The Evansville Animal Control and Education Commission met on May 15, 2026, to discuss legal coordination with the county, approve minutes, issue poultry permits, and review the monthly animal control report.
Right, identical or make it like a joint so that then there's just one set of ordinances and people aren't going to separate. Well, I guess someone over here is like a 13 pages. Or right now the whole time is showing. Yeah, I mean that wasn't changed in the county. So the county's still showing seven eighths. Um Heather. It says it's running, but I don't see it on here. So I would assume you're okay. Okay. So we called order the animal control and education commission meeting. And Missy, would you take role? Yes, Tangela Smith here. Tamara Schmidt here. Again Garbers. Lisa Julicio. Kendall Paul, here. We have a quorum. I always forget to include you. I apologize. Okay. Um and it looks like first we'll go to legal issues and I know that. Yeah, again to put it on the record, I'm gonna reach out to uh Ryan Schultz, who's I believe the Vandenberg County point of contact um to start the conversation of updating the Vanderburgh County uh animal control ordinance to kind of align with the most recent changes you guys made. Especially I'll point out the hold times is one that we think just logically makes sense to knock that one out. I'll propose that I can assist, but I'll kind of try to get a timeline from him on how that would work and how he would want it. Maybe the next meeting I can come in here and lay out sort of the the latest changes we did that were approved, and if you guys all we can just kind of go through one at a time. If you guys are like, yep, add that one, then I can send that off to Ryan after the next meeting and say here are the things that the commission wants um and then have him, you know, work on that process, get it to the commissioners. Sort of my thought. Sound good. And then I say it was brought to my attention that in the June the June meeting is actually Juneteenth, so the city will be closed, so we won't have a June meeting. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um maybe we'll maybe what I can do if you guys want to today vote to approve me. Kind of doing an outline of the most recent changes that you guys all approve, put through, and I can send that in the email to Ryan, kind of saying here are the latest changes that we've done over the last year, um, and kind of highlight the keys and I'll kind of point out the ones that we think are make the most sense and then kind of let him take it from there. If he has any questions, we can I can tell them they can come to the July meeting. Um and uh hopefully you know there won't be any questions, but I'll provide an update then um as to whether they agreed with it or if they're gonna have some pushback at the July meeting. Duncan. Thank you. Yes, I think the main thing is that stray hold was something we'd really want to get pretty quickly, and I think that should pass pretty good with them. I think that's an easy one too. Yes. Yeah. Thank you. So you need us to go ahead and bring that motion. Um disapproving legal counsel, uh reaching out to the county legal council to be and share the latest round of updates, um, and start getting the process of updating the Vanderburgh County. I make a motion that our legal council meet with the county council and um start the process of up looking to see if we can update the county ordinances to match some of the Sydney ones specifically, looking to see if we can't get the match of the stray hold times, which is the most important right now to look at. I'll second that. So we're first by Kindle and second by Lisa to have Aaron to represent us and to get those things in line together. All those in favor say aye. Aye.