HomeMy WebLinkAboutANI 2011-08-04 Minutes NORTH RICHLAND HILLS
ANIMAL SHELTER ADVISORY BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, August 4, 2011
10:30 am
Present: Jo Ann Stout Neighborhood Services Director
Pam Burney Senior Director of Regional Services
National Shelter Outreach, ASPCA
Tito Rodriguez Councilman
Dr. Jed Ford, DVM DVM Family Pet Clinic
Staff Members(s): Chun Mezger Humane Services Supervisor
Jimmy Perdue Director of Public Safety
Visitor(s): Tonya Hamilton Warm Hugs Volunteer&NRH citizen
01. Call Meeting to Order
Pam Burney called the meeting to order at 10:36 am
02. Approval of minutes of September 7,2010 meeting
Dr. Jed Ford motioned to approve the minutes from the last meeting on September 7,
2010 and Tito Rodriguez seconded the motion. There were no objections.
03. Introduction of New Board Member—Councilman Tito Rodriguez
JoAnn Stout introduced Councilman Tito Rodriguez to the board. Councilman
Rodriguez takes the place vacated by former Councilman John H. Lewis. Councilman
Rodriquez gave some background information on himself and his activities with the city.
Chun Mezger introduced the councilman to everyone else that was at the meeting.
04. Animal Shelter Expansion Update
Jimmy Perdue gave a brief timeline of the project to bring the board members up to
current events with the shelter project.
The project is currently $1.5 million short and there had been several delays that were
unavoidable. Events such as the City of Watauga backing out of our joint expansion at
the last minute to build their own facility and the City of Keller citizens voting not to
enter into a project with us but to expand their existing facility. After that the City
explored the idea of building our own facility but we need to find locations that either the
city already owned or that could be purchased reasonably. Currently the City of North
Richland Hills has been approached by the City of Hurst to go into a joint facility.
Pam is concerned about the level of service that Hurst provides is not to the level that we
currently provide our citizens. Jimmy agreed that there are differences in philosophies in
the two cities.
Jimmy discussed that plans right now are to use the existing building in Hurst and expand
from there, but options are still being explored to see which would be more beneficial to
the citizens of each city.
Dr. Ford suggested we look at doing a regional facility and state to all the surrounding
cities that this is what NRH is doing—are you in or out.
JoAnn asked Pam her opinion on how the NRH citizens would react to the moving to
Hurst option. Pam agreed that it would be a great question to ask—how would the
citizens of NRH feel about having their shelter in the City of Hurst.
Jimmy discussed the possible locations in Hurst and locations in NRH. Pam felt that the
current Hurst complex is way too small to build any shelter adequate to house two cities.
Pam also explained that the current Hurst shelter has had structural problems from day
one.
Jimmy closed discussions by saying that there is still a lot to be discussed and evaluated.
05. Adjournment
Pam motioned to adjourn the meeting at 11:17 am. JoAnn seconded. No objections.
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Chun Mezger, Huma a5 ivision Supervisor