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ANIMAL SERVICE CENTER
OF THE MESILLA VALLEY
3551 Bataan Memorial West
Las Cruces, NM 88012
Tele: 575-382-0018
Fax: 575.373.2819
ANIMAL SERVICE CENTER OF THE MESILLA VALLEY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AGENDA
The following agenda will be considered at a regular Meeting of the Animal Service Center of the Mesilla Valley Board
of Directors to be Held on Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 9:00am at the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 700 N.
Main St., Las Cruces, New Mexico.
I. Call to Order & Pledge of Allegiance
II. Roll Call of ASCMV Board Members and Determination of Quorum
III. Changes to Agenda and Approval of Agenda
IV. Chair Comments
V. Introductions
a. Pet of the Month – Introduction by Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock
b. ASCMV Employees – Introduction by Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock
c. Volunteer of the Month – Introduction by Jan Wright, Volunteer Coordinator
VI. Minutes
a. Approval of the Minutes from the regular ASCMV Board Meeting held September 12, 2013
VII. Reports/Presentations
a. Financial Report – Maria Villa, Accounting Supervisor CLC
b. Shelter Activities – Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock (Statistics, Facilities, Volunteers, Medical, Community
Outreach).
c. ASPCA Challenge Report
d. Committees Reports
a. Finance – Mark Winson, Committee Chair
b. Executive – Nathan Small, Committee Chair
c. Facilities – Miguel Silva, Committee Chair
VIII. Discussion Items
a. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley
(ASCMV), and the City of Las Cruces (City), by its City Manager, Robert Garza (“City”) regarding
FMLA, the ADA, the EEOC and EAP programs
IX. Public Input
X. Chair and Board Comments
XI. Adjournment
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Before the Event at 382-0018/v or 541-2128/tty. Posted Dated: September October 4, 2013. The agenda cover sheet and
complete packet of information are on the web at: www.ascmv.org. Copies of the agenda packet are available at the Branigan
Library, City Hall and the County Clerk’s Office.
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ANIMAL SERVICES CENTER OF MESILLA VALLEY
June 13, 2013 at 9:00 a.m.
PRESENT:
Nathan P. Small - Chair - Chairman
Bill G. Garrett - Vice Chair
Gregory Z. Smith - Board Member
Jess C. Williams - Board Member
Miguel G. Silva - Board Member
Benjamin L. Rawson, Board Member
Mark Winson - Ex-Officio Member
I.
Call to Order & Pledge of Allegiance (9:02)
ALL STAND FOR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, LEAD BY Mr. RAWSON.
II.
Roll Call of ASCMV Board Members and Determination of Quorum
Small:
Thank you very much. Now we would like to go to the roll call for board
members, now that we do have our nametags, we know who we are.
We’ll go ahead and start with that roll call.
Baum:
Nathan Small.
Small:
Here.
Baum:
Billy Garrett.
Garrett:
Here.
Baum:
Jess Williams.
Williams:
Here.
Baum:
Greg Smith.
Smith:
Here.
Baum:
Miguel Silva.
Silva:
Present.
Baum:
Ben Rawson.
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Rawson:
Here.
Baum:
And Mark Winson.
Winson:
Good morning. I’m here.
Small:
Excellent. We have a full board and we do have a Quorum.
III.
Changes to Agenda and Approval of Agenda
Small:
We’d now like to look at any changes to agenda and approval of the
agenda; as folks will note, we do have public input prior to our closed
meeting. Are there any suggestive changes to the agenda, or is there a
motion to approve the agenda?
Smith:
Move to approve.
Williams:
Second.
Small:
Okay, it’s been moved by Board Member Smith, seconded by Board
Member Williams to approve the agenda as presented. Now can we have
a vote on the agenda?
Baum:
Nathan Small.
Small:
Yes.
Baum:
Billy Garrett.
Garrett:
Yes.
Baum:
Jess Williams.
Williams:
Yes.
Baum:
Greg Smith.
Smith:
Yes.
Baum:
Ben Rawson.
Rawson:
Yes.
Baum:
Miguel Silva.
Silva:
Yes.
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Small:
IV.
Small:
V.
Okay, the agenda is approved.
Chair Comments
As far as to chair comments, we look very much forward today to hearing
all about the Rachel Ray Challenge and the incredible efforts that went
into that. I know some of the final results won’t be released and all, but it
seems like a very positive moment. We also want to note for the public
and also for the board for the City Council there’s been a meeting
scheduled on the regular meeting in December where it conflicts with the
ASCMV board meeting. There is a facilitator coming from outside of New
Mexico that is already booked and so I’d like to see if we can ask Ms. Deal
to begin working for schedules to find the proper meeting time in
December. And so we won’t have the meeting on our regular second
Thursday in December, but we will look to get that scheduled as quickly as
possible so that it will be out there and we can minimize any hiccups from
that.
Introductions
1. Pet of the Month - Introduction by Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock
Small:
Now we’d like to go to introductions and to have Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock,
Executive Director, come on up and take us through what is already been
a very lively pet of the month. Pets of the month, I’ll get my grammar
properly.
Vesco-Mock: Good Morning Mr. Chair and the rest of the board. Isn’t it a beautiful day?
I love this rain. You know I’m from the Midwest. I love it. Anyways I even
took pictures of the clouds on the mountains last night. This is really
pretty. I love it. Anyways, who I would like to talk about today is … I
would like to talk about the issues that we’re having in Dona Ana County
with puppies. I’m not sure if everyone is aware of the serious over
population of puppies here in Dona Ana County. Just yesterday alone we
had two litters of puppies come in, while Robert was on his way to Santa
Fe with another litter. So we basically could keep Colorado in puppies
alone just here from Dona Ana County. It’s a really really serious problem
and we get a lot of mommies in with puppies and we get a lot puppies that
are unweaned, and we get a lot of puppies that are four weeks old which
people think are weaned but they’re really not weaned cause they still
need mommy and it’s really difficult to take care of them. So, we have to
really take extraordinary efforts here on taking care of the mom and
puppies, and you need extraordinary volunteer who’s going to take
mommy and puppies and understand that the entire litter may not survive.
That some of them may pass away just because of the nature of the
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game. So, and Ms. Brown and her husband, Janie and Randy, I mean
they are just phenomenal people. They’ve never turned me down. Even
when I asked them to take this litter. If I recall correctly her statement to
me was, well we’re getting ready to move you know. And I said I know,
and she goes okay, I’ll be up. You know that’s the commitment her and
her husband have. They’re in the middle of moving right now and they still
took on these puppies. We do normal procedures to the nursing moms,
we vaccinate them, the shelter medical director backs the vaccinations of
these puppies, it’s normal protocol in shelters. And we vaccinate them
and we do what we can to save the puppies. They usually do survive and
I’m going to let Ms. Brown talk to you about all her experiences and about
these extraordinary little puppies. Thank you.
Small:
Thank you very much Dr. Beth and thank you Ms. Brown.
Brown:
I’ve been doing this two years now.
Small:
And can you just so we capture for the minutes, can you state your full
name please? Sorry.
Brown:
Janie Brown. And I’ve been doing it for two years, last year my husband
and I did 19 out of our home. This year we’re working on 23. Of the dogs
I’ve had, I’ve had a four-week-old litter with no mother that it was up every
two hours, watering down their food so they could eat because they
weren’t able to chew food yet. This one here when she came to me it was
her and seven two-day-old puppies. Mother was covered from head to toe
in ticks. You know with seven puppies you really can’t give them a real
good bath. So it was you know just wash what you could and we had
about a couple of dozen ticks fall off of her, just fall of her that night. The
next night my husband picked from around her nose, her mouth, around
her eyelids for about half an hour getting ticks off of her. The next night it
was another 15 minutes. And with these animals they come in, in such
horrible states. And the fact that any of them make it considering what the
people of this county do to their animals is a minor miracle. And the
mobile home and RV park we were staying in, my husband and I have
been living in an RV and we’re finally out of the RV and moving. The
mobile home site, there were people over there bragging about how many
litters they’ve had of puppies. They think it’s fantastic that they’re can
have …
Small:
Jane, yeah, there you go. Right there.
Brown:
It’s just out of control. They think that breeding any animal they want is
great, you know it’s … there’s nothing wrong with it. They don’t go out to
the shelter and see how many litters are sitting there that they end up
dying from whatever diseases there are because there are so many of
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them. And there are no homes to put them in. My first dog, my personal
first dog that I got from the shelter, she had distemper, I spent 27 days
sleeping with her on my chest because she couldn’t lie down. And we put
her to sleep after 27 days of them fighting doing everything they could to
save her. When it comes to the shelter they do everything they can, but
they need more people that are responsible instead of breeding every dog
they can just to have another litter of puppies that’s going to end up at the
shelter. Thank you.
Small:
Thank you very much Ms. Brown and your efforts are truly extraordinary.
Thank you for walking us through it. We see so much of the inspiration
and hope which you certainly bring to us, but you also bring us to the
reality of what is happening every day. Thanks to you and many many
other volunteers and many great folks within our community. We are
seeing improvements, but this is a very stark reminder of how very far
there is to go. I would open it up to any board members for any questions
or comments from board. Start with Board Member Smith.
Smith:
Thank you Mr. Chair. And Ms. Brown I echo what our Chair has said
here, it does take people with dedication and hearts to help stem the
situation and help deal with the result of other people not being as
responsible as we’d like for them to be. So thank you for your efforts,
thank you for your example. And we’ll keep working on trying to make
sure there are fewer litters delivered and in need like the ones you’ve
encountered. So thank you.
Brown:
Thank you. Part of the problem.
Small:
Thank you Board Member Smith.
Brown:
Isn’t just irresponsibility, it’s how people view their animals. They seem to
think that by having them spay or neutered it’s going to alter their
personality. What they don’t realize is they alter the dog’s personality by
altering how they feel about the dog or cat after they’ve been spayed or
neutered. It’s not necessarily the surgery that does it, but their attitudes.
And getting the community to be aware of this and understand that just
because they’ve you know been spayed or neutered it is not going to
change whether they are protective of the family, whether they you know
play or whether they lay around, they lay around because that’s what they
expect them to do and they don’t let them out as much, they don’t go play
with them as much. And trying to raise that awareness is probably your
biggest hurdle at this point with these people.
Small:
Sure. And with all of us we always have more to learn but again it speaks
to that basic value of education. Thank you. Any other comments? Yes,
Vice-Chair Garrett please.
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Garrett:
Thank you. And thank you again for your work and your thoughts. I just
wondered if you wanted to elaborate at all in terms of anything that you
thought would work in terms of reaching people, particularly; in terms of is
it just about going out and doing face-to-face or …
Brown:
I made some enemies with some of my neighbors by telling them exactly
how I thought their behaviors were. You know I tried talking to going out
and you know if they can’t afford to go to a vet, there’s the SNAP program,
and you know there are options. They choose not to use them. Changing
somebody’s mind on this, I honestly couldn’t say what it would take to get
somebody to understand how important it is unless you make them go
work at the shelter for a while maybe and see exactly what the employees
have to deal with, with all these animals coming in. It’s heart breaking,
with them having to live the way they do because it’s either that, death, or
the streets you know. And the streets, it’s not an option. You wouldn’t do
that to your kids, why would you do it to your pets. You know it’s like
telling people about putting their pets out in the yard. I’ve started telling
them if you can’t stand out in the yard naked in the middle of winter, that
dog cannot take winter. If you can’t wear a fur outfit in the middle of
summer and stand out there all day, then your dog can’t take it. They just
don’t think. And trying to get them to think, somethings they understand
better than others.
Garrett:
Okay. Thank you.
Small:
Thank you very much. Okay, oh yes, sorry Board Member Williams. And
thank you Board Member Silva for pointing that out.
