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Ibarra, Evelyn From: Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 10:27 PM To: eComment Subject: city council comment on OC animal shelter Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. The city uses the county animal shelter (OC Animal Care), and the taxpayers pay dearly for the privilege. The shelter has a Strategic Plan that taxpayers cost the taxpayers $400,000. Is it using it? No, it's thrown it out of the window: https://voiceofoc.org/2023/09/mavrovouniotis-how-to-fix-oc-animal-care-use-the-strategic-plan/ Instead, it wants YOU, the taxpayer to pay a few hundred thousand dollars for a new one. It's already put this out to bid. Any day now they'll approve a wasteful contract, and you'll be on the hook. The city council shouldn't let this happen. They should tell the shelter that the city ALREADY PAID for a Strategic Plan, and the shelter should just use it. This is all just an excuse to cover up the misdeeds of incompetent county managers: https:Hvoiceofoc.org/2024/09/mavrovou n iotis-the-oc-a n i ma I-shelter-d i rector -is -a I I -image -and -no - substance/ Better yet, we should get a non-profit humane society to run the shelter. That's what this OC Register column says, and I agree with it: https://www.ocregister.com/2024/09/24/county-managers-failed-our-animal-shelter/ And that's not the half of it. Here's a complete rundown of the shelter's problems: https://www.ocregister.com/2024/09/24/county-managers-failed-our-animal-shelter/