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Becerra, Alexis From: Michael Mavrovouniotis < Sent: Monday, August 18, 2025 10:53 AM To: eComment Subject: General Public Comment for City Council (subject: OC Animal Care) Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana.Use caution when opening attachments or links. The city has 10 months left in its contract with OC Animal Care. City staff should produce an itemized report on whether OC Animal Care fulfilled its obligations under the existing contract. (Citizens will do that anyway, and they'll have plenty to say.) OC Animal Care told the contract cities that it was going to follow the Strategic Plan it commissioned in 2016. (A plan the cities paid for.)We need to see an itemized report on whether OC followed this Strategic Plan, not empty words and glossy PR. For each metric in the Strategic Plan, give us a status report. For any metric OCAC doesn't meet, tell us what it's doing to get there. OCAC doesn't show the Strategic Plan on its website. You can find it on OCShelter.com. A few months from now, is the city going to rubber stamp a contract renewal, with the excuse that "there is no time"and "there are no alternatives"? There is time, if you start now. There are alternatives, if you reach out to local, regional, and national non-profits now! Here's one alternative: San Diego Humane Society runs a first-rate operation, beloved by its community, at competitive cost to the cities it serves. How about asking them to bid to take over and operate OC Animal Care? I'd be happy to help explore this option with them. Meanwhile, there's no end to OC's incompetence. Just this month: (1) OC Register, August 17, 2025 Owner of Woofy Acres dog rescue charged with 16 counts of animal cruelty https://www.ocregister.com/2025/08/15/owner-of-woofy-acres-dog-rescue-charged-with-multiple-counts-of-animal- cruelty/ Excerpts: The owner of a Southern California dog rescue has been charged with 37 criminal counts of mistreating the animals, nearly 100 of which were in such bad condition they had to be euthanized. Woofy Acres first made headlines in early 2024 after Bedford was accused of abandoning 32 dogs— many from Orange County— at a Rowland Heights kennel in Los Angeles County. Woofy Acres was heavily used by Orange County Animal Care. Orange County Animal Care has released a total of 149 dogs to Woofy Acres, with the last placement in January 2024. It is unclear whether any dogs from Orange County were among the dogs seized by authorities. (2) Voice of OC, August 14, 2025 Lamirande: Orange County Government Makes Bad Decisions About Safety—and the Animal Shelter https://voiceofoc.org/2025/08/lamirande-orange-county-government-makes-bad-decisions-about-safety-and-the- animal-shelter/ Buried in OC's bureaucratic jungle, crucial decisions are made with no citizen input, no explanation, and no evaluation. The "CEO Risk Management" office failed in matters ranging from a billion-dollar wildfire to the welfare of animals in the county shelter. Days ago, two dogs died in a county transport van. We must put an end to this culture of incompetence. i