOUR MINUTES LEFT IF YOU HAVE ANY FOLLOW UP.
I'LL WAIT TILL EVERYONE'S DONE.
UM, THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT AND WE APPRECIATE THE INFORMATION AND THE, UM, HONESTY.
I HAVE A COUPLE GENERAL QUESTIONS AND THEN SOME SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
SO I'LL START WITH THE GENERAL ONE, I GUESS.
COMMISSIONER SANDERS, WILL YOU MAKE SURE YOUR MICROPHONE FOR THE, UM, VIRTUAL SORT OF RIGHT IN FRONT LIKE THAT? THERE YOU GO.
I FEEL LIKE I'M SCREAMING AND WE'RE GONNA GET ONE OF THOSE BIG POPS IN A MINUTE.
BUT ANYWAY, UM, I TOTALLY GET THAT THE, THE SCALE IS IMPORTANT.
I MEAN, THE NUMBER OF DONATIONS THAT CAME IN THROUGH GIVING TUESDAY, THURSDAY, TUESDAY, UM, WAS AMAZING.
AND THE INCREASE IN DONATIONS IS FANTASTIC.
I UNDERSTAND YOU NEEDING HELP WITH LOGISTICS AND MAINTENANCE AND EVERYDAY JOBS, AND I THINK THAT'S FANTASTIC.
UM, MY QUESTION IS REALLY AGAIN ABOUT TRANSPARENCY.
UM, WHAT IS ON THE FRIENDS OF DAS WEBSITE THAT, THAT, IS THERE A NOTICE THAT SAYS DONATIONS WILL GO THROUGH OPERATION KINDNESS? YES.
I UNDERSTAND THEY ALL GO THROUGH DAS, BUT IS THERE A NOTICE ON THE ON OPERATION KINDNESS THAT THIS INITIATIVE ON THEIR WEBSITE ABOUT THIS INITIATIVE AND THEN ON THE FRIENDS OF DAS TO NOTIFY DONORS THAT THIS IS
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HOW THINGS ARE FLOWING? SO IF THEN AN INDIVIDUAL DECIDES THEY DON'T WANNA GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS, CAN DAS TAKE INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS FROM SOMEBODY THAT DOESN'T WANT IT TO GO THROUGH THROUGH OPERATION KINDNESS? IS THAT A POSSIBILITY? IF SO, WHAT KIND OF DONATIONS CAN THEY GIVE? IS IT JUST AN IN KIND DONATION? CAN THEY GIVE MONEY TO DAS IF THEY DON'T WANNA GO THROUGH OPERATION KINDNESS? IS THERE ANOTHER GROUP THAT THEY CAN GO THROUGH THAT WILL ALSO DO NICE THINGS FOR DAS? SO THAT'S MY FIRST GENERAL QUESTION.WOULD YOU GUYS DO THAT? AND THEN I HAVE SOME SPECIFIC, I CAN'T SPEAK TO WHAT DAS CAN OR CANNOT RECEIVE, BUT I'M SURE VICTORIA CAN.
UM, I KNOW ON OUR WEBSITE WE DO HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MERGER AND IT WE IDENTIFY OURSELVES AS AN INITIATIVE OF OPERATION KINDNESS HUMANE SOCIETY.
BUT DOES THAT EXPLAIN HOW WOULD PEOPLE LEARN HOW THAT WORKS? HOW WOULD IT JUST AN EVERYDAY DONOR LEARN HOW THAT WORKS? WELL, THERE REALLY ISN'T ANYTHING DIFFERENT IN THE EXTERNAL FACING WORK THAT WE DO.
THE MONEY GO, THE MONEY IS USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR DAS.
BUT SOME PEOPLE, I JUST THINK IT'S TRANSPARENT.
IT'S GOOD TO BE TRANSPARENT TO LET PEOPLE KNOW.
ALSO, MAYBE THEY DON'T WANT THEIR DATA SHARED WITH OPERATION.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF REASONS WHY PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHERE MONEY GOES.
THE DATA IS NOT SHARED WITH THE PEOPLE WHO SIGN UP AS DONORS TO FRIENDS DO NOT RECEIVE OPERATION KINDNESS MAILINGS.
BUT SO THAT'S WONDERFUL TO KNOW.
AND SO IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT AS WELL.
SO THE CITY DOES HAVE A WAY TO ACCEPT DONATIONS.
WE HAVE A MULTI-YEAR DONATION FUND, UH, THAT WE CAN ACCEPT THOSE DONATIONS INTO.
AND WE ARE WORKING ON, UM, REDOING SOME STUFF WITH OUR WEBSITE CURRENTLY, UM, TO MAKE THAT A LITTLE BIT EASIER USING THE CITY'S CONTRACT WITH PAYMENTUS.
UM, WE HOPE TO HAVE THAT UP FAIRLY SOON, UM, AS WE ARE, UM, SHIFTING OUR WEBSITE OVER TO UNDER THE CITY'S UMBRELLA INSTEAD OF OUR INDEPENDENT GODADDY SITE.
UM, SO AS WE RETIRE THAT AND GET OVER INTO THE CITY SITE, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT MUCH EASIER.
UM, THEN WE HAD SOME ISSUES IN THE PAST DOING THAT BECAUSE OF THE THIRD PARTY, UM, YEAH.
WEBSITE SYSTEM AND, AND THE CITY'S SECURITY MM-HMM
DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA WHEN THAT, I DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC DATE, BUT, UM, WE ARE WORKING, UM, VERY CLOSELY WITH IT S TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THAT DONE, UM, AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
I JUST REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHERE THEY'RE GIVING MONEY, ESPECIALLY THIS WEEK WITH ALL THE CYBER SECURITY ISSUES, TRANSPARENCY AND KNOWING WHERE YOUR MONEY'S GOING.
IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO GIVE CASH, YOU KNOW, TO BE ABLE TO GO TO DAS TO DO THAT AND NOT, YOU KNOW, THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT.
AND ACCORDING TO THE MOU, I THINK I WE'D LIKE TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ANYWAY.
UM, SO THEN THE SECOND QUESTION IS ABOUT DETAILS ABOUT MONEY.
UM, THE PREVIOUS YEARS, UH, BUDGET INDICATED THAT YOU SPENT LIKE AROUND $319,000 FOR MEDICAL, UM, WHICH INCLUDED, UM, IN-HOUSE SPAY NEUTER SURGERY, AND THE, THE EXTRA MONEY THAT DAS DID NOT HAVE TO, FOR THE BUDGET SHORTFALL FOR OUR SPAY NEUTER.
UM, THIS YEAR IT SAYS THAT IT'S $369,000.
DOES THAT MEAN WE'RE GOING TO BE, UM, HAVING TO, UH, PAY FOR ANOTHER SHORTFALL FOR SPAY NEUTER OR SR NUMBER SURGERY? WHAT, I KNOW EMILY MIGHT BE ABLE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION BETTER.
WHAT SURGERIES ARE GONNA BE INCLUDED IN THAT 369,000? UM, I AM CONCERNED WITH, OBVIOUSLY COMMUNITY CAT, UM, CAPACITY FOR SURGERIES, UM, AS EVERYBODY IS.
AND, UH, BUT I ALSO WANT INJURED ANIMALS TO BE HELPED AND SPECIALIZED SURGERIES TO WORK AT DAS.
ALL THIS EXTRA MONEY'S COMING IN.
I DON'T WANT IT TO SEEM LIKE I'M NOT, I AM SUPER EXCITED, I JUST WANNA KNOW WHERE IT'S GONNA GO.
AND THEN THE OTHER QUESTION ABOUT THE BUDGET IS THE $222,000 THAT'S GOING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY.
UM, OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW THAT'S HUGE.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE LOTS OF STATISTICS ON, BUT I THOUGHT WE WERE GETTING A LOT OF EXTRA MONEY FROM THE CITY BUDGET FOR CRUELTY.
SO I'M JUST WONDERING WHY THAT'S NOT GONNA BE COVERED UNDER THAT AND WHY THAT $22,000 CAN'T GO TO SOMETHING ELSE WHEN WE'VE GOT A BIGGER BUDGET.
SO THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS FOR PHOTOS THAT AND MAY HAVE FOLLOW UP, BUT NOT FOR ONE, ONE MINUTE.
TO THE BEST OF MY, I DON'T HAVE THE BUDGET MEMORIZED FOR FISCAL YEAR 27, BUT, UH, MY BEST RECOLLECTION IS WE HAVE $145,000 DEDICATED TO COMMUNITY CATS, TNR, WHICH IS UP FROM LAST YEAR.
AND IS THAT JUST FOR KEEPING UP WITH SR NUMBERS OR IS THAT FOR IN-HOUSE SURGERIES? IT'S FOR JUST KEEPING UP WITH SR NUMBERS.
AND THEN THE REMAINDER WE ARE SUPPLEMENTING, WE PAY FOR RELIEF VETERINARY STAFF AT DAS THAT THEY USE RSVP.
UM, WE PAY PAY THOSE INVOICES TO TRY TO INCREASE THEIR IN-HOUSE MANUAL, THEIR SURGERIES
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AS WELL.OH, THE 222,000, UM, IT'S A GRANT, SO WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE ON WHERE IT GOES.
BUT THAT, THAT FUNDING IS DIRECTLY FOR DPD, NOT OPERATIONS AT ALL.
COMMISSIONER SANDERS, WE'LL MOVE ON TO FAULKNER.
UM, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE WITH WHAT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO HEAR WHAT'S, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH YOU GUYS.
AND I, I APPRECIATE ALL THAT DETAIL BECAUSE THAT'S, YEAH, THAT IS SOMETHING, THESE ARE QUESTIONS WE'VE HAD FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND, AND PEOPLE ON THE COMMISSION FOR, FOR YEARS, SO WE'RE HAPPY TO HEAR THAT.
UM, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
UM, TO WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE THE INCREASE IN DONATIONS? WHAT DO YOU THINK MADE THAT, WHEN YOU WERE FUNCTIONING OVER HERE AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU'RE FUNCTIONING UNDER ANOTHER NONPROFIT, HOW, WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE THAT INCREASE? I THINK IT'S BEING ABLE TO SPEND MORE TIME ON DONOR STEWARDSHIP, WHICH I NEVER REALLY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO BEFORE.
AND THEN ALSO, UM, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO INCREASE OUR AUDIENCE BASE BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE A MARKETING TEAM THAT IS ACTUALLY FULL-TIME, NOT VOLUNTEERS, SO THEY DO A GOOD JOB WITH THAT.
AND, UM, DO, OKAY, THIS IS A VERY SPECIFIC QUESTION, BUT WHAT ITEMS ARE YOU GIVING PEOPLE FOR, UM, VACATIONS? I LOVE THAT YOU'RE FACILITATING VACATIONS BECAUSE VACATIONS I THINK ARE THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD.
I THINK THEY'RE JUST THE COOLEST THING.
AND I, I KNEW YOU GUYS WERE PAYING FOR A PART-TIME STAFF.
SO WHAT OTHER ITEMS DO THEY NEED WHEN THEY LEAVE? UM, THEY GO OUT ON VACATIONS WITH A BACKPACK THAT HAS A PORTABLE WATER BOWL IN IT.
THERE'S SOME FOOD IN THERE, THERE'S USUALLY A TOY OF SOME SORT.
THEN THEY WEAR AN ADOPT ME VEST.
THEY ALSO HAVE A SEATBELT, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S CALLED.
THE THING TO MAKE THEM SAFE IN THE CAR.
WE DO, WE DID PURCHASE, UH, SEAT COVERS FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT A SEAT COVER.
I DON'T THINK THEY GIVE THOSE OUT TO EVERYONE.
BUT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE PARTICULAR, UM, I'M TRYING TO THINK, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE BUY REGULARLY? THAT'S THE YEAH, OH YEAH, THE HARNESSES.
AND THEN ONE MORE QUESTION ABOUT THE 360 9, THE MEDICAL, OKAY.
SO IT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF IT, MOST OF IT IS GOING TO SPAY, NEUTER AND THE SUPPLEMENTAL VETERINARIANS.
DO YOU EVER DO, ARE YOU EVER DOING LIKE SPECIALTY SURGERIES? SOMETIMES I'LL SEE THAT THERE'S A DOG THAT HAS NEEDS WHAT, ACOS OR SOMETHING.
SO DO YOU GUYS DO THAT? WE DO NOT.
BUT YOU CAN PAY, BUT YOU WOULD HELP PAY FOR THAT IF LIKE, SO SAY A RESCUE OR OR AN INDIVIDUAL WANTED TO PULL A DOG FROM DIS, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS CAN HELP WITH? WITH SURGERY? WE DON'T DO EXTERNAL FUNDING.
SO THEY WOULD HAVE TO DO IT OR MAYBE SOMEBODY COULD DO IT WHILE THE DOG WAS THERE? CORRECT.
SOME OF THAT MONEY DOES GO TO THE FOSTERS THAT ARE GETTING CARE, ESPECIALLY AT THE PRESTON HOLLOW VET CLINIC.
SO SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF WHAT THE VETS CAN DO INTERNALLY, SOME OF THAT MONEY DOES GO TO THAT.
AND WE'VE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE A GRANT SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT AND DID ADD MONEY FOR THAT BUDGET THIS YEAR AS WELL.
AND THEN ONE MORE QUESTION ABOUT GRANTS.
UM, SO DO YOU GUYS COORDINATE WITH DAS? SO IF THEY'RE WRITING A GRANT AND YOU'RE WRITING A GRANT AND YOU GUYS ARE NOT COMPETING FOR THE SAME GRANTS, YES, WE DEFINITELY SENSE DO NOT COMPETE.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO, UH, COMMISSIONER THOMAS.
I JUST WANNA THANK Y'ALL FOR BEING HERE AND, UM, I'M LEARNING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT AND, UM, I THINK IT'S GREAT.
I LOVE EVERYTHING THAT Y'ALL ARE DOING, AND THE VACATIONS ARE FUN.
AND, UM, JUST APPRECIATE ALL YOUR WORK.
ALL RIGHT, COMMISSIONER DELGADO.
UM, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU GUYS FOR BEING HERE.
REALLY, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
I KNOW WE GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS AND THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL.
AND, UM, WENDY, THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK FOR VOLUNTEERING SO MUCH OF YOUR TIME IN CREATING PHOTOS TO WHAT IT IS TODAY.
THE FACT THAT WE CAN EVEN HAVE THIS DISCUSSION IS BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE, THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE, AND WE'RE REALLY GRATEFUL FOR IT.
SO, UM, SO PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND AS I ASK MY QUESTIONS.
UM, UH, JORDAN, YOU'D MENTIONED THAT, UH, OPERATION KINDNESS SPENDS ABOUT 70% OF THEIR TIME HERE IN DALLAS.
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NINE 90, UM, OPERATION KINDNESS WAS AT ABOUT ROUGHLY ABOUT 14 MILLION.SO THAT WOULD PUT US AT ABOUT 10 MILLION INVESTED IN IN DALLAS.
UM, IF WE WERE GOING OFF OF THAT PERSPECTIVE, UM, THE, THOSE, THE NUMBERS DON'T SEEM TO SORT OF CONNECT TO THAT BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH ESSENTIALLY WE WOULD BE SPENDING ON COST PER ANIMAL, EVEN WITH ALL OF THE ANIMALS THAT YOU'VE PULLED, UM, THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT IN TERMS OF VACCINES, UM, WHICH I KNOW A LOT OF THAT IS DONATED FROM PETCO LOVE, UM, TAKING THE TIME WITH THE STAFF AND, AND ALL OF THAT INTO ACCOUNT, UM, IT STILL FEELS LIKE A BIT OF A STRETCH.
SO CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT A LITTLE BIT? 70% IS NOT THE CITY OF DALLAS.
IT IS DALLAS COUNTY AS A WHOLE.
IN ADDITION TO FOCUSING ON THE CITY OF DALLAS, WE ALSO FOCUS A LOT WITH THE SHELTERS, CARROLLTON, FARMERS, BRANCH HUTCHINS, LOTS OF DIFFERENT SHELTERS THAT WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN AND ALSO PULL ANIMALS FROM AS WELL AS THE DIFFERENT WORK THAT WE DO WITH OUR PANTRY WITHIN OUR OWN COMMUNITY IN CARROLLTON AND HERE AS WELL AS ALL THE VACCINE CLINICS.
SO WOULD YOU MIND SPEAKING TO JUST THE CITY OF DALLAS SINCE THAT IS KIND OF WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO GET DOWN TO? YEAH, JUST FOR THIS, FOR THE ANIMALS WE DIRECTLY IMPACTED AT DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES, WE ESTIMATE WE GAVE ABOUT 1.6 MILLION.
I DID NOT CALCULATE WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR THE GREATER CITY OF DALLAS AT LARGE BECAUSE AGAIN, WE DO LOTS OF VACCINE CLINICS, PANTRIES, DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO I DO NOT HAVE THAT CALCULATION.
SO AS FAR AS THE PHOTOS, UM, BUDGET THAT IS LAID OUT, UM, I'M CURIOUS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT FOSTER SUPPORT LOOKS LIKE AND THEN IF YOU COULD ALSO SPEAK TO, YOU KNOW, THE MEDICAL BUDGET.
UM, IT'S A VERY GOOD HEALTHY BUDGET AND WE JUST HIRED A NEW VET, UM, HERE AT DAS.
AND SO I'M CURIOUS IN TERMS OF CAPACITY AS ARE WE CONSIDERING THAT CAPACITY.
UM, ALSO, YOU KNOW, ON AVERAGE THE AVERAGE VET COST FOR TO EMPLOY A VET FULL-TIME FOR A YEAR IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 130 TO $150,000 A YEAR.
AND ESSENTIALLY ALL OF THOSE SPECIALTY SURGERIES, EVERYTHING LIKE THAT COULD BE DONE UNDER THAT VETERINARIAN.
HAVE WE LOOKED AT THE EFFICIENCY OF HOW WE'RE SPENDING THOSE DOLLARS? UH, FOR FOSTER SUPPORT, WE DO KITTEN FOSTER KITS FOR THE KITTENS.
UM, THERE ARE DOG FOSTER KITS THAT ARE LESS ROBUST THAN WHAT THE KITTENS GET, BUT WE BUY A LOT OF CRATES AND TOYS AND LEASHES AND COLLARS.
UM, WE HAVE A PILOT PROGRAM STARTING THIS MONTH FOR FOSTER DOG TRAINING, UM, WHICH WILL BE IN PERSON WITH A TRAINER.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A STILL KIND OF A PILOT PROGRAM FOR EXTERNAL VETERINARY CARE FOR, UH, PETS THAT ARE NO LABELED NO DAS MED.
UM, AND WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH A PRIVATE VET.
WE HAVE A LIMIT PER PET THERE.
AND THE TEAM AT DAS MAKES A DECISION ON WHICH PETS ARE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE.
UM, SO FAR I THINK WE'VE IMPACTED 72 PETS THROUGH THAT PROGRAM.
WHO WOULD OTHERWISE NOT HAVE HAD RECEIVED THAT VETERINARY CARE? UM, WITH RESPECT TO THE SPEND ON MEDICAL, THIS BUDGET WAS DEVELOPED WITH, WITH THE TEAM AT DAS.
SO I THINK EMILY MIGHT BE BETTER ABLE TO SPEAK ABOUT THAT.
YES, AND THE SHORT AND HONEST ANSWER IS I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ANOTHER FULL-TIME VETERINARIAN.
UM, THERE IS A HUGE VETERINARY SHORTAGE, UM, IN THE INDUSTRY RIGHT NOW.
YOU GUYS REMEMBER HOW LONG IT TOOK TO HIRE OUR CURRENT VETERINARIAN THAT WE JUST GOT ON? UM, WE HAVE A TEMPORARY POSITION.
WE ARE ABLE TO INCREASE, UM, OUR SURGERIES IN-HOUSE, BUT OVERALL, UM, THE DEMAND IS MUCH HIGHER THAN WE'RE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THIS IN, UM, ADDITIONAL MONEY FROM OTIS.
UM, WE'RE ABLE TO USE OPK, WE'RE ABLE TO HELP, UM, GET RELIEF STAFFING THROUGH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, UM, AND WE'RE ABLE TO OUTSOURCE AS MUCH AS WE CAN TO TRY AND KEEP UP WITH WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD TO THAT THE SPECIALTY SERVICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO HELP, UM, ADDRESS OUR SURGICAL DEFICIT FOR SPAY AND NEUTER SURGERIES AND TO HELP REDUCE THE FDAS, WE HAVE THE FOSTER TO ADOPT POPULATION AND TO ASSIST GETTING OUR FOSTERS STERILIZED AND IN-HOUSE SHELTER, SHELTER ANIMALS STERILIZED.
SO THE SPECIALTY SERVICES, WE TRY TO OUTSOURCE THEM IF WE CAN OR UM, THOSE ARE JUST THINGS THAT, UM, A DOCTOR HAD FLUID
AND I WOULD ALSO, UM, POINT OUT THAT 130 TO 150,000 IS STRICTLY SALARY,
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UM, NOT BENEFITS.AND THAT IS FOR WHAT THE CITY CURRENTLY HAS, IS ABLE TO OFFER A FULL-TIME POSITION.
OUR PART-TIME POSITIONS PAY ABOUT $130 PER HOUR.
UM, AND WE TRY TO KEEP THOSE TO ABOUT 30 HOURS A WEEK, BUT THAT'S STILL ABOUT $200,000.
UM, AND THAT'S IF WE CAN GET A VET TO TAKE THAT MONEY FOR THAT POSITION.
SO HOW MANY SURGERIES DO WE NEED PER WEEK OR PER MONTH IN ORDER TO COVER OUR DEFICIT? GREAT QUESTION.
UM, IT'S HARD BECAUSE THE HISTORIC DATA IS, IT'S ALL POINT IN TIME, SO WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OF THE HISTORICAL DATA TO KNOW LONG TERM.
RIGHT NOW WE'RE ESTIMATING ABOUT 12 TO 1400 A MONTH WE NEED TO SUSTAIN.
AND WHAT ARE WE DOING RIGHT NOW? WE'RE DOING ABOUT 1000 TO 1100.
COMMISSIONER DELGADO, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ON, OKAY.
OKAY, SO YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT, I'M GONNA JUST USE YOUR HIGH END 1400 A MONTH.
UM, ON AVERAGE A HIGH VOLUME SPAY NEUTER VET CAN DO ABOUT 30 A DAY.
SO WE SHOULD BE COVERED WITH TWO VETS TECHNICALLY IN THEORY IF WE HAD TO FULL-TIME.
AND ALSO THE SUPPORT STAFF TO SUPPORT THEM TO BE ABLE TO RUN THAT.
UM, AND AN ADDITIONAL VET FOR LIKE REGULAR VETTING AND ALL OF THAT.
