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Chair, we're ready when you are.

Welcome to the January 15th, 2025 animal care, I'm sorry, animal well-being commission

meeting, recently renamed organization.

The meeting is now called to order and will the clerk please call the roll to establish

a quorum.

Thank you chair commissioners if you can please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Treet.

President.

Commissioner Middleton.

President.

Vice Chair Bell.

Here.

Commissioner Fiew.

President.

Commissioner Heffner.

President.

Commissioner Garcia.

Here.

And Chair Morris.

President.

Thank you we have a quorum.

Thank you so much.

Just as a note we are right at quorum with seven if anybody needed to leave the dius we

would have to take a brief break so if anybody needs to leave the dius please let us know

so we can follow that requirement.

I'd like to remind members of the public and chambers that if you'd like to speak on

an agenda item please turn in a speaker slip when the item begins you will have two minutes

to speak once you are called on after the first speaker we do not accept speaker slips

on that topic or we do not accept speaker slips and we will now proceed with today's

agenda starting with the land acknowledgement and the pledge of allegiance so if you'd please

rise to the original people of this land the Nisanan people the southern Maidu valley

and plains me walk pat twin wind tune peoples and the people of the Wilton Rancheria Sacramento

is only federally recognized tribe may we acknowledge and honor the native people

who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing

to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for

Sacramento's indigenous peoples history contributions and lives thank you and now the pledge

allegiance a pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic

for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you

we have kind of a full agenda tonight which is going to be fun the first item in our agenda

is to welcome our new youth commissioner I apologize I repeated her name twice it is no

Emmy Pew few thank you for that no Emmy is part of an effort in the city to have a youth

voice on advisory groups and committees here for the city and so no Emmy recently joined us

and I asked her to tell us a little bit about what's her interest here yes so hello I've always had

an interest in law and politics and I have two dogs at home so I've always liked animals and I'm

really excited to be on this commission so thank you well thanks for joining us I had that

opportunity to listen to the personnel and public employee committee when they were reviewing

no Emmy's application and she shared that she had read our ordinance which was helpful and that

she had done some volunteer in shelters in her application she said that so she's got a little

bit of experience along those lines as well so welcome to our commission no Emmy so we have our

first order is the approval of the commission meetings from the November meeting I'm always

looking to the clerk to make sure I'm doing this right any is there any public comment on the

minutes we currently have no speakers for the consent calendar okay I put a consent calendar any

questions from the committee on the consent calendar see any is there a motion to accept the

minutes from November so moved Mr. Heffner moved second by member treat thank you so much

commissioner treats all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed any abstentions the minutes

pass thank you so much okay so now we have the follow-up log and I was looking at the documents myself

and noting that in the cover document it says that this is a resource managed by city staff and

that this is a where an area that items of interest for which the well-being commission would like