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[CALL TO ORDER/GENERAL COMMENTS]
THE MEETING TO ORDER, PLEASE.[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
WE GO OVER THE MINUTES FROM LAST MONTH OR LAST QUARTER? OKAY, WE'RE JUST GOING OVER THE MINUTES, CORRECT? IF ANYBODY HAS, IF ANYBODY HAS ANY, UM, CHANGES OR ADDITIONS.MY MEMORY IS, THIS LOOKS VERY ACCURATE, SO I'LL NEED A MOTION TO ACCEPT THEM AS WRITTEN.
SO, SO THE MEETING, THE MEETING NOTES ARE APPROVED AS WRITTEN, SO I GUESS WE NEED SHELTER UPDATES OR WE CAN TALK ABOUT SHELTER STATS.
[2. Report on shelter statistics.]
UM, SO GOING OVER THE SHELTER STATS AND LIKE ALWAYS, I ALWAYS PROVIDE Y'ALL WITH THE, UH, THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, UH, JUST SO I CAN GET AN ACCURATE LOOK OF WHAT THE COUNCIL WOULD GET, UH, ONCE WE PUSH 'EM UP.SO, WITH DOGS IS, UM, THIS QUARTER WE WENT DOWN ON ANIMAL INTAKE, UH, DOG INTAKE.
THIS, THIS QUARTER, UM, WE ACTUALLY WENT DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE MOVED OVER TO, UM, UM, APPOINTMENT BASED DOG, UH, SURRENDERS, WHICH HAS HELPED US TREMENDOUSLY ON NOT OVERFLOWING AND HAVING SPACE FOR OUR STRAYS OR WHICH WE HAVE HAD.
UM, SO, UH, THE ADOPTION BASE IS REALLY HELPING, UH, IT'S BASED OFF OF NACA, WHICH IS THE NATURAL ASSOCIATION OF ANIMAL CONTROL, UM, THAT THEY HAVE PUT OUT STATING THAT THIS IS THE BEST WAY FOR US TO GO RIGHT NOW, SINCE WE'RE TAKING A LOT MORE ANIMALS THAN WE'RE ADOPTED AND HAS, IT HAS HELPED US TREMENDOUSLY.
OKAY, SO NOW A CITIZEN WALKS IN THE DOOR, AND I FOUND THIS ON THE CORNER AND THEY WANNA DUMP IT ON YOU.
IF THEY FIND A STRAY, THEY GOTTA PROVIDE PROPER, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY FOUND IT.
THAT WAY I KNOW WHERE TO PUT IT IN THE SYSTEM.
AND THEN THAT WAY, IF ANYBODY COMES LOOK FOR IT, HEY, WE MIGHT HAVE YOUR DOG OR SOMEBODY CALLS.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A CITIZEN THAT WALKS IN THE DOOR AND SAYS, I DON'T WANT THIS ANYMORE.
SO THE OFFICERS ARE ALL VERY GROOMED ON WHAT WE SAY TO THEM.
AND WHAT DO WE SAY TO THE PUBLIC? WE ALL HAVE THE SAME ANSWER TO EVERYBODY.
UM, BASICALLY WE ARE FULL, WE HAVE STRAY, UH, SHELL, UM, KENNELS OPEN, BUT OUR SURRENDER, OUR SURRENDER SIDE'S PRETTY FULL.
UM, AND THEN AT THAT POINT, WE DO HAVE RESOURCES THAT I HAVE, UH, I MADE A RESOURCE LIST THAT I HAVE AT THE SHELTER WHERE DIFFERENT RESCUES, BREACH SPECIFIC RESCUES, UM, YOU CAN CONTACT, UH, THE HUMANE SOCIETY.
YOU CAN CONTACT OPERATION KINDNESS, UH, POST 'EM ON FACEBOOK, POST 'EM ON, YOU KNOW, TRY TO GET 'EM TO A FAMILY MEMBER.
UH, AND IT'S REALLY HELPED US OUT BECAUSE WE HAVE GONE AND CALLED BACK TO AT LEAST 30, UH, PEOPLE THAT WE HAD ON A WAIT LIST.