SO LIKE TRULY THREE VETS AND SUPPORT STAFF TO COVER THAT IS WHAT WE'RE HOPING FOR IN A DREAM WORLD.
UM, YOU KNOW, ON, ON AVERAGE WITH ALL OF THE MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES IN-HOUSE, UM, WITH EVERYTHING TAKEN CARE OF IN-HOUSE, WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT A SURGICAL COST FOR MAYBE 30 TO $50 PER PET DEPENDING ON WHAT TYPE OF PET AND HOW LONG A SURGERY MIGHT BE.
UM, OBVIOUSLY WHEN WE GO TO EXTERNAL PARTNERS WE GET CHARGED A LOT MORE, SO I'M JUST KIND OF WANTING TO MAKE US AWARE THAT THERE'S PROBABLY SOME ABILITY TO COST SAVE HERE AND IT MIGHT BE WORTH LOOKING INTO BECAUSE OF HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO GET THESE SURGERIES GOING.
SO I JUST, THAT'S GONNA BE MY COMMENT.
UM, BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT WAS PROVIDED TODAY.
AGAIN, THIS IS REALLY MEANINGFUL AND UM, WE'RE REALLY, REALLY GLAD THAT WE EVEN HAVE A FRIENDS OF, UM, TO BE DISCUSSING.
ALRIGHT, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER.
COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER BENNETT.
I I I HAVE A QUESTION, UM, ABOUT, AND IT'S, I GUESS IN THE TRANSPARENCY REALM AS FAR AS WHEN PEOPLE DONATE TO THEIR FRIENDS, UM, OBVIOUSLY, UM, ALL THAT MONEY IS SEPARATE FROM ANYTHING OPERATION KINDNESS.
UM, I SEE YOU'RE NODDING YOUR HEAD.
SO I THINK THAT'S LIKE, GOES WITHOUT SAYING.
UM, IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT BENEFIT.
UM, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S SOME PERCEPTION CONCERNS AND TOO AS FAR AS LIKE WHAT KIND OF DOGS OR ANIMALS OPERATION KINDNESS IS DOING AND HOW ALL THAT INTERACTS WITH THOUSAND ANIMAL SERVICES.
BUT I GUESS THAT'S MY MAIN QUESTION WAS THAT YOU'VE ALREADY NODDED YOUR HEAD TOO, AND I FIGURED THAT WAS THE ANSWER.
UM, AS FAR AS THE VET SHORTAGE, I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE ANY ABILITY TO DO ANYTHING, BUT MAYBE THE CITY OF DALLAS SHOULD CONSIDER PAYING BETS BETTER SO WE COULD GET SOME BETS, UM, WHICH WOULD SAVE MONEY.
THAT'S JUST A COMMENT FOR PROBABLY NOBODY THAT CARES THAT'S LISTENING, BUT I MEAN, IT'S LIKE WE'RE, WE'RE SAVING 5 CENTS HERE TO PAY A DOLLAR THERE AND IT MAKES NO SENSE.
AND TO ME, THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH CITY
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AND COUNTY BUDGETS.IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE THE SAME OLD STORY.
SO, UM, AND THEN LASTLY, I JUST HAD A QUESTION ABOUT A COMMENT YOU MADE ABOUT THE SPECIALTY SERVICES HAVING TO BE OR AFFECTED.
I I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF SPECIALTY SERVICES THOSE ARE, SO I WAS JUST INTERESTED.
THOSE ARE THE SPECIALTY SURGERIES.
LIKE IF AN ANIMAL HAS NEEDS AN AMPUTATION, UM, FORM BODY, THINGS THAT AREN'T THE NORMAL SPAY NEUTER THAT WE CAN GO THROUGH QUICKLY, IT'S ANYTHING THAT NEEDS REQUIRED SPECIALIZED CARE AND OFTEN A SPECIALIZED SURGEON.
SO WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE ANIMALS THAT NEED THE SPECIALIZED SERVICES SUCH AS AN AMPUTATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WE ARE ABLE TO OUTSOURCE OFTEN TO OPK FOR THOSE SURGERIES WITH THE GRANT FUNDING.
AND DOES OPK PROVIDE SERVICES AT ANY TYPE? I DON'T KNOW LIKE HOW THE FUNDING OR CHARGES GO.
IS IT LESS FOR OPK THAN IT WOULD BE WHERE WE MIGHT HAVE TO OUTSOURCE SOMEWHERE ELSE? SIGNIFICANTLY LESS.
YES, THEY GIVE US, THEY HAVE GREAT PRICING.
I WOULD HOPE THAT THAT WOULD BE THE CASE.
I THINK THAT COVERS EVERYTHING THAT I HAD.
UM, WE NEED LIKE 10 MILLION MORE OF EVERYTHING, SO THANK YOU.
CAN, UH, INTERIM DIRECTOR, MAYBE OUR ATTORNEY SPEAK TO, UH, HOW SALARIES ARE CREATED FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS AND CAPPED LIMITATIONS THERE? YEAH, SO, UM, THE CITY HAS A PAY SCHEDULE, UM, THAT IS DEPENDS ON THE PAY GRADE FOR SPECIFIC POSITIONS.
WE ARE ABLE TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH HR ABOUT WHERE THOSE POSITIONS FALL AND WE MAKE SOME APPEAL, BUT ULTIMATELY THAT IS DETERMINED BY OUR HR DEPARTMENT AND THEY BASE THAT ON MARKET RATES.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING WITH THEM IS ABOUT, UM, WHEN WE DO OUR COMPARABLES, UH, FOR OUR VETERINARIANS VERSUS A TYPICAL VETERINARIAN, UM, AT A PRIVATE PRACTICE THAT'S NOT REALLY, UM, APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON FOR THE WORK THAT WE'RE ASKING OUR VETERINARIANS TO DO.
SO WE ARE IN CONVERSATION WITH HR TO LOOK AT, UM, SOME OF THOSE.
UM, BUT IT, IT'S A LONG PROCESS AND UM, AND THEN WE HAVE TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, UM, THE BUDGET AVAILABILITY TO THEN PAY FOR THOSE.
I ALSO WANNA THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
SO OPERATION KINDNESS IS NOW HUMANE SOCIETY ALSO? YES.
WE DID DO A BRAND STUDY LAST SUMMER AND RECOGNITION OF WHO WE WERE AS WELL AS THE FACT THAT WE SERVED ANIMALS WAS VERY LOW.
AND SO WE DID ENHANCE OUR NAME AND BECOME OPERATION KINDNESS HUMANE SOCIETY.
THAT DOES NOT MEAN WE HAVE ANY AFFILIATION WITH ANY OTHER NATIONAL ORGANIZATION.
IT IS SIMPLY ADDING THE TITLE SO THAT THERE IS MORE RECOGNITION FOR ESPECIALLY NEW PEOPLE THAT MIGHT BE HEARING ABOUT US TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE SERVING ANIMALS.
SO THERE'S A VERY LARGE SBCA FACILITY RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM YOU AND DAS.
WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH IT? WHAT DO THEY DO? WE ARE A PARTNER OF THE SBCA, BUT WE ARE NOT AFFILIATED, SO I CANNOT SPEAK TO THAT.
WE HAD LOTS OF REALLY GRAND PLANS WHEN OUR SHELTER WAS BUILT AND SPCA TOOK OVER THAT PROPERTY.
WE HAD SOME REALLY GRAND PLANS FOR THE TWO OF US ACTUALLY PARTNERING, BUT I SEE THOSE HAVE GONE BY THE WAYSIDE.
UM, SO WE HAVE 2 5 0 1 C THREES OR ONE WE ARE UNDER 1 5 0 1 C3.
SO YOU GUYS FILED NINE 90 S RIGHT? OKAY.
UM, WHERE, WHERE IS, UH, FOTIS ING? ARE THEY ING WITH YOU? I HAVE A CUBICLE IN IN CARROLLTON.
CUBICLE'S BETTER THAN YOUR BEDROOM, TRUST ME.
UH, SO DO YOU GET A SALARY, WENDY? YES.
UH, WHO PAYS THE SALARY? UP UNTIL THIS FISCAL YEAR, IT CAME COMPLETELY OUT OF OPERATION KINDNESSES BANK ACCOUNT STARTING THIS FISCAL YEAR.
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IT IS COMING FROM THE FO'S BANK ACCOUNT.SO I THOUGHT FOTIS GAVE YOU A MILLION DOLLARS, GAVE OPKA MILLION DOLLARS TO MERCH, WAS THAT NOT CORRECT? WE KEEP THAT IN THAT SEPARATE BANK ACCOUNT ALLOCATED FOR FOTIS MISSION.
SO FOTI IS GONNA PAY WENDY GOING FORWARD.
IS THERE, UH, SOMEWHERE WHERE WE CAN SEE THE SALARIES THAT ARE GOING TO WENDY AND THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS OR ARE THERE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS.
FOTIS IS A PART OF OPERATION KINDNESS.
SO OUR OVERALL BOARD MEMBERS ARE THEIR BOARD MEMBER.
IT IS THE ENTITY AS AN ENTIRETY.
ARE THEY PAID? OUR, OUR BOARD? YEAH.
BUT WENDY IS THE, WENDY IS AN EMPLOYEE.
SHE'S THE CEO OR JUST A BOARD CHAIR.
WHAT'S YOUR TITLE RIGHT NOW? I THINK MY TITLE IS SENIOR MANAGER OF DONOR RELATIONS FOR FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES.
UH, HOW DO WE FIND OUT WHAT THE SALARY IS? I MEAN, I'M JUST, I SERVE ON MANY BOARDS.
NONE OF THE BOARDS THAT I SERVE ON, UH, HAVE A PAY ANYBODY EXCEPT FOR ONE.
SHE'S AN EMPLOYEE AS I JUST, YEAH.
AND JUST LIKE ANY 5 0 1 C3, WE DO PUBLISH OUR NINE 90 WITH SALARIES.
WE'LL, WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE.
UM, ARE WE STILL USING SPAY NEUTER NETWORK FOR SPACE SPAY NEUTER SURGERIES? YES.
UM, I'VE, I'VE SHORT TIME ON THIS BOARD, ON THIS COMMISSION.
THIS IS THE FIRST REPORT THAT I THINK WE RECEIVED FROM FOLKS.
IS THAT CORRECT? WE USUALLY COME IN OCTOBER TO GIVE A, A REVIEW OF THE PRIOR FISCAL YEAR.
YOU NEED TO BE HERE EVERY QUARTER, EVERY MEETING.
SO FO NEEDS TO BE AT EVERY MEETING AND PROVIDE AN UPDATE JUST LIKE YOU'RE DOING NOW.
ONCE A YEAR IS, IS NOT GOING TO BE TRANSPARENT, PLEASE.
UH, DS DONATION FUND, UH, I HAVE TO AGREE THAT IT NEEDS TO BE STATED ON OP K'S WEBSITE THAT ALL MONEY THAT GOES TO FO CLOSE TO OPK SO THAT PEOPLE KNOW WHERE THEIR MONEY IS GOING.
I BELIEVE THAT'S JUST VERY IMPORTANT.
I DON'T GIVE TO SOME PLACES BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE THEIR WHOLE MISSION.
SO I WOULD RATHER GIVE DIRECTLY TO SOMEONE OTHER THAN GOING THROUGH A FOUNDATION.
AND ARE YOUR BOARD MEMBERS LISTED ON YOUR WEBSITE? I BELIEVE THEY'RE ON THE WEBSITE.
THEY'RE DEFINITELY ON THE NINE 90.
ARE YOUR BOARD MEETINGS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC OR NO, THEY'RE NOT.
UM, DO YOU WANNA CORRECT THE RECORD TO SOMETHING SHE JUST SAID ABOUT THE MONEY GOING TO OPEN DAY? NOT QUITE SURE WHAT YOU MEANT BY TO A FOUNDATION AND THE MONEY THAT COMES TO THROUGH FRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES GOES TO THAT SEPARATE BANK ACCOUNT THAT GOES DIRECTLY BACK TO THIS INITIATIVE, BUT IT DOESN'T SAY THAT ANYWHERE.
SO THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE PUBLIC.
WHEN YOU GIVE MONEY TO FOTIS, IT'S GOING TO FOTIS NOT TO OPK.
SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT WANT THEIR MONEY TO GO TO OPK FOR WHATEVER REASON.
UH, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE TRANSPARENT, PLEASE.
UM, I BELIEVE THAT A FEW PEOPLE HAVE TIME LEFT.
IS THERE ANYONE, UM, HERE YOU ALSO HAVE TIME.
UM, I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS I FORGOT ABOUT MYSELF.
SO MY FIRST ONE IS ABOUT THE DPD PIECE.
I HAD NO IDEA WE HAD TO PAY D-B-T-A-D-B-D.
I MEAN, IS THAT, I'D JUST LIKE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THAT.
'CAUSE IS THAT NOT EVEN THE MOST WELL-FUNDED
UM, SO WHAT EXACTLY DO WE HAVE TO PAY THEM FOR AND HOW DOES THAT RELATIONSHIP WORK? I HAVEN'T HEARD THIS BEFORE WITH THE CRUELTY.
I KNOW IT'S SORT OF NEW THAT WE HAD TO TAKE THAT ALL BACK IN HOUSE.
WHOEVER CAN SORT OF GIVE US A TOP LINE VERSION OF THAT.
UM, WE DON'T PAY DPD DIRECTLY.
SO THEY USE DRONES IN A LOT OF THEIR WORK.
THEY DON'T HAVE A LIVESTOCK TRAILER, AND THEY'RE OFTEN PULLING HORSES IN
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A REALLY BROKEN DOWN TRAILER, SO THEY WANTED A NEW ONE.UM, WHEN THEY GO OUT TO SEIZURES, LIKE ESPECIALLY THE LARGE ROOSTER SEIZURES, THEY'RE WORKING IN THE HOT SUN AND THERE'S NO BATHROOM, THERE'S NO AIR CONDITIONING.
SO THEY WANTED A KIND OF A COMMAND CENTER TYPE OF, UH, I GUESS VEHICLE.
UM, AND IT WILL ALSO HAVE A LITTLE VET STATION INSIDE SO THAT THE VET THAT'S WORKING WITH THEM WON'T HAVE TO BE OUTSIDE AS WELL IN THOSE CONDITIONS.
SO IT'S PROVIDING THEM WITH SUPPLIES.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR FUNDING IS THROUGH DPD, BUT THEY'RE NOT GETTING THOSE THINGS THAT THEY WANT.
IT SEEMS CURIOUS THAT THAT ISN'T COMING FROM DPD BUDGET TO DO THEIR DPD ROLE.
I, I MEAN, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO DPDS UH, BUDGET IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM DAS.
BUT THIS IS, THIS IS THEIR OBLIGATION.
THE CRUELTY WORK, EVEN WHAT ANIMALS ARE KNOW THAT THEY NEED THEIR SUPPLIES FOR, BUT ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES ARE EXTRA.
I, I THINK THAT'S MAYBE SOMETHING TO DIG INTO WITH CITY COUNCIL.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE WOULD PAY THEM, UH, A VERY WELL RESOURCED
WELL, I MEAN, I MEAN, WE SHOULD, BECAUSE WE NEED THAT FOR THE ANIMAL IF THEY NEED SUPPLEMENT.
BUT I JUST, IF THAT'S THEIR ROLE ALREADY, I DON'T KNOW WHY.
I WOULD IMAGINE LESS FUNDED DAS WOULD BE GIVING THEM SUPPLIES TO DO THEIR JOBS.
I WOULD IMAGINE THAT FO'S GRANT IS NOT THE ONLY GRANT THAT DPD RECEIVES.
OH, THIS IS A GRANT SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT.
AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS THAT THIS IS THE FIRST I'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS WEBSITE SITUATION AND I JUST WANNA, WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? WE HAD A CITI WEBSITE.
IT CRASHED PHOTOS, DID ONE ROUND OF A SORT OF, LET'S CALL A JUNIOR WEBSITE THAT WAS DONE IN-HOUSE.
AND THEN WE GOT TO HIRE AN OUTSIDE COMPANY AND HAVE THIS WEBSITE THAT OTHER SHELTERS AND RESCUES ASPIRE TO THAT WE CAN QUICKLY UPDATE AND BE VERY NIMBLE WITH WHAT IS GOING ON.
THIS IS A BIG MISTAKE FROM MY POINT OF VIEW.
UM, ONE BECAUSE, UM, THAT IS PART OF THE CITY OF DALLAS'S INITIATIVES AND TWO, BECAUSE IT ALLOWS US TO PUT IN THIS DONATION PIECE TO IT THAT WE WERE NOT ABLE TO DO.
AND A THIRD PARTY WEBSITE DUE TO SECURITY CONCERNS.
I MEAN, WE USED TO EVEN HAVE JUST PROBLEMS OF THE APIS FROM ATO PETS AND WHATNOT, FEEDING IN WHERE YOU COULDN'T EVEN SEE THE ANIMALS AND, YOU KNOW, THINGS MALFUNCTION AND THEN YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR CITY IT TO REPAIR IT FOR THREE MONTHS.
SO WE WILL MOVE INTO THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT AND JUST A REMINDER, WE WILL HEAR THE FULL DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
AND THEN, OH, SORRY, KAREN, YOU HAVE MORE? OKAY.
DOES SHE HAVE SOME TIME LEFT? SHE DOES.
GIVE US ONE SECOND TO GET IT LOADED.
I, UH, ONLINE TOO, IF YOU GUYS WANTED TO DO FOLLOW UPS.
SO IT'S 54 SECONDS, JUST SO YOU KNOW.
GIVE US ONE SECOND TO GET IT ON THE BOARD.
SO MY QUESTION HAS TO DO WITH THE SR NUMBER BUDGET.
AND REALLY I'D LIKE SOME HISTORY AS TO WHY THERE'S SUCH A SHORTFALL, HOW IT WAS PAID BEFORE, WHY THAT'S NOT IN THE DAS BUDGET, AND, UM, WHAT, WHERE THAT DISCONNECT IS COMING FROM.
IS THAT NOT IN THE GENERAL DAS BUDGET THAT WE COVER THOSE SR NUMBERS? WHY ARE THOSE BEING COVERED BY FRIENDS OF, AND IS THAT A NEW THING AND IS THAT ALWAYS GONNA BE LIKE THAT? YEAH, WE DO HAVE FUNDING IN THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET TO COVER SOME OF THAT.
UM, IN THE PAST COUPLE, WE HAVE ABOUT $240,000 OF CITY MONEY AND THEN AN ADDITIONAL 146 THROUGH THAT.
NOW, IT'S NOT AN EXACT, LIKE THIS IS EXACTLY HOW MUCH IS GOING TO THAT, AND A LOT OF THAT'S GONNA BE DEPENDING ON AS OUR NEEDS ARISE DURING THE FISCAL YEAR AND HOW, HOW MUCH VOLUME AND ACTIVITY THAT WE'RE SEEING.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING, UM, FOR THIS NEXT FISCAL YEAR, BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING IN THE PAST IS WE SPEND ALL OF OUR MONEY AND THEN WE GET TO JUNE AND, HEY, WE'RE OUTTA MONEY.
WENDY, CAN YOU PICK UP THESE BILLS? SO WHAT WE'VE DONE THIS FOR THIS COMING FISCAL YEAR IS, UM, WE'VE MET WITH OUR PARTNERS AND WE WILL BE DIVVYING UP THOSE, UM, BILLS THROUGHOUT THE FISCAL YEAR.
SO IT IS MORE CONSISTENT, UM, ON HITTING BOTH THE GENERAL FUND, UH, DOLLAR AMOUNTS AND THE FO BUDGET.
SO WE'RE NOT SCRAMBLING TO CHANGE BILLING PROCESSES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
SET BUDGET FOR SR UH, PAYMENTS GONE UP, UM, IN LIGHT OF THIS COMMUNITY CAPITAL NEEDS.
SO THE COMMUNITY CAPITAL ORDINANCE IS JUST TO ACTUALLY CREATE, WHEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN, IN OUR, OUR PRESENTATION, BUT IT'S NOT MAKING ANY CHANGES TO FUNDING.
IT IS ABOUT CODIFYING A PROCESS.
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YEAH.SO WE, WE COULD TALK ABOUT THAT LATER.
UM, AND, BUT, BUT, SO WE, UM, BUT, BUT OUR FUNDING CAPACITY HAS INCREASED IN THIS FISCAL YEAR, UH, COMPARED TO LAST FISCAL YEAR.
UM, SOME OF THAT IS FROM, UM, OUR, UM, WE HAVE SOME, UM, MULTI-YEAR FUNDS THAT WILL BE PUT INTO THAT, THAT JUST, WHICH MAKES UP THAT, UH, TWO 40.
BUT, UM, I THINK THE TECHNICAL GENERAL FUND AMOUNT IS 190,000, AND THEN ABOUT 50,000 IN MULTI-YEAR FUNDS.
UM, YEAH, WHICH UP FROM 180 LAST YEAR.
SO WE HAVE ABOUT 10,000 EXTRA THAT WE CAN SPECIFICALLY SAY WE'RE GOING TO DEDICATE TOWARDS THIS.
BUT, UM, WE HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE ABOUT HOW WE WANT TO FACILITATE THAT GOING FORWARD.
UH, ONLINE COMMISSIONER JAMESON GEERING, COMMISSIONER JAMON IS NODDING.
IT LOOKS LIKE BOTH OF YOU GUYS.
GIVE US JUST ONE SECOND TO RESET YOUR TIME.
UH, ARE WE STARTING WITH COMMISSIONER GEARING OR, UH, LET'S DO JAMESON FIRST.
COMMISSIONER JAMON, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES AND 20, 27 SECONDS.
LET US KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY, OR I GUESS WE'RE READY.
SO I JUST WANNA VERIFY, SO FOTIS IS TRANSFERRING ITS WEB, I WANNA GET THE PARAMETERS AROUND THIS, THE WEBSITE HOSTING AND ADMINISTRATION AND DATA TO CITY OF DALLAS.
IT, IS THAT ACCURATE? NO, THAT'S THE, THE DAS WEBSITE IS BEING MOVED.
FOR THIS WEBSITE IS STILL, IT'S ITS OWN.
SO, SO THAT'S THE ONE THAT IS STILL ITS OWN INDEPENDENT UNDER THE, UM, AND, AND THAT, AND THE GRANT DOESN'T IMPACT THAT.
UM, IS THE, IS B DALLAS 90, THAT WEBSITE, IS THAT DONE UNDER FOTIS AS WELL, OR IS THAT TRANSITIONED OVER TO CITI? THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN THE CITY.
UM, THAT'S MY FIRST INITIAL QUESTION.
UH, QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WAY THAT 3 1 1 IS OPERATING RIGHT NOW, AND I PROMISE THIS IS TIED INTO THIS.
