* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. YOU'RE GOOD. OKAY. [00:00:01] OKAY. I'M GONNA OFFICIALLY [CALL TO ORDER/GENERAL COMMENTS] CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER OF THE SHELTER ADVISORY BOARD. AND, UH, WE [APPROVAL OF MINUTES] NEED TO TALK ABOUT APPROVING THE MINUTES. SO WE HAVE THREE SETS TOO. SO THERE'S THREE SETS, AND I'M JUST GONNA EXPLAIN 'EM REAL QUICK. OKAY. GO AHEAD. UH, THE REASON WHY WE'RE DOING THE APRIL 7TH AND AUGUST 11TH AGAIN IS 'CAUSE WE PRESENTED LAST TIME, BUT DR. REED HADN'T BEEN HERE FOR THAT ONE TO SIGN OFF ON 'EM. SO I PUT 'EM BACK ON THIS, UH, AGENDA SO WE CAN GO BACK OVER 'EM, GET HER TO SIGN OFF ON ALL THREE OF 'EM AS WELL. SO, AUG APRIL 7TH, AUGUST 11TH, WHERE I PRESENTED LAST TIME. UM, AND THEN FEBRUARY 16TH WITH OUR LAST ADVISORY BOARD MEETING. SO THE, THAT'S THE ONES THAT ARE THE UPDATED ONES. THIS IS THE ONE I WAS NOT AT, SO, CORRECT. I CAN'T REALLY CORRECT. MAKE A MOTION ON THIS ONE. CORRECT. SO JOEY WASN'T HERE EITHER, I ASSUME. YEAH. YOU WEREN'T HERE EITHER, SO IT'S JUST GONNA BE ME AND HIM. . SO, UM, SO ARE THERE ANY CHANGES THAT NEED TO BE MADE? THERE'S NO CHANGES THAT NEED TO BE MADE TO MAKE A MOTION. OKAY. WE WILL PROBABLY ALL SAY I, AYE, AYE. SO THEY'RE APPROVED AS WRITTEN. OKAY. AND I JUST NEED YOU TO SIGN THOSE AS WELL. I'LL GIVE THEM THAT TO YOU. I'LL DO IT NOW. I DON'T LEAVE WITH THEM. OKAY. SO LET'S [2. Report on shelter statistics.] GO ON TO YOUR NEW BUSINESS. GO AHEAD AND DO YOUR, ALRIGHT, SO WE'RE JUST GONNA GO OVER THE SHELTER STATS. UM, SO WE GOT YOUR PEOPLE ON THE BOARD. UH, JUST GONNA EXPLAIN REAL QUICK HOW WE GO OVER THE STATS. UH, SO I, I PRESENT THEM, I PRESENT THEM TO YOU QUARTERLY. UH, SO, UH, THE ONES THAT WE HAVEN'T PRESENTED FOR THIS YEAR IS QUARTER TWO AND QUARTER THREE. SO THAT'S QUARTER TWO, JANUARY TO MARCH, AND QUARTER THREE IS GONNA BE APRIL THROUGH JUNE. OKAY. UH, WE'RE CURRENTLY IN THE FOURTH QUARTER RIGHT NOW. SO GOING INTO THE DOGS, UM, IT'S JUST THE BLUE SIDE IS GONNA BE YEARS PAST. SO 25 AND THE, THE WHITE BAR IS GONNA BE 2026. OKAY. UH, SO FOR ADOPTED, UH, WE WENT DOWN ON ADOPTIONS. IT IS, IT IS A TREND THAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. UH, EVERY QUARTER WE'RE SEEING LESS AND LESS ADOPTIONS. UM, SO WE WENT FROM 25 TO 17. UH, THIS YEAR, UH, RETURN TO OWNERS DID GO UP. THIS IS PART OF THE BEING PROACTIVE AND BEING OUT IN THE FIELD. UH, AND, AND KNOWING THAT REPEAT OFFENDERS AND HOW WE CAN RETURN 'EM, WE WENT 'EM FOR 49 TO 52. UH, EUTHANASIA DROPPED, NOT SIGNIFICANT, BUT