AND OUT OF THOSE 30, WE ONLY HAD FIVE ANIMALS SURRENDERED.
THE REST OF 'EM SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE CHANGED OUR MIND.
OR, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND PUSH THIS DOG OUT TO A FAMILY MEMBER.
OR, HEY, I DID RE-HOME THE DOG TO SO-AND-SO OUTTA THE CITY, UH, IF THEY ARE IN THE CITY, WE ASK THEM TO PROVIDE US WITH INFORMATION SO THAT WAY WE CAN GO SPEAK TO THEM AND HAVE OUR ANIMALS REGISTERED.
HOW MANY, HOW MANY, UM, SPOTS ARE YOU SAVING FOR SURRENDERED DOGS? SO, AT LEAST 10, WE KEEP THE HELP BACKSIDE, AND WE, ON THIS, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'VE GOT STATISTICS FROM 2024, BUT THAT DOESN'T.
SO FISCAL YEAR 2024 STARTS OCTOBER 1ST.
JUST, I THOUGHT I SHOULD CLARIFY THAT.
SO, UH, IT DID GO DOWN FROM TOTAL INTAKE IN 2023 TO, UH, 1 26 TO NINE ONE THIS YEAR.
UM, ADOPTIONS WERE HIGHER ON 20 23, 40, 25 THIS YEAR.
UH, RETURN TO OWNERS, OBVIOUSLY THEY HAD A LOT MORE ANIMALS.
WE DID HAVE 38 OUT OF OUR 38, THOUGH, UH, OUR OFFICERS ARE BEING VERY PROACTIVE OF BEING OUT IN THE FIELD.
UH, MOST OF OUR RETURN TO OWNERS ARE OUT IN THE FIELD, SO THE ANIMAL DOESN'T EVEN TOUCH OUR SHELTER.
WE HAVE BEEN EVALUATING THE ANIMALS A LOT MORE AND TRYING TO GET 'EM OUT TO RESCUES, TRYING TO GET 'EM OUT AND ADOPTED WORKING WITH THEM A LOT MORE.
UH, SO OUR, OUR EUTHANASIA DID GO DOWN, UM, FROM 24 TO 15, UH, RESCUED ANIMALS.
UH, 14 LAST YEAR, NINE THIS YEAR, UH, SERVICED, WHICH WERE, UH, DECEASED ON ARRIVAL TWO LAST YEAR AND FOUR THIS YEAR.
UM, MOVING ON TO THE CATS, UH, TOTAL INTAKE DID GO UP THIS YEAR, UM, WHICH IS CRAZY 'CAUSE THIS IS KIND OF OUR SLOWER SEASON THAT THE FIRST QUARTER.
AND, UH, WE DID GO UP BY, BY A FEW.
68 THIS YEAR, AND 62 LAST YEAR.
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WERE 37, UH, ADOPTED.LAST YEAR WAS 40, UH, RETURNED TO OWNERS FOUR LAST YEAR AND WON THIS YEAR.
UH, EUTHANASIA WENT DOWN THERE AS WELL, UH, FROM, UH, 10 TO EIGHT.
UM, AND THEN RESCUES, UH, HAVE REALLY HELPED US OUT THIS QUARTER WITH, UH, PUSHING OUT 13.
AND LAST YEAR THEY ONLY HAD, WE ONLY HAD TWO, UM, WILDLIFE.
UH, GOING BACK TO WILDLIFE, AND THIS IS ANOTHER, UH, OF WHAT I SAID COUPLE QUARTERS AGO WHERE, UM, THERE WAS ZERO ALL ACROSS THE BOARD ON THE WILDLIFE.
UH, FOR 2023, AGAIN, IT SHOWS HERE, UH, ONLY TWO WERE INTAKEN IN 2023 AND WENT TO RESCUE THE REST OF IT.
IT IS ZERO EU AND ZERO SERVICE AND ZERO WILDLIFE RELEASED FOR OUR QUARTER OF 2024.
UH, WE EUTHANIZED FOUR FOR ILLNESSES.
WE RESCUED TWO, TWO RESCUES TO WHICH WERE TWO, UH, INJURED HAWKS, UM, RELEASED 17 BACK TO WILD, UH, SERVICE 44.