UM, WE, THEY TOOK AWAY THE SR NUMBER, UM, WHERE YOU WOULD TYPE IN COMMUNITY CATS.
ONE IS COMMUNITY CATS INFORMATION.
AND I THINK MAYBE THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE, ARE SUPPOSED TO KNOW TO SELECT, TO GET AN SR NUMBER.
BUT WHAT IT ACTUALLY STATES IS THAT AN A CO WILL CONTACT THEM TO GIVE THEM RESOURCES.
AND THEN THE OTHER ONE IS I THINK, UH, DANIEL CHAMBLISS HAD BROUGHT UP EARLIER.
UM, IT, IT SAYS COMMUNITY CAT NUISANCE AND IT'S REPORTING NOISE AND, YOU KNOW, DEFECATION AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
I'M, I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHICH OF THESE IS TO BE SELECTED TO GET AN SR NUMBER TO GET ACCESS TO THIS MONEY TO GET THE ANIMALS STERILIZED.
IS IT BOTH? IS IT, IS IT THE, THE FIRST ONE? WHICH ONE DO Y'ALL KNOW? SO THE SR ONE IS ACTUALLY STATES IN THE PARAGRAPH THAT BASICALLY IS COMMUNITY FOR SR IS FOR SPAY NEUTER IN THE BRIEFING OF THE STATE.
THE ONE FOR NUISANCES, LIKE YOU STATED, IS JUST FOR NUISANCE SANITATION AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
FOR ANY OTHER SITUATIONS LIKE CRITICAL OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THEY WOULD HAVE TO STILL GO THROUGH WELFARE FOR THOSE KIND OF CALLS.
AND, AND JUST ONE CORRECTION, IT ACTUALLY DOESN'T STATE THAT YOU GET ANYMORE, UM, ON THE 3 1 1 APP THAT THE OTHER ONE, THE ONE THAT'S COMMUNITY CAT RESOURCES OR WHATEVER, IT ACTUALLY DOESN'T STATE THAT THAT'S WHERE YOU GET THE SR NUMBER OR MENTION ANY OF THE, UM, IT SAYS THAT THERE'LL BE CONTACTED WITH RESOURCES, BUT IT DOESN'T MENTION THAT.
SO I'VE HAD A LOT OF CONSTITUENTS SUDDENLY VERY CONFUSED, UH, PARTICULARLY YESTERDAY WHEN THEY'RE BRINGING ANIMALS TO, UH, SPAY NEUTER NETWORKS PICK EVENT AT 10 BELLS, AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO TO GET AN SR NUMBER.
THAT'S JUST, JUST SOMETHING FOR Y'ALL TO NOTE.
BUT I, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING HOW TO TELL PEOPLE TO GET ACCESS TO THESE FUNDS NOW.
SO IF THAT'S, IF THAT'S THE ONE THAT THEY NEED TO DO, THEN I WILL TELL THEM THAT.
AND WHAT CAN WE BE DOING ON, ON OUR SIDE, UM, TO, TO HELP WITH THESE FUNDRAISING INITIATIVES FOR THAT DEFICIT, FOR THE FUNDS, FOR, UH, TNR? BECAUSE HERE IN DISTRICT ONE, THAT IS A HUGE, I MEAN, I'M GETTING CALLS ABOUT THAT EVERY DAY.
I WOULD SAY I GET ESTIMATED A HUNDRED REACH OUTS A DAY WITH PEOPLE ASKING ME, WHAT CAN WE DO? AND AS MUCH AS I FEEL LIKE THE INFORMATION IS OUT THERE FOR WHATEVER REASON, PEOPLE AREN'T ABLE TO FIND IT, THEY FEEL THE INFORMATION'S BEING KEPT A LITTLE PRECIOUS.
I WANT TO NOT JUST KNOW WHERE TO DIRECT THEM, BUT ALSO HOW TO RAISE MONEY FOR THIS.
HOW CAN WE HELP, WHAT CAN WE BE DOING? ARE YOU SAYING FOR THE COMMUNITY CATS IN SPECIFICALLY? IS THAT I'M, I'M, YEAH.
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THE, THE COMMUNITY CATS SR NUMBER STERILIZATION PROGRAM THAT WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING ON HERE WAS ONE OF THE MAJOR AREAS OF FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES THAT SPECIFICALLY ARE THERE RESOURCES THAT WE CAN BE COMMUNICATING TO DRIVING PEOPLE WHERE SPECIFICALLY TO DONATE.UH, SO THAT BACK TO THE CONVERSATION ABOUT TRANSPARENCY, THEY KNOW THAT THEIR MONEY IS GOING TO THAT INSTEAD OF NO DISRESPECT MEANT, YOU KNOW, PAYING WENDY'S SALARY SPEAK.
COMMISSIONER, THAT'S YOUR TIME.
WE COULD STILL ANSWER WHAT'S LEFT OF THE QUESTION, BUT NO MORE TIME TO ASK MORE QUESTIONS.
SO I WITH NO TIME LIMIT, SO I JUST WANNA ANSWER, ANSWER REAL QUICK FOR THE COMMUNITY.
CAT ONE, UM, IT DOES STATE N 3 0 1 1, IT SAYS ANIMAL COMMUNITY CAT PAY NEUTER SERVICES, AND IT SAYS REQUEST FOR SERVICE RELATED TO COMMUNITY CATS, INCLUDING SPAY NEW TO SURGERY VACCINATION.
THIS REQUEST TYPE SHOULD BE USED WHENEVER REQUESTING SEEKING VETERINARY SERVICE FOR COMMUNITY CATS RATHER THAN REPORTING A NUISANCE.
THEY DON'T KNOW THAT MEANS SR NUMBERS.
IT DOESN'T QUESTION COMMISSIONER.
YOU CAN'T RESPOND JUST 'CAUSE OF THE TIME.
COMMISSIONER, DOES ANYONE OTHER STAFF HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON THAT? I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, WHEN YOU, THE AMOUNT THAT WE ALLOT FOR THIS PROGRAM IS IDENTIFIED BY AMANDA AND HER TEAM EACH YEAR.
SO I DO THINK TALKING TO THEM, IF THERE IS MORE MONEY OF THE AMOUNT THAT'S BEEN DONATED THAT WOULD LIKE TO BE ALLOCATED, WE ARE ABSOLUTELY OPEN TO IT.
IT IS AN INITIATIVE WE ARE HAPPY TO SUPPORT.
THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GEARING.
I JUST, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE OVERALL RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE IT DOES SEEM LIKE I'M HEARING A LOT OF HOSTILITY TODAY TOWARDS FO AND I AND PEOPLE AND HAVING QUESTIONS ABOUT TRANSPARENCY AND ALL THESE THINGS.
AND I OBVIOUSLY THINK WE CLEARLY NEED TRANSPARENCY, BUT I, IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT FOTOS WAS FOUNDED AS A 5 0 1 C3 AND BECAME A PARTNER WITH AN MOU WITH THIS CITY.
BUT IT'S ESSENTIALLY, I MEAN, IT HAS THAT PARTNERSHIP TO FAST TRACK.
ITS SPENDING MONEY ON DAS PROJECTS, BUT IT'S ESSENTIALLY A 5 0 1 3 C3 RECEIVES OUTSIDE FUNDING FROM INDIVIDUAL PRIVATE DONORS.
IS THAT CORRECT? YES, THAT IS CORRECT.
OKAY, BECAUSE I'M JUST HEARING A LOT, I'M DEMANDING THAT YOU ALL BE HERE AT EVERY SINGLE MEETING, AND I JUST HAVE SOME QUESTIONS BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT'S AN INTERESTING THING FOR US TO TRY AND DEMAND FROM AN INDEPENDENT 5 0 1.
OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE AN MOU WITH THE CITY, BUT I MEAN, THEORETICALLY, UH, SOMEONE HAD ISSUES WITH THE WAY YOU WERE DOING THINGS, THEY COULD SET UP A NEW AND GET A SIMILAR MOU WITH THE CITY.
SO I JUST, I JUST, I APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU'RE DOING AND I, I, OF COURSE, THE TRANSPARENCY'S GREAT, BUT I, I UNDERSTAND AND HAVING SERVED ON SEVERAL BOARDS AND WORKING WITH A LOT OF NONPROFITS, THAT YOU ALSO HAVE TO, TO RUN THINGS IN, IN THE TRADITIONAL COURSE, WHICH WOULD MEAN, OF COURSE, CLOSE BOARD MEETINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I WAS UNDERSTANDING, UM, WHERE EVERYONE WAS COMING FROM.
I WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT JUST A LITTLE.
UM, SO WE'VE WORKED VERY HARD WITH OPERATION KINDNESS MAIN SOCIETY.
WE SPEND SEVERAL MEETINGS GOING OVER WHAT OUR BUDGET IS GOING TO BE, HOW WE'RE GONNA SPEND THAT MONEY, HOW WE ALLOCATE THAT MONEY.
STAFF IS AWARE OF HOW TO REQUEST THAT MONEY, VOLUNTEERS AND OTHERS WHO ARE REQUESTING THAT WE SPEND MONEY A CERTAIN WAY.
I HAVE, AT LEAST IN VOLUNTEER CONVERSATIONS, ADVISE THEM TO CONTACT YOUR STAFF, YOUR DAS LEADERSHIP, SO THAT WE CAN DETERMINE WHERE THAT MONEY STANDS.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, MOST FRIENDS OF ORGANIZATIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE ORGANIZATION THAT THEY'RE DONATING TO, TO HAVE ANY INPUT INTO THAT INFORMATION OF HOW THAT INF HOW THAT MONEY IS SPENT.
WE ARE SO FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO SAY, THIS IS WHERE WE NEED MONEY, CAN YOU HELP US? AND THEY, THEY ACCOMMODATE THAT, UM, EXPECTING THEM TO, UM, THEY DON'T HAVE TO.
THEY COULD JUST BUY A BUNCH OF STUFF AND GIVE IT TO US, STUFF THAT WE DON'T NEED.
AND WE GET DIRECT INPUT AND OUTTA HOW THAT INFORMA HOW THAT MONEY IS SPENT.
SO, UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT PEOPLE HAVE ISSUES WITH OPERATION KINDNESS MADE STUDY.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY STEM FROM.
THEY HAVE BEEN AN AMAZING PARTNER.
THEY ARE OUR LARGEST TRANSFER PARTNER.
THEY'RE OUR LARGEST SUPPORTER.
30, ALMOST 30% OF OUR ANIMALS ARE PULLED BY DIRECTLY BY OPERATION KINDNESS.
UM, HISTORICALLY THEY DID, UM, LONG TIME AGO, WAY BACK WHEN, UM, OPERATION KINDNESS DID HAVE AN OPERA, HAVE A, A PENANT FOR CHOOSING THE SMALL FLUFFIES.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE ANYMORE.
THEY ARE UNDER COMPLETELY NEW LEADERSHIP.
THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR WORKING MODEL.
THEY HAVE ASSISTED SHELTERS THROUGHOUT THE DFW METROPLEX.
THEY GO TO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN SOUTH AMERICA TO HELP DO STERILIZATIONS.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE ARE JUST, WE'RE SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE THEM AS PARTNERS.
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I, I DON'T THINK PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH THEM.UM, AND I, I, THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
I MEAN, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THEY ARE AN INCREDIBLE HELP TO US, EVEN OUTSIDE THE FINANCIAL STUFF.
THEY'RE, UM, WE NETWORK WITH THEM.
TEXAS UNITES FOR ANIMALS CONFERENCE, YOU KNOW, I USED TO BE ON THEIR BOARD.
THEY, THEY HAVE CHANGED FROM BEING AN INTERNAL ORGANIZATION TO DONATING THEIR TIME SERVICES EXPERTISE TO THE SHELTERS.
THEY ARE SHELTER FOCUSED AND NOT JUST DAS.
UH, WHEN I WAS IN LEWISVILLE, THEY HELPED US IN LEWISVILLE, THEY HELPED FARMERS' BRANCH, THEY HELP GARLAND, THEY HELP MESQUITE, THEY HELP ALL OF THESE OTHER SHELTERS.
AND THAT HAS BEEN THEIR INITIATIVE COMPLETELY SINCE THE NEW LEADERSHIP TOOK OVER.
SO, UM, IF YOU GOT QUESTIONS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
UM, YEAH, I KNOW THEY'VE ALSO HELPED ROULETTE WHERE WE FEATURE SOME DOGS.
UH, I, I'M JUST HEARING A THEME AND I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE EVERYONE, WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU GUYS, ANYTIME YOU WANNA COME.
UH, THERE'S A THEME ABOUT TRANSPARENCY, ANY INFORMATION WE WANNA PUT OUT THERE.
WE KNOW WE HAVE A VERY PASSIONATE AND ENTHUSIASTIC AND COMMITTED COMMUNITY IN THE DALLAS AREA THAT JUST WANTS TO SEE THE BEST FOR THE ANIMALS.
AND THAT'S WHAT ALL THIS COMMENTARY IS BEHIND.
SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR BEING PART OF OUR WORLD AND COMING TO SHARE YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND, UM, FUTURE GOALS.
I BELIEVE NOW WE'RE READY TO MOVE INTO THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
SO IF I STUMBLE A LITTLE BIT, I'M NOT GOING TO, BUT JUST KNOW THIS IS MY FIRST GO ROUND, SO WE'RE GONNA SEE HOW IT GOES.
SO I, AGAIN, I AM AMANDA ERLAND.
I'M THE INTER INTERIM DIRECTOR APPOINTED.
UM, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE CURIOUS, THE, UH, RECRUITING PROCESS, WE'LL START SOMEDAY, UM,
SO, UM, WE WILL GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE THINGS YOU GUYS CAN READ.
YOU DON'T NEED ME TO READ WHAT'S GONNA BE ON EACH SLIDE.
SOME OF OUR NUMBERS ARE THE FULL YEAR, THE FULL FISCAL YEAR, AND SOME ARE JUST FOR Q4.
SO I WILL, UH, POINT THOSE OUT WHEN WE GO THROUGH.
GO AHEAD AND GO TO THE NEXT ONE.
UM, IT'S VERY SMALL PRINT ON MY PRINTOUT, SO GIVE ME A SECOND.
SO, THE PERCENTAGE OF DECREASE IN YEAR OVER YEAR, LOOSE AND ZONE DOGS, UH, IT'S ACT, OUR GOAL WAS TO DECREASE IT BY 2%.
A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH A REDUCE, UH, REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF, UM, ACTUALLY LOOSE AND LOOSE ZONE SERVICE REQUESTS.
SO IF THOSE REQUESTS GO DOWN, THEN THE, THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS, WE IMPOUNDED THOSE UP.
SO, UH, THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE OF DOGS AND CATS FOSTERED OUR OUTCOMES TEAM IS PHENOMENAL.
AND THEY HAVE FOUND WAYS TO INCORPORATE OUR FOSTER PROGRAM.
WE'VE CHANGED A COUPLE OF THINGS.
WE'VE CREATED A FOSTER TO ADOPT TO, UH, HELP, UH, GET US THROUGH OUR, UM, SURGICAL DEFICIT AND SOME OTHER THINGS.
AND, UH, WE'RE TRYING A FEW THINGS.
SO FEBRUARY MAY BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FORMAT.
UM, THE PERCENTAGE OF INFIELD MICROCHIPPING, UM, OUR FIELD TEAM HAS DONE AN AMAZING JOB.
WE'VE ACTUALLY PARTNERED WITH BEST FRIENDS WHO MADE SOCIETY AND TO, UM, AND DOCU PET.
SO BEST FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY HAS, UM, GIVEN US A GRANT FOR, FOR A TARGETED MICROCHIPPING IN THE FIELD.
UM, OUR OFFICERS ARE ALSO EQUIPPED WITH MICROCHIPS TO, UM, IMPLANT IN THE FIELD.
ANYBODY WHO NEEDS A MICROCHIP, JUST LET US KNOW.
EVERYBODY HAS 'EM ON THEIR TRUCKS, SO WE'RE HAPPY TO MICROCHIP, UH, PHOTOS AND BEST FRIENDS HAS ALSO HELPED PROVIDE COLLARS FOR, UM, FOR THE ANIMALS WHO NEED A TAG.
UM, BEST FRIENDS HAS GIVEN US, UM, A PET HU TAGS TO HELP THEIR, UH, JUST TO ADD AN EXTRA LAYER OF IDENTIFICATION.
NOT EVERYBODY CAN PICK THE ANIMAL UP AND TAKE IT TO A MICROCHIP STATION, SO, OR A MICROCHIP SCANNING.
SO PUTTING THAT TAG ON THERE, THEY CAN DIRECTLY ACCESS THAT INFORMATION.
WE ARE ALSO WORKING ON A PARTNERSHIP WITH DOCU PET TO, UH, THEY PROVIDE FREE TAGS, SO, UM, THE OFFICERS ARE WORKING ON THOSE.
WE ALSO INCLUDE THOSE IN OUR PET SUPPORT AND, UM, HOPEFULLY INCLUDE, UH, ADOPTIONS IF, UH, THE ADOPTIONS, HOPE TO, UM, PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION.
WE'VE DONE 121 FIELD MICROCHIPS SO FAR, AND HOPE TO JUST INCREASE THAT AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
UH, PECO I THINK ACTUALLY SU UH, PROVIDED SOME COLLARS AS WELL.
SO PROVIDING COLLARS TO ANIMALS IS KIND OF ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS.
JUST GETTING A COLLAR WITH SOME TAGS
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ON INCREASES THEIR ABILITY TO GET HOME.THAT IS OUR PRIMARY INITIATIVE TO KEEP ANIMALS IN THEIR HOMES RATHER THAN AT THE SHELTER.
UH, WHAT'S THAT LAST ONE? THAT LAST ONE IS, UH, THAT, THAT, THOSE ARE THE SPAY NEUTER SURGERIES, THE SUBSIDIZED SPAY NEUTER SURGERIES.
WE'RE STILL, UM, WE'RE 200 MORE THAN OUR TARGET LAST YEAR.
UH, UH, OVER 4,300 STERIL, UM, SUBSIDIZED STERILIZATIONS.
SO WE ARE MAKING, PROGRESS CAN ALWAYS MAKE MORE, BUT WE NEED MORE VETERINARY PARTNERS AND SOURCES.
SO, INTAKES BY SPECIES, UM, HAVE ACTUALLY, UH, YEAR OVER YEAR FROM LAST YEAR, IT ONLY DECREASED BY HALF A PERCENT.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE PRETTY ON, UH, TRACK MAINTAINED TO KEEP OUR, UH, FOR DOGS.
WE'VE DECREASED OUR CAT INTAKE A LITTLE BIT, UH, BY ABOUT 8%, AND OVERALL DECREASED ABOUT 3%.
I WANNA SAY THAT A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH OUR, WE JUST STARTED TRACKING OUR DIVERSIONS FOR OUR PET SUPPORT TEAM.
UM, WE HAVE A 20% CLOSE TO 20% DIVERSION JUST SINCE MAY, SINCE MAY.
SO, UM, AND DIVERSION, OH, AND, AND OUR WONDERFUL PARTNERSHIP WITH SVC OF TEXAS WITH OUR KITTEN DIVERSION, THEY HAVE BEEN PHENOMENAL IN THAT PARTNERSHIP.
BUT, UM, SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DIVERSION, IT'S SERVICES AND RESOURCES THAT HELP PET OWNERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS FIND SAFE APPROPRIATE ALTERNATIVES TO BRINGING ANIMAL INTO THE SHELTER.
THIS, THESE EFFORTS MAY INCLUDE PET RETENTION ASSISTANCE, REHOMING SUPPORT, LOST AND FOUND RESOURCES AND CONNECTIONS TO COMMUNITY SERVICE WITH THE GOAL OF KEEPING CATS IN THEIR HOMES WHENEVER POSSIBLE AND REDUCING UNNECESSARY SHELTER ADMISSIONS.
DAS DOES NOT HAVE TO BE EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE.
WE SHOULD BE A RESOURCE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
BRINGING AN ANIMAL TO THE SHELTER, WHILE, UM, 15 YEARS AGO, THAT WAS OUR STANCE.
IT WAS ALWAYS OUR STANCE, BRING EVERYTHING TO THE SHELTER, BUT IF WE CAN HELP PROVIDE RESOURCES AND KEEP THE ANIMAL FROM HAVING TO COME INTO THE SHELTER, WHY WOULD WE NOT? SO THAT HAS BEEN, UM, SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WORKING FOR REALLY, REALLY HARD
SO, UM, AND YOU'LL SEE OUR INTAKE FOR OTHER ANIMALS HAS INCREASED, AND THOSE ARE LARGELY DUE TO SEIZURES, QUILTY SEIZURES, UM, LIVESTOCK, UH, INCLUDING ROOSTERS BY ROOSTERS.
UM, AGAIN, OUR OUTCOMES TEAM AND, UM, HAS BEEN WORKING THE FANNIE'S OFF TRYING TO INCREASE OUR LIVE RELEASE RATE.
UM, WE ARE WORKING, WE'VE INCREASED IT BY 1% YEAR OVER YEAR SINCE LAST YEAR, AND EVEN MORE THE YEAR BEFORE.
UM, OUR CAT LIVE RELEASE RATE HAS DECREASED A LITTLE BIT.
UM, AND I THINK A LOT OF THAT IS WE ARE SEEING, UH, MORE CRITICAL PATIENTS IN CATS.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT'S DRIVING THAT, BUT THAT IS PART OF THE NUMBERS.
UH, SO THAT LIVE RELEASE RATE HAS DECREASED, BUT OUR KITTEN NEONATES, UH, LIVE RELEASE HAS INCREASED BY 2%.
AND I THINK THAT IN LARGE PART HAS TO DO WITH OUR PAN MOVE PROGRAM AND THE KITTEN NURSERY.
SO, UM, KUDOS TO OUR SHELTER TEAM FOR INCREASING, WORKING ON THAT.
THE OTHER LIVE RELEASE RATE IS DECREASED BY 21%.
AND AGAIN, THOSE ARE THOSE FIGHTING ROOSTERS THAT WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T PLACE.
SO, UM, WE'VE HAD SO MANY OF THOSE THIS YEAR.
SO, OUR OUTCOMES DASHBOARD, UM, OUR OUTCOMES, OUR LIVE OUTCOMES, UH, HAVE DECREASED BY 1%, BUT AGAIN, OUR INTAKE DECREASED BY 1% SO THAT IT TRACKS, UM, AND THE, THE TOTAL.
BUT IF YOU LOOK, OUR TOTAL NON-LIVE OUTCOMES HAS DECREASED BY 11%.
SO, UM, THAT'S BETTER THAN, UM, THAN EXPECTED.
