Extremely organized and vocal and participation during the budget process and because that really has a significant impact, and i think on the mayor and on the board in terms of making sure that priorities are actually getting addressed. For the next steps we need to finalize the planning and determine what is the best fit in order to provide a modern facility that meets the needs of the animal and refine our own work load and look at best practice and smart practices and talk to our partners regionally and see what is the opt mal level of resources to provide for the animals within the city and we need to submit the budget and we will do so in february. And we will work with the Mayors Office and supervisors through june, and july, and in order to finalize the budget for acc. Okay. Thank you, thank you, so much for the presentation. Okay. Supervisor weiner and tang, if there are no other presentations, lets open this up for Public Comment. I think that before we get to the Public Comm
I just wanted to add, to my comments that if you have not visited the facilities, if you have your image of dog catchers in mind and as what the department represents it could not be further from the truth with the really caring people that work under really difficult facility and conditions there. And so i am glad that you have some slides on Facilities Needs and i think that is coupling up and i know that there are a ton of people that want to speak. And i did want to say that the increased the animal socialization activities is critical because when i visited to see the cats and the abused dogs, that the facility is really in need of much more improvement in addition to the positions and it or the additional animal care attendants as well. And but i did want to say that unless you have seen directly the facility, that the data is not as or it does not hit you as hard until you see facility, but i did want to say that slide number nine gives the data on the types of animals that are
Wild life, coexistence education and mutual aid, both here in the city and to other agencies, and whether that is Law Enforcement agencies and the Fire Department and again, the health and human agencies but also the aid to the other communities, when the pipeline explosion occurred and we sent the people down for example, and things like that. We provide the animal care, which is our vet Services Providing vaccinations and microchip and working with the community and on the failed cat programs and the tnr and the behavior and Training Programs and the volunteer service and community out reach and education and providing shelter for the guardians in a hospital and the battered womans shelters or jails and we have an on site groomer who helps us and we have the Public Education functions and we also provide as a said for people, Public Safety and health, and issues that we do Code Enforcement and we deal with the abuse cases and studies show that abuse of animals cruelty to animals is o
And more that tr there is not a response, i dont think that there is a lack of wanting to respond and my sense is that there is no one to respond because it is for the entire city there are hundreds and hundreds of thousands of animals there is very few people even available to respond. And i would like more data on that. We will provide that in the future. Noted on that, though, because there are eleven officers, and when there are, for instance, people that are out sick and if we have vacantcy that can put a great stress on the team itself and there and then the pure resource is available to deploy into the field and so it ties nicely into the next point and with the animal care and attendants we know that that causes the issues in the shelter and so right now we have eleven, animal care attendants that provide, basically a cleaning, and also, care, feeding, and adoption, and redemption and Departure Services for the animals and they have 400 on any given day and each, animal care ha
Facility that meets the needs of the animal and refine our own work load and look at best practice and smart practices and talk to our partners regionally and see what is the opt mal level of resources to provide for the animals within the city and we need to submit the budget and we will do so in february. And we will work with the Mayors Office and supervisors through june, and july, and in order to finalize the budget for acc. Okay. Thank you, thank you, so much for the presentation. Okay. Supervisor weiner and tang, if there are no other presentations, lets open this up for Public Comment. I think that before we get to the Public Comment, the one last statement is stevens from the Animal Welfare commission is here, and could speak for just a few minutes. And a brief statement and we will go to Public Comment. Hi. Good morning. Animal care and control is a Important Agency for the animal and people as well. The under funded and they are under staffed yet they do a lot of good things