SO 44, UH, DECEASED ON ARRIVAL.
AND TOTAL INTAKE WAS 75 FOR US.
UH, FIELD CALLS FOR SERVICE, UH, AS I REPEAT AND I'LL KEEP REPEATING, UM, WE'VE, UH, I STRESSED THAT OFFICERS TO BE PROACTIVE, NOT REACTIVE, UM, AND PUTTING PATROLS IN REALLY GETTING OUT THERE AND SHOWING THAT WE'RE ENFORCING OUR ORDINANCES.
UH, WE WENT FROM 261 AND 2023 TO 516 CALLS.
SO WE JUMPED A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT NUMBER UP IN, UH, IN SERVICE CALLS.
ANIMAL INTAKE, UH, WAS, UH, 173 IN 2023 AND 2 0 6 IN 2024.
UH, RTOS RETURNED TO OWNERS WERE 54 IN 20 23, 40 AND 24.
SO THAT'S ALL THE ANIMALS PUT TOGETHER.
ADOPTED WERE 80 AND 23, 63 AND 24.
UH, RESCUED 18 AND 23, 24 AND 24.
UH, SERVICED WERE THREE AND 2324, WE HAD 52 AND WE EUTHANIZED A TOTAL ANIMALS WERE AT 23.
THERE WAS 34, AND THIS LAST QUARTER WAS, UH, 27.
SO WE WOULD HAVE GONE DOWN ON EUTHANASIA.
WHY DO YOU THINK THE NUMBER OF SERVICED SO BY THAT QUARTER? SO MOST OF IT WAS, LIKE I SAID, FOR THE WILDLIFE, UM, WILDLIFE MOSTLY.
SO, UH, THERE WAS JUST, UH, REALLY NONE INTAKE.
AND THAT SHOWS IN OUR SYSTEM IN 2023, IT MAY HAVE.
SO NOW THAT WE'RE PROPERLY INTAKEN EVERYTHING IN THE SYSTEM, IT'S GONNA SHOW A LOT BIGGER.
AND SO NEXT YEAR, WHENEVER WE COMPARE THE QUARTERS, IT'S NOT GONNA SHOW THAT BIG DIFFERENCE.
ARE YOUR, UH, FIELD OFFICERS, DO THEY HAVE A MICROCHIP READER WITH THEM? YES, MA'AM.
SO EVERYBODY HAS A NEW MICROCHIP SCANNER AND WE NOW ARE COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY, UH, STAFFED.
I'M GONNA TOUCH THAT HERE IN SHELTER UPDATES.
[3. Shelter updates.]
GO ON WITH THE SHELTER UPDATES NOW.UM, SO I KNOW THAT LAST TIME WE SPOKE WE HAD ONE VACANCY.
UM, WE DID HIRE A NEW HIRE AMANDA WHEELER ON A NOVEMBER 27TH.
WHAT, WHAT AMANDA? AMANDA WHEELER.
UH, SHE STARTED ON, ON NOVEMBER 27TH.
SHE HAS A LOT OF EXPERIENCE, UH, AS SHE WAS A SUPERVISOR FOR THE FIELD IN AMARILLO FOR MULTIPLE YEARS.
MOVED OVER TO GRAND PRAIRIE AND THAT'S WHERE I MET HER.
I WORKED FOR HER IN GRAND PRAIRIE.
UH, WE DID ALL THE CRUELTY CASES THERE.
AND THEN WHEN I MOVED AWAY, SHE MOVED OVER TO AN ANIMAL CLINIC AND, YOU KNOW, SHE WANTED TO COME BACK TO THE FIELD AND WE WERE ABLE TO INTERVIEW HER AND BRING HER ON BOARD.
UM, BUT AMANDA WHEELER'S A, IT'S A GREAT, SO SHE'S AN A CO, SHE'S, YEAH, SHE'S AN A CO DO WE HAVE A SUPERVISOR? A KENNEL CHECK? MM-HMM,
UM, AMANDA WHEELER DID GO GET RECERTIFIED FOR HER ACL COURSE.