OUR LIVE OUTCOME BY SPECIES, UM, BY CATS, IT'S DECREASED, BUT OUR CAT INTAKE HAS DECREASED BY 16% AS WELL.
SO THESE ARE JUST NUMBERS ARE NOT A PERCENTAGE OF INTAKE.
SO, UM, WE'RE HOPING TO UPDATE THESE, THE WAY WE TRACK OUR DATA AND TELL OUR STORY BETTER BEFORE THE NEXT, UH, A C MEETING.
AND YOU'LL SEE THE TOTAL NON LIVE OUTCOMES FOR CATS IS ONLY DECREASED BY 1%.
SO, UM, THAT IS MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT IN THAT, UH, UH, NEXT SLIDE.
SO FOR OUR RESCUE DASHBOARD, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE HAVE, UM, AS WE'VE ALREADY MENTIONED, OPERATION KINDNESS IS OUR LARGEST TRANSFER PARTNER.
THEY HAVE TAKEN 28% OF ALL OF THE ANIMALS THAT WE PLACE.
OUR SPCA OF TEXAS, UH, HAS TAKEN 460 OF OUR ANIMALS.
THAT'S A HUGE, UH, A LOT OF THAT IS OUR KITTEN NURSERY DIVERSIONS, AND, UM, JUST, THEY, JUST, THE ANIMALS THAT THEY PULL.
UM, I DO WANNA MENTION, AND I'LL MENTION IT LATER WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CRUELTY, BUT SPCA HAS BEEN HELPING US INCREDIBLY WITH OUR, UM, OUR
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SAC DIVERSION WHEN WE, UH, WHEN WE HAVE TO OUTSOURCE OUR SUSPECTED ANIMALUM, WE'RE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE SOME PRETTY GREAT PARTNERS.
UM, HERE'S OUR SERVICE REQUESTS.
SO YOU'LL SEE WE'VE HAD A AND LOOSE ZONE SERVICE REQUEST DECREASE, UH, IN ABOUT, OF ABOUT 18% FROM, UM, FROM LAST YEAR.
AND THEN, UM, TOTAL SERVICE REQUESTS HAVE DECREASED BY 11% AT THE, I WISH I, I'M HOPING TO FIGURE OUT WHY THAT IS, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT IS.
DANIEL, DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY TRENDS? HAVE YOU GUYS, NO.
BASICALLY THE TRENDS THAT WE ARE SEEING IS SENDING INCREASE IN AGGRESSIVE CALLS.
SO THEN, THEN WE FIND OUT THEY TURN INTO BITES.
IT'S BASICALLY, WE ARE SEEING A TREND OF MORE OF AGGRESSIVE CALLS COME IN INSTEAD OF JUST NORMALLY JUST BY CALL.
AND THEN LOOSEN THE ZONE BYTES HAVE INCREASED BY 3%, WHICH, UM, CONSIDERING THERE'S A DECREASE IN THE SERVICE REQUESTS FOR A LOOSE AND LOOSE ZONE, THAT, I MEAN THAT WHEN THERE IS A DECREASE IN THOSE SERVICE REQUESTS, THE BY THE LOOSEN THE BITE, THE OZONE BITES, WHAT THEY NATURALLY INCREASE.
WE'VE, UH, SO WITH ONE LESS SURGEON FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR, UH, WE, OUR SURGERIES ONLY DECREASED BY ABOUT 10%, WHICH I THINK IS INCREDIBLE.
UM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE, THE TRUE VOLUME OF ANIMALS THAT WE HAVE TO STERILIZE, UM, WITH ANY, UH, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE THAT MANY VET ASSISTANTS EITHER.
AND WE CAN'T PERFORM SURGERIES WITHOUT THE VET ASSISTANCE.
BUT SINCE WE'VE ADDED OUR SECOND SURGEON IN JULY, WE'VE INCREASED OUR OUTCOME SURGICAL OUTPUT BY 25%, WHICH IS GREAT TO ONLY BE WITH WITHIN, UM, WHAT IS IT, 2000, 1000, BE WITHIN 1000 SURGERIES AND HAVING ONE LESS SURGEON FOR AN ENTIRE 12 MONTH PERIOD AND A BAD.
SO, UM, WE'VE ACTUALLY INCREASED OUR DOUBLE DOCTOR DAYS.
UM, OUR SPECIALTY SURGERIES HAVE DECREASED, BUT LIKE I SAID EARLIER, A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH OUR CONCENTRATION ON GETTING OUR, TACKLING OUR SPAY NEUTER DEFICIT.
SO, UM, WHICH WE'VE IN, WE'VE DECREASED THAT DEFICIT BY 600 ANIMALS SINCE JULY.
SO KUDOS TO OUR MEDICAL TEAM FOR MAKING THAT HAPPEN.
UM, UH, OUR HEARTWORM THERAPY PER, UH, PERCENTAGE HAS INCREASED BY 15%, EVEN WITH THE LACK OF AN EXTRA SURGEON.
'CAUSE THOSE THINGS ARE USUALLY, UH, THOSE HAPPEN DURING SURGERY.
SO, UH, AND THEN, UH, OUR SUBSIDIZED SURGERY PERCENTAGE HAS INCREASED BY 5%.
SO, UM, I MEAN, WE'VE EVEN INCREASED THE SUBSIDIZED SURGERIES.
SO WE WERE TALKING ABOUT FUNDING EARLIER BY 200 ANIMALS.
SO WE ARE WORKING TOWARD, WE MAINTAINING THOSE SUBSIDIZED SURGERIES, OUR T AND R.
SO, UM, WE'RE WORKING ON, WE DO ABOUT, UH, FIVE TO 10 SPECIALIZED SURGERIES A MONTH.
I JUST, I DO WANNA MENTION, WE DON'T HAVE IT ON THESE SLIDES YET BECAUSE IT'S NOT HISTORICALLY BEEN TRACKED, BUT I WANT TO MAKE EVERYBODY AWARE THAT OUR TREATMENT DOCTORS, WE HAVE ONE FULL-TIME, ONE PART-TIME.
THEY HANDLE A MINIMUM OF 14 EXAMS A DAY.
SO, AND THAT'S, WHAT IS THAT 40? 40? DID I SAY 14? I DID, YES.
UM, BUT WE AVERAGE 40 EXAMS A DAY.
THAT'S WHEN THEY WALK IN THE DOOR, 10 HOURS WORTH OF STUFF, AND THEY GET 40 DONE.
THAT'S FOR A MINUTE OR FOR AN HOUR? FOR AN HOUR.
IT ENDS UP BEING SIX TO 12 PER MINUTE.
IT'S, IT'S BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO INCLUDE ALL THE THINGS THAT I'M THINKING AHEAD, AND I'M THINKING ABOUT HOW AMAZING WE'VE BEEN DOING OVER THE LAST YEAR.
AND IT'S, IT'S, IT'S HARD TO KEEP IT UNDER CONTROL.
UM, WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND THEN NEXT SLIDE.
UM, ALL RIGHT, SO OUR SUSPECTED ANIMAL CRUELTY, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE'VE HAD OUR BUDGET BUMP FOR SUSPECTED ANIMAL CRUELTY AND CAPACITY ISSUES.
UM, WE HAVE HAD, IF YOU NOTICE, FROM 2024, FISCAL YEAR 24 TO FISCAL YEAR 26, WE'VE INCREASED BY, UH, ABOUT 2000 ANIMALS.
UM, PRETTY CLOSE TO 2000 ANIMALS.
SO, UM, THIS YEAR WE HANDLED ALMOST 3,600 CRUELTY ANIMALS.
UM, ON THE NEXT SLIDE, I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CASES.
'CAUSE THANKFULLY WE'VE STARTED GETTING NUMBERS FROM OUR DPD
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PARTNERS, UM, ABOUT THE ACTUAL CASES AND WHERE THOSE ARE GOING.UM, OUR, UH, WE SUPPORT THE DPD CRUEL UNIT BY PROVIDING TRANSPORT, HOUSING, CARE, AND FEEDING, SECURITY FORENSICS, VETERINARY CARE, UM, ALL THE THINGS.
AND, UH, WE HAVE VERY LIMITED USE OF THE FORENSIC VETERINARIAN.
SO, UM, OUR, WE, WE WERE PAYING FOR THAT THROUGH OUR PEO PROGRAM.
DON'T ASK ME WHAT THAT STANDS FOR.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT MOVE, BUT, UM, IT WAS A CONTRACT POSITION.
AND, UM, THAT PROGRAM ENDED IN MID-SEPTEMBER.
SO WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FAST TRACK THAT POSITION TO MAKE IT A TEMPORARY VET POSITION.
UM, 'CAUSE THEY TOLD US TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE PROGRAM ENDED, TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE PROGRAM WAS ENDING, THAT IT WAS ENDING.
SO WE'VE BEEN SCRAMBLING TO TRY AND MAKE THAT AN ACTUAL POSITION WITHIN OUR ORGANIZATION.
SO IF WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO THESE ARE THE CASES FOR, UM, FOURTH QUARTER.
NEXT TIME WE'LL HAVE A, WE'LL DO THE FULL YEAR, UM, JUST TO SUMMARIZE FOR FISCAL YEAR 26TH AT THE FEBRUARY MEETING, AND THEN WE'LL DO THE FIRST QUARTER NUMBERS FOR YOU GUYS.
UH, BUT THEY, THEY'VE HAD 223 9 1 1 CALLS, 98 INVESTIGATIONS, 45 CASES FILED WITH DEA WITH THE DA.
AND, UM, 218 ANIMALS SEIZED OR SURRENDERED.
UM, SO ALL THE INFORMATION IS ON THERE.
AND I DO, AGAIN, WANT TO POINT OUT THE SPC OF TEXAS, ONE OF OUR, THEY'RE OUR SECOND LARGEST TRANSFER PARTNER.
THEY'RE ALSO HELPING WITH OUR
ASHLEY'S BEEN VERY AMAZING AND HELPING US WITH, UM, NECROPSIES.
DO THEY DO LIVE EXAMS TOO? THEY HAVE, UM, WE ARE CURRENTLY MOSTLY USING THEM FOR NEW PROSSIES, BUT WE HAVE USED THEM FOR MANY THINGS BEYOND THAT.
SO YES, THEY ARE ONE OF OUR VERY, UM, VERY USEFUL AND VERY VALUED PARTNERS AS WELL.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS KNOW THAT, BUT WE HAVE SOME AMAZING PARTNERS.
SO, UM, WHEN YOU QUESTION THE PROXIMITY OF OUR CLOSER OF OUR CLOSE PARTNERS, SPC OF TEXAS AND OPERATION KINDNESS OFFER US INCREDIBLE SERVICES.
SO I DON'T THINK WE WOULD OPERATE AS EFFICIENTLY OR EFFECTIVELY AS WE DID WITHOUT THEIR PARTNERSHIPS.
OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY EVENTS.
SO, AS THEY SAID EARLIER, WE ARE ACTUALLY WORKING WITH OPERATION KINDNESS ON OUR PET PANTRY.
UM, THE PET PANTRY, WHILE IT'S NEAR AND DEAR TO OUR HEARTS, WE DO NOT NECESSARILY HAVE THE RESOURCES AND THE REACH THAT OPERATION KINDNESS DOES.
SO WE ARE PARTNERING WITH THEM, UM, TO HELP PROVIDE MORE RESOURCES AND TO FREE UP STAFF TIME TO ACTUALLY TACKLE THE STUFF IN THE SHELTER THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR.
SO, UM, THEY'RE ALREADY DOING, IT HELPS LET THEM HELP US HERE IN DALLAS TOO.
UM, AND I THINK IN JANUARY WE ARE GOING TO BE, UM, PARTNERING WITH OPERATION KINDNESS FOR NOT JUST A PET PANTRY, BUT STARTING VACCINATION CLINICS AS WELL.
BECAUSE SPAY NEUTER NETWORK IS NO LONGER PROVI DOING THE, UM, BE VACCINATION CLINICS.
SO, UM, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THAT.
OUR ADOPTION EVENTS WE'VE DONE 29 OF THOSE 73 SHELTER DOGS ATTENDED.
18 MORE ADOPTED, UH, SHELTER CATS ATTENDING ADOPTION EVENTS, WHICH I THINK IS FASCINATING.
UM,
UM, BUT THEY, THEY MAKE IT HAPPEN.
UM, A 175 FOSTER DOGS HAVE ATTENDED WITH 28 GETTING ADOPTED, AND THEN, UM, FOSTER CATS, ALMOST EVERY FOSTER CAT THAT'S ATTENDED, UH, ADOPTION EVENT HAS BEEN ADOPTED, BUT THE EXCEPTION OF THREE.
UM, THE, UM, WE'VE CALLED SEVEN VACCINATION.
THIS IS REALLY SMALL GRANT, I'M SORRY GUYS.
UM, OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH TEAM HAS GONE TO, UH, 24 MEETINGS, NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS.
THEY'VE ATTENDED FOUR, UM, HIRING FOUR EVENTS, UH, HIRING EVENT AND EDUCATIONAL EVENT.
UM, THEY'VE WALKED DISTRICTS, UH, TOUCHED 4, 534 HOMES, 500 DIRECT CONTACTS MADE.
UM, THEY ATTENDED FIVE CITY MEETINGS AND, UM, PARTICIPATED IN EIGHT SHELTER CITY CLEANUPS.
SO, UM, THEY'RE, UH, THEY'RE WORKING HARD.
UM, OUR FOURTH QUARTER MARKETING
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SOCIAL MEDIA PERFORMANCE REMAINS STRONG WITH INSTAGRAM GENERATING 7.6 MILLION VIEWS AND NEARLY 582,000 INTERACTIONS.WHILE FACEBOOK REACHED 10 MILLION, UH, OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS AND MORE THAN 340,000 INTERACTIONS.
ENGAGEMENT INCREASED ON BOTH PLATFORMS, DESPITE A SLIGHT DECLINE IN INSTAGRAM VIEWS, REFLECTING COMMUN CONTINUED COMMUNITY INTEREST IN OUR ANIMAL SERVICES AND PROGRAMS. AND THEN, UH, NEXT SLIDE.
SO THESE ARE JUST SOME OF OUR TARGETED, UM, OUR MOST SUCCESSFUL POSTS, INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL STORIES, CLEAR REQUEST FOR COMMUNITY SPORT, AND BEHIND THE SCENES FIELD OPERATIONS GENERATED STRONG ENGAGEMENT WHILE HIGHLIGHTING THE RANGE OF SERVICES.
DAS PROVIDES THIS, THESE INSIGHTS, ALONG WITH OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH SMU, TEMIN ADVERTISING INSTITUTE, ARE HELPING US COMMUNICATE MORE INTENTIONALLY AND CONNECT WITH OUR AUDIENCES.
THIS HAS, UM, THIS TIES INTO THE WANTING TO TELL OUR STORY BETTER, UM, AND I THINK
SO RECENTLY I HAD, UM, OUR, UH, MARKETING MANAGER RUN, UM, A COMPARISON BETWEEN OUR, UM, SEPTEMBER, 2025 PERFORMANCE COMPARED TO SEPTEMBER, 2026.
UM, AND SO ACROSS FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM, WE GENERATED MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION IMPRESSIONS DURING SEPTEMBER.
AND OUR COMBINED FOLLOWING HAS GROWN BY ABOUT 9% TO MORE THAN 158,000.
UM, PARTICULARLY ENCOURAGING, UM, IS OUR CONTACT INTERACTION.
SO, REACTIONS AND LIKES ROSE, 21% COMMENTS AROSE ABOUT 26%, AND OUR AVERAGE ENGAGEMENT RATE IMPROVED FROM 9.7 TO 11.75%.
UM, AND THEN, UH, WE SAW A HUGE INCREASE IN OUR VIDEO ENGAGEMENT.
SO MORE THAN A HUNDRED THOUSAND VIDEO VIEWS IN SEPTEMBER.
SO 343% INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR.
UM, SO SOME OF OUR BIGGEST ENGAGEMENT THINGS THAT WE'RE SEEING, UM, ARE PARTICULARLY AROUND OUR LONG STAY AND SENIOR, UH, PETS, UM, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THE ADOPTION PORTRAIT PROJECT PARTNERSHIP.
SO, WHICH SHOWCASES A LOT OF OUR LONG STAY DOGS.
UM, AND THAT PARTNERSHIP HAS BEEN A PARTICULARLY HELPFUL BECAUSE THEY'VE ALSO DONE SOME, UH, PHOTOGRAPHY LESSONS FOR OUR MARKETING TEAM SO WE CAN IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT WE'RE TAKING IN SHELTER.
UM, AND SO WHILE SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT DOESN'T NECESSARILY TRANSLATE INTO ADOPTIONS OR FOSTERS, UH, IT DOES HELP US TO REACH MORE PEOPLE AND TELL THE STORIES OF ANIMALS IN OUR CARE AND ENCOURAGE OUR COMMUNITY TO GET MORE INVOLVED.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S OUR, THAT'S OUR BIGGEST GOAL.
IT'S SO FANTASTIC TO HAVE AN ACTUAL TEAM RATHER THAN JUST ONE PERSON.
SO, OUR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM HAS, UM, IT'S OUR, IF YOU DO NOT VOLUNTEER AT THE SHELTER, I MEAN, I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE VOLUNTEERING YOUR TIME HERE, BUT I MEAN, OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM IS JUST FANTASTIC.
THEY'RE, UM, WE HAVE 953 ACTIVE VOLUNTEERS IN THE THIRD, IN FOURTH QUARTER, UH, 8,734 TOTAL VOLUNTEER HOURS, A 9.16 MORE THAN NINE HOURS PER VOLUNTEER.
UM, AND OVER $300,000 WORTH OF, UM, TIME DONATED IS THE VALUE OF THAT.
UH, VACATIONS, WHICH IS ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR PROGRAMS, UH, 442 DOGS PARTICIPATED IN 623 VACATIONS.
UH, ALMOST 200 DOGS HAD BEEN ADOPTED.
UH, 134 WENT TO FOSTER HOMES, AND 58 WERE TAGGED BY RESCUES.
WE ALSO HAVE A REALLY, WHICH I DIDN'T KNOW, BUT, UM, WE ALSO HAVE A REALLY COOL RUNNING PROGRAM SATURDAY MORNINGS, WHICH I THINK IS FANTASTIC.
AND, UM, I KEEP TRYING TO GET THERE ON SATURDAY MORNINGS, BUT LAST WEEKEND, MY LITTLE DOG DECIDED TO GET REALLY SICK, SO I DIDN'T GET TO GO.
BUT, UM, THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM DOES.
I MEAN, WE'RE EVEN TRYING TO GET OUR VOLUNTEERS MORE INVOLVED TO HELP WITH MEDICAL AND TRANSCRIBING INFORMATION FROM THE DOCTORS, GETTING THEM MORE INVOLVED IN OTHER PROJECTS THAT WE'RE DOING ACROSS THE SHELTER THAT ARE MORE ADMINISTRATIVE FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T, UM, ACTUALLY HANDLE THE ANIMALS.
SO, UM, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO INCREASE THAT ENGAGEMENT ACROSS EVERYBODY.
IF YOU WANNA DONATE YOUR TIME TO THE SHELTER, HERE ARE SOME WONDERFUL THINGS THAT WE CAN DO.
THEY'RE WORKING REALLY HARD, AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF OUR, OUR SHELTER TEAM.
AND, UM, AND EVERYBODY TR TO, UH, ENGAGE OUR VOLUNTEERS.
YOU GUYS MEET QUARTERLY, CORRECT? UH, THEY DO TOWN HALLS AND, UH, HOPEFULLY I'LL BE ABLE TO ATTEND MOST OF IT.
OUR FOSTER PROGRAM, UM, THIS QUARTER ALONE, WE DID ALMOST TWO THOU, ALMOST 2000 ANIMALS WERE FOSTERED.
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MORE THAN 450 WE'RE REPEAT FOSTERS.OUR FOSTER HERO PROGRAM, UM, WAS A OVER A HUNDRED ANIMALS.
THAT IS WHEN FIND PEOPLE, FIND ANIMALS, UM, THERE ARE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS.
THE ANIMAL, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FOSTER HERO? YEAH.
IT'S AN ANIMAL THAT IS NOT MICROCHIPPED.
IF THEY'RE MICROCHIPPED, THEY HAVE TO WAIT OUT THEIR HOLD IN THE SHELTER.
BUT IT'S THE OPPORTUNITIES, IF THEY'RE NOT MICROCHIPS, THEY CAN WAIT OUT WITH THE FINDER.
UM, THEY DO HAVE TO GO THROUGH MEDICAL, THEY CAN'T HAVE ANY, UM, SIGNIFICANT MEDICAL CONCERNS.
UM, BUT THEN THEY'RE ALLOWED TO WAIT OUT THE STRAY HOLD, UM, WITH THE FINDER AT THEIR HOUSE.
IT'S A REALLY COOL PROGRAM, AND IT HELPS KEEP ANIMALS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD RATHER THAN IN THE SHELTER.
AND WE'VE ADDED 36 NEW FOSTERS, 45 MEDICAL FOSTERS THE 465 FOSTER TO ADOPT.
SO THAT'S FOR ANIMALS WHO, UH, ARE NOT STERILIZED YET, OR ARE TOO YOUNG TO GET THEIR RABIES VACCINATION.
SO, UM, WHILE WE'RE, THEY'RE AWAITING SURGERY, THEY'RE IN A FOSTER HOME, A FO THE POTENTIAL ADOPTIVE HOME, UM, UNTIL WE WERE ABLE TO GET THEM STERILIZED.
UM, 49 TICKETS RIDE, FOSTER 706 PUPPY AND KITTEN FOSTERS.
I MEAN, THAT IS PHENOMENAL, JUST TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT IN OUR KITTEN NURSERY.
UNFORTUNATELY, WE'RE CLOSING AT THE END OF OCTOBER, UM, FOR THE SEASON.
AND, UM, SO IF YOU WANNA FOSTER SOME KITTENS, WE CAN HELP YOU OUT.
UM, AND THEN 96, SHORT TERM FOSTERS, 895 OF THOSE ANIMALS WERE ADOPTED BY THEIR FOSTER.
AND, UH, 176 WERE ADOPTED WHILE IN FOSTER.
30 OF THOSE ARE ADOPTED INTO FOSTER TO ADOPTION EVENTS.
SO, UM, OUR FOSTER TEAM IS REALLY, THEY'RE HUSTLING AND BUSTLING NEXT.
SO THIS, AS WE'VE SAID, OUR PET PANTRY HIGHLIGHTS.
UM, THE WEDNESDAY PET PANTRY EVENTS ARE NOW HOSTED BY OPERATION KINDNESS IN MAIN SOCIETY AT THE HENRY WAY JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER.
UM, IT'S RIGHT THERE AT, AT UH, 30 AND TERRA TARA TERRA COLONY COURT.
