* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. DO WE, [00:00:01] DO WE HAVE TO? WELL, IF IT'S BEING RECORDED, I THINK COULD HAVE. IT'S RECORDED. WE DO. OKAY. THEN I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THE [1. Call to order and roll call of members] MEETING TO ORDER. AND I SEE THAT WE'VE GOT ENOUGH COMMITTEE MEMBERS HERE TO HAVE A QUORUM. UM, IF WE COULD DO A ROLL CALL. BETH WEIDER. AMELIA NESBAUM. TRAVIS LAD. UM, THE FIRST [2. Approval of minutes for March 26, 2025, committee meeting] THING I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS APPROVE THE MEETING MINUTES FROM MARCH 26TH. MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE. I SECOND? YES, I SECOND. WE HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, SO WE WILL MOVE FORWARD [4. Statistics from March 27, 2025, through June 17, 2025 from Lynette Bodmer] TO STATISTICS FROM NETTE. ALL RIGHT. SO, UM, THE PREVIOUS MEETING WE COVERED, UH, FISCAL YEAR TO DATE THROUGH THE END OF FEBRUARY. SO WE'LL BE COVERING MARCH, APRIL AND MAY TODAY. UM, BASICALLY FOR THOSE MONTHS, UM, YOU CAN SEE A STUDY INCREASE, UM, COMING FROM MARCH INTO APRIL, WHICH HAS CONTINUED INTO MAY WITH OUR HIGHEST NUMBERS, UM, TO, UH, YEAR TO DATE FOR, UM, LANDING IN MAY. SO, UH, IN THE MONTH OF MARCH, WE DID ALSO SEE A JUMP IN, UH, MICROCHIPS, UM, AND COMMUNITY TAGS, WHICH IS GREAT FOR IDENTIFYING ANIMALS AND GETTING 'EM HOME. WE HAD A STRONG NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS, AND APRIL WE DID SEE A BIT OF A DROP, WHICH IS TO BE EXPECTED WITH SPRING ACTIVITIES. MAY, WE SAW A LARGE INCREASE IN ACTIVITY, UM, GOING INTO THE SUMMER MONTHS, WHICH IS WHEN WE GET LARGER NUMBERS OF DOGS AS WELL AS LARGE NUMBERS OF KITTENS AND PUPPIES. UM, WE HAD A BIG SPIKE IN FOSTER CARE OR ANIMALS PLACED IN FOSTER CARE, UH, WHICH IS A REFLECTION BOTH ON THE NUMBER, UH, OF ANIMALS COMING IN WITH KITTEN SEASON, AS WELL AS A TESTAMENT TO THE AWESOME FOSTERS THAT WE HAVE THAT ARE KEEPING 'EM OUT OF THE SHELTER. UH, WE ALSO HAD A, UH, INCREASE IN PETS, RETURN TO HOME, UM, AND AN INCREASE IN, UH, COMMUNITY MICROCHIPS AND TAGS FOR OWNED ANIMALS, UM, WHICH IS GREAT. HELPS HOPEFULLY GET THEM REUNITED FASTER IF THEY DO GET FOUND. AND THEN OUR, UM, VOLUNTEER HOURS DRASTICALLY INCREASED. UM, WE SAW A HUGE JUMP IN VOLUNTEER HOURS. THE MAJORITY OF THOSE, UH, IN CANINE COMPANION, WHICH IS AWESOME BECAUSE IT IS AWFULLY HOT OUTSIDE AND PEOPLE ARE STILL HERE WALKING THE DOGS. MM-HMM . MM-HMM . , COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT SAFE PAUL'S BOARDING IS? SAFE? PAUL'S BOARDING IS, UM, FOUR SPECIFIC, UM, INSTANCES IN WHICH A PERSON IS IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE. SOMETIMES IT'S SENT OVER THROUGHOUT FROM PD. UM, SOMETIMES