UH, SHE WAS LAPSED WHENEVER SHE GOT HERE, SO WE DID SEND HER TO GET, UH, RECERTIFIED.
ALEX WAS SENT TO GET HER BICYCLE AND CRIMINAL CAPTURE CERTIFICATE.
UM, AND SSA AND AMANDA WILL BE GOING AT THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY TO GET THAT DONE AS WELL.
UH, SO THEY CAN CARRY THEIR ASS AROUND AND JUST IN CASE THEY RUN INTO ANY AGGRESSIVE DOG, THEY HAVE AN EXTRA TOOL ON THEIR DUTY BELT.
AND WHAT IS IT CALLED? WHAT, UH, A BIKE STICK.
UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OPEN HOUSE.
EVERY TIME WE GET AN OUTING AND WE CAN GET AT LEAST ONE ADOPTION, THAT'S, THAT'S ALWAYS A PLUS.
UM, THE ADOPTION DONATION SLASH SPONSOR TREE WAS A SUCCESS THIS YEAR FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
UM, HAD A LOT OF ANIMALS, A LOT OF CATS THAT WERE SPONSORED, AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET 'EM NEW HOMES.
UM, ANIMAL CONTROL WEEK WILL BE APRIL 14TH THROUGH THE 20TH OF 2024.
THIS ALSO CLASHES WITH, UM, DISPATCHER WEEK OR,
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BUT, AND, AND WHAT IS IT CALLED? WHAT WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IS IT? ANIMAL CONTROL WEEK.ANIMAL CONTROL WEEK DEPRECIATION WEEK.
SO, SO THE SPRING, THAT'S WHEN ALL THE SO DOES THAT WARRANT, PROCLAMATION AND OUR PEOPLE WILL BE CALLED UPON AND PICTURES.
AND JUST GOING BACK TO, UM, THE, UH, THE BITE STICK.
SO, UM, WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF, OF OUTFITTING OUR OFFICERS WITH PROPER AND BETTER EQUIPMENT FOR THEM TO USE.
SO THEY ARE ALL NOW WEARING DUTY BELTS.
WE DID GET OUR, UH, BEDFORD BADGES MADE, UM, AND I BROUGHT IT WITH ME JUST SO YOU GUYS CAN SEE IT.
SO IT'S BASICALLY JUST LIKE THE PD BADGE, BUT IT SAYS ANIMAL CONTROL ON IT, ANIMAL SERVICES, UM, ON THE DUTY BELT, THEY WILL BE, HAVE THEIR BITE STICK.
UM, AND THEN WE DID GET OUTFITTED FOR, UH, BALLISTICS BALLISTIC VESTS.
AND WE WILL BE GETTING THOSE, UH, FITTED NEXT WEEK, UH, OR BY THE END OF THIS WEEK AT GO SO THEY CAN START WEARING THOSE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
UM, SAD THAT THAT'S NECESSARY.
AND TO BE SAD THAT THAT'S NECESSARY.
I MEAN, THIS HAS GOTTA BE SOMETHING.
IT'S BETTER TO HAVE IT AND NEED THAN NEEDED.
UM, SO IN THE, THIS LAST, THOSE LAST YEAR, WE RAN INTO A COUPLE, UH, DANGEROUS DOGS OR AGGRESSIVE DOGS THAT HAVE CAUSES A LITTLE BIT OF AN ISSUE, UM, ESPECIALLY WITH OUR ORDINANCE.
UM, SO WE, WE'LL BE REVISING AND REVISITING THE DANGEROUS DOG ORDINANCE AND, AND UPDATING THAT.
UM, AND WE WILL BE ADDING AN AGGRESSIVE DOG ORDINANCE TO THE CITY.
UM, AND THAT WILL HELP MORE ON HAVING, UM, MORE, UM, MORE FOR AGGRESSIVE DOGS THAT ATTACK DOG ON DOGS, OR A DOG ATTACKS ANOTHER CAT OR A CAT ATTACKS A LITTLE DOG.
RIGHT? SO WE'LL HAVE MORE TO GO OFF OF.
UM, AND THOSE ORDINANCES WILL BE WORKED ON HERE SOON.
