General (04)Date:6/3/2025 12:11:46 PM
From:"Michael Mavrovouniotis"
To:"Public Comment" publiccomment@anaheim.net
Subject:[EXTERNAL] CITY COUNCIL, GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
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(a)
We’ve been saying the c ounty animal shelter doesn’t have enough Animal Care Attendants. The proposed c ounty budget for FY 2025-2026 now states:
“Add Sev en Positions to Expand OC Animal Shelter Operating Hours”. Please ask OCAC to mak e sure that these positions will be Animal Care
Attendants.
A big thank you to OC Supervisors Janet Nguyen and Vicente Sarmiento – and to the artic ulate op-ed c ontributors that doc umented the shortage in
Animal Care Attendants: Jac kie, Margot, Romina, and Karen.
(b)
In the rec ent California Journalism Aw ards, Voic e of OC w on first plac e in multiple categories in its Divis ion (on-line only public ations).
In the Public Service c ategory, Angelina Hicks won first place in her Division for her articles about the shelter. The aw ard is listed as "Reopening OC’s
Animal Shelter”.
Voice of OC Rec ognized For General Exc ellenc e and Public Service By California News Publishers
(c)
Work remains to be done: The shelter’s Strategic Plan. The plan should not be diluted, it should be implemented!
You can revisit Teri Sforza’s February article in the Register:
New plan for OC Animal Care: To boost survival, or dampen expectations?
While you’re at it, c hec k out her c overage of the disappearanc e of hundreds of OC’s small pets (many of w hic h, w e found out later, w ere shipped to
Arizona, and are likely to have met a grim fate).
Advoc ates horrified over mysterious fate of small animals