Williams:
Thank you Mr. Chairman. I was wondering whether … you mentioned that
the issues you ran into were at a mobile home park. Does that mobile
home park have like a community center, a place, a gathering spot?
Many of them do.
Brown:
No.
Williams:
Okay.
Brown:
And quite frankly even the owner of the park doesn’t care. And maybe
making some of the owners of the parks responsible for what they allow to
go on in their parks may be a start. My father manages a mobile home
park in Alamogordo and you get evicted if you let your animals run through
his park. Out here, in any given night you could drive down their
driveways and there were at least half a dozen Chihuahuas running loose
and two or three big dogs. And they know it. I’ve said something to them
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repeatedly and they’ve done nothing in two years.
decided that the RV not an option and we’re moving.
And it’s why we
Williams:
Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Chairman.
Small:
Thank you very much Board Member Williams.
please.
Silva:
Thank you Mr. Chair. Dr. Beth, in this ordinance that we have before both
elected bodies, how are we addressing breeding?
Board Member Silva
Vesco-Mock: There are permits. You have to have permits. There is nothing in the
ordinances that saying that you cannot breed. You have to have a
breeding permit and you’re only allowed one litter per year. That’s what’s
in the ordinances right now.
Silva:
Okay.
Vesco-Mock: There is not a mandatory spay and neuter ordinance.
Silva:
So, just one end of the spectrum to address this, because I remember the
breeding one was really big when we first started the breeding ordinance
two or three years ago.
Vesco-Mock: Correct.
Silva:
When the group was originally meeting and one of the things that brought
it forth in my mind, awoke that to me when … case we were there at the
beginning Dr. Beth, was all I know is by Bill the Bassett Hound person.
Give me his name.
Vesco-Mock: Mr. Bill Hart.
Silva:
Mr. Bill Hart. And I don’t know if the board is aware, those that have come
on since when we started this back in I don’t know, 2009.
Vesco-Mock: Nine.
Silva:
Yeah, exactly. Mr. Hart and a friend of his did an interesting survey. They
went ... they started this survey five years ago and they went into the
…what was it the nickle … the nickle and dime newspaper and they pretty
much … they counted all the ads that people were selling animals at.
They did it … I think they did for like five years consecutive and there was
an increase in ads of people breeding than there was a decrease. And he
did that from like 2003 to 2009 or in that timeframe because when we
were … when he brought it to us we were looking at five years of results
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and that was one reason that prompted us and I remember taking it to the
group that we formed at the time, to insert a breeding ordinance because
of this and hopefully we can do that. And I’m just going to take it a step
further, I know that this board has really endorsed the zero and seven
policy, I think a flaw in the zero and seven policy is the breeding aspect of
it. If we don’t put more educational efforts into, as this woman said, into
awareness and educating the public on properly managing or being
responsible for their animals, this is going to continue and anyone that’s
been in the county knows that it happens continuously cause people see,
they’ve got a couple of boxers, they’ve kept a couple of animals, and they
have dollar signs in their eyes. I see it all the time and I’m really hoping
that the breeding component of the new ordinance can address this or at
least put a dent in these you know all these extra … well these puppies
that are being born out in the valley. So maybe that could be emphasized
or become a priority soon on this board, the educational component.
Thank you.
Small:
Thank you very much Board Member Silva. Thank you Dr. Beth. We
appreciate that. That’s very positive and good discussion.
2. ASCMV Employees - Introduction by Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock
Small:
We would now like to move on to the Animal Services Center employee
recognition.
Vesco-Mock: It’s going to be Bernice.
Small:
Yeah Bernice.
Vesco-Mock: Bernice, say your name cause they’re going to want it.
Navarro:
My name’s Bernice Navarro.
Vesco-Mock: Bernice is … she just does all the paperwork up at the shelter.
The reason I picked her this month is cause the ASPCA challenge is
completed and she was the sole contact pretty much between the ASPCA
and the Animal Service Center of the Mesilla Valley. The paperwork that
went into that challenge was unreal. The amount … I mean every time I
walked by her office she had their screens up cause she had to put in
everything and she had to document everything, everything that left the
building and then even when they left as rescues what people didn’t
understand is that didn’t count, it counted as a half a point. We didn’t get
the other half a point unless they got adopted from the other organization.
So then you had to follow up with all of those organizations. We worked
like with 25, 30 of them every month. And so she had to follow up and you
know how people get, you know they don’t want to respond. It’s just one
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dog, you know and of course I’m walking by, Bernice did you get
everyone? Bernice did you get everyone? Cause of course I’m wanting
every number that there is and you know and the ASPCA was really picky.
Denver Dumb Friends League will not give out the last name of their
adopter. They will not do it, even for us. And they gave us their city but
they would not give out the last name. And I even sent the e-mail from the
ASPCA cause we had sent them Denver Dumb Friends League response
and I sent their response back and Denver would not fold. You know we
were following up and following up. It just took a tremendous amount of
work to do that. I can’t give you final numbers yet. We were 150 over the
first day … the first month. We were 120 over our goal which was
phenomenal. If you remember I told you not count too heavy on this. And
we were in 12th place. We’re over 250 over in the month of August.
There is a very good chance that we’re going to come in … we would be
in second place if none of the people ahead of us does anything above
and over which I don’t expect, but we would come in second place. That’s
a lot of money. We could get a lot of remodeling done guys. But, we’re
not going to get that unfortunately. But we gave it our best shot and I
would like Bernice to talk about some of what she followed up on and the
challenges. And she is going to get to go to the conference in Tempe in
November, the ASPCA is sending her for the debriefing on Sunday that
they’re having, the national debriefing on it. And we are sending Bernice.
So I think that’s really exciting.
Small:
Wonderful. Thank you very much Dr. Beth. And please, Bernice Navarro,
we would love to hear from you.
Navarro:
Hi everybody. Some of you may recognize me. I’ve been here once or
twice before. I’d just like to say that it’s been quite an experience again
working at the shelter. In October I’ll have been here five years and it’s
totally not what I expected. And I’ve really enjoyed it in many ways. I’ve
really had frustrations in many ways, but it’s been real interesting. I just
wanted to say that first of all they did name it correctly, it was a challenge.
The ASPCA has some good goals in mind and I think this is one way that
they can do it. We weren’t really prepared at the beginning what to expect
from the challenge but we had a lot of help from ASPCA, one lady in
particular, her name’s Marie, she is the one who helped me to gather all
the information. They sent us you know several forms of information that
we had to fill out. From day one I had to go back to 2012, get figures from
our statistics for June, July, and August of 2012 of the number of animals
that were in the shelter and the shelter’s care, how many were adopted,
returned to owners, how many were euthanized. You know just a lot of,
lot of information. And it takes a lot of man-hours to be able to do that. I
know that some of my co-workers up front, they would see me disappear
for a while because I’d be back in the back in the computers just you know
working on trying to get a lot statistics. And you know one of the things is
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that you know we’re real excited cause we’ve done really good with the
challenge. Yes we would like to get you know some money, that’s always
really really wonderful, but I think probably the main goal of the challenge
was to save more lives. And we reached that goal, just looking at the
numbers compared to last year and what we did this year, we saved more
lives. And it wasn’t an effort just on my part, yeah you know I did a lot of
information gathering but again like Janie was saying, it takes the
involvement of the community. Every single one of us, you all are in a
wonderful, wonderful position to be able to get that word out to our
community. That we need more help. You know we’re constantly working
overtime and you know just putting a lot of hours into helping these
animals to live, to find new homes, you know doing the best that we can.
And to gather all of that information and to share those statistics with the
people to show how much more responsibility we need to ask from our
community. So once we do get our final numbers, we’re supposed to be
having a little celebration, it’s going to be on September 30th I believe is
when they’re going to be announcing the final numbers and the winners
and things like that. So that’ll give you a little bit clearer picture of you
know how many lives were saved, but it’s a lot, it takes a lot of time. One
of the things working with the other rescue agencies like Dr. Beth was
saying, we had some response from some of the agencies. We didn’t
have as much response from some of the others. We worked with
Arizona, with Colorado, with Northern New Mexico, just a lot of different
places. But I would like to send a special kudos out to one of the
organizations that’s here in Las Cruces, the APA. Valina Hamilton, she
went above and beyond whenever I asked her to get numbers for me. I
asked her you know I need this information, and that information … and
she was there with a response right away. Within the next you know day
or that afternoon even sometimes. You know all of the information, she
just worked with me so well and I just really want to say you know a
special thank you to her and to that organization because they did help us
a lot in helping get our numbers, like she said you know we only got a half
a point for sending them out, and the other half to get them back and you
know for them to adopt out all of the animals that they took from the
shelter and for her to sit down and get all of that information on the
computer and send that back to me, that was a tremendous help also. So
you know I just want to say a special thank you to them and to all of the
organizations that helped, all of the people that helped, and we just really
need to keep pushing forward with that, you know send the message out
there that we need to help to save more lives.
Small:
Thank you. Bernice very well said. We’d like to give you a round of
applause and then see if there are any questions. I would ask are there
any questions or comments from board members? Board Member Smith.
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Smith:
Well once again I think sometimes it takes an extraordinary effort to get
the things done that we know we can do. And so sometimes we have to
look outside of our local community to something like this challenge which
you said has multiple meanings, but sometimes something like that will
help us achieve a higher level. So thank you for devoting so much time
and energy to help us stay on track with it and hopefully the final numbers
will surprise all of us. Thank you Mr. Chair. Thank you.
Small:
Thank you very much Board Member Smith. Other questions or
comments? Okay, Bernice it’s … hearing about the work that you put in,
seeing it, the biggest thing that always comes over is your good cheer and
your just even keel and always continuing to move forward. And seeing
that, knowing that you’ve been there at the shelter, you’ve seen a great
deal that you are at the very center of one of the biggest efforts that the
shelter and the community have done. The way that you’re able to really
help coordinate and pull together outside resources, I think it speaks to the
empowerment of shelter employees which is very positive and it’s just
incredibly impressive. And to be so even keeled and make everybody feel
comfortable while they’re doing part of extraordinary things is a true talent.
So thank you very much and always wonderful to see your face, whether
it’s here or up at the shelter.
Navarro:
Thank you.
Small:
Board Member Smith, yes please.
Smith:
Yes, thank you Mr. Chair. I think we were so in awe of all the work that
Ms. Brown was doing that we didn’t give her an applause and I think that
she also just deserves one.
Small:
Thank you very much Board Member Smith.
Smith:
Thank you.
Small:
Okay, a very good start and we appreciate that very much. And thank you
Dr. Beth it was very much the appropriate way to talk about the ASPCA.
3. Volunteer of the Month - Introduction by Jan Wright, Volunteer
Coordinator
Small:
Now we’d like to ask Ms. Jan Wright if she would come up and take us
through with the volunteer of the month.
Wright:
Good morning. My name is Jan Wright. I’m the volunteer coordinator for
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Small:
You can actually lift the dais slightly, that button there on your right hand
side.
Wright:
I think that’s better.
Small:
Absolutely.
Wright:
I’m Jan Wright. And I have a volunteer here that we would like to
recognize. We had … I wanted to bring up our dog obedience trainers. I
was looking for them but I know they’ve been … they are here. Okay,
good. I know they have been having car trouble so I was glad that you
guys are here. So I have a recognition that I would like to do and then I
also have our volunteer of the month if you’ll bear with me.
Small:
Great.
Wright:
So, I have … do you have any particular order you’d like me to do this in?
Small:
Your prerogative please.
Wright:
Okay. I have our volunteer of the month is Cathy Lindsay. She has been
with us one-year milestone and she has done great things with marketing,
community outreach, research. And she’s been in the cat room dedicated
and the laundry room for over a year. That says a lot on its own. And I
just want to thank her very much for her heart felt care and dedication
which is what’s on her certificate. So, Cathy if you could come forward
please.
