Good evening.

I'd like to welcome you to the June 8th, 5 30 p.m.

meeting of the Animal Welfare Commission tonight.

You can view this on Channel 24 and on TGovonline.org.

We will now call the meeting to order.

Christine Kunzweiler here.

Teresa Burkett present.

Suarez present.

And of course, we have Sherry Carrier, our Animal Service Director.

And I'd also like to introduce Hope Angley and from she's the GH2 architect that will give our presentation in just a little bit.

We're very excited to see that.

And members of the public, would you like to introduce yourself?

GM Lyon.

Alright.

And Miss Hall said she's on her way.

Alright, thank you.

Alright.

Has everybody had a chance to look at the minutes?

Move to approve the minute from our May 11th.

Alright.

Can I have a roll call, please?

Yes.

Jamie, yes.

Kingsweiler, yes.

The motion has passed for the minutes, is submitted by the staff.

Alright, now I think we're on to item number three new Animal Services Facility presentation from the GH2 architects and TAS staff.

And I'll just kind of uh start this off to say that this has been in the works for 13 years.

So the funding that we got in different years and from different uh places is 13.8 million dollars.

We've got some some extra money since then, but this is just we thought it would be neat to just kind of give you an update of where the renderings started and where we are today, and then um just to keep in mind that we're hopeful that we would get the keys by the end of September.

Fingers crossed, but it does depend on the weather and other circumstances, and we've had a lot of rain, so um we're hope to get them the end of September, and we'll we'll probably do another update maybe later before we actually get the keys.

So we wanted to do this.

We were hoping more people would be here from the public so that they could see kind of where we are today.

But um we'll have these available if anybody's interested.

If you all know people that are interested, just let me know.

Yeah, so as Sherry said, um, it's it's been under construction for a little over a year now.

Um, and so a lot has happened in that time, and we're excited to kind of share and talk about it.

Um this is just kind of a broad overview of what's been happening the last year.

Obviously, started out with footings July of last year.

Um, September, we had our slab placed and kind of set, you know, obviously set the tone for everything else.

Um, our topping out, which I'm sure some of you may have even attended, um, was October of last year.

After that, they were doing um exterior framing, uh getting all of that uh the building closed in so you can really see what it looks like.

Um there in that lower right uh photograph there, kind of um getting waterproofing on and doing some of those more technical important things to keep water out of the building, um, and then uh really just exterior finishes, um, getting some of these systems in like HVAC and plumbing and everything for our functional building.

So uh and Sherry and I will kind of tag team, so she might chime in as we kind of go through this, but uh we just wanted to highlight really quickly.

If you haven't seen the plan in a while, here's kind of an overview of what it looks like.

Um I don't know if you can see my mouse.

You can't, but um, in the lower left there, you've got kind of admin spaces all across the top side.

You've got your kennels.

Um lower right, you have some of your clinic and surgical spaces.

Just to the left of that of that, we have uh cat adoption spaces, straight cat space, um, and then of course, your main entry is there in the very center on the on the south side at the bottom there.

So all the spaces in yellow.

We're gonna kind of look at the renderings and then see kind of where it's at today.

So we're gonna start with the lobby and entry space.

Um, this is so different than obviously the existing facility.

It's gonna uh we're we really wanted to emphasize a welcoming space.

Um, uh lots of it's very wide, so that if multiple dogs are kind of walking past each other, they there won't be uh there's lots of room to kind of navigate that.

Um you'll see it in a minute, but to the left is our uh conference room to the right is our cat spaces, um, and then of course to the north again we've got all of our dog adoption spaces up there.

And just to point out the meeting space, we don't have a meeting room now, and our team fortunately has grown, and we've we've actually kept it staffed, and hopefully we'll continue to do that.

But it's uh difficult for us to be in a break room that is really meant for 10 people, and especially on Wednesdays when everybody's there, so just to have this space and then an additional space that I hope we'll talk about in a few minutes is um definitely just a better environment for our team, and um you can do some trainings in there, and then community members can also use that space too if they want to have a meeting at the facility.

Um also just quickly point out the on the upper left there, you can see where our future mural is gonna go, and uh the Tulsa Arts Commission is working on uh getting the local artist uh solicited for that right now, which is really fun.

So we have two art projects.