IT'S, UH, PEOPLE WHO COME IN TO SEE US. IT MAY BE PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. UM, OKAY. TEMPORARY HOMELESSNESS, THINGS LIKE THAT. MM-HMM . SO THEY NEED, UH, TEMPORARY BOARDING, OR SOMETIMES WE'LL DO A SAFE PAUSE INTAKE, UM, AND DO AN OWNER SURRENDER. OKAY. THAT WAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . CURRENT CAPACITY IS, UH, EXTREMELY HIGH. IT'S THE HIGHEST IT'S BEEN ALL YEAR. UH, WE ARE ABOUT TO PUSH RIGHT OUT OF CRITICAL CAPACITY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT COMES AFTER CRITICAL, BUT WE ARE JUST ABOUT, UH, EXPLOSIVE. EXPLOSIVE. YEAH. SO, UM, WE'RE AT 142% OF OUR CANINE KENNELS WITH 72 DOGS AND PUPPIES ON SITE. UM, THOSE PUPPIES ARE CO KENNELED, UM, WHICH IS WHAT ACTUALLY BRINGS A PERCENTAGE LOWER. UM, CATS, WE HAVE A HUGE SPIKE IN CATS AS WELL WITH 51 CATS ON SITE. UM, AND AGAIN, THE REASON THAT PERCENTAGE IS ONLY 56 WITH THAT MANY ONSITE IS BECAUSE MANY OF THEM ARE KITTENS BEING CO HOUSED IN THE SAME KENNEL. SO IT'S 51 OR 56% OF OUR KENNELS FILLED. UM, SO WE'RE DOING OKAY, BUT IT IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING TO KEEP AN EYE ON AS THE NUMBERS INCREASE. UH, CAT ADOPTION ROOM IS ALMOST FULL. HOW MANY KITTENS DO WE HAVE IN FOSTER? UH, I'D HAVE TO PULL THAT NUMBER SEPARATE. THAT WILL BE COMING. YEAH. I, I DON'T HAVE THAT IN FRONT OF ME. OKAY. UH, PERCENTAGES, UM, OF INCOMING ANIMALS FOR THE LAST THREE MONTHS SINCE THE LAST MEETING. UM, WITH DOGS, IT'S CONSISTENTLY, UH, YOU KNOW, PRIMARILY STRAIGHT INTAKE. UM, BUT WE DID HAVE QUITE A FEW RETURN FROM FOSTER, UH, WHICH IS NOT A BAD THING, IT'S JUST ANIMALS COMING IN. THEY MAY BE COMING BACK FROM FOSTER BREAKS OR THEY MAY BE COMING BACK TO BE ADOPTED. UM, WE DID SEE A FEW ADOPTION RETURNS AND OWNER SURRENDERS. AND THEN FOR FE LINES, AGAIN, THE MAJORITY IS GONNA BE STRAIGHT INTAKE, A SMALLER PERCENTAGE OF FOSTER RETURNS. BUT AS WE CONTINUE INTO THE SUMMER, THAT FOSTER RETURN NUMBER IS GONNA STEADILY INCREASE, UH, UNTIL WE GET TO FALL. AS ALL THOSE, UH, KITTENS GOING INTO [00:05:01] FOSTER CARE ARE RETURNING. UM, WE DO HAVE A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF OWNER SURRENDERED CATS BECAUSE WE DO HAVE SPACE TO ACCEPT A SMALL NUMBER OF CATS, UM, IN, BUT WE ARE MONITORING THAT AS OUR CAT NUMBERS INCREASE OUTGOING ANIMALS. UM, THE VAST MAJORITY, UM, FOR BOTH CATEGORIES, DOGS AND CATS IS GONNA BE ADOPTED. ANIMALS. UM, WE DID ALSO SEE A LARGE NUMBER FOSTERED, AGAIN, THAT FOSTER NUMBERS HIGHER FOR DOGS. UM, BUT THAT IS MOSTLY ACCOUNTING FOR MARCH AND APRIL AS MAY HIT, AND IT SHIFTED TOWARDS CATS. SO, UM, AGAIN, AS AS WE GO INTO THE SUMMER DEEPER, YOU'RE GONNA SEE THAT FOSTER PERCENTAGE INCREASE AS WELL AS NEONATAL KITTENS COME IN. UM, WE HAD 30% OF