Lindsay:
Hi, as Jan said, my name is Cathy Lindsay. I’ve been with the shelter …
September 1st was one year. And I love animals, that’s what brought me
to the shelter. I have a full time job and I was looking for something to do
on weekends. So I volunteer mainly in the cat room on Saturday
mornings. I help clean, and if laundry needs to be done I’m there folding
laundry. I have taken recently to sewing and fixing some of the cat beds
and sewing some new ones, making some cat toys. And I’ve taken on
doing some flyers for the shelter to send out. Most recently it was the boat
for the shelter for the ASPCA challenge. I have been known to help out in
the puppy room if they needed help in there. I’ll go in and do the puppies
and walk them if need be. I enjoy my time at the shelter very much. I
have learned quite a bit. When I started I was not comfortable with
scruffing cats. I can do it but I wasn’t comfortable with it, over the time I
have gotten more confident in being able to scruff a cat and take care of
them. I hope to continue and be at the shelter for many years to come.
Small:
Thank you very much Cathy. And we would ask, are there any questions
or comments from board members? Cathy thank you very much. It’s fun
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to be able to celebrate that one-year anniversary with you and we very
much appreciate the work that you do. And also you taking us through the
expansion and how you are doing new things and it speaks I think to the
camaraderie and teamwork up there at the shelter that folks come in for
one reason and are able to expand into other ways to help animals. So
thank you very much for walking through that.
Smith:
And Mr. Chair I’d like to commend Ms. Lindsay for being able to scrub
cats. I’m not sure many of us could have that claim to fame. Thank you
for all you do. Oh scruff, I’m sorry, I was thinking she said scrub. I have
to get the wax out of my ears. I apologize.
Small:
After the scruff comes the scrub. You don’t want to try the scrub before
the scruff. Okay. Thank you very much. And we appreciate the focus on
hygiene. It’s very good and I’m sure that’s part of what we’ll hear about for
year two. Okay, thank you very much Ms. Wright. Now if you could take
us through honoring of the trainers please.
Wright:
Yes, I have two volunteer appreciation certificates for Anna Weeden and
for John Casanover. They are our dog obedience course instructors, that
you have met Claire and Eric, and this is John and Anna. And they are
dedicated to Farmer’s Market, to Petco, and they have been at Farmer’s
Market at 10 o'clock in the morning, not only are they fosters and they
bring their kittens there, but then they’re the dog obedience trainers at
Farmer’s Market. So we’re giving the opportunity to those that work
during the week, that can’t make it to the shelter to come out and seen
John and Anna for the course and they’re going a fantastic job. So I just
wanted to say thank you to them.
Small:
Thank you Jan. Thank you very much. We would love it you would like to
share any words.
Casanover: My name’s John Casanover. I’m dog obedience trainer. I started
volunteering with the shelter as a foster. We took in a litter of kittens from
our next-door neighbor, decided there was way too many kittens going
into the shelter, that we would take them in and help them get adopted
out. Our very first event down at the Farmer’s Market we were talking
about how I train dogs and I’ve been working with them for years. They
started asking if we could help out with you know the handling of the dogs
and what not. And what I was noticing that could be changed or could
help out the dogs you know get adopted a little bit easier just the general
handling, the getting them in and out of the crates so we can avoid
escapes while we’re definitely out and about and not at the shelter.
Honestly the first 15 seconds of getting a dog out of their crate is when
people tend to make their mind up and I mean if you’ve been stuck in your
house for three days and haven’t gone out you get a little bit stir crazy. So
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the first five seconds out of your house you know you’re not going to be
necessarily yourself. So what we try and do is we try and get a handle on
that so it doesn’t scare people away. We get the dogs so they’re a little bit
better leash trained so that when people see big dogs they’re not so
worried about them dragging them down the street. We work on jumping,
a little of aggression, socialization with other dogs. So we just generally
make them a little bit more adoptable. And also I try and let people know
you know that certain things are going to be very easily worked out or you
know like to lend them a hand. I give out my e-mail address and my
phone number to anybody who adopts a dog or thinks about it and I
encourage them to send me an e-mail, send me a text message, give me
a call. Even for the smallest little concern or question that they might have
about you know is this dog going to work out for our family. Ultimately I
want to make sure that these dogs stay in the homes they end up at and
not end up back at the shelter.
Small:
Thank you very much. Well said. We appreciate it. And we appreciate
the teamwork. Any questions or comments from board members? Board
Member Smith. Got you before the light went on.
Smith:
I was going to say I didn’t even have my finger on the button yet. Mr.
Casanover and Ms. Casanover thank you so much for your good work
there. I think it helps people be more comfortable knowing that dogs have
some basic skills before they’re adopted. We’re certainly very fortunate
that the dog we adopted had been well trained before she came to us and
certainly helps feel comfortable. So thank you for making it that much
easier for people to take animals into their homes. Thank you Mr. Chair.
Small:
Absolutely. Thank you very much. Well said Board Member Smith. Other
questions? And just one more time for everybody, can you give us you
guys names again?
Casanover: I’m John Casanover.
Small:
Okay.
Weeden:
I’m Anna Weeden.
Small:
Great. And so we appreciate very much. It’s fantastic to have the
dynamic teamwork with both at the shelter, there at the Farmer’s Market
obviously, and we look forward to seeing you all again. And certainly
appreciate your help in helping get all of our … get the animals adopted
and get the dogs adopted. Thank you.
Weeden:
Thank you.
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VI.
Excellent. Thank you all very much. It’s been a very educational start to
today’s meeting and we know for the many thousands watching on t.v.,
sorry.
Minutes
1. Approval of the Minutes from the regular ASCMV Board Meeting held
August 22, 2013
Small:
So now we will move into item number six, which is approval of the
minutes from the regular Animal Services Center Board meeting that was
last held on August 22nd. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes from
August 22nd?
Williams:
Move approval.
Small:
I have a motion. Is there a second?
Smith:
Second.
Small:
It’s been moved by Board Member Williams, seconded by Board Member
Smith to approve the minutes. Can we have a roll call vote?
Baum:
Nathan Small.
Small:
Yes.
Baum:
Billy Garrett.
Garrett:
Abstain. I wasn’t here.
Baum:
Jess Williams.
Williams:
Yes.
Baum:
Greg Smith.
Smith:
Yes.
Baum:
Ben Rawson
Rawson:
Abstain.
Baum:
Miguel Silva.
Silva:
Yes.
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VII.
Okay, motion passes.
Reports/Presentations
1. Financial Report - Maria Villa, Accounting Supervisor CLC
Small:
Now we would like to move into the financial report in the reports and
presentation section of our meeting. And we have Ms. Villa coming on up
to walk us through the financial report.
Villa:
These are the …
Small:
There we go. And Ms. Villa can you just say your name one more time.
I’m sorry.
Villa:
Yes, sir. Maria Villa. These are your monthly financials for the ending of
August 2013. This is an overview of what I’ll be reviewing, it’s the general
fund balance highlights, the operation highlights, your revenues and
expenditures, and your capital projects fund balance sheet.
In your general fund total assets are $647,000 of which $256,000
are receivables from Dona Ana County. There is $46,597 in liabilities.
And your total liabilities and fund balance is $647,555. On your operation
highlights, total revenue is at $561,819 with both contributions from Dona
Ana County and City of Las Cruces at $256,520. The budget parameter
for August is at 16.67 percent. If you look on the right side we have the
percentages up through August and the items that were over budget was
the insurance and supplies. Total budget was 13.7%, total expenditures,
I’m sorry, of the budget was 13.7%, so overall it’s still under budget. And
total revenues are at 26.8. This is a comparison of annual budget to yearto-date budget on your revenues.
Expenditures, again annual budget compared to year-to-date
budget. Your capital projects fund is at $213,000 and the unassigned is
$213,000. Any questions?
Small:
Thank you very much Ms. Villa. It never fails to get a laugh with the
questioning Chihuahua.
Any questions or comments from board
members? Yes, Board Member Rawson please.
Rawson:
Mr. Chairman would it be possible for me to get a copy of the budget?
Small:
Absolutely.
Rawson:
Thank you very much.
Small:
Yes. Thank you.
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Garrett:
Mr. Chair.
Small:
Vice-Chair Garrett.
Garrett:
Could I also request that Mr. Rawson be given a copy of the last two years
of annual reports?
Small:
Absolutely. Thank you for the suggestion Vice-Chair Garrett and we will
make sure that you have plenty of reading material.
Garrett:
And a copy of the bylaws.
Williams:
And the strategic plan.
Garrett:
And the strategic plan.
Williams:
He needs a lot of reading material.
Small:
We want Board Member Rawson to stay up here on this dais, so we will
feed all the information, much of which we’ll note is available on the web
site, some that will be provided. Obviously made available if you’d rather
in hard copy, electronic, or what have you. We’ll make sure that that
happens. Excellent. Okay. Thank you very much Ms. Villa.
2. Shelter Activities - Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock
Volunteers, Medical, Community Outreach)
Small:
(Statistics,
Facilities,
Now we’d like to ask Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock, Executive Director, to come up
and to begin to walk us through on shelter activities. Hit the escape.
Yeah, there we do. Then close that.
Vesco-Mock: Okay. I’ll have to make it big.
Small:
Then we go to F5. And the voice of Councilor Gil Sorg who always gives
us that guidance, is heard echoing.
Vesco-Mock: All right. That’s always a nice picture to see isn’t it? The team. All right.
It is in the middle of September, so going back to July, looking at the
intake, it was not a real good intake month. The City of Las Cruces
brought in a total of 679, as you can see the dogs were quite high, 426
and 227 cats, others, you know it’s all the little birds and the mousers and
all the little stuff that we have at the shelter. We have a boa right now.
Does anyone need a boa? It was on Facebook. Did you all see it? Weu
really need to find a home for it. We’re not qualified. It needs a home.
Silva:
How old? How big?
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Vesco-Mock: I don’t know. I’m not a reptile person. I mean they’re nice. I like them to
live, but yeah, so that’s under the others. So we have a lot of them right
now. We have mousers, we have all kinds of stuff. Anyways. Dona Ana
brought in 588, 447 dogs and 134 cats. And then jurisdiction unknown
was 31 dogs and nine cats for a grand total, look at the number it’s over
1,300 animals. That’s a lot of animals guys. I’m just putting it out there
that that’s a lot of animals to keep coming in. The outcomes, we had 197
adoptions, again you see the big discrepancy between the dogs and the
cats. Reclaim it’s really a huge difference right there. Again, and the
rescue numbers again the cats were mostly APA, I don’t want to say
mostly, how about say all APA. And then the dogs went to different
locations. You’re going to see this number down this whole summer, it’s
just barely in the hundreds, when we were up in the two hundreds, and
that’s because intake in the other locations is also high and adoptions are
traditionally lower in the summer. You will see these numbers going up,
Arizona has already put in orders for cats for winter, so you know they’ve
already … you’ll see it picking up at that point of time. And we’re just back
on the track with Denver. Denver had to shut down for three months
because of a canine virus going through their kennel so they had the
luxury of not taking in anything. So that hurt us on the big dogs. But you’ll
see it picking up. Euthanasia was 41%, 543 animals. You see the
difference dogs versus cats. July missing, it was all dogs and it was all in
the foster or foster to adopt categories. Preliminary August numbers,
intake did slow down the last two weeks we’re just at 1,100 there.
Adoptions quite high, we worked very hard for the challenge, 348 finalized
adoptions. I was tracking down everyone who needed to finalize their
adoptions. Reclaims was pretty low at 112. Rescues was 118.