UH, WE'LL BE BRINGING HIM BEFORE CHIEF SO HE CAN OVERSEE HIM AND THEN BRING HIM TO COUNCIL.
UM, WE DID HAVE A POSITIVE, POSITIVE RABIES CASE TWO WEEKS AGO WITH A SKUNK, UH, THAT CAME OUT AND A ATTACKED TWO DOGS.
UM, THERE WAS NO, DOGS WEREN'T MESSING WITH IT.
THIS GUN CAME OUTTA NOWHERE, SURPRISED EVERYBODY AND JUMPED ON THE LARGER DOG.
UH, AND THEN THE SMALLER DOG JUMPED ON THE SKUNK.
UM, WE DID GO OUT IMMEDIATELY TO THE SURFACE OF THE CALL.
UM, MYSELF AND OFFICER MCGEE WALKED THE TRAIL AND WE FOUND THE SKUNK DECEASED.
UH, WE DID TAKE THE SKUNK AND, UM, SEND IT OFF TO SPECIMEN TESTING TO AUSTIN, AND IT DID COME BACK POSITIVE FOR RABIES, UH, ON YOUR LEFT SIDE, OR IT SHOULD STILL BE ON YOUR LEFT SIDE.
I SHOULD HAVE, UM, A NOTE THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE THIS, THAT WE SENT OUT.
WELL, THAT WE WENT OUT, KNOCKED DOOR TO DOOR AND HANDED IT TO EVERY CITIZEN THAT LIVES WITHIN THAT PARAMETER.
UM, AND MOLLY AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA GROUP DID EVERYTHING THEY COULD TO SEND IT OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITES AND PUT IT ON THE CITY WEBSITE SO EVERYBODY WAS NOTIFIED.
UM, WHAT AREA, WHERE WAS IT? IT WAS CLOSER TO YOUR CLINIC.
UH, IT'S ON CHEEKS, BARGER AND SILVER.
SO IT WAS RIGHT THERE BY THE WALMART, UH, RIGHT BEHIND THE WALMART, ACTUALLY.
SO WE REACHED OUT TO, UH, BOTH ELI AND COLLEYVILLE AS SOON AS WE HAD THE ATTACK TO KNOW, SEE IF THEY HAD ANYTHING SIMILAR.
SO WE STAYED IN TOUCH WITH THEM THROUGH THE WHOLE PROCESS TO MAKE SURE, 'CAUSE IT'S RIGHT THERE ON THE BORDER.
MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAD ALL THE INFORMATION.
WERE THE DOGS AREN'T VACCINATED, WERE THEY CURRENT? THE DOGS WERE VACCINATED, SO, SO, WELL THAT'S GOOD.
THINK THEY TOOK THEM IN A BOOSTER.
UM, SO WE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING PROACTIVE INSTEAD OF WAITING OR REACTIVE UNTIL THE RESULTS CAME BACK.
SO WE SENT SOMETHING OUT THE DAY OF TO LET ALL THE RESIDENTS KNOW.
UM, AND, AND THEN ONCE WE, WE GOT THE NOTIFICATION, WE PIO TEAM PUT THAT BACK OUT SO EVERYBODY WAS AWARE THEN, UM, I, I, I THINK WE TOOK THE BITE OUT OF IT A LITTLE BIT BY, BY GETTING OUT THERE AND GETTING THE INFORMATION.
SO LET EVERYBODY KNOW TO, TO WATCH, CHECK THEIR ANIMALS OUT, TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY KIND OF INJURIES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
SO, BUT THEY, UH, THEY DID A GREAT JOB OF, FIRST OF ALL, FINDING THE SKUNK RIGHT OFF THE BAT SO WE CAN GET THE THING TESTED, WHICH IS, YEAH, THAT'S PRETTY BASIC.
UM, AND THEN GOING BACK TO, UH, THE QUESTION THAT MS. KELLIAN HAD EARLIER ABOUT, UM,
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ANIMALS OUT IN THIS WEATHER, IN THIS TEMPERATURE THAT'S HAPPENED.UM, SO AGAIN, WE'RE GONNA GO BACK AND REVISIT THE ORDINANCE, UH, ESPECIALLY ONLY ON THE CRUELTY SIDE FOR, FOR SHELTER AND STUFF, SHELTERING AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
UM, THAT WILL MAKE IT EASY FOR US TO DO OUR JOB.
