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Ibarra, Evelyn <br />From: <br />Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 6:50 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: CITY COUNCIL, GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT <br />Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution wnen opening attachments or links. <br />Dear fellow citizens, are county facilities still operating under COVID restrictions? The answer may <br />surprise you. <br />Sure, county government won't ADMIT that it's keeping some COVID restrictions in place. It's just <br />calling them something else. <br />In 2020, OC Animal Care (the county animal shelter under contract to this fair city) suspended public <br />access. Visits were only by appointment. A lot of shelters did that... but then returned to normal <br />operation in 2022. <br />OC Animal Care kept the restrictions in place. It said they made the shelter safer. Wrong. Read in Voice <br />of OC: <br />https:Hvoiceofoc.org/2023/11/mavrovou n iotis-the-oc-a n i ma I -shelter -I ied-a bout -its -safety -record -it - <br />needed -an -excuse -to -keep -the -kennels -off -limits -and -ditch -its -strategic -plan/ <br />Then it changed its tune and said that these restrictions help adoptions. Weird. And wrong. Read this <br />research study: <br />https://jsmcah.org/index.php/J*asv/article/view/85 <br />For the full report click on the PDF button or: <br />https://jsmcah.org/index.php/J*asv/article/view/85/134 <br />OC Animal Care now open for walk-through visitors for just HALF the hours. <br />Your city pays the shelter's bills. Your city council can press OC Animal Care for a complete return to <br />pre-COVID practices. <br />County government has made a mess of the shelter and keeps you in the dark. Incompetent managers <br />don't like public scrutiny. Stay informed on OCShelter.com <br />1 <br />