THE ANIMALS RETURN TO HOME FOR DOGS AND, UH, 18% RETURN TO HOME THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY CAT PROGRAM FOR CATS. AND, UH, LESS THAN 3% RETURN TO HOME OVER THE COUNTER FOR CATS. UM, WE DID HAVE, UH, 2% EUTHANIZED FOR DOGS AND 10% FOR CATS AND KITTENS. UM, WHICH AGAIN, THIS IS THAT TIME OF YEAR WHEN WE DO SEE AN INCREASE AND, UM, KITTENS THAT MAY NOT BE IN GOOD CONDITION AS WELL AS ADULT CATS, UNFORTUNATELY, THAT'S THE STATS. ANY QUESTIONS ON THE STATS? SORRY, BESIDES THE ONE YOU HAD? NO, I THINK WE'RE [5. General shelter updates from Amelia Nusbaum] GOOD FOR UPDATES. SWEET. UM, AND WE WILL NOW HAVE UPDATES , UH, FOR STAFFING UPDATES. WE RECENTLY, UM, SHE ACTUALLY JUST STARTED MONDAY, SO WE HAVE A FULL A PO ANIMAL PROTECTION OFFICER TEAM NOW. AND HOW MANY IS THAT? UM, FOUR TOTAL. FIVE WITH ELI AS THE LEAD. OKAY. MM-HMM . UM, AND WE RECENTLY MADE OFFERS TO THE TWO PART-TIME POSITIONS WE HAD OPEN. UM, AND SO WE HOPE TO SEE THEM START SOON. THAT COMPLETES OUR A CT TEAM AS WELL. AND WE HAVE, UM, WE HAVE RECEIVED A LOT OF APPLICANTS FOR THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH POSITION. WE HAVE ES ASKED FOR PORTFOLIOS, AND THEN WE WILL HOPEFULLY BE REVIEWING THE PORTFOLIOS NEXT WEEK AND IDEALLY ALSO START SOME INTERVIEWS NEXT WEEK AS WELL. OUR GOAL IS TO GET THE POSITION FILLED AS, UM, QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WE HAVE, WE'RE ALREADY IN THE MIDDLE OF, I KNOW WE INTRODUCED LAST TIME THE VOLUNTEER AND STAFF TRAINING, COMPASSION FATIGUE AND ANIMAL HANDLING. AND WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF BOTH OF THEM. UM, BOTH, BOTH TEAMS, STAFF AND VOLUNTEER HAVE GIVEN SOME REALLY GREAT FEEDBACK, UM, FOR BOTH OF THE TRAININGS THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH. AND WE'VE HAD FIVE LONG STAY DOGS ADOPTED. YAY. UH, WE WERE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT SOME OF THESE GUYS. LET'S SEE. WE'VE BEEN A BIT BUSY. UM, WE HAVE A COUPLE USUAL EVENTS THAT ARE ALWAYS ON OUR RADAR THAT WE ATTEND. UM, AND THE BIG ONE WAS PUPS AND PINTS. UH, THAT WAS A HUGE FUNDRAISER THAT WE HAD THAT WE WILL TALK ABOUT IN A MINUTE. ON THE NEXT SLIDE. AND THE EMPTY THE SHELTERS WE HAD IN MAY, UH, WE GENERATED AROUND $530. WE HAVE SOME UPCOMING EVENTS, UH, MONTHLYS MAKER MARKET, UH, VOLUNTEER OPEN HOUSE TENTATIVELY, TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 28TH. UM, WE'RE ATTENDING A HURRICANE PREPARATION EVENT. UM, THIS A LOT OF TIMES OR WHEN WE GO OUT TO THESE EVENTS, IT'S GONNA BE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OFFERING TIPS AND TRICKS AND LOTS OF GOOD RESOURCES. WE'RE GONNA BE PARTICIPATING IN ANOTHER EMPTY THE SHELTERS CLEAR THE SHELTERS AND SPACE NIGHTS OR MAKE SPACE, UM, NIGHTS ARE