Euthanasia was pretty high 538 and this was our highest euthanasia
number for the year of 2013. And you ask why. Well cause the intake
was a little lower. So you ask why. Well, there are a lot of different things
that go into it and one of the things I did menton last board meeting was
the parvo. We euthanized a lot of puppies. Anthony told me this morning
he left the shelter at 10 till seven last night, Animal Control came in right
when he was leaving with a parvo positive dog out flat on their truck. So
we euthanized it. So there are a lot of puppies being euthanized in the
month of August. A lot of behavior issues. There are just quite a few
dogs unfortunately in this community that have behavior issues. And
when everyone talks about abuse, we need to understand that not
socializing a dog is abuse. If we did not socialize humans we would call
that abusing them. So it’s the same with dogs. It’s abuse. So when they
come in to our shelter at a year of age never being off of a chain in the
back yard, never being near humans except for when they threw food out
to them, if they thought to throw it out to them. When they come into the
shelter they are absolutely terrified. And if a dog is crouching every day
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dogs. Tricia tells me all the time I’ve got to be quiet on some of the little
ones that she holds because I know my voice is loud and deep. But, it’s
inhumane to keep those dogs alive. It breaks my heart that they’re
crouching, you know a 70 lbs. pit crouching on the ground, I mean that’s
just inhumane. So, we euthanized a lot. And I’m sorry about that, but we
did. So that’s one of the reasons the numbers were pretty high. There
are a lot of reasons. City of Las Cruces has really helped our ASPCA
numbers cause I was counting in my little rough estimates 25. The City of
Las Cruces reported 58 animals returned to their owners. This was
supposed to say August, my mistake. We’ll get that corrected before it
goes up on the web site. And this is supposed to say August also. This is
61 animals returned to their owners in the field in August. So that’s pretty
exciting to have those high of numbers. It really helps coming into the
shelter. It’s also why our RTO numbers are a little lower. Are there any
questions on the statistics?
Small:
Thank you Dr. Beth. It … those return to owners in the field might not be
the highest, but seems like those are some of the highest numbers that
we’ve ever seen.
Vesco-Mock: I think they are the highest. Yeah, cause it’s over a hundred. I think
combined it could be the highest, if not … I think they’re the highest sir.
Small:
Thank you, and that’s very promising and positive. Vice-Chair Garrett
please.
Garrett:
Thank you, and I always appreciate the presentation and the numbers.
Because we … we’re working in the zero and seven framework and we
have a target which is to get to zero euthanasias within the seven year
time period relative to healthy and treatable animals, I find it a little bit
difficult to understand where we are when we just look at the monthlies.
And what I’m wondering is if it would be possible for you to explore the
idea of having a graph where we would be able to see year-to-date totals
compared against a projected line for the year. So that it just gives us an
overall sense of how we’re doing. Cause some months are high and
some months are low and there are different trends with different aspects
of the intake and the outcomes. And I just think it would be helpful to all of
us to be able to see what’s actually happening with the totals as we look at
that.
Vesco-Mock: Yes sir. I sort of did that last month. You know every quarter I do that.
So last month I sort of did that. I know you had to miss the meeting. I will
send you those three slides and if that’s not what you’re asking for, please
respond back to me and exactly what you are asking for and I would be
happy to try to oblige you.
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Sure. The main thing I’m interested in is … I think we’re getting good
progress. And I think that by having some context for evaluation of the
numbers, it’s not just numbers, it’s okay this is you know we talked a little
bit ago about the importance of doing socialization and you just brought
that up again and that’s part of the 12-point plan. So, all these things
contribute and we can see where it’s having a positive effect.
Small:
Thank you Vice-Chair Garrett. Thank you Executive Director Vesco-Mock.
And we have looked at those quarterly, it’ll be good to get that and then to
see where we want to go from there and what the return is to be able to do
that on perhaps a monthly basis or to have it not quite every month but still
to be able to track those trends as needed. But, always a good issue to
have in a sense of seeing positive numbers and putting those into context.
Take us through the … oh Board Member Silva I head the click, I didn’t
see the light.
Silva:
Yeah, thank you Mr. Chair. Dr. Beth could you go back to your graph
where you said your August numbers. Okay, so these are the August
numbers, but what we haven’t had here are July numbers if I’m not
mistaken right? There’s a difference here. Cause I was trying to …
Vesco-Mock: What’s in your packet …
Silva:
Is the July numbers?
Vesco-Mock: Is the very very detailed July numbers. That’s why I went over at the
beginning. These are the very detailed July numbers and what’s in your
packet is the exact reason for the euthanasias. Okay, and what I gave
you for August was just the preliminary numbers. You know we haven’t
done the final count and you know the final graphs and everything for
August. I will give those next month.
Silva:
Okay. Let’s say just really quick … I want to kind of build off of what
Board Member Garrett was saying … you know we show a lot of numbers
and so forth and I mean information gathering is nice. But unless you can
actually apply it or somehow interpret it to our need and our cause then
gathering numbers really does just become more trivial, and maybe added
work on staff than needed. And so, cause I was, go to your August
numbers, cause … and I realize, and so you’ve got total intake, adoptions,
reclaimed. Let me just write this down real quick. Cause I’m looking at
this and I’m looking at your 504, I’m assuming that that 504 is … the 48%
the 504 is of the 1,099.
Vesco-Mock: Correct.
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So and again I’m not trying to I guess … well I understand the zero and
seven where we’re at on that and so forth and my comment earlier is
sometimes the expectations maybe more than what are intended and I
want to be more realistic. Cause it’s only been I think in the last three or
four months that I recall that we’ve added this caveat of saying those
animals that are rescuable or whatever, I forgot what the term that we’re
using, but we’ve added a caveat to it. So I think we’re almost going to
have to somehow lay that other column out there of saying because that’s
going to reflect that zero and seven numbers if we attain that number of
zero and seven, because as you know all the intake numbers are not
going to be able to … I mean it’s not going to happen. We’re going to still
be euthanizing animals at some point and so when you say this 48%, I
don’t know if this 48% is of those that are …
Vesco-Mock: Adoptable or not.
Silva:
Adoptable or not or if it’s just 48% of total intake. Do you follow where I’m
going with this Dr. Beth?
Vesco-Mock: Absolutely sir. And may I address the department back there, the
PowerPoint from last month, is it on this computer yet? Can I get to it?
Could someone help me get to it? And I think I can help you all out a little
bit.
Small:
And we don’t want to take too much time on this, but it is good to be able
to go back and to be able to find …
Silva:
And I guess what I’m leading to Mr. Chair is that at some point, not do I
want to so much see a graph that sees a downward trend or anything of
that nature, but it almost to me seems like at some point what would be of
value would be maybe a plus or minus index of where we’re at because as
you know the shelter only has x amount of space up there. You know we
only have x amount of space, so if we almost have a plus or minus index
and I think this is going to take more thought both on maybe the boards’
part or staff, but there’ll be … I think we need more thought put in forth is
how do we put some sort of index on this of a plus/minus index of where
we are each month. Go ahead Dr. Beth.
Vesco-Mock: Okay. This is what you’re asking for, sort of right here, the breakdown. It
will take a whole lot to break that even further down and if you want me to
for the end of the year I can do that. Too young, those are unweaned
puppies. We did not even try to save them. I can’t answer if they’re
salvageable or not. Half of them are not. You’re just not going to save
them when you rescue them out. Too old, too old by whose standards?
You know, and that’s what I’m saying. A lot of the you know human
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aggressive, I’m sure our dog trainers could work on them. We can’t right
now. We’re not to that point. The behavior timids, many of them …
Silva:
Let me stop you right there Dr. Beth and to honor the Chair’s request to
make this brief, if this is what you’re talking about the ones that are not
savable.
I’m going to use savable versus I don’t like the word
salvageable, but the ones that cannot be saved and are going to be
(inaudible) … I’m assuming these are not going to be counted in those
zero or seven statistics. See what I’m saying? Because when you say
total intake, these are not going to be included because as the caveat
goes for those that are rescuable or so forth. So you would … what I’m
saying is almost you have to have like two different columns, two different
you know, two different columns, not two different books, but two different
columns of ones that are savable and ones that are not savable and it’s
nice that you’ve already taken this list and you’ve already headed there.
To me it appears that you’re a step ahead of everyone already. You’ve
got the information at hand. I’m just saying that when we start looking at
those numbers like you just showed of the August ones, there’s going to
have to be that other column because if there is … we’ve adopted this
zero and seven, how do we measure it and so forth, and that’s how come I
was just in my head thinking oh for some reason we almost are going to
need an index of some sort saying this is where we’re at with the savable,
with the rescuable ones, here we are with the non-rescuable, and what’s
the plus/minus, the overall effect on the you know the entire facility and
the program. That’s just my point. Thanks Mr. Chair.
Small:
Thank you very much Board Member Silva. And thank you Dr. Beth for
pulling this up. We’ll go to Vice-Chair Garrett and then if we need to look
at this a bit more we can, but then we’ll try to trim this back to the update
from this month.
Garrett:
I appreciated that. And this particular kind of dialogue is exactly why I
raised the question. I think that what we might want to do is at the next
meeting to have a presentation that looks at the matrix that the coalition
council uses and Dr. Beth has a copy of that. I can, as one of the cochairs I could work with you, Mr. Townsend could work with you, to make
that presentation. It’s important to recognize that the objective from the
very beginning has always been to reduce the number of healthy and
treatable animals to zero in terms of euthanasia in the seven years. That
is not something that’s new. That has been there from the very beginning.
I don’t think that it was necessarily understood and as we’ve gone along,
we’re getting to a better and better understanding of what these issues
are. But that’s certainly an important question to talk about, is what
constitutes healthy and treatable and what doesn’t. And you know there
are other categories that are within the numbers that we look at, wildlife for
example, we’re not talking about … the zero and seven does not address
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wildlife that come into the shelter. So I think that maybe this next meeting
or so would be a good time to get into more detail about what all this
means and how it relates to our statistics.
Small:
Thank you Vice-Chair Garrett. And thanks for the discussion. Thank you
Dr. Beth. Perhaps we can send this back out as well, especially the six
year, year over year breakdown that you have so we can see, we can
reevaluate the context and then plan for how best to ground that context
within the zero and seven campaign. So, thanks very much for the
positive discussion. Dr. Beth can, maybe yes, thank you Ms. Deal for
coming on back. Can we make sure we’ll get this, the last months’ report
Dr. Beth, we’ll make sure and re-get that out.
Vesco-Mock: Yes sir.
Small:
Excellent. Perfect. Thank you. And then thank you Ms. Deal for getting
us up to speed and then we’ll advance to where we need to be. So we’re
going to have to advance quite a lot.
Vesco-Mock: While I’m advancing. Thank you all for bringing that up. That’s sort of … I
did say that last month when we showed that final (inaudible), that we are
pretty much at no euthanasia of salvageable cats this year at the Animal
Services Center. That’s what that chart was attempting to show. I went
too far Jan, I’m so sorry. All right. Here you go honey.
Small:
Thank you very much Dr. Beth. And now Ms. Wright, if we can have you
up to talk us through the volunteers.
Wright:
Okay, there we go. And for August we had 127 volunteers, so we’re
holding strong where we were. Again I did have that fear of everyone
going back to school and returning and the numbers dropping. However,
they’re staying steady and continuing to increase even if it’s just by one or
two, we’re still getting more and more volunteers. Our volunteer hour total
is 1,010 which is still very very good. I mean the hours are still standing
steady. We had 31 new volunteers through orientation which again that
will reflect in next months’ report. For the dog enrichment hours we had
115 and that’s hours not volunteers. Just to clarify that that is hours. For
the dog trainers it was 11 hours and also the (inaudible) would also be the
11 hours. That doesn’t count the time that they prep beforehand that they
don’t turn in to me or the time that they clean up afterwards or the time
that we have in meetings that we’re sitting down and we do keep track of
our hours but an hour here and an hour there, I mean you could probably
add three or four hours or more to that. For office greeters we had 68
hours which was an increase with all the special adoption events that
we’ve had going on of course we’re going to have more greeters and that
just, it was really nice to see additional volunteers come out and do that.
