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surveys of staff to monitor morale and identify opportunities for operational <br /> improvement. (F1, F2) <br /> R14 By December 31, 2023, Orange County Animal Care management should <br /> open the shelter to the public for walk throughs to maximize opportunities for <br /> the public to adopt animals under the care of the shelter. (F13) <br /> Comment. There is no reason to wait until December. The shelter is full now and in dire need <br /> of more adoptions. Allowing the public to walk through the kennel areas is merely a return to <br /> the 2019 practices. It's nothing radical. If the shelter needs to ease into this, it can easily do <br /> that by designating certain days of the week as free-walk-through days. <br /> R15 By October 1, 2023, Orange County Animal Care management should look <br /> for new ways to be more inclusive and engaged with volunteers and the <br /> rescue organizations that are necessary for the shelter's success. (F14, <br /> F15) <br /> Comment. Indeed. Both of these fall in the purview of the Community Outreach department, <br /> which has in the past run roughshod over volunteers and rescues. The entire mode of <br /> operation of this department will have to change. <br /> R16 By October 1, 2023, Orange County Animal Care should schedule quarterly <br /> meetings with community stakeholders to facilitate transparency and <br /> engagement. (F14, F15) <br /> Comment. These meetings need to be inclusive and substantive. In the current Community <br /> Outreach Committee meetings, shelter management treats the community as an adversary to <br /> be undercut, not as a partner to work with. Anybody raising a question or a different point of <br /> view is beaten back. A different model is needed. <br /> R17 By October 1, 2023, Orange County Animal Care management should <br /> update the information currently on its website for low-cost spay/neuter of <br /> feral cats with regard to referrals and prices for spay/neuter procedures. <br /> (F16) <br /> Impediments to the Investigation <br /> R18 Beginning with the 2023/2024 Grand Jury training, and all training thereafter, <br /> County Counsel should provide detailed instruction about the circumstances <br /> under which the County Counsel's office might recuse itself from assisting <br /> with Grand Jury investigations and the alternatives available to the Grand <br /> Jury under such circumstances. (F17) <br /> Page 6 of 6 <br />