IT'S RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE HUB, UH, AND AT THE O-P-P-H-S, UH, HUB.
AND, UM, IT'S ON THE THIRD WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH FROM 11 TO ONE, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
AND THEN THIS WEDNESDAY ONLY, WHICH WAS YESTERDAY, TWO DAYS AGO, I DON'T KNOW WHAT DAY.
IT'S, UM, THE TIME HAS BEEN ADJUSTED TO NINE TO 10, BUT I, I THINK IT WAS A PRETTY SUCCESSFUL EVENT.
STARTING NOVEMBER 7TH, THE SATURDAY, DIS HOSTED PET PANTRY EVENTS WILL BE MOVING TO THE WEST DALLAS MULTIPURPOSE CENTER ON FISH TRACK.
SO KEEP THAT IN MIND IF YOU KNOW ANYBODY WHO ACTUALLY NEEDS, UM, PET PANTRY PARTICIPATION, AND IT'S GONNA BE FROM EIGHT TO NINE, BUT THAT, UM, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST AND REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN AROUND WHEN WE'RE DOING THE PET PANTRY AT THE SHELTER, BUT IT'S, UM, IT'S A TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE CONSTRUCTION THERE
SO HOPEFULLY MOVING IT TO FISH TRAP, THEY JUST HAVE A BIGGER LOCATION AND IT ALLOWS BETTER FLOW.
SO HOPEFULLY THE FINGERS CROSSED THAT WILL BE A VERY SUCCESSFUL EVENT.
AND THEN, LIKE I SAID EARLIER, STARTING IN JANUARY, DAS AND OPK HUMAN MAIN SOCIETY ARE PARTNERING FOR A COMBINED PET PANTRY LOW COST VACCINATION CLINIC DURING THE FIRST SATURDAY EVENT AT THE WEST DALLAS MULTIPURPOSE CENTER.
SO I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.
I'M SO GLAD WE'RE ACTUALLY STARTING UP OUR VACCINATION CLINICS AGAIN.
UM, WE HAVE 33 TOTAL OUT OF STATE PARTNERS ACTIVE IN Q4, UH, 374 TOTAL ANIMALS WE'RE TAGGED FOR TRANSPORT IN Q4 AND 171 OF THAT 374, UM, DAS PETS HAD A POSITIVE OUTCOME UTILIZING THE TRANSPORT AND OR BOARDING ASSISTANCE.
SO THOSE ANIMALS WENT FOR A BOARDING FACILITY.
UM, PARTNER, LET'S SEE, ADOPTION TRANSPORTS ASSISTED IN 32 ADOPTIONS ACROSS 21 STATES IN Q4.
IT LOOKS LIKE WE'VE ADDED ONE EXTRA MIDWEST PARTNER.
UM, THERE'S A CONTINUED QUEST TO ADD MORE MIDWEST PARTNERS.
UM, WE ACTUALLY INCREASED OUR GOAL, UH, WITH 1,460 ANIMALS TRANSFERRED OUT OF STATE, EXCLUDING, UH, THE A SPC ROYAL TRANSFER.
THAT WAS, UM, HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY FROM OPERATION FIVE FOOT.
AND THEN, UM, THERE'S AN INCREASE IN OUT OF STATE ADOPTIONS BY 5%.
UM, AND THEY MET 62% OF THAT GOAL.
SO OUR TRANSPORT TEAM WAS WORKING WITH THE CARD TOO.
SO, UM, WE DO STILL PARTNER WITH, UH, SPAY NEUTER NETWORK AND TCAP FOR OUR SR SURGERIES, SUBSIDIZED SURGERIES.
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LIKE SPAY NEUTER NETWORK DID THANK YOU FOR 158.UM, DAS BROUGHT IN AN ADDITIONAL 12, UH, TNR.
THE, UH, TCAP DID A 756 WITH A TOTAL, UH, ALMOST 4,000 FELINE SPADE, UH, BY OUR PARTNERS THROUGH SUBSIDIZED SURGERIES.
UM, WE'VE DONE 102 SITE VISITS, TRAPPED 67 CATS FOR TWO FOUR.
UM, WE'VE SPAYED AND NEUTERED 26 WITH 630 TNR SURGERIES PERFORMED YEAR TO DATE AT DAS.
SO, UM, YEAR TO DATE IS, UH, 4,500 SURGERIES PROVIDED BY DAS OR, UM, OUR SUBSIDIZED SURGERIES.
SO JUST TO CLARIFY THAT, THE, UM, DURING FISCAL YEAR 25, THE, AND PRIORITY BASED BUDGETING, OUR COMMUNITY CA TEAM WAS DISBANDED.
THAT WAS PART OF THE, IT HAS TO BE A PRIORITY.
AND IF PEOPLE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE PRIORITIES, THEN WE CAN'T, UH, AT OUR CITY COUNCIL, NOT JUST HERE, BUT A A C MEETINGS, UM, IT HAS TO BE A PRIORITY, PRIORITY BASED, THAT PART WAS ELIMINATED, BUT OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM STILL WORKS WHEN WE CAN FOR THOSE FOLKS WHO CAN'T HELP THEMSELVES.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE A PARTNER WHO, UM, IT'S ON THE NEXT SLIDE, SO I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE.
BUT, UM, DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES CONTINUES TO SUPPORT TRAP NEUTER RELEASE EFFORTS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH VETERINARY SERVICE PROVIDERS WITH UP TO 120,000 ALLOCATED PER VENDOR.
SO FOR TCAP AND SPAY NEUTER NETWORK FOR THOSE SUBSIDIZED SURGERIES REFERRED THROUGH OUR 3 0 1 3 1 1 COMMUNITY CAP SPAY NEUTER SERVICE REQUESTS, THESE PARTNERSHIPS ALLOW US TO MAINTAIN ACCESS TO STERILIZATION SERVICES WHILE LEVERAGING EXTERNAL VETERINARY CAPACITY.
'CAUSE OUR VETERINARY CAPACITY HAS, IS LIMITED IN THE SHELTER.
WHILE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY CAT SERVICES WAS DISCUSSED DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS, THOSE FUNDS WERE ULTIMATELY NOT DESIGNATED SPECIFICALLY FOR TNR OR COMMUNITY CAT SERVICES, BUT WERE INSTEAD MADE AVAILABLE TO ADDRESS BROADER DEPARTMENTAL NEEDS.
DAS WILL CONTINUE IN SUPPORTING COMMUNITY CAT MANAGEMENT THROUGH OUR EXISTING PARTNERSHIPS AND AVAILABLE RESOURCES.
AGAIN, DAS DOES NOT HAVE TO BE EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE.
IF WE HAVE EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE CAN LEVERAGE TO HELP WITH THOSE SURGERIES, THEN WE WILL ABSOLUTELY USE THEM.
UM, NEXT, SO IN JULY, AND IT'S BEEN THE ONLY MONTH THAT HE'S BEEN ABLE TO HELP US.
BUT SNIP AND TIP, UM, THEY DID, UH, I THINK 195 CATS WERE IMPACTED BY THEIR SURGERIES.
UM, HE'S A PRIVATE, UH, HE ORGANIZATION AND HE, HE HELPED WITH 195, UH, STERILIZATIONS.
HE ACTUALLY, I THINK HE ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND DID THE TRACKING HIMSELF.
I KNOW HE HELPS OUT FORT WORTH A LOT TOO, BUT I THINK THERE WAS SOME LIMITED FUNDING.
DID HE, DANIEL, DID YOU CHECK WITH FREDDY TO SEE IF HE ACTUALLY WAS ABLE TO COME BACK AND OCTOBER? WE STILL HAVEN'T RECEIVED IT.
WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED A RESPONSE YET, SO WE'RE CHECKING WITH THEM.
WE'RE STILL, WE'RE STILL BUGGING HIM AS WE CAN TO TRY AND HELP GET HIS ASSISTANCE, BUT, UM, THAT'S PRETTY PHENOMENAL.
195 CATS, WE'RE REALLY HOPING TO BE ABLE TO USE THOSE RESOURCES AGAIN.
SO, MY BAD, I FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE, UM, UPDATED VERSION OF THE ORDINANCE, BUT WE WILL INCLUDE THAT, UM, WHEN WE SEND OUT THE PACKETS FOR OUR COMMISSION MEMBERS.
UM, WE ARE, UM, NOTHING HERE HAS CHANGED OTHER THAN WE'VE, UM, WE CHANGED HOW IT POINTED TO THE NUISANCE ORDINANCE, UM, TO HELP CLARIFY THAT AS THERE WERE QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT BEFORE.
UM, THE PRIMARY, DURING THE LISTENING SESSIONS, YOU KNOW, THE PRIMARY FOCUS WAS ON NUISANCE RELATED BEHAVIORS AND POTENTIAL, UH, FOR CAREGIVERS TO BE CITED FOR FEEDING COMMUNITY CATS GENERALLY.
UM, THE EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR SPAY NEUTER.
SO, UM, WE'VE PRESENTED TO QUA QUALITY OF LIFE CLINIC, UH, COMMITTEE.
AND THEN, UM, WE'VE ACTUALLY SENT THE, THE MEMO TO THEM TO, UH, WITH THE UPDATES.
AND THEN, UH, WE'VE, UH, OUR REVISED DRAFT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, AND WE ARE GOING TO COUNSEL ON DECEMBER 9TH FOR APPROVAL.
BUT THE, THE UPDATED DRAFT VERSION WILL BE PROVIDED TO OUR COMMISSIONERS IN THE PACKET NEXT, WHICH WILL GO TO THE, JUST GO TO THE APPENDIX.
SO THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT, BUT I DO, UM, THE FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER APPRECIATION WEEK.
THIS PAST WEEK WAS, UH, VETERINARY TECHNICIAN APPRECIATION WEEK.
WE DID A LOT OF POSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT THAT.
SO, UM, YOU GOT A COUPLE DAYS LEFT.
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FOR ALL THE WORK THEY DO.I MEAN, THEY START EVERY DAY, 10 HOURS BEHIND.
BRING 'EM SOME TREATS, ALTHOUGH THEY'VE HAD LOTS OF TREATS,
AND THEN, UH, NATIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER APPRECIATION WEEKS, FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER, PLEASE.
UM, PLEASE COME SAY THANK YOU TO THE STAFF AT THE SHELTER.
UM, THEY WORK SO HARD AND THEY KEEP COMING BACK.
THEY KEEP COMING BACK EVERY DAY.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY WORK REALLY HARD.
THEY, THEY DO THE JOB BECAUSE THEY LOVE IT.
AND THANKFULLY THERE IS A NATIONAL WEEK TO, UM, APPRECIATE THEIR EFFORTS.
SO WE ARE ACTUALLY, UH, COUNCIL IS GOING TO DO A PROCLAMATION, UH, AT THE NOVEMBER 4TH MEETING AT NINE O'CLOCK.
PLEASE COME AND SAY THANK YOU THERE.
UH, AND, AND MAYBE WE'LL GET A COOL PHOTO WITH A WHOLE BUNCH OF OUR PRE, UH, OF OUR PARTNERS, UM, AND SUPPORTERS, UM, JUST TO KIND OF DOCUMENT THAT THE SHELTER IS APPRECIATED.
YOU KNOW, THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT THEY'RE APPRECIATED BECAUSE THEY WORK SO HARD.
THEY DON'T ASK FOR THE APPRECIATION, BUT THEY DESERVE IT.
SO, UM, PLEASE COME SAY THANK YOU.
GOOD JOB ON YOUR, UH, FIRST A A C DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
ALRIGHT GUYS, WE ONLY HAVE ABOUT AN HOUR.
SO AS WE GO AROUND WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, I ASK COMMISSIONERS AND STAFF TO BE CONCISE, ASK YOUR MOST VITAL QUESTIONS SO THAT WE CAN HOPEFULLY GET THROUGH EVERYBODY AT LEAST ONE ROUND.
UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT JUST ABOUT AN HOUR, AND I ALSO, UM, WILL RECOGNIZE THAT COMMISSIONER SAYED JOINED ONLINE, UH, A LITTLE BIT BEFORE 10 30.
IF YOU WANT TO DO ROLL CALL, COMMISSIONER, WE'LL NEED TO SEE YOU ON VIDEO AND HAVE YOUR NAME AND DISTRICT.
UH, WE'LL GO AROUND THE HORSESHOE FIRST HERE.
AND AGAIN, UM, LET'S BE A, YOU KNOW, FOCUS CONCISE BOTH, UH, QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES.
UM, SPAY NEUTER DAYS WITH VOLUNTEERS.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A POSSIBILITY WHERE YOU GET A, SOME VOLUNTEER VETS AND VET TECHS AND DO A WHOLE DAY IN SPAY NEUTER.
WE USED TO DO THAT A LONG TIME AGO AND IT WAS REALLY FUN AND WE GOT A LOT DONE.
YOU MENTIONED HEARTWORM THERAPY DURING SURGERY.
WHAT IS THAT? UH, THEY GET A, UH, AN INJECTION OF HEARTWORM PREVENTION.
AND THEY ALSO GET THEIR VERY FIRST MELOS ARMY.
I PROBABLY SAID THAT WRONG, UH, SHOT, WHICH IS PART OF HEARTWORM TREATMENT.
BUT THAT'S ALL WE, THAT'S ALL WE ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE.
THEY ADOPTERS OF HEARTWORM POSITIVE DOGS.
WE'LL HAVE TO FOLLOW UP WITH THEIR PERSONAL PREVENTION.
UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT THE CAT, THE KITTENS, IT CLOSES IN OCTOBER, THAT'S THE 24 HOUR KITTEN NURSERY.
CATS DON'T STOP HAVING KITTENS IN OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER, DECEMBER.
SO WHEN DOES IT REOPEN? ERICA? APRIL.
IT OPENS BACK IN APRIL 1ST, BUT DATA SHOWS THAT THE NUMBER OF KITTENS COMING IN SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASES, AND THEN STILL MY PLACEMENT TEAMS WILL ACTIVELY BE PLACING THOSE KITTENS THAT NEED CARE.
WE JUST DON'T NEED THE AMOUNT OF STAFF FOR OVERNIGHT BASED ON DATA.
UH, WE THOUGHT ABOUT MOVING THE PET PANTRY AROUND THE CITY.
UH, WEST DALLAS IS GREAT, BUT I LIVE IN PLEASANT GROVE.
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN OAK CLIFF, SOMETIMES THEY DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO TO WEST DALLAS.
SO I REALLY LIKE TO SEE THAT MOVED AROUND THE CITY TO MAKE IT MORE EFFECTIVE ANY ONCE A MONTH, MOVE IT SOMEPLACE BESIDES WEST DALLAS.
IT, IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE A LONG TERM, BUT THERE IS A ONCE A MONTH, UH, PET PANTRY AT IN PLEASANT GROVE WHERE THAT WE HELP SUPPORT.
I, UM, DO ONE OF Y'ALL HAVE THE DETAILS ON THAT? WE'LL GET YOU THE DETAILS.
BECAUSE I LIVE THERE AND I'VE NEVER HEARD OF IT AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S NEED, UM, LOGISTICALLY IT IS A LOT MORE DIFFICULT THAN YOU THINK IT IS.
WE HAVE VOLUNTEERS AT PLEASANT GROVE THAT WILL HELP YOU.
YOU, YOU FIGURE OUT THE DATES AND THE TIMES.
UH, HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT ADDING BLUE SKY TO SOCIAL MEDIA? IT'S BECOMING VERY POPULAR AND IT'S NOT A ZUCKERBERG PRODUCT.
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ALL I HAVE.UH, WE'LL GO TO, UH, COMMISSIONER BENNETT.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND GREAT JOB FOR YOUR FIRST, FIRST PRESENTATION.
BECAUSE I'M, UH, OBVIOUSLY INTERESTED IN THE ANIMAL CRUELTY PIECE.
I, I DID HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE FORENSIC VET AND FOR YOU TO ELABORATE ON WHAT THE PLAN IS, LIKE YOU SAID, RIGHT? YOU DID USE SPCA VETS, YOU DO USE SPCA OR WHAT'S THE, SINCE WE HAVE ALL THIS MONEY, I GUESS COMING IN FOR ANIMAL THERAPY, WHAT'S THE PLAN FOR THE FORENSICS VET? I'LL LET EMILY TALK THAT ONE.
WHEN THE PO PROGRAM, UM, LEFT, WE ARE CURRENTLY WITHOUT A FORENSICS VET.
UM, WE ARE ABLE TO STILL USE HER A LITTLE BIT.
UM, WE ARE ABLE TO USE SBCA PRIMARILY RIGHT NOW FOR NECROPSIES.
OUR TREATMENT DOCTORS ARE TAKING TIMES OUT OF THEIR DAY TO AT LEAST DO THOSE EXAMS, UM, AND GET THE DOCUMENTATION NEEDED.
UM, SO IT IS NOT A FORENSIC STEP THAT THEY ARE INCREDIBLE.
UM, AND DOING REALLY GREAT WITH THAT.
AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO USE THAT FOR A LOT OF OUR CURRENT CASES.
UM, THE PLAN WILL BE TO PUT THAT TEMPORARY VET POSITION IN AND GET A FORENSICS VET FULL-TIME OR PART-TIME.
IT'S 30 HOURS ON BOARD, WHICH WILL HELP SIGNIFICANTLY.
WE'RE CURRENTLY IN THE UNCOMFORTABLE TIME BETWEEN, YEAH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CITY OF DALLAS IS WILLING TO PAY, IS GONNA GET SOMEBODY IN TO DO THAT POSITION.
UM, BUT IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT BECAUSE WITHOUT OBVIOUSLY THAT EVIDENCE AND THOSE CASES CAN'T BE PROSECUTED AND, YOU KNOW, WORKING IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, I MEAN, YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED AS MUCH AS WE ALL LOVE ANIMALS, HOW PEOPLE ARE, UM, IT, IT'S HARD TO GET CONVICTIONS ON THESE CASES, WHICH IS MIND BOGGLING TO ME.
BUT, UM, SO ANYWAY, JUST, UM, EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, SO JUST STATING OBVIOUS THAT WE REALLY NEED TO TRY TO GET, MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
UM, I SAW IN THE PACKET SOMETHING ABOUT, UM, THAT THE NEIGHBOR AND YOU MENTIONED NEIGHBORHOOD WALKTHROUGH FOR DISTRICT ONE.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO TO ORGANIZE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE COMMISSIONERS FOR, UM, WALK NEIGHBORHOOD WALKTHROUGHS IN OTHER DISTRICTS, UM, I THINK, I THINK A LOT OF IT HERE WOULD BE HAPPY TO HELP OR TRY TO ORGANIZE THAT, ESPECIALLY WITH OUR COUNCIL PEOPLE.
WE WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP THAT WE CAN FOR THE WALKTHROUGH.
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WALKS ARE USUALLY, UH, DONE BY DATA FOR HEAT MAPS, MEANING THE MOST PLACES FOR LOOSE DOGS AND BITES.
WE TRY TO HIT THOSE A LITTLE BIT MORE SO THAT WAY WE COULD TRY TO GET THOSE DOGS UNDER CONTROL AND INTO THEIR OWNER HOMES WITHOUT ANY ISSUES OR STUFF LIKE THAT.
YEAH, I KNOW IN MY DISTRICT WITH, UM, ADAM BE, WILL DO THAT, WE HAVE A LOT OF LOOSE DOGS IN OUR DISTRICT, SO I WOULD LOVE TO COORDINATE.
UM, AND HE'S AMAZINGLY SUPPORTIVE OF BAS AND EVERYTHING.
SO I IMAGINE THAT, I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS WORKS BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S OPEN MEETING STUFF AND HOW IT WORKS AS FAR AS TRYING TO COORDINATE SOME OF THAT, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO DO THAT.
UM, I SAW, UM, LAST MEETING THAT WE HAD, Y'ALL HAD DISCONTINUED FOR HEALTH CONCERNS, THE TICKET TO RIDE OR, OR THE, THE OUT-OF-STATE TRANSPORT, I THINK.
'CAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE WHAT, WHAT WAS THE DISEASE THAT WE WERE ALL CONCERNED WITH? AND THE LAST ONE IS WORM.
SO DURING THAT TIME WE WEREN'T DOING OUT-OF-STATE TRANSPORT.
IS IT TEMPORARILY STUFF? THERE, THERE WAS SOME STATES THAT DID NOT ALLOW TRANSFERS.
UH, THE DIRECT PARTNERS WITH DAS THAT USED BETTER DAYS WERE NOT AFFECTED 'CAUSE WE DID NOT SEND TO NEW YORK.
BUT, UH, THE HEARTS AND BONES WAS AFFECTED.
I THINK FLORIDA'S STILL THE ONLY PLACE THAT HAS RESTRICTIONS FOR OKAY.
AND I PERSONALLY, AND I'M NOT LIKE EVERYWHERE, BUT I'M ALL OVER Y'ALL'S SOCIAL MEDIA.
I TRIED BE, AND I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING RECENTLY ABOUT THE TICKET RIDE.
FOR ME THAT'S SOMETHING EASY TO PUMP UP, LIKE, UM, FOSTERING A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY I CAN'T DO THAT.
SO THEN I PUSH DOGGY DAY OUT, WHICH I DO AT THE COURTHOUSE AS OFTEN AS I CAN.
AND, AND I LOVE ALL THE THINGS THAT PROVIDED THAT, THAT BACKPACK IS GREAT, BUT, UM, IT FEELS LIKE A TICKET TO RIDE LIKE THAT.
YOU CAN SAY, LOOK, YOU ONLY, THIS IS ONLY LIKE A, WHAT IS IT, LIKE A 20 DAY, TWO WEEK, A SHORT TERM? LIKE, LET'S DO THIS.
AND I FEEL LIKE THAT'S EASIER TO PUSH FOR SOME PEOPLE THAN JUST LIKE REGULAR FOSTERING, LIKE, WHICH COULD BE MORE OF A LONG TERM COMMITMENT.
EVEN THOUGH I SAY YOU CAN TAKE 'EM FOR A DAY, YOU CAN TAKE 'EM FOR A WEEKEND.
IF THERE'S A DEFINITIVE END IN SIGHT, IT MAKES PEOPLE THAT I KNOW THAT MIGHT BE MORE HESITANT TO DO IT.
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A BOOST, I DON'T KNOW ON THAT.AND THEN I, I HAD ISSUES ON THE WEBSITE, UM, LAST MONTH AFTER I HAD DONE THE DOGGY DAY OUT.
I COULDN'T LOOK UP THE DOG BY THE A NUMBER OR THE NAME AND I DON'T KNOW, I CALLED AND SOMEBODY ELSE DIDN'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM.
SO I, BUT I TRIED FOR A COUPLE DAYS AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'VE BEEN ISSUES WITH THE SITE ON THAT, BUT I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE CAN FIND DOGS THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR.