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And as you can see the numbers are increasing, the off-site events was
230 hours, we had a lot of events last month. At the county building we
had 120 hours put in, again that is including the time that it takes for not
only the staff members and the volunteers but to take the cats home if
needed to and you are caring for the cat while it’s there so we do count
that time. So again, not coming out of taxpayer dollars. Do you have any
questions about?
Small:
Thank you Ms. Wright. Are there any questions or comments on the
volunteer hours? Okay. No questions in this sense means I think
generally high comfort with the fact it is staying high.
Wright:
With laundry there was 48 hours, with laundry. Again that’s with Cathy
Lindsay here. Ann Lawrence is another volunteer and Victoria Smith.
They were three, if you take that into consideration with the volunteer
hours that was put in, that they are very highly dedicated. You have to be
to be in our laundry room. If any of you have not yet toured, I’d be more
than glad to give a tour and show you our laundry room and you will
understand that the buckets of buckets of buckets of laundry do need to
get done and they are done in a timely manner and it is something that we
take highly into consideration for the sanitation purposes of it. So,
everything is taken into consideration with the volunteers that do that.
That is a huge step for them to do that.
Our events are listed here. As the Kids Kountry Daycare tour, they
came through. There were 19 members that came through for a tour. It
was an educational tour that was actually the end of the summer. This
wasn’t the first one for the school year. They were the last one for the
summer to clarify that. We do have one for the first coming up soon. Our
tax-free adoption weekend, we also had Tractor Supply, there were two
different Tractor Supply events.
The Pets Barn adoption event.
Woofstock, Converges, and our Yappy Hour which Cathy was also at our
Yappy hour. So they were all a lot of really fun events, a lot of hours went
into those. As you can see our volunteers are really stepping up. This
includes our volunteers that do specifically adoptions at those events. Are
there any questions?
Small:
I do not see any questions. Let’s continue on.
Wright:
And I’ll turn it over to Dr. Beth for the fosters if you don’t have any further
questions.
Small:
Thank you Jan for the continued efforts and great to see the 31 new
volunteers that we’ll be hearing about next months.
Wright:
Thank you.
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Small:
Thanks.
Vesco-Mock: And we did have 22 foster families with 53 foster animals and Jan and I
will be working on ramping up more foster homes now that the summer
rush is over. And we can work on so many programs at a time I’ve
learned that the hard way.
On facilities, the puppy design is in the final tweaking stage. Miguel
was just up. We were looking over certain things and it’s getting ready to
go out to the contractor. So yeah, and it’s a good timing. You know I
wanted it done before, I’m not going lie, I put a lot of pressure on them and
I hammering them and I hound them, but the truth is I had too many
animals coming in and I wouldn’t have been able to clear out the puppy
room anyways, so you know it’s probable better for the timing to happen in
the fall anyways. So it’s working out for the best.
Now the next pictures I’m going to put up are some awesome ones.
We have three new dog kennels at the shelter. I don’t know if you know
that, but you’re going to know it and you’re going to see pictures. And it is
really exciting. Check this out, this is the cement truck coming in and the
pouring and the pouring, and that’s our final … doesn’t that just look
awesome. I’m excited. I walk down there every day just to see them. So
it’s very exciting for me to see them. Okay. So who was behind all of this
is Ms. Clare and Ms. Susan and they are going to come up and tell you
how they did all of this. Come on up. They … This is all them. None of it
was me. It was 100% them. I want you to … them to share with you how
they facilitate, there are three of these little pens. They’re not little, they’re
big, and it’s a big deal for us. It’s huge. So I want them to talk about it
and I love you both greatly for doing it, and taking it on your own, it’s
amazing what you guys just take on.
Small:
Thank you very much Dr. Beth. And even when Clare and Susan are in
session even when the legislature is not (inaudible) so you’ll walk us
through. Thank you. Walk us through with the kennels please.
Kapner:
Well let me say we’re not finished. This is only an interim success for us.
This is something that I’ve been wanting to do for about a year now. I
would go down, what they call down under and I would …
Small:
And Ms. Clare, I apologize, can you please.
Kapner:
Clare Kapner.
Small:
Clare Kapner. And then Susan could you say your name just so we get
that.
Krueger:
Susan Krueger.
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Small:
Thank you very much. And I apologize.
Kapner:
I would go down under and I would play with the puppies and they were in
these little tiny pens with dirt floors and I would clean them out and take
the puppies out and play with them. But any way, so I … the adopt a
kennel funds that I raised paid for this … the three kennels plus you’ll see
a little note on there, it says Thank You Tractor Supply. I purchased two
of these kennels, they’re eight by ten … no five by eight by six and they
were kind enough to donate a third kennel. And so it was always my idea
that the puppies should have a cement floor which is much more easily
sanitized. You can’t see them there but they came later on. There are
isolation shields around three sides of the kennels. They have permanent
roofs on them. And I have special dishes that are stainless steel dishes
that I bought that attach to the kennel walls and they can be removed for
sanitizing. Anyway, so I’m real happy. And Susan, I tried to get a
contractor, no contractor would come out and do this little job of laying the,
pouring the cements, so Susan has a fellow that works with her and she
got Willie to come out and pour the cement for us and I’m just really
excited. So now we have other stuff going on. Susan and I are moving
on. We are a force to be contented with.
Small:
Thank you very much Clare and there is no debate on that fact for sure.
Ms. Krueger, these obviously, these look incredible. Your personal
generosity and the entrepreneurship to get an extra kennel donated are
outstanding. Ms. Krueger, what … please talk just a bit about your part in
this.
Krueger:
Well I just wanted to say that we finally gave up trying to clean dirt. It’s an
uphill battle but with dogs and in a kennel we gave it up and moved to
concrete. So we are just beginning and hope to facilitate more of this
cleanliness so that the dogs have a better chance of not catching
something that another dog left behind in the dirt.
Small:
Thank you very much Susan. Okay, any questions or comments from
board members? Board Member Williams.
Williams:
Thank you Mr. Chair. I just … you know I’m consistently amazed by the
energy that both of you put into what you do. Commissioner Rawson and
I were fortunate enough to tour the facility just what was it three weeks
ago Friday I think and those kennels were brand new. And Dr. Beth was
showing them off and it just … I just can’t thank you enough for the work
you do during the legislative session and when the legislature is not in
session, you’re doing stuff right here on the ground and it’s very much
appreciated. Thank you.
Small:
Excellent. Thank you very much. Board Member Smith.
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Smith:
Thank you Mr. Chairman. I essentially was going to say what Mr. Williams
said, but again thank you all for all your great efforts and I see Ms.
Krueger sometimes on Thursday mornings walking with us to the school
as well, so I know she has a busy schedule. Though this morning we
actually walked through puddles and did all of that, but thank you both for
your efforts and Ms. Krueger thank you for all the additional things you do
as well.
Krueger:
That’s for children, so that’s the safe routes to school project and we walk
on Wednesdays at Mesilla and Thursdays at Mesilla Elementary. So no
dogs, well sometimes there are dogs.
Small:
Thank you and I think we have our next (inaudible) site.
Smith:
Thank you Mr. Chair.
Small:
Thank you very much Board Member Smith. Okay. Dr. Beth, thank you
for this, it’s very exciting and nicely done with the photography as well.
Vesco-Mock: All right, going on to the medical. For the August affordable surgeries
there were 92. The numbers were lower for two different reasons, number
one, we focused on getting all the foster to adopt animals out so that they
could count for the ASPCA challenge, so that was very heavy and then
our shelter veterinarian was out of the country riding his motorcycle. He
thought that was more important. To be out riding his motorcycle, he
informed me, so he told me he would make it up and he is. So we had 92.
Eight-four for the general public, two for SNAP, five for the Coalition for
Pets and People, and one for the APA which was one of their rescue
numbers. We had 33 female dogs, 44 male dogs, nine female cats, and
six male cats. And year to date through August we have done over 1,200
spays and neuters for the public. That’s not counting all the ones we’re
doing for the shelter. And that’s not counting all the ones that we are
doing in the shelter that then gets rescued out. Actually there were,
what’s 25 and eight, that’s 33 animals left for rescue yesterday; three
different rescues, we coordinated three different stops up north. And they
put orders in and they wanted them all altered, except for the puppies,
they were you know little rot-Shepard puppies that just came in, so Natalie
took those. But the other two places they wanted … they put in very
specific orders on what they wanted and they had to be altered. So many
of our rescued animals are already altered when they leave our facility.
So we aren’t just doing 1,200 surgeries, there are another 1,200, 1,500
that are being done for shelter animals and adopted animals. I just
wanted to clarify that. And I just wanted to give Dr. Pearce kudos for what
he did on Tuesday. He’ll never come to one of these meetings. He just
won’t … I don’t think he would ever come. I think hell would have to
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freeze over for him to come. But yet Tuesday he was out in a public
surgery and a little cat came in to be neutered and it had an eye missing.
It was you know the socket was empty. And he said that eye, we need to
fix the eye. He called the owner and he told them I’m going to take care of
the eye for you and he did. And just normal everyday work. So that’s the
kind of medical staff that we have at the shelter, reaching out and doing
those … going the extra limit instead of just neutering the cat, he took the
eye out also. So that’s the extra lengths we’re going for these community
animals because you know Dr. Pearce has the same philosophy I have,
no they might not be perfect homes, but they’re homes. And if we show
them love and kindness and education it’s going to make them better
owners. Yelling at them and telling them you’re not doing a good job is
not the way to correct our community problem right now. So we’re very
into working together with these owners and educating them. Many times
they come in extremely mad, we give them the coupon to go down to the
grooming, you’ve met Margaret and Steve and they groom these animals.
Again, maybe showing them what needs done will spur them to do the
right thing from then on.
Small:
And thank you very much Dr. Beth. Appreciate this slide and appreciate
those words very very much because as we’ve seen with the ordinances,
and we’ve seen with a lot … there’s beginning to see the shelter as a
community resource where folks feel comfortable going for help in tough
situations or to learn more, that it’s not always the … that folks aren’t
being always scolded for things where there may not be another way
that’s ever been offered or presented. And you know having that
(inaudible) and having it as that community resource is such a critical
critical piece and so it’s great to see that, and it’s great to see that
reflected in multiple levels. So thank you for that.
Vesco-Mock: Thank you. And we have 70 animals out in our foster to adopt program.
So that number is a very low number cause we did just finish a bunch of
adoptions and everything.
Community outreach in August, grand total of 3,500 folks coming
in. Actually the traffic was up on the adoption side, probably due to all the
finalizing of adoptions. You know our big tax-free weekend. You know
everything that was going on. We weren’t … RTO sites were down,
probably cause we weren’t doing as many public surgeries. So that’s
probably the reason. I wouldn’t be too concerned about the decrease, I
think it’s … we have the reasons on why that occurred. We are on 101
Gold and Magic 105. We are on … we also have a full pledge campaign,
ad campaign with the Radio of Las Cruces going on and Abel will be here
later to chat with you all about that whole situation and how that’s working.
Critter Corner, again I just can’t tell you how many people read that whole
section and get a lot of education from it. Our cat satellite centers. We
are you know at Petco, Pet Barn, and here at the government center. We
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just got those two little kittens altered this week so they’re ready to go,
everything’s done, they lost both sets of balls, whether it was internal or
external, they’re gone and not going to be reproducing. So we can … well
you’ve got to have humor, when you do what I do every day you’ve got to
have humor guys, come on. Anyways. You do. Well you know it’s
football season. Got to have …
Small:
Keep us going Dr. Beth. Keep moving us through.
