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Orozco, Norma From: Romina Y <romina.yamashiro84@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 4:39 PM To: eComment Subject: City Council Meeting Public Comment Attachments: OCAC_NOI_2021-22.pdf, OCAC_NOI_2020-21.pdf, SA+-OCAC-County of Orange - 2016.pdf, OCAC - Open Admission.02.28.22jpg PUBLIC COMMENT for the City Council Meeting on Tuesday, March I st, 2022 Dear All, As a Santa Ana resident and business owner, I am utterly disappointed with the lack of services provided by OC Animal Care. I am attaching the contract between the city of Santa Ana and OC Animal Care executed in 2016 along with the required Notice of intent filed for 2020-21 and 2021-22 - A list of services OCAC (County) must provide is listed on pages 48-50 which includes: - Impounding of stray animals and of owner-released animals - emergency transportation of injured animals, impounded animals to a veterinarian - Advice to residents regarding other animal concerns - Public display of animals - Reasonable effort towards animal placement - Veterinary services and spay/neuter surgeries I am also attaching a screenshot of OCAC's website saying they are an "Open Admission" The Shelter has refused to take strays or healthy animals (cats) from the public on several occasions with several witnesses to attest to this. They only take "injured or dangerous" animals at the moment. At the moment has been for almost 2 years now. Not only that but adoptions are per appointment only making the adoption process a lot more difficult and witness accounts attest to having called the shelter and nobody picks up the phone, being on hold for long periods of time, setting up an adoption appointment, and having to wait outside for over an hour over their appointment time, etc. OCAC Continues to refuse to help the cat community with our TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) efforts in order to minimize or somewhat stabilize the feral and community cat population. Even though this was a written agreement of the JVR strategic plan paid by the county and used for the agreement to build their new 35$ million dollar facility. In summary, I would like the city of Santa Ana, its attorney and officials to look into the contract in place with OC Animal Care and demand they actually perform their services contracted for. They also failed to note the change in services provided in their NOI submitted to the county and the cities. Perhaps it is time to re-evaluate the contract in place. 1