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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 />As a unionized organization, limitations exist which impact the assignment of human <br />resources within the shelter's organization and daily operations. Staff are siloed into <br />operational categories and job functions, which limits managerial flexibility in their ability <br />to respond to special operational needs. An inflexibility in management's ability to <br />respond to vacancies in Animal Care Attendant staffing is one such example. Staffing <br />limitations and operational inflexibility has resulted in instances of inefficient allocation of <br />shelter human resources. Moreover, labor rules limit shelter volunteers from performing <br />certain duties that must be performed by shelter employees. Volunteers are drawn to the <br />shelter out of a desire to work and care for the animals. Restricting volunteers from <br />lending a hand when they see the need is disheartening to the volunteers. <br />Animal Care Attendants <br />Animal care attendants at OCAC provide the direct, daily care of the animals. They <br />attend to several areas of responsibilities: <br />• Intaking animals brought to the shelter by the public or impounded by animal <br />control or the cities, entering information about the animal into the shelter's data <br />base, and taking pictures of the animals. <br />• Feeding and watering of all the shelter's animals — domestic, exotic, and wild. <br />• Cleaning and disinfecting kennels, cages, corrals, and equipment and maintaining <br />the general cleanliness of the shelter's kennel facilities. <br />• Monitoring, documenting, and reporting on the health and well-being of sick, <br />exotic, and quarantined animals; reporting any abnormalities or changes in <br />condition to veterinary staff. <br />• Assisting with animal adoptions, including providing counseling on breed <br />characteristics, matching and introducing the appropriate animal to the potential <br />adopter, and instructing adopters in basic animal care. <br />• Grooming the animals for the health and comfort of the animals. <br />• Responding to public inquiries about legal retention, adoption procedures, basic <br />animal care, and behavior. <br />Animal Care Attendants may be assigned into any one of three areas of responsibility: <br />Intake, Cat Team, or Dog Team. Usually, Intake has two Animal Care Attendants <br />assigned to -it; they -may -receive 30 to 60 animals per day. The Cat Team is responsible <br />- - for the kennel areas -housing cats, kittens, rabbits, guinea pigs and other animals. Their <br />duties include cleaning and feeding, enrichment, adoption and the other activities <br />discussed above. The Dog Team is responsible for the kennel areas housing dogs. Their <br />duties include cleaning and feeding, enrichment, adoption and the other activities noted <br />above. <br />_ In 2016, OCAC brought in professional consultants to provide recommendations for a <br />--2018 Strategic Plan. One of the consultant's recommendations was for the shelter to <br />increase staffing allocation to 26 Animal Care Attendant positions. OCAC did not <br />implement that recommendation. Additionally, the consultant recommended the shelter <br />follow the Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) Guidelines for Standards of Care in <br />Animal Shelters. Those practices include National Animal Control Association (NACA) <br />ORANGE COUNTY GRAND JURY 2022 12023 PAGE 14 OF 51 <br />
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