Vesco-Mock: I’m going pretty good. Tax-free weekend event, we had 99 adoptions.
Couldn’t get that hundredth adoption in there, but we tried. And the
ASPCA challenge is over. And we did awesome. I mean I was shocked.
You should’ve hear Bernice telling … you know what she said yesterday
when she came in the officer, she goes we didn’t embarrass ourselves like
we thought we would. Cause I was petrified. I mean that. I was petrified.
Going up against these other ones and you want me to go above and
beyond and you know we worked our behoony off last summer and you
know it’s like come on, you know what am I doing here. And we did good.
I mean, we’re not going to win our division cause you’re up against
Riverside, California, it’s just not going to happen. They’re going to win
the whole thing. So our division was the toughest division cause it had the
highest intake, therefore the highest population, but we really really did
good. They’re going to announce the winner at one p.m. our time. So
we’re having a party and I’m inviting you all now, get your little planners
out and type it in right now. Cause I would like to see you all up there to
come cause it shows a lot of support to our staff when you all come in.
They know who you all are and that shows them that you care and you’re
part of the team. So we’re hosting a party from 1-3 p.m. for staff,
volunteers, and community members because I don’t know where we’re
going to come in, you know. I’m hoping it’s pretty high cause we really did
good. And I’m really really proud of the community, the staff, the
volunteers. I’m really proud of everyone and I am so excited to see how
many animals are getting, they’re living, they’re getting to live and it’s a
very very exciting situation.
Williams:
Mr. Chairman.
Small:
Yes, Board Member Williams.
Williams:
Can you tell us the date again? I got the 1-3 part, but not the date.
Vesco-Mock: September 30th. It’s on a Monday. And I think that’s a council meeting
and I’m … isn’t it?
Small:
That’s I believe it’s the fifth Monday, so …
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Vesco-Mock: So you can all be there. You just gave it away.
Small:
And what we’ll want to do is to get potential quorum notices sent out so
that there can be a quorum of elected officials there.
Williams:
And Mr. Chairman I’ll be out of town, I think you know that my thoughts will
be with you.
Vesco-Mock: Absolutely. We know that. Thank you so much for your continual support
Mr. Williams.
Small:
Excellent. Thank you. And thank you Dr. Beth for both organizing that
and also making sure that there’s ample notice so that we can maximize
our attendance.
Vesco-Mock: Thank you all.
Small:
Great. And with that, that concludes shelter activities, reports.
3. Committee Reports
a. Finance - Mark Winson, Committee Chair
b. Executive - Nathan Small, Committee Chair
c. Facilities - Miguel Silva, Committee Chair
Small:
We now have a full board. Mr. Rawson, Board Member Rawson we would
love for you to be able to step in and serve on the finance sub-committee
and your first request was for the budget, so seems like an excellent
match. Is that … would that work on your end?
Rawson:
That sure would. I would enjoy that.
Small:
Great. Thank you very much. And so we have put the chairs, the
committee chairs next to the different committees. We will look forward to
the reports. As the executive committee chair, we did not meet between
August 22nd and today, and so we won’t have anything to report. I
presume with Mr. Winson that now that you actually have a committee that
we’ll be able to move forward. But because you did not have a committee
there’s nothing to report.
Winson:
That’s correct.
Small:
Excellent. And we appreciate Committee Chair Silva visiting the shelter
and being very involved in the facilities up there. I do not see Mr.
Villalobos yet.
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Vesco-Mock: I got a text from him at 10:08 that he was on his way. I just texted him
again and told him City Hall Chambers and you’re up shortly. So am very
sorry about that.
Small:
No, no, no, not at all, not at all. We’ll be able to look forward to Mr.
Villalobos’s ability to present. In the interest of time knowing that we do
have a closed meeting, would it be acceptable for us to move for public
input.
Smith:
So moved Mr. Chair.
Small:
Okay it’s been moved. And is there … do we need to formally switch this?
It is, we would just be, we’d be moving it ahead of the final part of reports
and presentation.
Williams:
Mr. Chair I believe that’s at your discretion.
Small:
Excellent. Thank you. And we will come back to Spanish Media Outreach
when Mr. Villalobos is here, however, in the interest of time we will now
move to public input.
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VIII.
Public Input
Small:
Okay, we’ll start with Ms. Zahler and then go to Ms. Anderson. We will
ask for the three minutes and we appreciate the opportunity.
Vesco-Mock: He went to the county building, so he is on his way. Thank you.
Small:
Thank you Dr. Beth.
Zahler:
Good morning gentlemen. Marlyn Zahler, Vice President for the Humane
Society of Southern New Mexico. I hope since Dr. Beth brought that up
about the balls that none of you gentlemen go there the day they do the
surgery. I’d hate to hear you come back with a female voice. Okay, now
on to the meeting. A couple of things, I don’t know as a public citizen if I
can ask this question or not but I think it would be interesting if the
volunteer coordinator could tell at next months’ meeting the number of …
not only the number of the volunteers but what is the length of time each
volunteer stays because I know in the past volunteers came and went
rapidly, so there was no longevity to the volunteers. So I think that would
be interesting. And also what departments do they work in. I’d like to
know what departments they work in. So I think that’s important.
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Okay, I have a thing to tell Mr. Silva. He brought up earlier about
the problems of the puppies and the notices in the newspaper. Mr. Hart
started that program but then Tom Housema who was an animal control
reserve office really followed through on that and the problem with what
we saw in the paper and his study was that many of the animals that were
up for sale were not from Dona Ana County.
They came from
Albuquerque and areas around that area, Santa Fe. So naturally they
don’t fall under the ordinances of the city or the county. But what you
could do and that was something that we looked at, many of them do not
have the business license that the rest of the people need to have. So
that might be something that the city councilors and the county
commissioners might request that if these people are coming in to Dona
Ana County to sell their puppies or their dogs and cats and they’re asking
some of those dogs are going for $500 to $1,500, that they must have a
city license so that they can sell those animals here in the community.
Williams:
Thirty seconds.
Zahler:
Okay. And real quick like. And I will next time talk about education.
Education is failing. It really is not doing the job and as a retired
schoolteacher I’ll tell you next month why it’s failing and why the Humane
Society of the United States and the SPCA is dropping it. Thank you
gentlemen.
Small:
Thank you very much Ms. Zahler.
Zahler:
And good luck to our new board member. He’s got a lot of homework.
Thank you again.
Small:
Thank you very much. Yes please, Ms. Anderson.
Anderson:
Good morning Mr. Small and board members. My name is Alice
Anderson. I live in Las Cruces. I am in Nathan Small’s city district and
Billy Garrett’s county district. And I wish to speak about trap, neuter,
release which is not in the proposed ordinance that’s going to have a work
session pretty soon and several people here want to put it in, to legalize
trap, neuter, release of stray cats. I would like to compare this with same
sex marriage which the county commission considered not long ago.
Clerk Ellins had been issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples
which appear to violate state law. Now Mr. Ellins found justification for his
action in the constitution of the United States and of the State of New
Mexico. And this is still up in the air. Now if you look through the U.S.
Constitution and the State of New Mexico constitution I don’t think you’ll
find anything that justifies feeding stray cats or anything that justifies the
right of stray cats to run free among the public. Some of you are looking
for loopholes in the state law so that you can appear to follow the letter of
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the state law while violating its spirit. Now what is the spirit of the state
law, why did the legislature enact a law against allowing cats and dogs to
run freely? It was to protect public health and safety and specifically to
protect them against rabies. Now a couple of years ago City of Roswell
had a rabies outbreak in skunks that had been consorting with two
different managed cat colonies. As a result of this outbreak several
people had to take post exposure rabies shots and at least one dog was
euthanized. Now Alley Cat Allies, Vox Felina and other trap, neuter,
release advocates say that was okay because no people died of rabies.
They don’t see anything wrong with people getting exposed to rabies and
having to take the shots. That is outrageous. Having to take the rabies
shots is not a trivial matter. Now TNR advocates proclaim a barrier theory
about rabies which Mr. Frank Bryce mentioned in his regular column a few
weeks ago in the Sun News.
Williams:
Thirty seconds.
Anderson:
The barrier says that cats form a barrier between rabid wild animals and
people and in fact the opposite is true. This would be like the state public
health office telling you to put out dishes of water in your backyard so you
can have feral mosquitos in your yard that will form a barrier between you
and the wild mosquitos that carry West Nile virus. Thank you.
Small:
Thank you very much Ms. Anderson. We very much appreciate it. And if
there’s any documentation that you’d like to leave to hand out we certainly
will take that. We’d now like to go Mr. Bryce and then we’ll go to Mr.
Bourdet, and we also see Mr. Villalobos is here to be able to walk us
through after public comment has concluded.
Bryce:
Frank Bryce, President Humane Society of Southern New Mexico. I have
a letter we’re going to present. It’s to the board of directors. The Humane
Society of Southern New Mexico board of directors wants to go on record
as opposing the proposed extension of the ASCMV director’s contract.
ASCMV resolution 2013-09. This extension is based on a performance
evaluation that seemed to have been conducted under dubious
procedures and has been delayed for unexplained reasons for well over a
year now. While the external activity of the shelter with tremendous
involvement from the community has seen improvement, the internal
activities continue to fail to meet most shelter standards in regard to both
animal welfare and employee conditions. This is attested to by the
documentation of complaints and concerns brought to HSSNM by both the
public and ASCMV former and current employees. These concerns have
been brought to this board’s attention repeatedly, consistently, diligent,
and regularly by HSSNM. Now the ASCMV board of directors are stating
“the consensus of the board of directors is that the overall operation and
condition of the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla
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Valley is satisfactory and proceeding in a positive direction”. This is
unacceptable based on the documentation HSSNM has provided. Some
serious issues identified have been addressed and corrected but without
accountability the deplorable condition of ASCMV infirmary, the problem of
stolen/lost animals, the failure to have a licensed veterinarian serving as a
shelter medical director to adequately and regularly provide care for all
shelter animals, failure to provide minimal proper safety equipment for
employees and repair of caging, etc., numbers of animals expired in the
shelter without any medical attention recorded, the loss of valued
employees from what appears to be a dysfunction between administration
and staff and treatment of some of the public have been and are still
especially egregious. This includes injuries and death to animals in fights
between animals over crowded into pens and cages. Most recently when
this board had the opportunity to include the shelter in an investigation of
allegations of improprieties at the shelter the outside investigator was
adamantly instructed not to include these employees in the investigation
as they were not county employees, although Dona Ana County and the
City of Las Cruces are the board of directors and financial supporters for
the ASCMV. After reviewing the information ASCMV has accumulated,
assistant district attorney Paul Rubio has suggested the information be
taken to the state police for further evaluation.
Williams:
Thirty seconds.
Bryce:
The fears of retaliation and retribution expressed by ASCMV employees
and seemingly demonstrated by terminations have resulted in numerous
clandestine meetings between ASCMV staff and HHSNM, but have
included at least one ASCMV board member. All this has been to no
apparent avail.
With these concerns looming over the ASCMV
administration, we oppose this resolution.
Small:
Thank you very much. Now we will go to Mr. Bourdet.
Bourdet:
My name is Emile Bourdet. I have a great interest in the mobile surgical
unit that the shelter will have on line soon I hope, but I did not hear any
comments today on the status of that unit. So perhaps in future board
meetings that we could have a status report. The last thing I recall was
perhaps the last meeting that Dr. Beth reported she had a bid for $7,000
but didn’t know what exactly that covered. Thank you.