IS WILL THAT BE FOR HOT AND COLD? YES, IT'LL BE FOR BOTH.
AND AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO WHAT? GO ON THEIR PROPERTY.
CAN YOU, WE WILL STILL NOT BE ABLE TO INGRESS ON THEIR PROPERTY.
UM, BUT WE CAN INVESTIGATE IT A LITTLE, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE FURTHER.
UM, AND THEN THE SHELTER, UH, OBVIOUSLY, UH, CHIEF WILL TOUCH A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, BUT WE DID HAVE ANOTHER MEETING FOR THE SHELTER UPDATE AND, UH, THE RECONSTRUCTION.
SO, UH, TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BEING ABLE TO GO INTO THE PROPERTY.
SO ANIMAL PATROL HAS TO FOLLOW THE SAME SEARCH AND SEIZURE RULES THAT, THAT WE DO AS POLICE OFFICERS.
SO, UM, SO THEY CAN'T JUST IMPOSE ON THERE IF THERE'S, IF THEY HAVE, UH, PROBABLE CAUSE TO ACTUALLY ENTER THAT PROPERTY, THEY CAN OBTAIN A WARRANT AND GO IN AND, AND, AND RETRIEVE ANIMALS IF THEY NEED TO.
SO, UM, ONTO THE ANIMAL SHELTER.
SO WE MET WITH THE, UH, THE ARCHITECTURE FIRM, UH, THIS LAST FRIDAY.
AND WE'RE, WE'RE STILL IN THE INFANCY OF THIS.
SO JUST TO KIND OF GO OVER WHAT THE NEEDS ARE, WHAT THEY THINK THE NEEDS ARE COMPARED TO WHAT WE THINK THE NEEDS WILL BE.
SO THERE'S REALLY NOT A BIG UPDATE TO GIVE AT THIS POINT.
SO, BUT YOU TWO ARE HAVING INPUT.
YOU'RE TELLING THEM, YOU KNOW, WE ARE CONCERNED.
THIS, YOU, YOU, YOU KNOW WHAT WE NEED.
OVER THE NEXT PROBABLY MONTH, TWO MONTHS, WE'LL GET DOWN TO WHAT IT IS ACTUALLY THAT WE WANT IN THE FACILITY.
YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE THIS WITH MY KIDS, YOU HAVE YOUR WANTS AND YOU HAVE YOUR NEEDS.
WE'RE GONNA COVER THE NEEDS AND WE'LL ADDRESS AS MANY OF THE WANTS AS WE CAN DURING THE PROCESS.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S, WE DON'T HAVE A BOTTOMLESS BUCKET OF MONEY TO, UH, TO GO, GO BUILD THE, THE, THE GREATEST SHELTER EVER OUT.
WE'LL COME UP WITH SOMETHING VERY NICE.
IT'LL GONNA BE FABULOUS BECAUSE I AM THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
AND THE END GAME, WHEN YOU WALK IN THERE, YOU'LL BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU SAID.
YOU KNOW WHAT I WANTED AND I'M NOT HAPPY WHEN I DON'T GET WHAT I WANT.
THIS IS SUCH A STUPID QUESTION.
OKAY, SO NOW WE'VE GOT THE PLAN.
WE DON'T HAVE A PLAN HOW YOU, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU WHAT'S THE ANTICIPATED TIME IT'S GONNA TAKE TO, TO DO THIS AND WHERE ARE OUR, OUR ANIMALS GOING AND WHAT, WHAT, WHAT'S THE PLAN? WE ARE, WE ARE STILL A LONG WAY.
SO WE ARE A LONG WAYS AWAY FROM HAVING TO SHELTER ANIMALS ELSEWHERE.
SO, UM, THE DESIGN AND ALL THAT PHASE IS GONNA TAKE THE MAJORITY OF THIS TIME.
SO I DON'T KNOW, IS THE, IS THE ANSWER.
UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT'S GONNA TAKE UNTIL WE GET DOWN TO THE NITTY GRITTY.