THEY JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT Y'ALL KNOW THAT THERE MIGHT BE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
UM, AND JUST THE LAST THING I WAS GOING TO, UM, SAY IS I HAVE NO IDEA.
I'M SORRY, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THAT COMMUNITY CAT ORDINANCE, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE, I KNOW YOU GUYS TOOK GREAT, UM, PAINS TO GET COMMUNITY INPUT AND IT JUST MAKES ME SAD TO KNOW THAT PERHAPS THE FINISHED PRODUCT ISN'T WHAT SOME PEOPLE HAD HOPED.
AND THAT GIVES ME SOME CONCERNS.
SO JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT, BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
DO WE HAVE ANY STAFF REPLIES TO SOME OF THOSE? YEAH, I WOULD, UM, SAY SO.
'CAUSE I DID WORK WITH, UM, AT THE TAIL END OF THE POLL AND ORDER COMMITTEE, I KIND OF JUMPED IN AND INTO THAT PROCESS.
AND WE HAVE NOT MADE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE ORDINANCE LANGUAGE SINCE THE LAST TIME WE MET.
THE REASON THAT WE KINDA SUSPENDED THAT IS BECAUSE WE HAD REACHED AS FAR AS WE COULD ABOUT THAT COMMITTEE AND STARTED WORKING THROUGH CITY PROCESSES.
UM, AND SO THOSE PROCESSES WAS INVOLVED, UM, THE BRIEFINGS TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE AND TO, TO THIS BODY.
UM, AND SO THE ONLY CHANGES THAT WE'VE REALLY MADE HAVE COME AS, UM, INPUT FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, AS FAR AS CLARITY OF LANGUAGE.
UM, AND SO, UM, SO I WOULD SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT MADE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES FROM WHAT THAT THAT GROUP HAD DISCUSSED THAT WE ARE ABLE TO FEASIBLY DO IN, IN AN ORDINANCE.
AND THEN JUST, BUT THESE MEETINGS ARE PUBLISHED AND THEY'RE THE SAME, LIKE A YEAR OUT.
SO THIS ISN'T LIKE A SECRET ANYTHING THAT JUST POPPED UP.
ANYBODY ELSE? STAFF, UH, RESPONSE.
UM, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT I THINK IT'S REALLY A GREAT JOB ON, UM, YOUR PART, AMANDA, FOR KIND OF LOOKING AT THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE AND OUTSOURCING WHAT OTHERS ARE ALREADY DOING.
I THINK THAT WE REALLY NEED THAT KIND OF LEADERSHIP IN TERMS OF, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT TRYING TO MASTER ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.
I THINK WE HAVE TO CONSOLIDATE OUR EFFORTS.
UM, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF WE HAD ALL OF THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT WE'VE TRAINED OR HAD ALL THE RESOURCES AND MOVING PARTS IN WITHIN THE SYSTEM.
SO FOR OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAVE ESTABLISHED SYSTEMS LIKE OPERATION KINDNESS, HELPING WITH THE FOOD BANK, UM, I, I DO THINK THAT THESE ARE REALLY GOOD SIGNIFICANT SHIFTS.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING ON TRANSPORT, DOING THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, LIKE I, I THINK THAT WE'VE MADE SOME REALLY SIGNIFICANT, UM, SHIFTS AND I, I, I CAN SEE THAT WE'LL BE MORE EFFECTIVE AS A SHELTER, UM, WITH, WITH A LOT OF THESE CHANGES.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.
UM, I ALSO JUST KIND OF WANNA SHARE TOO, THAT LIKE IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE FOOD PANTRY, UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE DATA THAT WE'VE GOTTEN, AND I'M NOT SURE IF EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, BUT IN GENERAL, LIKE WHERE FOOD PANTRIES BEGAN WERE JUST BECAUSE WE WERE RECEIVING A LOT OF DATA AT, AT A SHELTER LEVEL SAYING, YOU KNOW, WHY ARE YOU GIVING UP YOUR PET? AND INITIALLY THOSE RESPONSES WERE, OH, WE LACKED MEDICAL CARE, WE LACKED FOOD STABILITY.
UM, AND THOSE WERE COMING FROM PEOPLE WALKING IN THE SHELTER GETTING ASKED IMMEDIATELY, HOW, WHY ARE YOU GIVING UP YOUR PET? UM, IF ANY OF US WERE PUT IN THAT POSITION, WE MIGHT WANT TO CLAIM ONE OF THOSE AS THE REASON.
SO I JUST WANNA SAY THAT IN GENERAL, WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN DATA BACK TO SAY THAT, THAT, UM, THAT THOSE ARE EFFECTIVE WAYS NECESSARILY FROM KEEPING PEOPLE WITH THEIR PETS.
UM, BUT WE'RE HOPING THAT THEY ARE.
AND SO I WILL SAY THAT IN A, IN A BIG SENSE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE STILL KIND OF IN THIS REALLY UNCHARTED TERRITORY.
AND, UM, AND IN REGARD TO THE VACCINES, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS ACCESS TO THIS.
BUT WE KNOW THAT THE MAJORITY OF ANIMALS DO GET SICK IN THE SHELTER.
SO I THINK THAT THERE'S, FOR ME, A PRIORITY TO LOOK AT, UM,
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YOU KNOW, OUR INTAKE PROCESS, ENSURING THAT THE ANIMALS DON'T GET SICK UPON ARRIVAL.UM, AND I'VE OBVIOUSLY ASKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE, BUT, UM, ENSURING THAT THE PROCESS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE IS BEING FOLLOWED, UM, WHICH IS VACCINATION UPON INTAKE.
UM, SO, AND I THINK WE'LL SEE LESS SICK ANIMALS, UM, THAT WAY.
AND I THINK THAT, UM, WE'RE DOING A GREAT JOB.
SO THAT'S KIND OF ALL I WANNA SAY.
I DIDN'T REALLY HEAR ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS IN THERE.
UM, WE WILL GO OVER TO, UH, COMMISSIONER THOMAS.
AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR COMMENTS TODAY.
I THINK YOU DID A GREAT JOB THE FIRST TIME, BUT IT'S HARD FOR ME SOMETIMES TO SPEAK SO LOT ANYWAY.
UM, I'M VERY INTERESTED IN KNOWING MORE ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD WALKERS, LIKE WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IN OUR AREA, THERE ARE SEVERAL DOGS.
I SEE 'EM ALL THE TIME, LEAST ON ABRAMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND I WOULD LOVE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT AND TRY TO GET OUR AREA MORE INVOLVED.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHO I, WHO I'D REACH OUT TO OR
I WOULD LOVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.
'CAUSE PROBABLY EVERY OTHER DAY THERE'S SOMEONE LEAVES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD A LOT.
UM, ALSO, UM, AS FAR AS THE VET SHORTAGE, WHAT DO Y'ALL SUGGEST THAT WE COULD DO TO HELP WITH THAT? I KNOW IT'S THE CITY DECISION, BUT I'M SURE THERE'S ALL THE POLITICS AND STUFF INVOLVED, BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW THIS GROUP COULD HELP? I MEAN, IT'S A NATIONAL VETERINARY SHORTAGE AND IT'S ACROSS A LOT OF DIFFERENT SPECIALTIES, NOT JUST SHELTER.
UM, ONE THING THAT OPK IS ACTUALLY DOING, WHICH WE DO LOVE, UM, IS THEY STARTED UP INTERNSHIP AND TRAINING PROGRAMS. SO VETERINARIANS COME IN, CAN GO THROUGH THEIR PROGRAM AND DO HIGH VOLUME, UM, SURGERY, HIGH VOLUME, HIGH QUALITY SURGERIES.
SO REALLY THAT'S WHAT WE'RE KIND OF TRYING TO GEAR TOWARDS MORE TO HELP RAISE THE, THAT STUFF.
GOOD JOB, EVERYBODY MOVING QUICK.
UM, UH, COMMISSIONER FAULKNER.
UM, FIRST I JUST, I JUST LOVE THAT THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS GOING ON.
I JUST, I MEAN, I THINK, OBVIOUSLY YOU GUYS KNOW, IT'S CAN BE SO OVERWHELMING WHEN YOU HAVE SO MANY ANIMALS AND THAT YOU GUYS ARE JUST CONTINUING TO THINK OF LIKE, LET'S DO THIS, LET'S DO THIS.
LIKE THE, UM, THE PORTRAIT PROJECT, IT'S JUST SUCH A FUN THING, WHICH I KNOW IT'S NOT EVEN THAT EASY TO DO BECAUSE SOMEBODY HAS TO PICK UP THE DOG AND GET IT OVER THERE AND THAT PERSON TAKES IT.
BUT THEN THOSE PICTURES ARE REALLY GETTING A LOT OF HOOKUP.
AND I, I JUST, I LOVE THAT AND I LOVE THAT SHE'S FOCUSING ON, UM, ON THE SENIOR DOGS, UH, AND THE PETS THAT MIGHT NEED THAT, THAT NEED A LITTLE MORE MARKETING.
UM, I LOVE THAT WE'VE GOT A MARKETING TEAM THAT'S REALLY DOING SOMETHING.
I KNOW THAT'S BEEN A, A CHALLENGE IN THE PAST TO FEW PEOPLE.
AND I, I, I, I LOVE THAT, THAT YOU GUYS ARE REALLY, UM, GETTING THEM.
THE MARKETING SEEMS TO BE REALLY ON TRACK.
UM, THE OTHER THING I WAS GONNA, I GET CALLS, I, YOU HAVE A REAL SMALL RESCUE AND WE GET CALLS FROM PEOPLE WHO WANT FENCES BECAUSE WE'RE STILL LISTED AT DIS THAT WE'LL BUILD A FENCE FOR.
AND SO WE'RE LIKE A BUNCH OF LIKE, UM, NOT EVEN MIDDLE AGED WOMEN, BUT ANYWAY, A BUNCH OF LIKE FIVE WOMEN.
AND WE HAD BEEN PARTNERING WITH DPA BECAUSE DPA HAS THE MONEY, AND THEN WE USED COMMUNITY SERVICE VOLUNTEERS, AND WE DID A FULL BIG FENCE LAST WEEKEND.
I MEAN, WE, IT TOOK THE ENTIRE WEEK.
IF YOU, YOU GET SOMETHING THAT WANTS A FENCE, IT MIGHT BE NEXT SPRING, WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA ONLY GONNA BE ABLE TO DO LIKE MAYBE ONE A QUARTER BECAUSE IT'S A, IT'S A LOT.
AND WE'VE GOTTA HAVE, UH, VOLUNTEERS THAT HAVE THE SKILLS TO DO IT.
WE'VE DONE FIXES BEFORE IN A GATE OR JUST THINGS, OR HERE'S A PANEL.
BUT LAST WEEK WE DID AN ENTIRE FENCE IN SOUTH DALLAS.
AND, UM, WE FELT PRETTY GOOD ABOUT IT.
ALL I DID WAS BRING COOKIES, BUT, UM, BUT, BUT WE HAD REALLY GOOD VOLUNTEERS AND DPA THAT PETS ALIVE THROUGH THEIR PAST PROGRAM.
THEY BOUGHT ALL THE EQUIPMENT, THE, OR NOT THE EQUIPMENT, THE, UH, SUPPLIES ALL THE FENCE POSTS AND EVERYTHING, AND THERE WERE 250 TICKETS.
SO THIS WAS LIKE NOT A SMALL FENCE.
UM, SO WE CAN, WE CAN SEND US PEOPLE AND WE CAN PUT 'EM ON OUR LIST IF WE WANNA DO THAT.
UM, ALSO, I LOVE THAT YOU'RE, THAT TRANSPORTS ARE STILL WORKING.
I DID HAVE ONE QUESTION THAT SAID THAT SOME, THERE WAS A NUMBER OF PEOPLE, OR THERE WERE A NUMBER OF DOGS THAT SAID HOW MANY HAD POSITIVE OUTCOMES.
DID THAT MEAN IF THEY DIDN'T KNOW A POSITIVE
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OUTCOMES, DOES THAT MEAN THAT THEY DIDN'T GO ON TRANSPORT? OR YOU JUST DON'T, IT WAS LIKE, THERE'S LIKE A, UM, I JUST WONDERED IF THAT WAS, OR THEY JUST ENDED UP STAYING, OR THEY GOT ADOPTED HERE? UM, OH, IT, LET ME, LET ME LOOK AT IT.OH, IT SAYS 171 OF THE 374 DAS PETS HAD A POSITIVE OUTCOME YOU LICENSE.
I THINK THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WENT, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WENT TO BOARDING.
AND THEN THERE'S OTHER TRANSPORT PARTNERS THAT DON'T USE BOARDING SERVICES.
AND SO THEY WOULD TAKE THEM RIGHT AWAY.
I JUST WONDERED IF THAT MEANT THAT THEY GOT ADOPTED HERE OR SOME THERE WAS SOME OTHER KIND OF OUTCOME.
UM, AND THAT, THAT'S REALLY AND MEDICAL.
I'M SO EXCITED YOU'RE CATCHING UP.
I KNOW THIS SUMMER THAT WE DIDN'T, THERE WERE DOGS HAVING TO GO OUT UNVETTED OR UNSTATED METERED BECAUSE IT'S
UM, AND I, I WISH I KNEW WHAT THE ANSWER WAS UNLESS WE ALL WENT TO VET SCHOOL, WHICH SEEMS UNLIKELY WHEN I, I KNOW.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND THAT.
ONE OTHER QUESTION, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE A COUPLE YEARS AGO, IS VETS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE VETS THAT WE ALL GO TO AND, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, THE PRIVATE VETS, IS THERE ANY, WOULD IT MAKE ANY SENSE TO HAVE A PROGRAM WHERE THEY HAD COME AND VOLUNTEER? I WAS TOLD THEY'RE TOO SLOW.
WELL, WE'RE ACTUALLY WORKING ON A, UM, A CONTRACT MLU TO EMPLOY OTHER VETERINARIANS WHO ARE NOT PART OF THE RS VP MM-HMM
SO, UM, WE'RE WORKING ON, WELL, WE ARE WORKING ON A CONTRACT BECAUSE, OOPS, SORRY.
THERE ARE SEVERAL OF US WHO HAVE VETERAN VETERINARIAN FRIENDS WHO WOULD BE HAPPY TO COME IN.
UM, THAT'S JUST BECAUSE HIGH QUALITY, HIGH VOLUME IS NICHE, RIGHT? EVEN SOME OF THE RELIEF VETERINARIANS THAT WE GET, THEY CAN ONLY HANDLE 15, 10, OR 15 A DAY.
SO I, WE'RE TAKING WHAT WE CAN GET, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, HIGH QUALITY, HIGH VOLUME, THANK YOU TO OPERATION
HOW MANY OF YOU GUYS DONE SO FAR? I THINK 70 WAS THE LAST NUMBER I'D HEARD, BUT I KNOW THAT IT'S BEEN A THOUSAND SURGERIES SINCE WE MOVED INTO THE NEW FACILITY, BUT I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBER OF THE MENTEE.
BUT YES, THERE'S, IT'S A HUGE IMPACT.
SO, I MEAN, AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED, BUT WE ALSO NEED STUDENTS TO GO TO VET SCHOOL.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, ON, ON A LOT OF THE JOB BOARDS, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M A CALWELL CERTIFIED THROUGH THE ASSOCIATION OF ANIMAL WELFARE ADVANCEMENT AND THEIR JOB BOARD, UH, MORE THAN 60% OF THEIR JOB POSTINGS ARE FOR SHELTER, SHELTER, VETERINARIAN, AND STAFF.
SO, UM, IT IS, THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT DEFICIT OF SHELTER, SHELTER MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, AND I MEAN THE VETERINARY CARE.
WOULD THAT HELP YOU? MAYBE? UH, IT'S REALLY HARD TO SAY, BUT I KNOW THAT, UM, THE VETERINARY CARE ACCESSIBILITY SCHOOL FOR DALLAS COUNTY IS ONLY 66.
AND OUR SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES, THEY'RE 85 OR ABOVE, YOU KNOW, SO THAT IS, THAT MEANS 34 OUT OF EVERY 66 PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE REGULAR ACCESS TO THAT CARE.
WHETHER IT BE BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TRANSPORTATION, THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT, OR JUST ISN'T A VETERINARIAN IN THAT AREA.
SO, LIKE WE MENTIONED DURING THE LAST A C MEETING, WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR DVI DEPARTMENT TO, UM, GET THOSE NUMBERS, UH, HONED DOWN BY CENSUS TRACK SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY SHOW POINT OUR PARTNERS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION OF WHERE THOSE BENEFITS ARE, UM, AND WHERE THOSE RESOURCES COULD BE BETTER ALLOCATED.
SO AGAIN, IT'S A LONG PROCESS.
NOW YOU GUYS ARE DOING A, A LOT OF, A LOT OF GREAT THINGS.
I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT COMMUNITY CATS, SO I'M NOT GONNA ALRIGHT, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER.
UH, WE'LL MOVE ON TO COMMISSIONER SANDERS.
UM, I'M GONNA BE, TRY TO BE SPEC AS SPECIFIC AS I CAN.
SO WHAT I WANNA SAY FIRST IS DAS IS DOING SOME FANTASTIC THINGS.
SOME OF THE NUMBERS LOOK REALLY GREAT AND SOME OF THE NUMBERS NEED IMPROVEMENT AND ALL.
I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE WORKING HARD, THE STAFF IS AMAZING.
SO I WANNA SAY THAT TO START OFF WITH, I'M NOT GONNA GO INTO SPECIFICS ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF WE CAN TALK ABOUT.
UM, I'M REALLY IMPRESSED BY FO ALL THE EXCELLENT WORK THEY'VE DONE AND WENDY, AND I'M GLAD OF THE PARTNERSHIP WITH OPK.
I'M SORRY IF ANY OF MY QUESTIONS SOUNDED AGGRESSIVE.
I REALLY AM JUST TRYING TO READ THAT INFORMATION, UM, FOR PEOPLE THAT HAVE ASKED ME.
UM, AND SO I APPRECIATE YOUR FRANKNESS AND ALL YOU'RE DOING AND I SEE GOOD THINGS IN THE FUTURE.
UM, AND AS YOU GUYS MAY, MAY OR MAY NOT BE SURPRISED, MOST OF MY QUESTIONS ARE GONNA HAVE TO DO WITH THE CABINET ORDINANCE.
UM, BUT BE, AND I HAVE SOME VERY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THEM.
BUT BEFORE WE GET STARTED, WHAT I WOULD REALLY LOVE IS FOR YOU, AMANDA OR VICTORIA, WHOEVER FEELS LIKE THEY CAN ANSWER THIS BEST, WHAT SPECIFIC PROBLEM IS THE PROPOSED COMMUNITY CAT ORDINANCE INTENDED TO SOLVE? AND WHAT MEASURABLE
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OUTCOMES DOES DAS EXPECT TO ACHIEVE? TWO, IT IT IS A FRAMEWORK.IT IS A FRAMEWORK THAT HELPS ADD SOME PARAMETERS AS TO WHAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ANIMAL SHOULD BE MICRO, IT SHOULD BE STERILIZED.
SO THEIR COMMUNITY GETS, THEY SHOULD, UM, HERE'S WHAT CONSTITUTES A NUISANCE.
UM, 'CAUSE OWNER PROPERTY OWNER SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO VOICE THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT STRAY CATS ON THEIR PROPERTY.
SO IT JUST ADDS SOME PARAMETERS AND DIRECTION OF WHERE THOSE THINGS SHOULD GO.
SO, BUT IS THE GOAL FEWER THROUGH RUM AND CATS OR REDUCE SHELTER INTAKE? BETTER ANIMAL WELFARE, CLEAR LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES OR COMBINATION OF ALL? A COMBINATION OF ALL OF THAT.
UM, TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF FERAL CATS AND COMMUNITY CATS? I DON'T REALLY LIKE FERAL CATS.
THE FERAL CAT TERM, THE FERAL CAT TERM, I LIKE COMMUNITY CATS 'CAUSE THEY ARE COMMUNITY CATS.
IT ADDED, IT ADDED THAT DEFINITION.
AND IT HELPS US WITH THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS.
I MEAN, WE FERAL CAT, ALL FERAL CATS ARE COMMUNITY CATS, BUT NOT ALL COMMUNITY CATS ARE
SO, UM, IT HELPS ADD THAT FRAMEWORK AND THOSE DEFINITIONS, UM, TO ALLOW US THE ABILITY TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES.
IF YOU'RE FEEDING CATS, THERE NEEDS TO BE AN EFFORT TO STERILIZE THOSE PETS, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE OUTSIDE.
I WOULD PREFER EVERY CAT LIVE INSIDE.
I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN YOU LET YOUR CATS OUTSIDE BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY DANGERS THAT THEY'RE EXPOSED TO.
BUT THAT'S NOT, THOSE ARE MY PERSONAL FEELINGS.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE A LEAST LOT OF CATS.
SO, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS ORDINANCE, IT, IT ALLOWS THOSE EXEMPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY DEBT.
AND HOW WILL YOU MEASURE ANY SUCCESS OR FAILURES? UM, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
I MEAN, WE DON'T HAVE THE FINANCING AND THE, THE RESOURCES RIGHT NOW TO INCREASE AND ENHANCE.
WE'VE ALREADY INCREASED, UM, I WON'T SAY SUBSTANTIALLY, BUT WE'VE INCREASED THE, OUR ABILITY TO PROVIDE SUBSIDIZED STERILIZATIONS.
SO THAT IS A, A MEASURE OF SUCCESS RIGHT THERE.
THE FACT THAT WE ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT, CREATING MORE PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, THAT'S NOT THE INTENT OF THIS ORDINANCE.
THIS ORDINANCE IS ONLY MEANT TO ADD THAT FRAMEWORK THAT ALLOWS OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, UM, THE ABILITY TO APPROPRIATELY ADDRESS THOSE
SO IN OTHER WORDS, YOU'RE SAYING THAT THE, THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMUNITY ORDINANCE IS TO, UM, ENHANCE, UH, THE ABILITY FOR YOU TO, UH, FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT THINKS COMMUNITY CATS ARE A NUISANCE JUST TO HAVE A PATHWAY TO DECLARE THEM A NUISANCE? NO.
DURING THE LAST WEEK OF MAY, I HOSTED TWO INTENSE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH OVER BETWEEN 30 AND 40 COMMUNITY CAT EXPERTS.
UM, WE WENT THROUGH THE ORDINANCE IN DETAIL.
I GAVE A PRESENTATION TO PAUL RAMON ON JUNE 5TH, AND THEN WE HAD A COMMUNITY CAT LISTENING SESSION ON, UH, THE 17TH, WHICH AMANDA AND DANIEL WERE WONDERFUL TO COME TO.