IT DID DROP FROM 10 TO NINE RESCUED. SO, UH, JUST A QUICK DESCRIPTION ON THE RESCUE PART, UH, IS ACTUALLY SENDING THEM TO RESCUE PARTNERS, NOT JUST BRINGING 'EM INTO THE SHELTER, RIGHT? SO THEY GO OUT TO, OUT OF THE STATE, UH, SENDING 'EM UP TO NEW YORK AND CONNECTICUT AND STUFF LIKE THAT. SO, UH, RESCUED WENT UP FROM 14 TO 18. SERVICED, WE PUT IT AS SERVICE, BUT THOSE ARE DOAS, DEAD ON ARRIVAL. SO HIT BY CARS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. THAT WENT DOWN FROM FOUR TO ONE. TOTAL INTAKES ON DOGS WENT UP FROM 95 TO 1 0 3. ARE YOUR EUTHANASIA, ARE THOSE BEHAVIORAL OR ILL, SO IT JUST DEPENDS. LIKE, UH, I KNOW THAT FOR THAT SECOND QUARTER WE HAD TWO HBCS, TWO HIT BY CARS THAT WENT, WE HAD TO MAKE A DECISION IMMEDIATELY. AND THEN ONE OF 'EM WAS FOR AGGRESSION. OKAY? MM-HMM . UM, CATS, UH, ADOPTED, AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, IT IS QUARTERLY IS SHOWING THE TREND. UH, 35 TO 21 RETURN TO OWNER. WE WENT FROM FIVE TO SEVEN, UH, EUTHANASIA, UH, TWO TO THREE. AND YOU, YOU'RE GONNA SEE HERE, BIG JUMP IN IN THE RESCUE. WE WENT FROM 18 TO 80, UH, 85. AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF OUR, UH, LARGE SCALE SEIZURE. WE HAD THAT IN FEBRUARY. SO THAT'S PART OF THAT. UM, UH, TOTAL INTAKES WENT FROM 72 TO 137. UH, WILDLIFE, UH, EUTHANASIA WENT FROM EIGHT TO 10, UH, RESCUED OR SENT TO, YOU KNOW, SENT TO THEIR RESCUES. UH, SEVEN TO 26, UH, RELEASED BACK TO THE WILD. SO THOSE WERE ANIMALS THAT WERE IN TRAPS AND STUFF, OR IN HOMES THAT WE COULD JUST RELEASE BACK 'CAUSE THEY WERE STILL HEALTHY. WENT THREE TO EIGHT, SURFACED WENT FROM 58 TO 60, AND TOTAL INTAKE WENT FROM 63 TO 19, UH, TOTALS FOR THAT QUARTER. UH, TOTAL ANIMAL INTAKE WENT FROM 230 IN 2025 TO 359 THIS YEAR. UH, TOTAL RETURN TO OWNERS WENT FROM 54 TO 60. ADOPTED WENT FROM 60 TO 49, UH, TOTAL RESCUED, SENT TO RESCUES IN, IN SANCTUARIES WAS 32 TO 1 0 5. TOTAL SERVICE WENT FROM 58 TO 73. [00:05:02] AND THEN WE GO INTO OUR CALLS FOR SERVICE. UH, WE WENT FROM, UH, 1,227 TO 1,395 THIS YEAR. SO WE WENT UP, UH, QUITE A FEW CALLS THERE. UH, THAT WAS THE SECOND QUARTER. NOW WE'RE GOING INTO THE THIRD QUARTER, UM, FOR DOGS FOR THE STORED THIRD QUARTER. WE WENT FROM, AGAIN, YOU COULD SEE THE DROP IN EVEN THIS QUARTER FROM THIS YEAR, UH, IN ADOPTIONS. WE WENT FROM 31 TO 16. UH, RETURN TO OWNERS. WENT FROM 72 TO 53 EUTHANIZED. WE STAYED THE SAME AT EIGHT AND EIGHT, UH, RESCUE DOGS. THEY WENT UP THIS, THIS QUARTER FROM 14 TO 28. AND THAT'S BECAUSE WE, UH, WERE ABLE TO JUMP ON THREE SHIPMENTS FROM WINGS HILL