Small:
Thank you. Thank you Mr. Bourdet and the … kind of the two part
background information for being able to move with … you know have the
vehicle in the safe as a transport and then as a surgical unit. Those
investigations are ongoing as well as an active search for grant funding to
potentially be used to support parts of that. So we’ll look forward to being
able to continue to talk about that and have an update at our next meeting.
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Thank you. Okay, seeing any … and yes, Gary please. Yes, sir. And
Vice-Chair Garrett to his credit also reminded me, thanks to both of you.
Gail:
Gary Gail, volunteer with the Animal Service Center.
Small:
And Gary if we might ask, on your right hand side there’s that button.
There you go, you can take that sucker down.
Gail:
I don’t know if it’ll go low enough.
Small:
No, no, that’s perfect.
Gail:
Okay. Just a quick bit of good news, with everything else going on. I’ve
been invited today at one o'clock with Jean Gilbert, we’re starting back up
the Critter Connection with Boys and Girls Club, and I will be taking my
special cat Celeste to them to do a presentation on guardianship female,
taking care of animals, heat stroke, the proper method of taking care of
basically kitties. And as I said I’ll be taking my foster, or actually it’s not
my foster anymore, but my rescue that I do take. And I guess the e-mail I
got saying that they get a magazine called the Kind News and this month’s
is on the feline health and activities. So that’s good news and I just
wanted to let you know that and I will be representing the shelter to the
Boys and Girls Club. So I’m glad to see we got that program back going
and look forward to more of those with Jean and crew. Thank you.
Small:
Excellent. Thank you very much Gary. And thank you for your continued
efforts and also for the connection to the shelter in being able to bring that
… bring it remotely out into places and the positive things that are
happening. We appreciate it.
Gail:
Thank you.
Small:
Excellent. Okay. Mr. Villalobos. Thank you for being here. We
appreciate you’ve been seen now in both … you can give us an update on
what’s happening over there at the county. But we very much appreciate
having you here. At the last meeting Board Member Smith had talked
about, and there was consensus to ask for the update for efforts within the
Spanish language radio medium. So we’re very pleased to have you
here. We would love to have your presentation and then go forward from
here.
Villalobos:
Right. Is there a way to plug in here or do anything like that?
Small:
So what we’re going to do is we’ll ask our folks there in the IT if we can get
that, so perhaps Ms. Deal can you come down and I take it that you have
a jump drive or do you need to connect …
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Villalobos:
I can use a jump drive, yeah if I can get into this one.
Small:
Great, can you … Ms. Deal. Yeah. Dr. Beth, Dr. Beth, can you please
take the jump drive from Mr. Villalobos and bring it into the back there?
Thank you very much. So let’s escape out of this, press escape, close the
window. Now we’ll wait for our IT department, we’ll wait for them to give
us the go ahead.
Villalobos:
Let’s see, there’s going to be several, it’ll be all Animal Service Center of
Mesilla Valley, ASCMV. The first thing I wanted to put up is maybe if you
can go down to actual just radio coverage on a PDF file, it’s on the Rs, I
know there’s a ton of stuff on there. If you go down to the Rs, radio
coverage PDF.
Small:
And while we’re doing … if this is, depending on the time that we’re going
to take here because we do have a closed meeting and because we do
have another resolution to consider. Depending on the time we’re
probably going to ask you to begin to walk us verbally through the update
and presentation.
Villalobos:
Okay, I can do that. I’ll go ahead and get started. That’s okay, if it gets up
…
Small:
Hold off for just one second Mr. Villalobos, we’ll let Mr. Mark Winson …
Smith:
While we’re waiting Mr. Chair, can we thank Mr. Villalobos for his efforts
on our behalf here?
Small:
Absolutely.
Smith:
In advance, but we appreciate it and the drive between here and various
other points.
Villalobos:
Absolutely wherever I’m needed sir. I’m there.
Smith:
Thanks.
Villalobos:
All right. Well when I first came on board with the Animal Service Center
…
Small:
And Mr. Villalobos, can you just one more time say your name please.
Villalobos:
My name is Able Villalobos. I’m a marketing consultant for Radio of Las
Cruces, four stations here in Las Cruces on 1355 California Street. We …
we’re going about two years now when we discussed our (inaudible).
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Small:
And I apologize, get the microphone, yeah right in there. Those will pick it
up just we make sure with the minutes that we’re getting everything.
Perfect. Sorry.
Villalobos:
Okay. Can you hear me now? Okay. When I first met Dr. Beth we had
went over some of the goals and some of the issues that were going on
with the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley. What’s good about
Radio of Las Cruces is that we are very community based, we’re very
community oriented. And that’s what I like about my job is that I get to
help where needed in the communities so that’s not only good for the city
but it’s good for the community, good for the families and the people that
live in Las Cruces. We went over some of the issues and one of the main
things was spay and neuter and adoptions were needed to be raised and
spay and neuter needed to be made aware. When analyzing this
information and going over some of the these goals we discussed an
educational campaign and we need to educate the people in Las Cruces,
let them know what the Animal Service Center has to offer and really what
the issues are which is over-population. There is not enough spay and
neuter and it becomes a problem. And people won’t notice this unless we
kind of point it out to them. So, on our campaign we decided to go on the
Spanish station to hit that demographic. Not only does it reach Las
Cruces but it’ll reach in our other county as well, Hatch, Anthony and
those places around our region where you know animal population is an
issue there. We’ve continued to educate them on these commercials
about affordable spay and neuter, microchipping, along with adopt, adopt,
any day of the week, seven days a week, get over here, we’re here to
show you how to take care of your pets and animals. And so that’s what
we’ve been doing on the Spanish station. Now, we’re a non-profit
organization and again we want to help you and do the best that we can to
get the educational part of that out there. And when the person knows
more what’s going on they can know that they can go to the Animal
Service Center, know that they have the spay and neuter, they can find
out how to adopt a certain type of animal, you know how to take care of
them and maintain them. And so what I had approved was the pet of the
week is getting sent to me every week and so we put that on our web
sites, station web sites, Hot 103, KGRT, and the Spanish station as well.
And so approximately page loads is what we’re looking at here is, let’s see
here … So for one week on Hot 103, this is just an example in April it’s
very consistent, you’ve got 3,994 page loads. So you’ve got that many
viewers coming on to just Hot 103. KGRT is similar and a little bit, there
are about 2,000, actually about 1,000 on the Spanish station web site. So
you’re not only getting your commercial coverage campaign on the
Spanish station but you’re also touching base with everybody who’s going
onto our half off Wednesdays, every Wednesday on all four of our
stations. They’re going on that and they see the pet of the week. I don’t
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know if we can go to like Hot 103, KGRT.com. Is there any way we can
do that?
Small:
I think, I think … thank you Mr. Villalobos. And this would be speaking
primarily from one perspective, but to really, you know I think the board
was very enthused to enter in and appreciative with Dr. Beth forging the
relationship and building the relationship. What we’re most interested in
now is assessing.
Villalobos:
Yes.
Small:
The relationship and not as much from the content perspective.
Villalobos:
Okay.
Small:
That’s part of it, but this is from, are we seeing shifts at the shelter, are we
seeing increased interest that you see there with Radio of Las Cruces
from individuals out in the community and depending on what we’re
starting to see there, do we need to, and we won’t discuss that at this
meeting, but do we need to look at moving into new areas, expanding
those kind of questions that come after that diagnostic part.
Villalobos:
Okay, yes, absolutely. I just want to get a rundown of what we’re actually
doing all together and then I can tell you about some of our achievements
and goals that we’ve reached. So we have the web site and not only that
are you getting live public service announcements when we have like for
example like the black Friday, we’ll have all the DJs talking about, hey be
sure to get over here this weekend, this day we’re going to have animals,
be sure to get over there because it’s the most affordable spay and
neuter, again on an educational kind of promotion. And so what I’ve seen
in the community is a really good thing, is because I hear on the Spanish
station that they hear that commercial all the time and that it’s always
rolling and know where to go. So I get that feedback from the Spanish
station. Also, I know that Dr. Beth you’ve talked to some of the people, it
seems like more Spanish language people are coming over and asking
about how to adopt, where to get their pets and puppies, and things like
that. And not only that, when I got I always send out e-mails on … cause I
get the pet of the week as well and so I always send those out and
everybody’s just, oh how cute and stuff and actually our boss recently was
in, adopted an animal. The animal didn’t survive but once she is ready to,
she will adopt another one, and so it seems like everybody’s has got the
feel good about the Animal Service Center which is what we’re trying to
achieve, is getting that good feeling and knowing that when it comes to
animals in Las Cruces that we’re thinking about the Animal Service Center
of the Mesilla Valley. And I believe that with continued efforts using this
type of media advertising that we can achieve even higher goals as far as
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getting the spay and neuter coming in, because that’s really where the
problem lies as far as animal population. So that’s kind of the thing that
I’m kind of focusing right now. In the past we’ve had some of my clients
would have a promotion and help the Animal Service, they’d have an
adoption event and we’ve had a couple of those with some donations,
$3,000. What did we get last time, we sold a hundred dogs?
Vesco-Mock: I don’t know, it was over at the Gold Club.
Small:
Dr. Beth, yeah there you go. Please.
Vesco-Mock: Gold Group. That was last summer. Two summers in a row they did it
and I don’t remember.
Villalobos:
We adopted 30 that day I believe?
Vesco-Mock: Yes, the first time, yes we did and they paid for the adoptions. Yes.
Villalobos:
They paid for all the adoptions and stuff. So these are some of the efforts
that we’ve seen come through this campaign and we’re going to continue
to work toward that because I think if we get the community involved then
we can see that you know the Gold Group and people like that, they need
to contribute to the cause and we can utilize that as a way to get Animal
Service Center out there and get it going where we want it to go.
Small:
Great. Thank you very much for that opening presentation. And we
appreciate very much the efforts. I’ll now go to the board and ask if there
are any questions or comments from board members. I see Vice-Chair
Garrett and the Board Member Smith.
Garrett:
Thank you. And thank you for the work that you’re doing on behalf of the
shelter. This is directed to both you and Dr. Beth, part of what we’re
hearing today has to do with the fact that not everybody understands what
they should do when they have a problem with their animal and what
appropriate responsible pet ownership is. And I’m wondering if one way to
approach that is to in some way link what you’re doing now with the zero
and seven promise card. It’s a very short set of … these are the right
things to do. And I would just ask that you and Dr. Beth look into the
possibility of somehow tying that into the web site and into the work that
you’re doing on the radio. We have been working on ramping up the
educational part.
Villalobos:
Okay.
Garrett:
The educational part is basically what do you need and what do you do if
you get in trouble. We’ve been making good progress in terms of
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microchipping, in terms of increasing the numbers for the surgeries,
adoptions are up, I mean there are a lot of really positive things. I think
now is the time to start ramping up that public information piece in terms of
responsible behavior and that’s at least a frame of reference. So, I would
request that you take a look at that for consideration.
Small:
Thank you Vice-Chair Garrett. Board Member Smith.
Smith:
Thank you Mr. Chair. And thank you Mr. Villalobos. As was pointed out
earlier this has been an area I’ve hoped we would work more on, New
Mexico being a bilingual state, our part of New Mexico being a very
bilingual area, and so even though we would assume that a majority
portion of our population is bilingual, many of them still listen to your
Spanish station. And so getting the word out is so very important and
reaching all parts of our community. So thank you for helping us do that.
I’m very heartened by the fact that more Spanish, you know apparently
Spanish speaking people are coming in to the shelter, that to me confirms
that this is having an impact and hopefully it will continue to grow and we’ll
say that we haven’t left out any part of our community as far as getting the
outreach and the education. So very much appreciate it. Thank you Mr.
Chair.
Villalobos:
Thank you.
Small:
Thank you very much Board Member Smith. Board Member Williams.