UM, I HAVEN'T SEEN THE FINAL ORDINANCE, SO I DON'T KNOW, BUT WERE ANY OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS BY ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT CAME TO THE MEETING, UH, CONSIDERED AND ARE ANY OF THEM IN THE NEW ORDINANCE OR, OR IN THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE? I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE SPECIFIC ORDINANCE, BUT IT, AGAIN, IT JUST ALLOWS THE DEFINITIONS.
SO THIS IS GONNA GO TO DANIEL.
UM, HOW WILL 3 1 1 NUISANCE CAT COMPLAINTS BE HANDLED UNDER THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE? WHAT IS THE, UH, WILL EDUCATION AND WRITTEN WARNINGS COME BEFORE CITATIONS AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES COULD FINDS OF UP TO $500 SUPPLY? AND WHAT HAPPENS IF NO CARETAKERS IDENTIFIED? WHAT HAPPENS TO NUISANCE CATS ONCE THEY HAVE BEEN DETERMINED A NUISANCE? SO THAT IS ACTUALLY IN THE ACTUAL ORDINANCE, IN THE FRAMEWORK THAT'S COMING AROUND.
SO THAT ACTUALLY WILL BE SPECIFIED OF THAT SITUATION FOR US, FOR THIS NEW CITY.
UH, THE SPLIT, FOR THE NUISANCE PART, IT'S OUR, OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM THAT IS GOING OUT TO THOSE LOCATIONS AND JUST CHECKING ON WHAT THEY COULD DO, HOW THEY COULD HELP, WHAT'S BEING DONE.
AND BASICALLY WHAT DAS CAN PROVIDE WITH ITS ONLY RESOURCES THAT WE DO HAVE.
SO WITH BONDS AND EVERYTHING, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE GO THROUGH ONE BY ONE.
WE DON'T TAKE THOSE LIGHTLY, BUT WE DO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE FOLLOWING CITY OF ORDINANCE ON.
AND PUNITIVE ENFORCEMENT IS NOT THE INTENT.
THOSE, THOSE COMPLAINTS AND THOSE SERVICE REQUESTS
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ARE MEANT FOR EDUCATION.'CAUSE IT COMES INTO MIND NEXT.
SO WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR EDUCATING RESIDENCES, COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS, THE CITY STAFF BEFORE THIS ENFORCEMENT BEGINS? I KNOW THAT, THAT YOU SAY THAT'S NOT YOUR INTENDED THING, UH, GOAL, BUT, UH, WHEN YOU PUT NUISANCE AT THE TOP OF A 3 1 1 REQUEST, AND YOU ALSO, WHEN PEOPLE GO TO THE DAS WEBSITE AND LOOK FOR INFORMATION ABOUT COMMUNICATES REPORTING, A NUISANCE IS OVER SPAY NEUTER INFORMATION ON YOUR WEBSITE.
SO NUISANCE THEN IS THE TOP PRIORITY OF DAS WHEN THEY'RE ON THE TOP OF BOTH OF THOSE REPORTING AGENCIES.
SO IF THAT'S NOT YOUR GOAL, THEN WHY ARE THOSE AT THE TOP OF THE THING? AND IF, HOW CAN WE EDUCATE PEOPLE SO THAT WE KNOW WE ARE NOT CREATING NUISANCE CATS? WE'RE WE ARE TAKING CARE OF EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID, THE CATS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BECAUSE I GUARANTEE COMMUNITY CAT CAREGIVERS DO NOT WANT MESSES.
THEY, THEY WANNA KEEP THESE CLEAN TOO, AND THEY WANT PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY.
BUT WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM A PATHWAY.
AND IF WE'RE NOT GONNA EDUCATE THEM, THEN WHAT'S THE POINT OF DOING IT? SO EDUCATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN OUR PRIMARY CONCERN WHEN IT COMES TO COMMUNITY CATS AND ON THE WEBSITE ARBITRARILY.
IT'S, IT'S AN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, BUT THAT IS GOOD INPUT AND WE CAN FIX THAT.
UM, I JUST LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT RIGHT THERE.
YOU KNOW WHAT, THAT JUST HAPPENED.
DANIEL, DO YOU HAVE ANY UM, SO NUISANCE FOR US, WE BASICALLY, WE HAVE TO GIVE THE RESIDENTS EVERY CHANCE TO, YOU KNOW, COME TALK AND, YOU KNOW, VOICE OUT WHAT THEY THINK, EVEN IF IT'S FOR COMMUNIC CATS OR DOG.
SO MY COMMUNIC ENGAGEMENT TEAM, THEIR FIRST PRIORITY IS ME PATIENT.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE EDUCATING.
IF IT IS, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY THAT IS NOT A COMMUNITY, THAT PERSON THAT YOU KNOW, HAS DONE THIS IS SOMEBODY THAT JUST DECIDES TO DO DO THAT.
SO THEY WANNA GO OUT THERE AND EDUCATE THEM ALSO FOR THE RESIDENTS ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT IT.
AND WE ALSO WANNA EDUCATE ON WHAT ELSE CAN BE DONE INSTEAD OF SAYING, OH, I JUST DON'T WANT THESE TATTOO.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, NUISANCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF OUR ORDINANCE.
SO THIS HELPS ADD THOSE DEFINITIONS AND LETS CARETAKERS AND RESIDENTS ARE LIKE, KNOW WHAT DEFINES THAT.
YEAH, I WOULD POINT OUT THAT THE REASON THAT THIS ORDINANCE CAME TO BE IS BECAUSE THERE WAS CONFLICT BETWEEN PROPERTY OWNERS AND COMMUNITY CAT CAREGIVERS.
AND WHAT THIS DOES IS IT ACTUALLY ESTABLISHES A COMMUNITY CAT DEFINITION, WHICH WASN'T IN THERE BEFORE.
AND ACTUALLY GIVES SOME PROTECTIONS TO THOSE CAREGIVERS BECAUSE UNDER THE ORDINANCE, AS IT STANDS TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, BECAUSE THEY ARE TAKING CARE OF THOSE ANIMALS, THEY COULD BE CONSIDERED OWNERS.
THIS TAKES AWAY THAT OWNERSHIP TITLE FOR THEM AND DOES NOT HOLD THEM TO THOSE OWNERSHIP STANDARDS.
SO IT, IT'S ACTUALLY CREATING SOME PROTECTIONS FOR THOSE COMMUNITY CARE CAREGIVERS, BUT IT'S ALSO GIVING A PATHWAY TO MEDIATION BETWEEN THE PROPERTY OWNERS AND THE COMMUNITY CAT CAREGIVERS.
SO THAT THERE IS, THIS IS WHAT CONSTITUTES AN AND A NUISANCE FOR THESE.
IT'S NOT JUST BECAUSE COMMUNITY CATS ARE ON YOUR PROPERTY OR EXIST IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, IT'S THAT THEY ARE DOING THESE ACTIVITIES AND YOU KNOW, WE CAN PROVIDE EDUCATION TO THOSE PROPERTY OWNERS.
LOOK, IF YOU DON'T WANT THEM, THESE ARE THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO TO DETER THESE CATS ON YOUR PROPERTY.
AND SO WE CAN EDUCATE THE, THE PROPERTY OWNERS AND IF IT'S BECAUSE OF THE ACTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY CAREGIVER, WE CAN SAY, HEY, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO DO TO CLEAN UP THIS.
SO YOU CAN'T LEAVE FOOD OUT ALL OF THE TIME.
YOU CAN'T LEAVE LITTER OUT THAT'S, THAT'S IN VIOLATION OF EXISTING CITY ORDINANCE.
AND WE'RE POINTING TO THOSE EXISTING CITY ORDINANCES AND SAYING, LOOK, YOU CAN'T DO THIS.
SO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ALL ACTING WITH IT IN THE PARAMETERS OF EX OF EXISTING CITY ORDINANCES AND DEFINING THIS, THIS PROGRAM, THIS FRAMEWORK SO THAT WE HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON AND WHEN WE, SO WE CAN HELP RESOLVE THOSE CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES.
SO I DEFINITELY THINK HAVING, THOSE ARE FANTASTIC.
WE NEED, UM, DEFINITIONS, UM, AND I APPRECIATE THAT.
UM, BUT WE HAVE A SIX FIELD OFFICER VACANCY AND A 58% RESPONSE RATE.
HOW ARE THOSE FIELD OFFICERS GONNA DO THAT ALONG WITH THEIR JOB? AND DO WE HAVE A, UH, BUDGET IN THE MARKETING, A BUDGET IN THE MARKETING BUDGET TO PROVIDE ANY FLYERS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT OUTREACH COMMUNITY? CAN WE HAVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH MEETINGS? SO WITH THE DEFICIT THAT YOU'RE STATING?
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YES.UM, WE HAVE OUR OWN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM THAT BASICALLY THAT'S ALL THEY DO IS DEAL WITH THE COMMUNITY.
SO THAT IS ACTUALLY FULLY STAFFED AT THE MOMENT.
UM, BUT THEY DON'T JUST DEAL WITH COMMUNITY CAT ISSUES, THEY ALSO DEAL WITH THE WALKS AND OTHER, OTHER ISSUES THAT COME ALONG FOR THE OTHER OFFICERS? YES, WE DO HAVE, BUT WE HAVEN'T HAD A BEEN RIGHT NOW WE DO HAVE HIRED ABOUT FOUR NEW OFFICERS THAT WE'RE JUST WAITING TO, YOU KNOW, TRAIN IN EVERYTHING.
AND WITH THE CALL AMOUNT, I COULD SAY THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY NOW MEETING MOST OF OUR CALLS ABOUT 88%.
BUT WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS, UH, JUST LIKE DANIELLE, THE SPEAKER WHO SAID, I AGREE WITH THE ORIGINAL INTENTION AT THIS CAT ORDINANCE, I LIKE WHAT VICTORIA SAID, BUT I CANNOT SUPPORT IT AS IT IS WRITTEN.
I WOULD LIKE, UH, I WILL BE TELLING MY COUNCIL MEMBER THAT I DON'T SUPPORT IT BECAUSE I DO NOT THINK IT'S SPECIFIC ENOUGH TO DO WHAT YOU SAY.
I DON'T THINK DS HAS THE RESOURCES TO PROVIDE THE SPAY NEUTER.
AND I THINK IT WILL ULTIMATELY CAUSE MORE PROBLEMS, UM, IN THE CITY THAN IT INTENDS TO.
ANY, UH, STAFF RESPONSE OR THOUGHTS ON THAT? OKAY.
UH, SO WE FINISH IN THE ROOM BEFORE WE GO VIRTUAL.
WE'VE GOT ABOUT 25 MINUTES LEFT.
UM, I DID WANNA COMMENT THAT THERE IS DEFINITELY A NOTICEABLE UPTICK IN SPAY NEUTER AND IT'S HAPPENING FASTER.
SO WE'RE ALL REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THAT.
UM, I WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON THE BEST FRIEND'S DIVERSION.
I KNOW THEY'RE PAYING SPCA FOR THE CAT DIVERSION.
ARE THEY INVOLVED WITH DOG DIVERSION AT ALL AT DAS IN ANY WAY? NO, THEY'RE NOT.
UM, AND THEN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE DIVERSION TACTICS AND, UM, GIVING COMMUNITY RESOURCES, ARE THESE SORT OF AN AN ASKED OR TOLD SITUATION? SO WHEN SOMEONE COMES IN AND THERE'S DIVERSION, CAN YOU JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE? AND IF SOMEONE SAYS, NO, I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT KEEP THIS DOG, YOU KNOW, SORT OF WHAT THE PROTOCOL IS, I GUESS, THERE ON INTAKE? YEAH, AND IT'S NEVER, UH, NO, WE ABSOLUTELY CANNOT TAKE, WE'RE AN OPEN, YOU KNOW, ADMISSIBLE SHELTER.
UM, WE DO HAVE STANDARD SERVICES.
DPA HAS THE PAST PROGRAM THAT WAS ALREADY DISCUSSED.
UM, WE'RE ABLE TO TRY, UM, THROUGH THAT PROGRAM FOR LOW COST VETERINARY CARE, PET FOOD PANTRY.
SO WE HAVE A LOT OF OPTIONS THAT WE TRY AND WORK WITH AND EDUCATE WITH THE COMMUNITY.
UM, DPA TOOK OVER WHAT SNN WAS DOING, WHICH WAS KIND OF OUR, UM, DIVERSION PRIOR AND SCHEDULING WHEN THEY COME IN.
SO IF SOMEBODY COMES IN AND NEEDS TO GIVE UP THEIR ANIMAL, WE DO ASK THAT THEY TRY AND REHOME THEMSELVES.
WE PROVIDE WITH THESE OPPORTUNITIES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE HAVE TIERED INTAKES BASED ON CRITICAL EMERGENCY.
IF THEY'RE IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY HAVE TO GIVE UP THE ANIMAL, WE WILL DEFINITELY TAKE THOSE IN THAT DAY.
IF NOT, WE TRY AND SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT WITH OUR THREE HOUR WAIT TIME AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE AS EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE WHEN WE INTAKE.
SO WE TRY AND FIRST KEEP THEM OUTTA THE SHELTER ANY WAY WE CAN BY WORKING WITH THEM.
IF WE CAN'T, WE OF COURSE TAKEN AS NEEDED.
UM, AND THEN I WANTED TO UM, ALSO ASK ABOUT THE NE NEIGHBORHOOD WALKTHROUGHS A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
'CAUSE THOSE ARE OBVIOUSLY VERY HELPFUL FOR EDUCATION AND GETTING COMMUNITY INVOLVED.
WHAT, WHAT SORT OF HAPPENS, WHAT'S DISTRIBUTED, WHAT KINDS OF MATERIALS ARE CITATIONS GIVEN? JUST GIVE US SORT OF THE BRIEF.
SO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WALKTHROUGH ARE NOT, UM, THEM GOING OUT TO GIVE CITATIONS OR ANYTHING.
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WALKTHROUGH IS EDUCATIONAL, BASICALLY GOING DOOR TO DOOR, FINDING OUT HOW MANY DOGS, IF THEY NEED MICROCHIPS, WE'LL PROVIDE A MICROCHIP RIGHT THERE.
AND THEN IF THEY NEED ANYTHING ELSE, WE'LL SIGN 'EM UP FOR PASS.
UM, IT'S JUST GOING, MAKING SURE DOOR TO DOOR ABOUT ANIMALS, WHAT CAN BE DONE, HOW CAN WE HELP? AND IN EACH COMMUNITY, UM, ON THE, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD WALKS ARE, UH, HEAT MAP, MEANING THAT BASICALLY WE TAKE THE DATA FROM WHERE THE DOGS ARE LOOSE, WHAT, UH, UM, MANY FIGHTS ARE HAPPENING AND WE WANT TO WALK THROUGH TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON AND HOW WE CAN HELP, UH, MOST DOGS THAT ARE LOSE OUR OWN.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP THESE DOGS AT HOME.
AND SOMETIMES, LIKE I SAID, THEY NEED FENCES OR JUST SOMETHING THEY WOULD HELP TOO.
THEY, THEY'VE BEEN OUT THERE PROVIDING TROLLEYS, ANYTHING THEY CAN, FOOD, BEACHES, UH, BOWLS, ANYTHING WE CAN TO PROVIDE, TO ASSIST EVERY HOMEOWNER THAT HAVE THE ANIMAL NEEDS HELP.
AND SO IS THIS ALSO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, MICROCHIPS AND COLLARS, THINGS LIKE THAT ARE DONE AT THAT TIME? WELL, THEY DO THAT, YES.
BUT THE OTHER OFFICERS, WHEN THEY GO TO OUR HOUSE, THEY ACTUALLY DO THAT TOO.
UM, SO STOP, JUST TO CLARIFY, WITH THE SPCA AND THE KITTEN DIVERSION, YEAH.
THAT FUNDING ENDED IN Q3 FOR BEST FRIENDS, BUT SBCA IS CONTINUING TO FUND THE END OF THE YEAR.
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HOPING TO KEEP, MAINTAIN THAT IN THEIR BUDGET THROUGH FY 27.UM, UH, THEN, UH, LET'S SEE HERE, DO, DO, DO, DO, UH, WITH, UH, POTENTIAL NEW WEBSITE BEING BUILT HERE AGAIN, UM, ON THE CITY OF DALLAS, ARE WE GOING TO LOOK INTO THE B DALLAS 90 BRANDING REFRESH THAT'S NOT CHANGING RIGHT NOW? UM, IT'S, UH, THAT'S THINGS THAT AFFECT OTIS AS WELL AS US.
SO, UM, AND, AND THAT IS STILL THE 90% LIVE STREAM THAT IS ALWAYS A GOAL.
THE PUBLIC HAS NO IDEA WHAT THAT IS.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT FOR YEARS.
IT DOESN'T SAY DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES.
IT SOUNDS LIKE A RESCUE OR A SEPARATE PROGRAM.
UM, SO I, I WILL CERTAINLY CONTINUE TO, UH,
I THINK THE INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE HAS KIND OF ABANDONED THAT THIS 90% SAVED THEM ALL SITUATION IS NOT REALLY TENABLE.
AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW THAT IF THAT'S RELEVANT ANYMORE.
AND I'D LOVE PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO FIND DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES READILY VERSUS HAVING TO GO THROUGH THAT IT DID HAVE TIME AND SERVE ITS PURPOSE.
SO, UM, WHILE THE B DALLAS 90, UH, DOT ORG WILL STILL WORK TO REDIRECT TO THE NEW WEBSITE, WE DO OWN THE URL, SO THAT WILL STILL CONTINUE TO BE AN ACTIVE THING, BUT IT'LL ALSO BE PART OF THAT DALLAS CITY HALL.COM WEBSITE, UM, SYSTEM AS WELL.
SO THEY'D BE ABLE TO GET IT, GET THROUGH IT WHEN WE'RE WORKING ON, UM, TRYING TO GET LIKE A DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES.GOV, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I REALLY WANT.
UM, SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS AS WELL TO HAVE THAT BE SOMETHING THAT'S ACTIVE SO THAT WE CAN BE A LITTLE MORE, UM, AVAILABLE THAT WAY.
AND SO THEY UNDERSTAND BETTER THAT WE ARE PART OF THE CITY.
UM, AND THEN I DID JUST WANNA ALSO FOLLOW UP TOO.
I, I REALLY LIKE YOUR SENTIMENT OF DAS CAN'T BE EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE.
AND YOU KNOW HOW, UH, COMMISSIONER DELGADO FOLLOWED UP WITH OUTSOURCING AND USING OUR RESOURCES WI WISELY, ALL THE AREA ORGS, UM, COLLABORATING TO FILL IN THE HOLES.
I DO WANNA SAY THOUGH, THAT DAS STILL IS THE RESOURCE FOR INFORMATION.
EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM IS VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE THINGS GOING ON IN THE SPACE.
NORMAL, REGULAR CITIZENS, WHEN THEY FIND A LOOSE DOG OR, UH, A CAT WITH A BUNCH OF KITTENS IN THEIR YARD THAT ARE FRIENDLY, THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO OR WHERE TO GO.
AND WE CAN DO A MUCH BETTER JOB PROVIDING RESOURCES NOW FOR ADULT CATS.
IF SOMEONE HAS A FRIENDLY CAT COME UP, THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO, NO NOTHING FOR THEM TO DO.
LIKE, THERE'S NO CITY RESOURCES FOR THAT.
JUST A FEW PIECES OF INFORMATION THAT ARE A BIT CONFUSING, AND IT'S JUST PRIMARILY ABOUT GETTING THE SPAY NEUTER, BUT THE AVERAGE CITIZEN HAS NO IDEA.
AND DAS STILL SHOULD BE THAT HELPFUL RESOURCE OF OPTIONS, WHAT YOU CAN DO, RIGHT? AND, AND MAKING THAT VERY CLEAR LINKS AND WHAT THE CITY CAN AND CANNOT DO BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST DON'T, DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
UM, SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.
AND, UH, WITH THAT I WILL PASS IT ON.
WE'LL GO TO THE VIRTUAL COMMISSIONERS AND LET'S START WITH, UM, COMMISSIONER SED WHO HAS NOT HAD A CHANCE YET TO UH, SPEAK TODAY.
WELL, GOOD MORNING, ALMOST AFTERNOON.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FIRST REPORT AS INTERIM DIRECTOR.
UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU SAYING, I'M JUST GONNA RUN THROUGH MY NOTES, UM, SINCE JUST TO BE MINDFUL OF TIME, BUT, UM, I DON'T, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, WHAT YOU WERE SAYING AT THE VERY BEGINNING WHERE WE CAN'T BE EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE.
I THINK THAT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
UM, ESPECIALLY FROM THE LEADERSHIP LEVEL.
UM, I THINK WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER A STRATEGY AND SCOPE FOR AN ORGANIZATION OR A DEPARTMENT, UM, HAVING CLEAR MISSION AND GOALS AND KNOWING WHAT MISSION CREEP IS JUST MAKES YOUR JOB A LOT MORE DOABLE.
UM, AND YOU'RE ABLE TO SET SUCCESS METRICS, IT JUST SETS YOU UP FOR SUCCESS.
SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT SENTIMENT AND KIND OF MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT ENERGY.
UM, THE SURGEON VET SITUATION, UM, I THINK THIS HAS BEEN MENTIONED MULTIPLE TIMES, BUT IT GENUINELY IS A NATIONAL ISSUE AND SHELTERS ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE STRUGGLING WITH HIRING VETS.
UM, ONE THING THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN FORT WORTH IS, UH, INCREASING THE SALARY, WHICH AGAIN, I KNOW YOU WERE AWARE IT, THAT'S REALLY WHAT A LOT OF THIS IS.
IT'S THE MONEY, RIGHT? THE CITIES JUST CANNOT COMPETE WITH PRIVATE SECTOR WHEN IT COMES TO VETS.
AND SO IF THERE IS ANY OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT RAISING, UM, VET SALARIES TO SOMEWHERE AROUND ONE 50 TO 200,000, UM, AND STILL ALLOWING SOME KIND OF SECONDARY EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY SO THAT THE VETS ARE STILL ABLE TO DO, UM, YOU KNOW, SIDE GIGS THAT THEY WANT TO DO TO CONTINUE TO DELIVER CARE OUTSIDE THE CITY TO MAKE SOME MORE MONEY.
I THINK SOME KIND OF STRUCTURE LIKE THAT COULD BE REALLY BENEFICIAL IN HELPING US GET SOME MORE VETS IN THE DOOR.
UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU
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SPENT ON THE ANIMAL CRUELTY CASES.UM, OBVIOUSLY CONCERNING THAT CASES HAVE GONE UP BY SUCH A HUGE AMOUNT.