RETURNING WHAT, JULY? YES. TENTATIVELY YES. TENTATIVELY WE'LL BE PUBLISHING THE DATES PROBABLY NEXT WEEK. TENTATIVELY. YES. OKAY. PUPS AND PINTS WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. UM, OUR TEAM DID A REALLY GREAT JOB BRINGING THIS ALL TOGETHER. WE RAISED, UM, OVER $12,000. THAT WAS HUGE. AND THAT'S ALL GONNA GO TO OUR, UM, SHELTER SUPPORT, OUR DONATION FUND, AND WE'RE GONNA USE THAT TO TREAT ALL THE ANIMALS AND DO ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS. UM, IT WAS A REALLY, I'M GONNA READ THE EVENT SUMMARY OVER HERE. I WAS A ONE OF A KIND COMMUNITY EVENT AND FUNDRAISER BENEFITING OUR SHELTER. IT WAS DESIGNED TO BRING TOGETHER ANIMAL LOVERS AND LOCAL SUPPORTERS. THIS PET FRIENDLY EVENT FEATURED ST. ARNOLD, FEATURED THE ST. ARNOLD'S ROLE, A VENDOR MARKET, FAMILY AND PET FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES, ADOPTABLE DOGS, AND ENDING IN A MOVIE UNDER THE STARS. UM, SO IT WAS A, IT WAS, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS HOT, IT WAS A GREAT TIME. IT WAS A FUN EVENT. WE HAD TONS OF PEOPLE TURN OUT AND WE HOPE TO SEE 'EM ALL AGAIN NEXT YEAR. THAT'S AWESOME. MM-HMM . MM-HMM . FOSTER UPDATES FROM MARCH THROUGH MAY. UM, , WE'RE, WE'RE NOW ON THE FULL SWING OF KITTEN SEASON. UM, WE HAVE TONS OF KITTENS, UM, BUT WE GOT A HUGE GRANT FROM MADDIE'S FUND LAST YEAR, AND WE ARE GOING TO BE VERY MUCH SET UP FOR SUCCESS IN REGARDS TO ALL OF THE SUPPLIES WE WILL POSSIBLY NEED FOR ALL THE LITTLE, ALL THE LITTLE [00:10:01] PUPPIES AND KITTENS THAT ARE COMING IN. AND WE HAVE A HUGE NUMBER OF FOSTERS THAT HAVE REALLY STEPPED UP TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE. UM, WITHOUT OUR FOSTERS, WE ARE NOT GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING ALL THESE LITTLE KITTENS TO THE ADOPTION FLOOR. AND, UM, KIND OF DUPLICATING WHAT LYNETTE ALREADY MENTIONED WITH STATISTICS. WE HAVE 15 DOGS ADOPTED FROM FOSTER CARE. THAT IS HUGE. THAT SPEAKS HUGELY TO THE FOSTER SUPPORT WE HAVE IN THE COMMUNITY AND THE HARD WORK OF OUR FOSTER COORDINATOR. UM, FOSTER NUMBERS, UM, I'M NOT GONNA REPEAT THOSE. I THINK YOU GUYS HAVE ALREADY, WE KIND OF COVERED THOSE WITH THE STATISTICS, BUT LET'S FOCUS ON PENNY. PENNY IN FOSTER CARE. UM, HER FOSTER PARENT SAID EVERY TIME HER NAME IS CALLED, SHE GIVES YOU THIS SWEETEST LITTLE SMILE. VOLUNTEER UPDATES. UM, WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF PROCESS UPDATES AND SO WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IS WE ARE STILL CLOSE TO FINISHING THE HANDBOOK. UH, WE WANTED TO REVISE THAT. WE ARE GONNA BE LOOKING AT THE ONBOARDING PROCESS NEXT. UM, AND THE HANDBOOK IDEALLY SHOULD BE ROLLED OUT TO VOLUNTEERS MAYBE END OF THIS WEEK. WE'RE HOPING SATURDAY WE HAVE MOVED THE VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR'S OFFICE. IT'S RELOCATED TO BE MORE CENTRALLY, CENTRALLY LOCATED FOR THE VOLUNTEERS. AND THEN ALSO WE'RE KIND OF GOING TO MAKE SPACE FOR, UM, UH, LIKE A VOLUNTEER EDUCATION CENTER OF IN THE FUTURE AS WELL. THAT NEW MOVE PROVIDES THE SPACE THAT WE NEED TO DO THAT. WE HELD OUR VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION EVENT IN APRIL. UM, WE HAD A GREAT TIME. WE HUNG OUTSIDE. WE ATE MEXICAN FOOD, WE PLAYED SOME FUN GAMES. UH, WE GOT A LITTLE COMPETITIVE AND , AND WE HOPE TO DO IT AGAIN SOON. AND YOU CAN SEE OUR HOURS DOWN BELOW FOR OUR AMAZING VOLUNTEER SUPPORT. IT EVEN INCREASED AS IT GOT HOTTER. COUPLE HAPPY TAILS. WE NEEDED, UM, LEAGUE CITY'S FIRE DEPARTMENT'S HELP. THERE WAS A KITTEN, UM, WHO WAS STUCK INSIDE THE DRIVE SHAFT FOR TWO DAYS. UM, SO WHEN THE APOS ARRIVED ON SCENE, THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHO TO CALL. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS HAPPY TO COME OUT. THEY HAD HIM OUT IN LIKE SECONDS. UM, SO HIS NAME WAS LADDER AND HE WAS ADOPTED IN LIKE 30 MINUTES. AS SOON AS HE GOT, UH, TO THE FLOOR, I ADOPTED HIM OUT. . YEAH. AND HE WAS MY FAVORITE. YEAH. LOVELY CAT. AND HE WAS AKAY. YES. YEAH. UH, ANOTHER LITTLE HAPPY TAIL. THIS LITTLE NUGGET YOU MIGHT NOTICE IS MISSING A LEG. UM, TRINITY CAME IN WITH A REALLY BAD OPEN WOUND AND WITHOUT AMPUTATION, UM, SHE WOULD'VE PASSED AWAY. THE HAPPY TALE IS THAT THE VET WAS ABLE TO AMPUTATE A LEG WHEN SHE ONLY WEIGHED 14 OUNCES AND WAS RA RAGING WITH INFECTION FROM THE OPEN WOUND. UM, THAT IS REALLY AMAZING BECAUSE ALL OF THE AMPUTATIONS I'VE SEEN HAVE BEEN ON ADULT DOGS WHO ARE, WHO ARE WAY VERY MUCH THEY USUALLY WATCH. YEAH. FOUR TO SIX MONTHS USUALLY. YEAH. YEAH. UM, AND THEN OUR COMMUNITY KIT, UM, SHE, THIS IS SWEETIE. SHE'S FROM OUR BOATYARD BOAT YARD, AND SHE HAS RESUMED HER USUAL ROUTINE. UM, HER TWO CAREGIVERS WERE REALLY HAPPY TO HAVE HER BACK, UM, AFTER HER SURGERY. AND SHE'S BACK TO SURVEYING THE DOCS, INSPECTING VESSELS OR NAPPING ON THEM, QUALITY CONTROL OF COURSE, AND GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTING TREATS AND ATTENTION FROM HER TWO DEVOTED CARETAKERS. AND ANYONE LUCKY ENOUGH TO CROSS HER PATH. UH, THEY WERE GLAD TO HAVE HER BACK. KEEPING AN EYE ON THINGS. I WOULD, IT'S TIME [6. Select next meeting date] TO SELECT OUR NEXT MEETING DATE. NEXT SLIDE. I MOTION TO, UM, MOVE FORWARD WITH THE SEPTEMBER 17TH MEETING DATE. SECOND. YEP. GOOD, GOOD FOR ME. SEPTEMBER 17TH. MEETING DATE HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AND I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, SAY THAT THIS COMPLETES OUR AGENDA. AND MOTION TO ADJOURN. SECOND. ALL RIGHT. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.