Monday, January 30, 2012

NYC: Important questions for tomorrow's ACC Board Meeting. Print and bring your favorite quiestion and raise above your head at question time.

From: BROOKLYN ANIMAL FOSTER NETWORK <info@brooklynanimalfosternetwork.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:10 PM
Subject: Important questions for tomorrows ACC Board Meeting. Print and bring your favorite and raise above your head at question time.


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NYCAC&C Board of Directors' Meeting
Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31, 2012
10AM-­-11AM at 125 Worth Street

Raise your question above your head.We hope that everyone who cares about the thousands of dogs, puppies, cats and kittens killed at ACC every year will show up to deliver a message to the ACC Board of Directors at their meeting on. It is imperative that we let them know that we care and that we are not going away. You must be the change that you want to see.  You cannot leave it to others! 

If you do not plan to use the 2 minutes that you may be lucky enough to get, to speak, you may prefer to ask one of these 20 questions and ask it over and over again to each of the Board members and Executive Dir. Julie Bank who will be there.  We are expecting the press to be there and to take note of the usual stony silence in response to questions~   


 
  1. How many new New Hope partners have been added since Julie Banks  tenure? How many volunteers? How many  foster families?  
  2. How many full time vets and  licensed vet technicians are currently on staff and how many have been  hired to replace those that left or were asked to leave, since Julie Bank  became Executive Director?
  3. Why is ACC trying to appeal the recent decision by the State Board  of Veterinarians to not allow vet assistants, who are unlicensed, to  perform vet tech duties and is continuing to do so in violation of the  law?
  4. Is the killing of animals being performed only by licensed  veterinarians?
  5. We live in the  wealthiest and greatest city in the US with an adoption potential that is  higher than any city in the US? What steps have been taken to capitalize on  this?
  6. What efforts are  being made to bring in and welcome people to the shelters to adopt?  (special events, PR, thinking out of the box,  etc)?
  7.  No one  who comes to a shelter to adopt an animal should leave empty handed unless  they are shown to have bad motives or are totally unsuited.  What  kind of screening is done?  What isbeing done to improve adoption procedures so that  people don't get discouraged by crowds, long lines,  lack of information, workers with a poor  attitude?
  8. What is being done to remove workers who are abusive to  animals, simply don't care about the animals in their care and to improve  telephone responses when people call repeatedly and get no  answer?
  9. What is being done  to increase adoptions so that the entire burden does not fall on the  limited number of rescue groups who are called on night after  night to take hundreds of animals slated to be killed each  week?
  10. Why have you instituted an unconstitutional gag rule on volunteers  and used threats of retaliation against any one who chooses to  criticize what's going on at the ACC and exercise his or  her 1st amendment  rights?
  11. Have any of you have read the books or articles by Nathan  Winograd, the #1 No Kill advocate and expert in the country?   
  12. Why didn't any one of you accept  the invitation sent to you to attend the recent sold out Conference  at NYU Law School Hope for NY Shelter Animals,  in order to learn what is being done to bring save  rates up to 90-95% in open admission shelters all around  the country?
  13. When was the last time you  visited the Brooklyn shelter? Have you ever visited the  Brooklyn or any other Shelter  unannounced?    
  14. Why have off-site  adoption events dropped of to zero? See http://nycacc.org/events.htm and is there no calendar anymore on the nycacc.org site?  
  15. Why doesn't NYCACC participate in Dog Transfer Programs where the goal  of the program is to save more pets' lives by transferring them to no-kill  shelters and counties with empty shelters outside of the area?  
  16. Why doesn't ACC Partner with more local retailers to showcase adoptable  pets?  
  17. Why can't ACC improve its disastrous Customer Service, which is  essential in order to increase adoptions?
  18. What is being planned for the $10,000,000 ACC recently acquired in the  Shelter 655 bill which eliminated the legal mandate for the City to  build shelters in the Bronx and Queens?   
  19. If the shelters are killing for space, (why else would you be  killing healthy/treatable adoptable animals), why did the DoH fight  the need to build shelters in the Bronx and Queens?   
  20. Why does the ACC refuse to publish on its website,  updates/status of animals on the daily kill lists who have been  killed? adopted? or rescued? for a concerned public to  see?


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