UM, ONE THING TO CONSIDER IS, UM, IF WE COULD MAYBE HAVE A PRESENTATION WITH DPD ON THOSE EFFORTS, BECAUSE SOMETIMES WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING IS THAT THERE ARE PETS WHO, THAT ARE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY, RIGHT? AND THEN, UM, THEY END UP STAYING IN THE SHELTER WHILE THIS CRIMINAL CASE IS GOING ON.
AND THEN THEY, THE LONGER THEY'RE STAYING IN THE SHELTER, THE HARDER IT IS TO ADOPT THEM.
AND SOME OF THEM DEVELOP, UM, SOME OTHER HEALTH ISSUES.
THEY END UP DYING IN HAIR AND IT'S JUST SUCH A CRUEL AND INHUMANE THING TO DO.
AND SO I WOULD LOVE SOME KIND OF A PRESENTATION SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS IN MORE DEPTH, UM, IN THE NEXT MEETING AND SEEING IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO.
UM, ESPECIALLY I REALLY, THIS IS MORE AT THE LEGAL LEVEL, UM, WITH DPD AND THE COURTS TO SEE IF THE COURTS WOULD BE WILLING TO WORK WITH US AND, UM, HELP US POTENTIALLY ADOPT THE ANIMALS OUT SOONER SO THEY'RE NOT JUST SITTING THERE WAITING FOR A CRIMINAL CASE TO WRAP UP AND POTENTIALLY JUST CONTINUING TO DETERIORATE 'CAUSE THE SHELTER IS NOT THE RIGHT PLACE FOR THEM.
UM, UH, EXCELLENT JOB WITH THE ADOPTION EVENTS AND THE VOLUNTEER, UM, EFFORTS.
UM, LOVE THE SHELTER MARKETING COLLABORATION WITH SMU AND WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME OF THOSE ASSETS AS THOSE ARE DEVELOPED.
I ECHO, UH, THE CHAIR'S COMMENTS ON B DALLAS 90.
THIS HAS BEEN A YEARS LONG CONVERSATION WITH THE COMMISSION.
UM, IT JUST DOESN'T REALLY MEAN ANYTHING TO THE PUBLIC.
UM, AND SO IF B DALLAS 90, IF IT'S REROUTING, THAT'S GREAT.
SO EVEN JUST DALLAS.GOV/ANIMALS, JUST SOMETHING SHORT AND SWEET SO THAT IT'S EASY FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND.
IT CAN BE A QUICK LINK ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THROUGH WEB ARTICLES.
THAT'D BE SUPER HELPFUL WHEN IT COMES TO NEIGHBORHOOD WALKTHROUGHS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
UM, MY CHALLENGE THERE WOULD JUST BE HOW ARE WE LOGGING AND KIND OF KEEPING TRACK OF ALL THESE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS? BECAUSE DIS IS SO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT HEAVY, SO LOOKING AT SOME KIND OF, UM, IT, I WANNA SAY CRM, BUT IT'S MORE SRM, SO STAKEHOLDER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT PLATFORM, UM, LIKE BOREALIS.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK INTO THAT JUST BECAUSE, UM, WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT ANY, ANYTIME YOU HAVE AN EMPLOYEE GOING OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND HAVING AN INTERACTION WITH A SPECIFIC GROUP, RESCUE GROUP NEIGHBORHOOD, THEY CAN LOG THAT, TRACK THAT.
AND THEN IF, LET'S SAY YOU HAVE TURNOVER AND SOMEONE ELSE COMES IN AND THEY'RE LIKE, HEY, WHAT WAS THE LAST CONVERSATION THAT HAPPENED WITH THIS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION? YOU CAN ACTUALLY GO INTO THE SYSTEM AND PULL THOSE NOTES AND ACTUALLY SEE THAT.
AND WE'RE STARTING TO SEE MORE AND MORE CITIES MOVE TOWARD THIS KIND OF SYSTEM BECAUSE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, IT IS SO QUALITATIVE AND IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO KEEP TRACK OF.
AND SO I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK INTO SOME KIND OF TOOL LIKE THAT.
UM, IF FINANCIALLY IT MAKES SENSE AND YOU HAVE THE, THE FUNDS FOR IT.
BUT BOREALIS IS ONE SYSTEM THAT, UM, I'VE REALLY LIKED.
AND THERE ARE OTHER COMPETITORS, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LOOK THAT UP.
UM, MY ONE QUESTION IS YOUR TIME.
WE'LL GO TO, UH, COMMISSIONER JAMESON VIRTUALLY IF SHE'S STILL THERE.
UH, ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO TO, UM, COMMISSIONER, UH, RSON.
IT'S JUST NOT LETTING ME, THE BUTTON JUST ISN'T WORKING.
WE, AND THEN WE'LL GO GEARING.
ARE YOU READY FOR ME? YOU'RE ON.
UM, AS I THINK IT WAS, VICTORIA JUST BROUGHT UP, I, I WANNA ADDRESS THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMUNITY CAT ORDINANCE.
'CAUSE THAT QUESTION WAS RAISED ABOUT WHAT I THINK BY COMMISSIONER SANDERS, WHAT THE PURPOSE WAS.
AND I WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME IT WAS BEING WRITTEN.
SO I CAN TELL YOU THE STATED PURPOSE WAS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO AN INDIVIDUAL IN D ONE WHO TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF TO DISPATCH.
HE CONSIDERED TO BE A NUISANCE FROM PROPERTIES HE OWNED, OFTEN IN CRUEL WAYS THAT DISAPPEARED NEIGHBORS, PETS FOREVER INTO AREAS UNFAMILIAR WITH THEM, LOGICAL RESULT BEING THEIR DEATHS.
SO THE STATED PURPOSE WHEN I WAS PLACED ON THE TASK FORCE WAS TO PUT PARAMETERS AROUND WHAT WAS ETHICAL AND LEGAL FOR PROPERTY OWNERS TO DO WHEN THEY PERCEIVED A COMMUNITY CAT AS A NUISANCE, DEFINE THAT AND CLEARLY ESTABLISH PUNITIVE RESPONSE WHEN THEY BREACHED THOSE.
AND THEN, AS YOU STATED, ALSO PROTECTING CAREGIVERS FROM BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE AS OWNERS OF THESE PETS.
BUT THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS, WE LEARNED THE DANGERS OF USING THAT WORD, SPECIFICALLY NUISANCE FOR THE CRIMES OF THESE CATS SIMPLY EXISTING IN PURSUIT OF STAYING ALIVE.
SO WE DID A LOT OF RESEARCH ON THIS.
SPECIFICALLY NUISANCE LANGUAGE IS A KNOWN ATTEMPT TO OTHER COMMUNITY CATS, WHICH STATISTICALLY EMPOWERS COMMUNITY CRUELTY AGAINST THEM, PROVIDES AN ESTABLISHED GATEWAY TO VIOLENCE AGAINST HUMANS, AS THAT'S A LOGICAL THING THAT HAPPENS.
THEY START WITH ANIMALS AND THEY MOVE TO HUMANS.
SO A STATED FOCUS OF ALL OF US INVOLVED AT THAT TIME
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WAS TO REMOVE ALL OF THIS OTHERING LANGUAGE AND INSTEAD PRIORITIZE EDUCATION ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF COMMUNITY CATS IMPORTANT IN CITIES.AT THAT TIME, ALL DAS LEADERSHIP INVOLVED.
I THINK, DANIEL, YOU CAME IN KIND OF TOWARD THE END OF IT, UH, AGREED WITH THIS.
SO WHAT I'M ASKING IS PLEASE PROVIDE THE JUSTIFICATION FOR IN DOING ALL OF OUR THOUGHTFUL DATA BACKED WORK AND BACKSLIDING INTO OTHERING LANGUAGE IN ORDINANCE DRAFTS NOW THE 3 1 1 APP.
AND SO MANY TIMES IN TODAY'S MEETING, I DON'T, UM, IT HASN'T CHANGED FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OTHER THAN TO POINT TO WHAT THOSE DEFINITIONS ARE BECAUSE THAT WAS THE FEEDBACK TO HAVE, UM, DEFINE THE NUISANCE PART OF IT.
AND NUISANCE IS ALREADY IN OUR ORDINANCE.
SO, UM, NONE OF THAT WAS, WE JUST POINTED TO THE CORRECT DIRECTION.
UM, THERE IS A PROVISION IN THERE THAT PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM REMOVING ANIMALS FROM THE AREA.
IT HAS TO HAVE DIRECTOR APPROVAL FOR, UM, REMOVING NUISANCE CATS.
UM, I UNDERSTAND THE RESEARCH, BUT, UM, WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T, WE JUST A POINTED TO WHAT WAS ALREADY, WE WERE BEING REALLY CLEAR THAT THE, THAT A COMMUNITY CAT OR COMMUNITY CAT COLONY EXISTING CANNOT CONSTITUTE A NUISANCE.
THAT THAT IS VERY CLEAR, CLEAR.
BUT UM, AND WHAT WE DID DEFINE AS A NUISANCE WAS, UM, THE ATTACKING BEHAVIOR, UM, THE LITTERING BEHAVIOR ON THE, ON BEHALF OF THE CAT COLONY.
AND THAT, AND THOSE THINGS, IT'S, IT'S VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT WHAT THOSE NUISANCES ARE IS ACTUALLY DEFINED.
UM, THE CREATION OF THE, OF THE SR, UM, SEPARATE IS TO BETTER FOR US TO BETTER TRACK THOSE TYPES OF CALLS VERSUS THOSE FOR SPAY NEUTER.
SO IT'S ACTUALLY MORE OF A, SO WE CAN TRACK OUR SPAY NEUTER AS OUR DISTRIBUTION BETTER SO THAT THEY'RE NOT MIXED IN WITH THOSE THAT ARE ABOUT NUISANCE CALLS.
SO, SO THAT'S THE, IT'S JUST ABOUT CLARIFICATION ON TYPES OF CALLS NOT TO OTHER, UM, THE, FOR OTHER LANGUAGES OR ANYTHING ELSE.
WHAT I, WHAT I'VE EXPERIENCED IS THE OPPOSITE IS THAT ALL OF MY CONSTITUENTS ARE SAYING THAT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW ARE THESE DIFFERENT, WHAT DO THEY MEAN? AND WHEN YOU GO INTO THE DESCRIPTIONS, IT DOESN'T SAY THINGS LIKE SR NUMBERS, IT DOESN'T SAY IT USES LANGUAGE THAT WE UNDERSTAND.
WE UNDERSTAND THAT SR IS SHORT FOR SERVICE REQUESTS, RIGHT? BUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR WORDS LIKE SR NUMBERS AREN'T SEEING IT.
AND SO THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM THE NUISANCE ONE.
THE FACT THAT NUISANCE COMES UP FIRST, IT PROBABLY HAS TO DO WITH ALPHABETICAL ORDER, I DON'T KNOW.
BUT, UM, BUT IT IS, IT'S A CONCERN.
AND PEOPLE AREN'T UNDERSTANDING IF COMMUNITY CATS ARE JUST NOW BEING CALLED A NUISANCE, IF THAT'S, IF THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE BEING STATED AS.
YEAH, IN THE, IN THE 3 1 1, WHICH I HAVEN'T KIND OF PULLED UP RIGHT NOW IS, BUT RIGHT, I LOOKING AT THE ANIMAL ANIMAL COMMUNITY CAT NUISANCE, AND THEN RIGHT UNDER THAT IS ANIMAL COMMUNITY CAT SPAY NEUTER SERVICES.
SO I GUESS I'M JUST NOT UNDERSTANDING, UM, THE, THE DIFFICULTY AND UNDER, UM, AND, AND THAT UNDERSTANDING, BECAUSE THE SPAY NEUTER SERVICE TO ME WOULD BE VERY CLEAR THAT THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE, THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD BE REQUESTING TO GET.
AND THE RE AN SR NUMBER FOR SPAY, UH, SPAY NEUTER SERVICES.
SO, SO, I MEAN, BUT WE'RE HA I'M HAPPY TO SPEAK WITH, WITH YOU OFFLINE AND, AND OUTSIDE OF THIS MEETING TO, TO KIND OF CLARIFY IF THERE'S THINGS THAT WE NEED TO WORK WITH WITH 3 1 1 TO MAKE THINGS MORE CLEAR, WE CAN DO THAT, UM, OUTSIDE OF THIS MEETING.
AND THE OTHER REASON WE DID SPLIT IT UP IS BECAUSE MY DISPATCHERS AND ALSO OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM WERE RECEIVING SERVICE REQUESTS, BUT WHEN BY THE TIME THEY GOT TO THEM, THEY'RE LIKE, ALL WE NEEDED WAS AN SR.
SO WE WERE HAVING THAT DIFFICULT WHERE THEY'RE NOT GETTING THEIR SR.
AND IT WAS TAKING SO LONG TO RECEIVE THAT.
SO THIS ACTUALLY JUST MINIMIZES FOR, HEY, THIS IS ONE CALL, THIS IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF CALL AND TO GET IT QUICKER, AND IF THIS METHOD IS INEFFECTIVE, THEN WE'LL PIVOT AND WE'LL FIX IT.
BUT THIS IS, I MEAN, IT'S BEEN LESS THAN A MONTH THAT WE'VE BEEN USING IT, SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY DATA TO TRACK THAT.
AND THEY'RE, WHAT WHAT IS HAPPENING IS THEY'RE COMING TO ME AND GOING, WHY DOESN'T IT SAY JUST SR NUMBER? I'M LIKE, IT SAYS SERVICE REQUESTS.
THAT'S WHAT THE SR STANDS FOR.
BUT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHEN THERE'S NO ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE PROCESS IS BEING CHANGED AND THEY JUST GO IN TO LOG IN, THEY'RE
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STANDING IN LINE AT SPAY NEUTER NETWORK, THEY'RE TRYING TO GET THEIR THING DONE AND THEY CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.SO MAYBE IT'S A COMMUNICATION, MAYBE IT'S KIND OF DUMMY PROOFING THE LANGUAGE.
THOSE ARE JUST, UH, BUT, BUT THE, THE NUISANCE LANGUAGE, WE HAD REALLY GONE OUT OF OUR WAY TO ELIMINATE THAT AS A CONCEPTS.
AND SO THAT WHENEVER PEOPLE WOULD CALL IN AND SAY THINGS ABOUT NUISANCES, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, NO, THEY'RE NOT NUISANCES.
SO I WAS JUST NOTICING IT COMING BACK SEEMED TO BE KIND OF THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH THE ORDINANCE.
UM, I DO HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION.
UH, I OBVIOUSLY SUPPORT PEDIATRIC SPAY AND NEUTER RECOGNIZE ITS IMPORTANCE IN PREVENTING SHELTER OVERPOPULATION.
THE ASSOCIATION OF SHELTER VETERINARIANS IDENTIFIES WITH 1.5 POUNDS AS THE WEIGHT RANGE FOR SAFE PEDIATRIC STERILIZATION BY EMILY CONFIRMED ON MONDAY THAT DAS VETS ARE NOW STERILIZING KITTENS WEIGHING AS LITTLE AS ONE POUND BASED, UM, ON INDIVIDUAL VETERINARIANS COMFORT LEVELS.
UM, THIS ISN'T LIMITED TO KITTENS INSIDE THE SHELTER TO FACILITATE FASTER OUT OUTCOME.
I WANT TO CLARIFY THE, AS FOSTERS ARE BEING ENCOURAGED, LIKE CONTACTED, REACHED OUT TO, TO BRING IN THEIR ONE POUND KITTENS FOR SURGERY, DESPITE SOME OF THOSE SAME FOSTERS ALSO HAVING FOSTERED OLDER ANIMALS, THEY STILL HAVE THAT THEY'RE WAITING MONTHS FOR STERILIZATION APPOINTMENTS.
SO I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE MEDICAL AND OPERATIONAL JUSTIFICATIONS FOR LOWERING THE WHITE THRESHOLD.
IS THIS A FORMAL POLICY CHANGE? IS IT RELATED TO THE MANDATE TO COMPLETE 3,500 SURGERY BY YEAR END? AND IF SO, WHY AREN'T WE PRIORITIZING THE OLDER ANIMALS ALREADY IN WAITING WHO COULD POTENTIALLY BREED WITH THEIR SIBLINGS IN THEIR FOSTER HOMES? SO WE'RE LOOKING INTO, UM, STANDARDS ACROSS VETERINARIANS, UM, AS AN ORGANIZATION, UM, WITH, WE ONLY HAVE SO MANY SCHEDULING.
SO WITH THIS, WE HAVE A LOT OF ANIMALS OUT IN FOSTERS WHEN THEY'RE COMING IN FOR THEIR APPOINTMENTS.
WE HAVE SO MANY THAT DAY WE'RE PULLING FROM THE FLOOR.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE EVERY ANIMAL IS HEALTHY.
WE ARE LOOKING INTO THAT AND WE ARE LOOKING TO OUR STANDARDS AND TO STANDARDIZE ACROSS THE BOARD.
UM, WHEN WE'RE SPEAKING ABOUT SHELTER DIVERSION, DOES THAT INCLUDE, I I KNOW WE'RE STILL HAVING CONSISTENT ISSUES, UH, WITHIN 3 1 1, WHEN SOMEONE IS CALLING TO POTENTIALLY SURRENDER AN ANIMAL OR THEY FOUND AN ANIMAL, THEY'RE TRYING TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT TO DO FREQUENTLY, THEY'RE STILL BEING TOLD, AND WE HAVE LOTS OF DOCUMENTED CALLS ABOUT THEM BEING TOLD TO LEAVE ANIMALS IN PARKS.
IF THEY, WHENEVER PEOPLE, UM, ARE UP AT THE SHELTER TRYING TO SURRENDER AN ANIMAL THAT MAYBE THEY FOUND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET ON THE WAY TO WORK, THEY ARE BEING TOLD.
THAT LEFT IT OUTSIDE FOR CLARIFICATION ON THAT.
WHENEVER BEFORE JILLIAN, I'M SO SORRY.
BEFORE THEY ANSWER, DO YOU MIND IF I ASK MY QUESTIONS BECAUSE I HAVE TO RUN AND WE'RE AT THE END OF THE TIME.
AND I, I JUST WANTED SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH.
ALSO HAVE TO RUN, THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT MEETING, BUT I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS FROM SOME CONSTITUENTS IN MY, UH, DISTRICT THAT I WANTED TO ASK.
UM, FIRST WAS ABOUT, UH, ASKING WHY PET SUPPORT WAS MOVED INTERNALLY, UM, FROM UNDER SHELTER OPS TO MEDICAL, ASKING IF THEY STILL HAVE, UM, FIELD DOING INTAKE VERSUS MEDICAL.
AND, UH, A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER THE MULTIPURPOSE CENTER BE WHERE.
I KNOW, UM, SOME MEMBERS FROM MY DISTRICT ARE THE, BUT THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.
MAYBE, UH, ANSWER, UH, WE HAVE FOUR MINUTES.
COMMISSIONER JAMESON'S QUESTION, AND THEN IF WE CAN GET TO ANY OF COMMISSIONER GEARINGS.
SO THE, UM, LEAVING THE ANIMALS IN PARKS, IF YOU CAN GIVE ME SPECIFIC, UM, DAYS AND TIMES, IF THOSE ARE, I MEAN, THAT'S PROBABLY, THAT'S MORE OF A TRAINING ISSUE.
I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT THAT'S, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UH, WE'VE HEARD.
BUT WE, I'VE CONTACTED 3 0 1 AND THEY HAVE RECORDINGS AND WHEN WE SAY, HEY, THIS IS THE PERSON, OR THIS IS WHAT THE SR THEY TOLD THEM, THEY'VE GONE BACK AND LISTENED TO THAT RECORDING.
AND SOMETIMES IT IS JUST A TRAINING ISSUE AND SOMETIMES IT'S NOT THE, OR MAYBE IT WAS THE WORDING OR SOMETHING.
SO, YEAH, SO I, THE MORE INFORMATION I GOT, THE MORE INFORMATION I COULD GET THROUGH ONE, SO THAT WAY THEY COULD TEACH THEIR PEOPLE.
AND THEN, UM, AS FOR THE, WHY WAS PET SUPPORT MOVED, UH, FROM, UH, SHELTER TO MEDICAL? UH, HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW.
THAT HAPPENED BEFORE I STARTED.
YEAH, IT ALSO HAPPENED BEFORE I STARTED.
UM, AND I BELIEVE THE MINDSET WAS BECAUSE WE WORK SO CLOSELY TOGETHER WHEN THEY COME INTAKE, WE HAVE TO EVALUATE RIGHT AWAY.
UM, IT'S FOR STAFF TRAINING FOR THOSE CRITICAL, UM, AND JUDGMENT CALLS COMING IN.
UM, I CAN TELL YOU WE LOVE WORKING TOGETHER.
UM, WE DO A LOT OF CROSS TRAINING, UM, AND WE'RE
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ABLE TO UTILIZE STAFF ACROSS BOTH DEPARTMENTS.WELL, YEAH, AND SHELTER HAS SO MANY PROGRAMS ALREADY.
THEY WORK SO CLOSELY, THEY'RE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER.
UM, AND THE QUESTION ABOUT FIELD DOES THEIR OWN IN INTAKES ON INCOME, WHEN THEY DO COME IN FOR, UH, THEY BRING IN THE, THEY DO DO OUR VACCINES AT THE MOMENT.
YEAH, WE WANNA ALWAYS TRY AND HIT THOSE VACCINES AS SOON AS THEY'RE ENTERING.
UM, IF WE HAVE STAFF TRAINED AND WE HAVE PROTOCOLS IN PLACE, WE'RE USING THEM.
ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY, WE'RE RIGHT HERE.
UM, JUST SHY OF OUR, UH, SCHEDULED MEETING TIME.
WANNA THANK, UH, FOTI AND OPK HUMANE SOCIETY FOR ATTENDING AND SHARING WHAT YOU HAVE GOING ON.
UH, REPRESENTATIVE FROM OUR CITY LEGAL TEAM BEING HERE.
AND I WILL ALSO COM, UH, JUST ENCOURAGE COMMISSIONERS THAT SORT OF HAVE THESE PROJECT IDEAS OR ONGOING WANTS.
UM, CERTAINLY WITH THE WALKTHROUGHS.
UH, COMMISSIONER BENNETT, IF YOU GUYS REACH OUT TO THE APPROPRIATE STAFF AND JUST FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THOSE THINGS GOING, GET STRUCTURES, GO SET UP AND, YOU KNOW, SEE THOSE THROUGH, THEN THEY CAN HAPPEN.
UH, A LOT MORE WORK IT SOUNDS LIKE WITH THE COMMUNITY.
AND WE'LL NEED A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
THANKS EVERYBODY FOR YOUR DEDICATION AND WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME.