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Item 13 - OC Grand Jury's Investigative Report, Findings, and Recommendations Regarding Group Homes and the Orange County Animal Care Shelter
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Item 13 - OC Grand Jury's Investigative Report, Findings, and Recommendations Regarding Group Homes and the Orange County Animal Care Shelter
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Gimme Shelter and a Pound of Advice <br />contract cities have a combined population of approximately 1.8 million residents, <br />greater than half of the total population of Orange County. <br />In March 2018, a new shelter was opened on a 10-acre site at a cost of $35 million. The <br />shelter includes a two-story, approximately 30,000 square -foot main building, six stand- <br />alone kennel buildings, multiple dog play yards, a barnyard, and a rabbit housing area. <br />OCAC can shelter up to 600 animals and is the single largest municipal animal facility in <br />the western United States serving residents in one location. <br />OCAC has 137 authorized staff positions. Approximately 21 staff are animal care <br />attendants who are represented by the Teamsters Union. All other staff are represented <br />by the Orange County Employees Association. Labor relations and contract terms must <br />be taken into consideration while operating the shelter. <br />OCAC, like most municipal shelters, relies upon a variety of rescue support groups and <br />citizen volunteers to enhance animal welfare and outcomes. The relationship between <br />shelter management, rescue groups, and volunteers has deteriorated in the last three <br />years.- The historical partnership between the shelter and rescue groups has become <br />stressed due to a variety of reasons. The breakdown in communication, engagement, <br />and trust between parties has negatively affected shelter operations. <br />Most large municipal shelters are "kill' shelters, which are shelters where animals may <br />be euthanized for any of a variety of reasons. Privately operated shelters and smaller <br />municipal shelters tend to be non -kill shelters. Non -kill shelters may euthanize some <br />animals in special cases, but generally do not euthanize animals. Large municipal <br />shelters, owing to their size, capacity, public responsibility, operational mandates, and <br />their positioning as "shelters of last resort," euthanize animals as a matter of course. <br />Animals are euthanized for a variety of reasons, such as: <br />• they suffer from irredeemable disease or injury, <br />-they are of a species that represent a danger to the community, or <br />• they are behaviorally unfit for adoption. <br />Many shelters have Trap, Neuter and. Return (TNR) programs. In accordance with these <br />programs, feral and community cats are captured from their outdoor environment, taken <br />to a shelter or veterinarian where they are neutered, and then returned to the location <br />from where they were trapped. TNR programs serve to reduce colonies of feral and <br />community cats in a humane manner and serve to manage and reduce this cat <br />population. OCAC had a TNR program beginning in 2013 until early 2020 when it was <br />discontinued. <br />ORANGE COUNTY GRAND JURY 2022 12023 PAGE 6 OF 51 <br />
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