We'll say Animal Welfare Commission.

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And we will now call the meeting to order.

Roll call, please.

Suarez present.

Paul present.

Kingsweiler present.

And then I'd like to introduce.

We have Sherry Carrier here, our Animal Service Director.

And the audience, if you all would introduce yourselves for us.

Robin OEA.

And we know that it's her birthday today.

Happy birthday.

She's happy with us.

So yeah, thank you.

All right.

Has everybody had a chance to review the minutes?

Is there any discussion?

Can I have a motion to approve the minutes as submitted by the staff?

So moved.

Second it.

It's been moved and seconded.

Roll call, please.

Suarez, yes.

Hull, yes.

Keen Sweiler, yes.

So the motion passes.

All right.

Now we will go on to item number three, the new animal services facility update.

So we actually have a punch list uh meeting scheduled this week.

Great.

On um Wednesday.

Um wow.

Uh just going through the facility now.

Seeing it months ago, it's just unbelievable that it's come together this quickly.

But um we will be waiting on kennel installation, um, some artwork.

So we should get the keys by the end of September.

Um we haven't given a specific date to open.

Our guess is probably end of December, 1st of January, everything would be installed.

Um we had some information that the generator might come later, but now we think it's gonna come maybe sooner than later.

So that's good getting into the winter uh months.

But um if you drive by it, it just looks very different than it did.

You guys came and toured and so different than months ago.

So we're very close to getting keys to a brand new facility and very close to opening it.

So um I will uh continue to update you as we move forward, make sure we have everything that we need.

Um but right now it's it's on target for completion on time and then just waiting on the regular uh kennel installations that took a little longer than we thought just for contracts and purchasing because I had to run through a couple of different um organizations so we could get shelter discount.

So if we would got it done a little bit quicker, we'd probably get in a little bit quicker, but that's okay because we want everything to be great when we move in, everything ready to go.

So it was a great video.

I saw the city council was able to come out and tour it.

Yeah, that's a great last night.

I bet they were very impressed.

Yeah, good to see that continued support.

And we should have a special guest this week for 918 day out at the new facility, so that'll be kind of fun.

I think there's several stops our our mayor's gonna make, so we're super excited about our stop.

Good.

All right, we will go on to item number four, and this is uh future meetings at good evening.

Uh would be following city ordinance for two meetings per quarter action item for approval.

So this was on the last agenda.

I want to make sure we have the right language.