RESCUE UP, UP NORTH, UH, THREE MONTHS IN A ROW. UM, SERVICE WENT FROM SIX TO THREE AND TOTAL INTAKES WENT FROM 120 TO 1 0 2. CATS, UH, WENT FROM 25 ADOPTED TO 36. SO THAT ONE WENT UP. UH, RETURN TO OWNERS WENT FROM TWO TO NINE. UH, EUTHANIZED WENT FROM 13 TO 16. UM, AND THAT'S BECAUSE THIS QUARTER WE STARTED SLOWING DOWN ON, UM, UH, SOME OF THE, UM, UH, I'M SORRY, UM, BARN CAT. THE BARN CAT. IT WAS A LITTLE HARDER TO TO PUSH 'EM OUT. UH, RESCUED, WE WENT FROM 49 TO 50, UM, STILL PUSHING OUT A LARGE AMOUNT OF CATS TO RESCUES. UH, AND TOTAL INTAKE WENT FROM A HUNDRED THIRTEEN, A HUNDRED FORTY THREE. UH, WILDLIFE, UH, WENT FROM 12 TO 19 WITH THE WILDLIFE ON EUTHANASIA. UH, SENT TO RESCUE, WENT FROM ONE TO 30, UH, RELEASED TO WALL. WENT FROM 29 TO 22. SERVICE WENT FROM 87 TO 1 0 1. TOTAL INTAKES WENT FROM 31 33 TO 1 74. UH, AND TOTALS FOR THIS QUARTER. UH, 20 IN 25, WE WENT FROM TOTAL ANIMAL INTAKES FROM 360 6 TO FOUR 16. UH, TOTAL RETURN TO OWNERS WENT FROM 75 TO 62. TOTAL ADOPTIN WENT FROM 58 TO 53. TOTAL RESCUE WENT FROM 64 TO 88. TOTAL SERVICE WENT FROM ONE 10 TO ONE 19. AND TOTAL CALLS FOR SERVICE WENT FROM, UH, ONE DOWN 290 TO 1,350. SO STILL, UH, INCREASING ON THE NUMBER OF COSTS. THAT'S OUR SHELTER. UM, UH, STATS AND YOU WANNA [3. Shelter updates.] ROLL INTO SHELTER UPDATES. SO I GOT A COUPLE UPDATES. I KNOW WE'VE BEEN, WE HAVEN'T HAD A MEETING, SO GIMME A SECOND HERE. UM, SO WE ATTENDED THE MEGA EVENT, WENT WITH 15 ANIMALS AND LEFT WITH NONE. SO ALL OF THEM WENT TO THEIR HOMES. UM, CLEAR SHELTER WAS A WEEK RIGHT AFTER THE MEGA ADOPTION EVENT. UH, THAT WAS AT THE TEMPORARY SHELTER. WE HAD THREE ADOPTIONS. UM, WE HAVE FOUR EVENTS COMING UP. UH, FOUR ADOPTION EVENTS. ONE'S GONNA BE AT ART IN THE PARK ON OCTOBER 3RD. UH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE, WE'RE GONNA BE AT THE LIBRARY AT THE PUMPKIN PATCH ON OCTOBER 17TH. WE'RE GONNA BE AT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OPEN HOUSE ON OCTOBER 24TH. AND WE WILL BE JOINING THE PD TRUNK OR TREAT OCTOBER 25TH. UH, WE WON'T HAVE ANY ANIMALS THERE. WE'LL JUST HAVE ONE OF OUR TRUCKS IN OUR UNITS OUT THERE. UM, NOVEMBER 1ST THROUGH SEVENTH IS ANIMAL SHELTER WEEK. UH, SO JUST PUTTING THAT OUT THERE. UM, AND THEN MOVING RIGHT ON TO THE, THAT THAT MOVE TO ELI HAPPENED IN MAY. UM, EVERYTHING WENT SMOOTHLY. UM, BIG THANK YOU TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR ALLOWING TO USE THEIR TRAILER AND ALLOWING US TO USE CHIEF FOR SOME FREE, UH, LABOR . AND THEN, UM, BIG SHOUT OUT TO THE GUYS FROM ULI FOR REALLY TAKING US IN AND, AND, AND MAKING US FEEL COMFORTABLE THERE. WHEN, WHEN WE ARRIVED ON THAT INTO THAT BUILDING. 