The city is creating the following task forces, as part of the no kill plan. They have set up planning kick-off meetings for Austinites to come out and help develop more detailed plans:
Public Awareness Task Force Meeting April 15, 2010 @ 6:00 pm
Pit-Bull Task Force Meeting April 28, 2010 @ 6:00 pm
Rescue Group Task Force Meeting April 29, 2010 @ 6:00 pm
All meetings will be held at the Learning Research Center, 2800 Spirit of Texas, Auditorium
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Just curious, why is the city leading this effort? They have no vested interest in no-kill as a practice or as a principle. Shouldn’t this be a function of Austin’s citizenry? It’s citizens who are forcing the no-kill agenda, remember.
City officials couldn’t care less about animal welfare – look at their websites and find out how many officials list anything regarding animal welfare. If it wasn’t for animal control, there’d be nothing mentioned by any city official.
Seems like these task forces should be handled by citizens telling the city how things will be done. Sort of “We The People,” instead of the usual “We The Bosses.”
At the AAC meeting last night, members of the community spoke about the same thing. They were frustrated at the first round of Task Force meetings because a moderator had planned the agenda and the people who showed up were not allowed to stray from the agenda, nor were they ever given the opportunity to shape the agenda.
The AAC discussed possibly getting more involved with the Task Force meetings and the City agreed to giving much more input to the citizens.
We’ll post more after the next round of meetings.