Welfare commission. So, miss cats . Thank you, sir. Supervisors, good morning, and i want to thank you for hearing this matter and for your continuing support and in particular, supervisor weiner and supervisor tang for cosponsoring this matter and we really appreciate the opportunity to tell you more about what we are doing, and how we are doing it. And before we continue on, i would also want to acknowledge, my staff and volunteers, and some of whom are here in the chambers and some arent. But, i have incredibly, dedicated folks that i have the privilege to work with. And i just want to that thank them for all that they do and the san franciscan mals and the people who care about them. And so starting off with this presentation, go ahead. And we are going to talk a little bit about what our mission and mandates are and what our resources and adam will speak to our operating budget and staffing and those kind of issues and the work load and what they are proposing for enhancements and
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
Weekend. Lets take a look at the bay bridge. Those clouds and fog will be burning off and temperatures already warming up. In the upper 50s, low 60s all around the bay area. We are boeing to see the gray skies this morning burning off quickly. Afternoon sun for most and the beginning of a warming trend starting today. Developing news in oakland. Place are looking for who people possibly responsible for causing a fire at a building. It was on east 17th street at 10 45 last night. They got it under control within 20 minutes. Earlier witnesses saw two people with possible burns leaving the scene. Witnesses say a meth lab may be to blame. Investigators believe brew tan may have blown up. Two people are dead after a headon collision in concord. It happened on will low pass road near the weapons station. Five other people have major injuries but are expected to survive. Investigators believe illegal fireworks are to blame for a fire in castro valley. Neighbors heard a loud boom and felt thei
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