'CAUSE WE SHARED FOR, WHAT, THREE WEEKS, ROBERT? ROUGHLY THREE WEEKS? YEAH, THREE WEEKS. UM, OUR BUILDING, IT'S COMING ALONG PRETTY WELL AND PRETTY QUICK. UM, THE POUR FOR ALL THE FOUNDATION, THE CAGES, UM, ALL THE CMU WALLS INSIDE HAVE BEEN PUT UP. SO EVEN WALKING IN RIGHT NOW, IT LOOKS LIKE AN ENTIRE DIFFERENT BUILDING. UM, YOU KNOW, UH, CHIEF AND I WERE TALKING THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT [00:10:01] SLAB LOOKS SO MUCH BIGGER. IT'S JUST GONNA ADD SO MUCH MORE SPACE TO THE BUILDING. UM, BUT IT'S COMING ALONG PRETTY WELL. UM, THEY SAID ONCE THE FOUNDATION WAS POURED, IT WAS GONNA COME ALONG EVEN QUICKER. 'CAUSE THEY COULD PUT UP WALLS, THEY'RE GONNA CLOSE IT OFF FROM THE OUTSIDE. SO WE'RE GONNA SEE A PRETTY, UH, DRASTIC CHANGE HERE WITHIN THE NEXT TWO TO THREE WEEKS. UM, OUR STATE INSPECTION, OBVIOUSLY OUR BUILDING USUALLY HAPPENS IN DECEMBER. THAT'S GONNA HOLD OFF TILL OUR NEW BUILDING'S UP. UM, WHICH WOULD PROBABLY BE END OF MARCH, EARLY APRIL. OUR DEA LICENSE WAS JUST RENEWED, UM, ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO. SO WE, WE JUST GOT THAT TAKEN CARE OF. UM, TALK ABOUT OUR ACLS AND THEIR, ALL OF THEM ARE UP TO DATE RIGHT NOW ON THEIR CE HOURS. UH, SO EVERYBODY IS STILL GOOD. UM, ALEX AND AKEA DID ATTEND TEXAS UNITES THIS YEAR, UM, AND, AND BROUGHT BACK A BUNCH OF GOOD INFORMATION THAT WE'RE INPUT INTO OUR DAY-TO-DAY HERE IN THE SHELTER. UM, AMANDA AND LESLIE WILL BE ATTENDING, UH, TACO, WHICH IS THE TEXAS ANIMAL CONTROL ASSOCIATION. UH, THERE, THEY'LL BE ATTENDING THAT IN NOVEMBER. UM, SO HOPEFULLY THEY'LL GO OUT THERE AND BRING SOME GOOD IDEAS BACK THAT'LL HELP OUR, OUR DEPARTMENT GROW. UM, AND THEN I KNOW THAT OUR NEXT MEETING WON'T BE SCHEDULED TILL AROUND DECEMBER. UM, SO I JUST WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT YES, WE ARE STILL DOING A TREE EVEN THOUGH WE ARE IN A DIFFERENT BUILDING. UH, WE'LL STILL PUT THE TREE UP AND, UM, YOU KNOW, PUT UP ALL THE TAGS THAT WE USUALLY DO AND, AND INVITE PEOPLE IN TO DO ALL THOSE, ALL THOSE GOOD DONATIONS. AND THAT'S ALL THAT I HAVE FOR SHELTER UPDATES. HOW ABOUT HOW MANY ANIMALS ARE IN THE SHELTER NOW? UH, SO WE DID SHRINK DOWN IN SIZE, UM, BUT WE'VE BEEN DOING PRETTY WELL, STILL SENDING 'EM OUT. AND THEN, UH, THOSE TWO BIG ADOPTION EVENTS THAT WE HAD, UH, GREAT, REALLY HELPED US OUT. SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE ALL, WE'RE HOLDING AT ABOUT 10, 11 