Williams:
Thank you Mr. Chairman. I’d just like to point out that I think while I
applaud the direction that we’ve gone with this advertising campaign,
we’re also … we have an opportunity to use this advertising campaign to
try and bring more people to these meetings, to the workshops that are
joint workshops between the city and the county referring to the animal
control ordinances. Some of the things that are coming up that we heard
earlier about the problem with trailer parks and with puppies and kittens in
trailer parks. We all know about the problem of chained dogs and
improper care of animals during the heat of summer and during the cold of
winter. It seems to me like even though the last two years have been
predominately about talking about the spay and neuter which of course we
have to continue to talk about, but we have the opportunity to expand this
message somewhat to try and drive more people … we see the same
committed faces in these meetings every month and it would be nice to
drive some additional people here, especially if we can get people from
the Spanish speaking communities and the outlying communities to come
to our meetings and give us some feedback, so that’s just a few thoughts
off the top of my head. Thank you Mr. Chairman.
Villalobos:
Okay.
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Thank you very much Board Member Williams. And as an expert PIO we
always listen but we listen especially when you talk about those. Mr.
Villalobos, thank you. It appears as was expected that there’s continued
very strong support for the effort. There’s appreciation of some of the
benefits that we’ve seen. And an interest in being able to deepen and
expand and truly be the Animal Services Center for our entire community
and those citizens who are part of our community, so those individuals.
So, it’s very positive. We very much appreciate it. And we look forward
perhaps to written updates or if there are further queries we can have you
here in person you know a couple of times to be able to ask more detailed
questions. But to certainly stay up with things and the exciting stuff that
you’re helping to lead.
Villalobos:
Absolutely and I thank you again. I appreciate helping as much as I can. I
will take these notes into consideration. I get to right to work on them and
I’ll have an update for you at the next meeting.
Small:
Great. Thank you. We appreciate it. And Dr. Beth thank you for working
with and continuing to leverage the partnership with Mr. Villalobos and
Radio of Las Cruces.
Villalobos:
Thank you for your time.
IX.
(A motion to close and a vote of each individual member is required prior
to going into a closed meeting.) THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
ANIMAL SERVICE CENTER OF THE MESILLA VALLEY WILL CONVENE IN
CLOSED
SESSION
to
discuss
the
contract
of
the
Director of the Animal Service Center of the Mesilla Valley (which is closed
pursuant to Section 10-15-1-H(2), NMSA 1978).
Small:
Okay, we have now come to the closed portion of today’s meeting.
However we cannot convene in closed session until we read the following.
I do need a motion and a vote. Motion and a second and a vote to
convene in closed session to discuss the contract for the Director of the
Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley, closed pursuant to Section
10-15-1-H(2), NMSA 1978.
Williams:
So moved.
Smith:
Second.
Small:
Okay it’s been moved and seconded. Can we vote on the closed meeting
motion?
Baum:
Nathan Small.
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Rawson:
Yes.
Baum:
And Miguel Silva.
Silva:
Yes.
Small:
Okay, we’ll convene in closed session. It’s now approximately I believe
11:00 and we’ll be back in due in ample time. Thank you.
X.
Small:
XI.
(Closed meeting statement shall be read at this time). THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE ANIMAL SERVICE CENTER OF THE MESILLA VALLEY
MAY CONVENE IN OPEN SESSION to take action, if any, on the closed
session items.
Okay. Thanks everybody for your patience. The Animal Services Center
Board will convene back in open session. The Board of Directors of the
Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley now convenes in open
sessions having not discussed any other matter than the matter discussed
in closed session which was to discuss the contrast of the Director of the
Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley. It is now 12:25.
Action items
1. Resolution 2013-09 - Approval of Contract Extension of the Executive
Director
Small:
We are now moving into agenda item number 11 which is an action item,
Resolution 2013-09, this is approval of contract extension for the
Executive Director. We now need a motion and a second.
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So moved.
Small:
It’s been moved. Is there a second?
Williams:
Second.
Small:
It’s been moved by Board Member Smith, seconded by Board Member
Williams to approve the contract extension of the Executive Director. Is
there any public input? Okay, seeing none, we will now move to the vote
on Resolution 2013-09, approve the contract extension for the Executive
Director.
Baum:
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Small:
Yes.
Baum:
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Garrett:
Yes.
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Williams:
Yes.
Baum:
Greg Smith.
Smith:
Yes.
Baum:
Ben Rawson.
Rawson:
Yes.
Baum:
And Miguel Silva.
Silva:
Yes.
Small:
Okay, motion passes. We will sign those and pass this down so we can
get that.
XII.
Small:
Chair and Board Comments
Now we go to chair and board comments. I would pass on any chair
comments. Are there board comments? Okay, seeing no board
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Adjournment (12:26)
Small:
We’ll now go to adjournment. And we’ll adjourn the regular meeting for
the Animal Services Center at approximately 12:26. Thank you every one.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Nathan P. Small, Chair
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Billy G. Garrett, Vice-Chair
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Miguel G. Silva, Board Member
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Jess C. Williams, Board Member
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Gregory Z. Smith, Board Member
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Benjamin L. Rawson, Board Member
ATTEST:
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Lynn J. Ellins, County Clerk
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INTAKE
Total Intake
Jurisdiction Unknown
406
663
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
2
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Pocket Avian
Rabbits Reptiles
Pets
E
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
5
5
Avian
L, W
3
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
13
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
13
13
(skunk, bat,
coyote, fox,
raccoon)
(horse, goat,
sheep, pig,
donkey)
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
Wildlife
Livestock
1,099
47
50
4
16
58
342
1
471
93
8
11
131
320
18
581
Total
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14
5
0
6
26
132
0
169
25
2
1
52
143
0
223
Cats
32
45
4
10
32
208
0
299
Owner Surrender
Returned Adoptions
Seized from Owners
Strays (brought in by the public)
Strays (brought in by Animal Control)
Wildlife
Subtotal Doňa Ana County
Doňa Ana County
65
6
10
79
172
0
332
Dogs
Owner Surrender
Returned Adoptions
Seized from Owners
Strays (brought in by the public)
Strays (brought in by Animal Control)
Wildlife
Subtotal City of Las Cruces
City of Las Cruces
Monthly Statistics Report-August 2013
OUTCOME
(city and county)
Total Outcome
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
105
13
17
4
45
0
6
0
21
0
0
2
51
0
166
2
16
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
3
35
0
0
0
299
73.6%
490
0
0
0
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
237
25
39
108
73
0
73
3
2
10
5
24
48
0
0
3
43
5
0
0
0
5
30
0
3
0
0
0
45
226
34.1%
785
Cats
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
33.3%
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
na
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
25.0%
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
na
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
33.3%
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
0
Avian
L, W
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
66.7%
5
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0
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
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0
0
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
9
0
(skunk, bat,
coyote, fox,
raccoon)
(horse, goat,
sheep, pig,
donkey)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
Wildlife
Livestock
3
23
10
5
26
99
0
166
6
67
5
1
0
0
5
30
2
6
35
0
0
45
534
48.6%
1,307
0
0
0
3
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
348
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59
112
118
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Admin Missing
Foster-Escaped
Foster-Lost Contact
Foster-Stolen From
FTA-Escaped
FTA-Lost Contact
FTA-Stolen
Offsite-Missing
Offsite-Stolen From
Shelter-Escaped
Shelter-Missing
Shelter-Stolen
Subtotal Admin Missing
Adoptions
Expired in Shelter
DOA
Return to Owner
Transferred Out (Rescues)
Wildlife Release
Owner Request Euthanasia
Euthanized
Age - Too Old
Age - Too Young
Behavior - Aggressive - Dog
Behavior - Aggressive - Food
Behavior - Aggressive - Human
Behavior - Timid
Eliminator
Feral
Hit by Car
Medical Issues
Medical - Distemper
Medical - Felv
Medical - FIV
Medical - HW Positive
Medical - Kennel Cough
Medical - Parvo
Medical - Pregnant
Medical - Ringworm
Medical - URI
Policy
Space
Space - Pitbull Breed
Subtotal Euthanized
Euthanasia Rate
Dogs
Pocket Avian
Rabbits Reptiles
Pets
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Intake*
Outcome*
663
785
406
490
19
0
19
5
14
Cats
3
6
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
6
0
0
0
Avian
L, W
3
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
13
13
0
0
0
(skunk, bat,
coyote, fox,
raccoon)
(horse, goat,
sheep, pig,
donkey)
0
Wildlife
Livestock
1,099
1,307
119
0
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82
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Live Release Rate
64.9% 34.0%
75.0%
na
50.0%
na
66.7%
60.0%
75.0%
52.6%
Euthanized, Expired in Shelter, DOA
290
329
3
0
1
0
2
2
4
631
Average Intake/day
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13.1
0.1
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.2
0.1
0.4
35.5
Average Outcome/day
25.3
15.8
0.2
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.2
0.2
0.4
42.2
Average Euthanizations/day
7.3
9.6
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.1
0.1
17.2
Average RTO/day
3.5
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
3.6
Average Adoptions/day
7.6
3.4
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.0
11.2
* The discrepancy between intake and outcome numbers is due to the number of animals taken in on the final three to five days of the month whose outcome is listed on the
following month's report. (Animals are held as Strays three days without tags and five days with identification for owner reclaim). It is doubtful that the two numbers will ever match.
Statistics
Grand Total
100
Clinic Out (includes outside surgeries, vaccinations, and
microchips)
0
102
34
68
Jurisdiction Unknown
Subtotal Clinic In
vaccinations, and microchips)
County Clinic (includes outside surgeries,
and microchips)
Public Services City Clinic (includes outside surgeries, vaccinations,
Dogs
Pocket Avian
Rabbits Reptiles
Pets
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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is made by and between the Animal
Services Center of the Mesilla Valley (ASCMV), and the City of Las Cruces
(City), by its City Manager, Robert Garza (“City”).
RECITALS
1. The ASCMV was created under a Joint Powers Agreement between the
City of Las Cruces and the County of Doña Ana in August of 2008. The
purpose of this JPA was to establish a mechanism for financing, operating,
and maintaining a regional animal shelter and related facilities.
2. The JPA stipulates support functions provided by the City and do not
include processing of Family Medical Leave Act applications, review of
employee requested reasonable accommodation request under the
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), investigations and responses to
hostile work environment or harassment claims (EEOC) or access to
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
3. The City currently has employees dedicated to the FMLA, the ADA, the
EEOC and EAP programs.
4. The ASCMV has occasional need for services and recommendations
related to the FMLA, the ADA, the EEOC and EAP programs.
AGREEMENTS
NOW, THEREFORE, it is mutually agreed by the Parties that:
1. When appropriately notified, depending staff availability and other factors,
the City will process FMLA request for ASCMV employees.
2. If requested by the ASCMV the City, depending staff availability and other
factors, will investigate and make recommendations to the ASCMV in
matters related to the EEOC or the ADA.
3. Should ASCMV employees request EAP services the City, depending staff
availability and other factors, will provide EAP services for these
employees.
4. In all cases the ASCVM shall be the sole and final determinant of any
course of action or inaction.
CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT:
1. The City will provide ASCMV a detailed report of all hours directly related to
services requested and provided to the ASCMV as part of this MOU.
2. The ASCMV will pay the City:
a. Thirty ($30) dollars per hour for EEOC and ADA services;
1-2
b. Thirty-five ($35) dollars per hour for EAP services;
c. One hundred ($100) dollars for each FMLA claim.
3. This MOU may be canceled with or without cause by either party by giving
the other party ninety days (90) written notice.
EXECUTED this
day of ____________ 2013.
CITY OF LAS CRUCES:
BY: Robert Garza, City Manager
Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock, ASCVM
Director:
Signature
Signature
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Harry ”Pete” Connelly, City Attorney
Signature
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