Don't know how to pronounce your last name.

Finn Layson.

Finn Layson.

All right.

Thank you for having me this morning.

Introducing resolution oh two twenty-five for licensed veterinary services for face for seventy-five thousand dollars.

I don't have any questions.

No questions.

We'll make a motion to vote.

Yeah, motion motion to approve.

Second?

Second.

Okay.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, same sign?

Motion is approved.

All right.

Next on the agenda is resolution zero three-25.

And it's for contracted veterinary services for $75,000.

And we are very excited to about this one as this is another individual vet coming on staff at least once a week.

So Dr.

Tracy Birchfield.

Is there any discussion?

I don't have anything.

No.

Okay.

We'll proceed to vote.

Motion to approve.

Seconded.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, same sign.

Motion carries.

And lastly, is James again with the budget presentation.

Correct.

And we will have to do papers since can't seem to connect to the internet.

So all right, so we'll we'll get started.

Um do you want to No, I mean, do you want to try my laptop?

It's on the internet.

Sure.

It doesn't want to connect to the share drive is the problem.

So I can use the PowerPoint or the uh PDF version.

All right, good morning.

Again.

My name is James Finn Layson, the CFO for Animal Care Services.

And this is the 2026 budget presentation.

Amanda, feel free to hop in if you'd like to do any part of it, but uh we'll start with the first slide, which you know, is our agency overview.

We're made up of four different divisions, including shelter placement, medical and operations, which includes our Kennel and Enforcement staff.

So the agency staffing, this is a little bit out of date, but is pretty accurate.

Um but we have sixteen open vacancies with seven and a half correct filled.

We've been very good at hiring this year and keeping people.

Um so next slide is some of our general demographics, which was as of August first, um, so it won't exactly perfectly match what is current.

But as you can see, a lot more female managers than male, and I'm you know the salaries are pretty pretty similar in the uh just disbursement is pretty interesting.

Um next, we are going to our programmatic and fiscal successes for the year.

Um 2,000 high-risk transfers.

Um we've been increasing adoptions and moving more animals quickly into homes.

Our foster program's seen a 27 and a half percent increase as well as our workplace injuries have continued to decline in severity and frequency.

And then our average 91% live release rate from the previous years, 84%.

And we're super excited about the new shelter under construction.

We'll probably hear more updates on on that as we get closer to it.

Um so a big part of this next slide is community engagement and outreach.

We have a new volunteer coordinator.

Um he has started and already hit the ground running and making new SOPs and being very busy talking with all of us and Amanda and about the future of the volunteer program.

And seems everybody's very excited.

Um we've been focusing a lot on adoption events, the volunteer programming, and then our field services.

We've uh uh uh adopted a community focused model including field microchipping and reduced average response time from four days to one day and fourteen.

All right.

For next year we have some major priorities of of course, getting into the shelter, moved in, set up.

We're very excited.

Um continue to expand and focus on our volunteer programming as well as focus on our data and reporting so we can better track things and know what's working, what's not, where we need to improve.

This one I will actually get out the talking points for.

Um but our new shelter you're very excited about has I think let's see here two hundred and something 284 kennels.

Sorry, one second.

Yeah, I believe it's 50 more than we have now for dogs.

Um there's open cat spaces, and then there's 80 actual cat kennels.

Um majority of the dogs have all indoor outdoor cages.

Um there's indoor play areas for when we're having bad weather, they can't go outside.

There's so large indoor play areas, whole medical suite, um isolation areas.

No, I got it.

I'll just run through this very briefly.

10 visit public visitation rooms, one indoor dog play, five puppy kennels that are separate, um, 12 outdoor dog runs, uh, two-acre bar and barn and pasture, uh, 80 cat cages, uh, two outdoor group play rooms, and three indoor um, and about a 2400 foot long walking path.

So as well as our dog park, which will be managed by by the parks department.

Do you have on there what the actual number of the dog kennels were?

Yes.

Just so we can keep them an actual number.

Uh 234 total dog kennels, 182 out indoor outdoor.

So that includes the separated puppy kennels as well as the kennels and medical for like isolation.

So and the picture you're seeing is the July drone footage from.

So it's made some pretty significant progress since then.

They're pouring a lot of concrete these last couple weeks from the last meeting I had.

Um Amanda's been out there somewhat recently as well.

And they're speeding on along.

Yep, still on track to be complete March of 26th.

And we are aiming at moving in by May.

By May.

Um we're very excited.

And uh we'll keep you posted when we have an official move-in date.

Yes.

Next uh we'll see the total budget breakdown.

Um, overall budget went down by 114,000.

Our overall budget went down by $114,000.

This was part of the city as a whole.

Many many agencies were seeing cuts across the board.

So as well, I will note that as our first year actually making our own budget and being our own independent agency, a lot of things had to just be moved around from departments to just where they're actually being spent instead of where they were just kind of parked.

And our hope is in the new building will be much more efficient.

So we'll be able to move things around as the year goes on to as we're realizing we don't need to spend so much in certain areas.

We can move it to other areas where it's more needed.

Next is our revenue slide.

However, we've not been very aggressive or active pursuing those.

OFM's revenue recovery also goes after old and bad citations for from debt.

And so we we do get some of that as well, and that's lumped in with the Kennel fees.

Next is our personnel budget, it's our character one.

Overall, we saw a very small increase to that budget that included in this is a 2.6% cola for everyone except the director.

Um health insurance increases as well as workers' comp increases.

So as you can see, we've moved along everything around pretty significantly from the 2025 budget where we are assigning.

This is closer to assigning people where they are actually working.

Next is our character two, that is our usable supplies.

This includes everything from medicine to you know tennis balls to dog food.

So it's a bit of everything.

Unfortunately, we did see a hundred thousand dollar reduction in that.

We are working to pursue options to make this have less of an impact, whether it's pursue grant opportunities or to just find various efficiencies as well as get more stuff like uh our animal supply or our medical supplies on contracts.

So next is our character three.

This is our professional services as well as where a lot of our chart in interagency chargebacks sit.

Um we saw a increase of 131,000, and I believe that was primarily from increases to our the amount we're gonna be paying to building authority for rent.

Next is our character four.

You can view that as our capital.

This buys everything that like in particular our vehicles for the year.

Um we have two funds.

Um ninety-five percent of what our budget is is the consolidated county uh fund, which is funded by general tax dollars, and then city cumulative is a specialty fund that is usually funded from various sources, including transfers, but is used to buy capital equipment.

And we have kept a nominal amount primarily this was used to purchase our animal control trucks.

And we also have other vehicles in the fleet that we'd like to look at replacing, so we'll be able to replace some of our of our old older non-ACO vehicles next year instead of the ACO trucks.

And the other $2,500 is just for miscellaneous items, like if we needed to buy replacement refrigerator or if you know a couple shelves broke and we needed to replace those.

Next is our and next and finally is our character five, uh, which is an chargeback character.

So most of these increases just came from uh changes to our OCC charges.

All right next for questions I don't have any questions thank you.

All right thank you James all right do we have any old business or new business we need to discuss all right let's see here make a motion to adjourn.

All right thank you everyone building things