DOGS. UH, WE WERE JUST FULLING CATS AND WE GOTTA GET, WE GOT ALL OUR FERAL CATS OUT, UH, LAST WEEK, UM, WHICH WAS GREAT. ANOTHER BARN CAT TOOK IT, UM, IS, WHICH IS AWESOME. I THINK IT WAS ABOUT SIX CATS THAT LEFT. UH, AND THAT OPENED UP A WHOLE BUNCH OF CAGES. BUT ALSO OUR CAT ROOM IS SIGNIFICANTLY SMALLER THAN WHAT WE HAD BEFORE. SO, UH, WE'RE CONSTANTLY FULL IN THERE, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO PUSH 'EM OUT. UM, WE DID HAVE AN OUTBREAK OF UPPER RESPIRATORY IN CATS, UH, AGAIN, SO WE SHUT DOWN FOR TWO WEEKS AND WE SHOULD BE OPENING HOPEFULLY, UM, SOMETIME THIS WEEK. BUT ONE OF OUR CATS IS STILL PRETTY SICK. UM, AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE THAT STILL SHOWED SOME SNEEZING THIS MORNING. SO, UH, WE'RE GONNA TAKE THEM TO GET REEVALUATED AND IF WE NEED TO HOLD OFF A LITTLE BIT LONGER, WE'LL, WE'LL HOLD OFF A LITTLE BIT LONGER. WHEN DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE BACK IN THE ORIGINAL BUILDING? WE'RE, WE'RE HOPING THAT EVERYTHING STATES, UH, TO THE TIMELINE THAT THEY HAVE AND IT'LL PROBABLY BE EARLY APRIL THAT WE'RE IN THAT WE'RE BACK IN OUR BUILDING. SERIOUS. YOU WANNA TRY [4. Discussion on future meeting dates] TO PICK A DECEMBER DATE? YES. AND I WAS GONNA ASK YOU , LEMME GET OUT. LET ME GET OUT MY WONDERFUL PHONE. ALL IN LINE. OUR CALENDARS. UM, YOU WANNA KEEP IT ON A MONDAY? YES. MONDAYS. AND DO YOU USUALLY DO 10, 10 O'CLOCK? YES, MA'AM. OKAY. HOW WOULD THE 14TH WORK? THE 14TH WORKS. THAT'D BE A GOOD DAY. OKAY, LET'S ON THE BOOKS AND HOW DO WE LET THE NEW BOARD KNOW? I MEAN, DOES, IS THAT MOLLY, IS THAT SOMETHING THE CITY? DOES MICHAEL SEND THAT OUT? I SEND THAT OUT SO I'LL GET ALL THEIR INFORMATION, MOLLY, FROM YOU AND THEN I'LL SEND ALL THAT OUT. THANK YOU. IT WANTS ME TO SEND AN INVITATIONS. DON'T, I DON'T WANT THAT. MY PHONES ARE SMARTER THAN I'M . OKAY. UM, I CAN MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADJOURN THE MEETING, UH, BEFORE YOU ADJOURN THE MEETING. I'M PRETTY SURE THAT SHE WOULD APPRECIATE US SAYING SOMETHING FOR HER, BUT, UH, SHE'S NOT HERE TODAY. UM, BUT I WANT TO GIVE A BIG THANK YOU TO MS. KAREN KILLIAN FOR SERVING FOR AS LONG AS SHE DID ON THIS BOARD. UM, AND JUST BIG THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY. SHE WAS ALWAYS HERE. OKAY. NOW I'LL [00:15:01] MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN OUR MEETING. SECOND. SECOND. YES MA'AM. I'LL AGREEMENT. AYE. AYE. AYE. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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