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Animal Shelter Advisory Committee Minutes - 11/08/2013 FiFCEI EC CITY CLERK'S OFFICE BY: "° TIME: _2. MINUTES THE ANIMAL SHELTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE (ASAC) November 8, 2013 MEMBERS PRESENT: Jan Herzog ❑Citizen/Member Katrena Mitchell ❑ Shelter Staff/Member Lori Weaver ❑ Rescue Rep/Member Lou Kreidler Director of Public Health ❑ Staff Steven Parady, Recording Secretary ❑ Staff MEMBERS ABSENT: Holly Hoffman, DVM Veterinarian/Member Stephen Dodge, LRCA City Official/Member Michael Smith, Councilor, District 1 Council Liaison I. CALL TO ORDER Katrena Mitchell, Chair, called the meeting to order. II. REVIEW &APPROVAL OF FEBRUARY MINUTES The minutes from the ASAC Meeting on August 9, 2013 were distributed and reviewed. Mrs. Herzog made the motion to accept these minutes with a second by Mrs. Weaver. Motion was carried. III. OLD BUSINESS Ms. Mitchell advised the committee that the chaining ordinance went into effect since the last Meeting and the chain off program seems to be going strong. Mrs. Weaver advised that they put up at least 20 fences, and that the program is still getting numerous applications. Mrs. Herzog advised that they put out request for more team leaders and more volunteers because it's the same group of people working every weekend that had started volunteering with the program. Ms. Mitchell advised that Mrs. Schaffer from the P.E.T.S. clinic has been great at communicating with Animal Services about which applications have been approved to help Animal Control which addresses have been completed and which ones are still on the list waiting to be completed. Ms. Mitchell advised that Animal Services hasn't seen a lot of increase in animals being surrendered due to the no chaining ordinance. Mrs. Herzog asked Ms. Mitchell if they have written a lot of tickets due to the new ordinance, Ms. Mitchell replied they have written some citations due to citizens not cooperating with the new ordinance. IV. NEW BUSINESS Ms. Mitchell advised that the committee members were emailed copies of new draft ordinances. Ms. Mitchell informed the committee that the ordinances were drafted from some of the ordinances from San Antonio. Ms. Mitchell advised the committee that they drafted a stud permit and as far as she is aware of it's the first in the state. Ms. Mitchell informed the committee that the permit is fifty dollars for every litter. Mrs. Herzog inquired that if a citizen advised that they didn't know about the permit could they get it after the litter was born. Mrs. Kreidler replied that they have up to ten days to obtain the permit after the litter was born. Mrs. Herzog asked if that included the selling and breeding permit too. Mrs. Kreidler replied that those are two different permits. There would be one for selling and the other is a litter permit. Mrs. Kreidler explained that the litter permit is if the animal accidently got out and got pregnant and the owners are planning to give them away. The permit is to help the owner take a more responsible role for their animals. Ms. Mitchell explained that the sellers permit is if they're offering to sell inside the city limits. For the ones that trade or sell on the social media sites, they would need a physical location or address within the city limits per the city's legal department, if they're out of the city limits and posting inside the city limits, we can't enforce that due to there's not a physical location inside the city limits. Ms. Mitchell informed that they are excluding flea market out of the permit definition of pet shop.As of now the flea markets get a pet shop license and under that whomever sets up to sell there has no responsibility. With this proposed change, individuals would need to get their own permit to sell. Mrs. Herzog asked if that was from anywhere. Mrs. Kreidler replied yes that's from anywhere, if someone comes in from Bowie to sell at the flea market they would need a litter permit to sell out there. Mrs. Herzog replied that that would make a big difference due to there's a lot of puppies out there changing hands for cheap. Ms. Mitchell asked the committee if they wanted to add or change anything to the new proposed ordinances. Mrs. Kreidler advised the committee to look over the drafts and then get back with Ms. Mitchell if they have any suggestions. Mrs. Kreidler informed the committee that they would like to have a final draft to take back to the Board of Health on December 6, 2013. Mrs. Kreidler also then would like to take it to City Council the first meeting in January. Ms. Mitchell informed the committee that she spoke with Leslie Harrelson from P.E.T.S. Clinic and one of her suggestions was that the animal licensing fees did not have a big difference between the altered and unaltered licensing fees. Now for a 1 year altered is $12.00 verses 1 year unaltered which is $22.00. Mrs. Harrelson asked about increasing that amount, Ms. Mitchell asked the committee on their advice on what the fee increase should be or if there need to be an increase. Mrs. Herzog agreed that the fee should be increase up to 4 time the amount the licenses are now. Mrs. Weaver also agreed with Mrs. Herzog that the fees should be higher. Mrs. Kreidler advised that at 4 times that would make the fees $48.00 for one year and $106.00 for a 3 year license. Mrs. Herzog asked if they could increase the fine for having an unaltered animal. Mrs. Kreidler replies that the fines are set by the legal department and that it's not illegal to have an unaltered animal inside the city limits. Mrs. Kreidler advised that she believes that this is a positive compromise from where Ms. Mitchell started 3 years ago. Ms. Mitchell informed the committee that the last draft ordinance is the reclaim. On the first impound the citizen has the option to pay all the reclaim fees or to go prepay for a spay and neuter appointment at the vet clinic of their choice and the city will waive the fees and they have 30 to 90 days to have the animal spayed or neutered. Then on the second impound it's the mandatory spay or neuter. Ms. Mitchell informed the committee that for our fiscal year last year for October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013 the euthanasia rate dropped again to 62 percent. Mrs. Herzog asked what the rate was previously. Ms. Mitchell replied that previously it was 64 percent. Mrs. Kreidler advised that when animal services opened and transferred over that year it was 76 or 78 percent. Mrs. Kreidler also stated that it's slow progress but its progress. Ms. Mitchell advised that the numbers as of last month were Animal Services sent 73 animals home with their owners, 55 animals went to rescue, 47 animals went to the Humane Society and we euthanized 272 animals and that numbers include wildlife and feral cats. ADJOURN Ms. Mitchell advised that the next ASAC meeting is set for Friday February 14, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. Mrs. Herzog made the motion to adjourn. Mrs. Weaver seconded the motion to adjourn. Motion carried and all were in favor. l' a- lu-ICI Katrena Mitchell Date ASAC Chairman Animal Services Administrator 1, 3i6/- / L-7 Steven Parady Date ASAC Recording Secretary Animal Services Sr.Admin Clerk