HOW BIG OF A PLAN WE WANT TO DO.
YOU KNOW, THE BIGGER THE PLAN, THE MORE ORNATE, THE MORE CHANGES THAT WE'RE DOING INSIDE THE FACILITY, YOU KNOW, UM, WE COULD LENGTHEN THAT.
WELL, THE BIG, THE BIGGER THE BETTER.
BUT THEN WE'RE GONNA NEED MORE STAFF, AREN'T WE? HOW DO WE GET THAT GOING? WELL, WE'RE NOT THERE YET, SO, OH, A LOT OF TIMES BIGGER DOES NOT ALWAYS NEED MORE STAFF.
IF YOU CAN BUY IT A MORE BUILD A AND REDESIGN A MORE EFFICIENT, UH, SHELTER AND BUILDING, IT ACTUALLY REDUCES THE NUMBER OF STAFF.
'CAUSE THEN YOU, YOU HAVE WALKING TIME TO TAKE THE DOG FROM HERE TO THERE.
THE CAT FROM HERE TO THERE WHERE IF THEY CAN OPEN A GUILTING DOOR AND THE DOG GOES OUTSIDE, THAT STAFF TIME IS SAFE.
SO, UM, SO WE'RE, SO YOU MET WITH THEM AND, AND JOSE DID.
DO YOU LIKE THEM? DO YOU LIKE THESE PEOPLE? YEAH, THEY'RE GREAT.
THEY'VE DONE GREAT SHELTERS AROUND THE AREA.
DID YOU LET THEM KNOW THAT THIS IS BETTER BE TOP? OH YEAH.
BETTER BE TOP DOG HERE, FOLKS.
I HAD, I WISH I HAD BETTER ANSWERS FOR YOU, BUT I DON'T THIS POINT, SO, AND, AND ONCE AGAIN, YEAH, I JUST, YOU KNOW, I, YOU KNOW, I, I LOOK AT LIFE NOW.
I'M, I'M LIMITED, YOU KNOW, I, I COULD BE DEAD TOMORROW FOR GOD'S SAKE.
SO I GOTTA MAKE SURE I GET, YOU KNOW, I, YEAH.
AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE, UH, WHAT, LAYING OFF STAFF OR GONNA KEEP OUR PEOPLE, OUR TEAM AND, YOU KNOW, JUST SO WE WILL NOT BE NO PERFECT.
EVERYONE'S, EVERYONE'S KEEPING THEIR JOBS GOOD.
OUR PEOPLE, FOR ME, OUR PEOPLE, IF OUR PEOPLE ARE HAPPY, THEN THOSE CREATURES MM-HMM.
AND THAT'S IF OUR PEOPLE AREN'T BEING TREATED RIGHT THEN, YOU KNOW.
SO THAT'S WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT.
IF IT'S NONE OF MY BUSINESS, JUST TELL ME TRUTH.
YOU KNOW ME FOR A LONG TIME, SO.
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I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE.YOU GUYS HAVE ANYTHING? I DON'T THINK SO.
ARE WE STILL DOING THE INSPECTION TODAY? YES, WE'RE STILL DOING THE INSPECTION.
WHAT ARE WE DOING? I'M DOING AN INSPECTION.
THE ANNUAL INSPECTION OF THE FACILITY.
OH, HOW ARE YOU? PART OF MY JOB DESCRIPTION.
YEAH, WE GOTTA I SURE NEXT TIME, NEXT TIME IT'LL BE A SURPRISE.
THIS TIME THEY SCHEDULE, WE GOT INSPECTION FROM THE STATE AND, AND A VETERINARIAN OF YEAR.
SO YOU'LL HAVE YOUR EYE OUT FOR THINGS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED WITH.
I'M SURE IT'S ALL GONNA BE WONDERFUL WITH A NEW SHELTER.
YOU KNOW, I WANTED A NEW SHELTER, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS ON.
ANY, ANYTHING ELSE ANYBODY NEEDS TO TALK ABOUT? I THINK WE CAN ASK, ASK FOR DR.
RE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEAVE? NO, I'M GONNA, I DON'T GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE.