HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Comment - Michael MavrovouniotisFrom: Michael Mavrovouniotis
To: City Clerk
Subject: Public Comment for City Council meeting
Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 2:02:03 PM
I'm hoping the citizens of Tustin can see how the county bureaucracy is failing your city.
Your city contracts with OC Animal Care (OCAC), which kept COVID restrictions well into 2023. They blocked your access
to dog kennels. They finally ran a pilot program on visitor access in 2023. My meticulous study shows that more dogs were
adopted when visitors had access to the dog kennels:
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Shockingly, the shelter insists on its website that keeping visitors out is better. OCAC falsely claims that its old adoption visit
model "resulted in 200% more adoptions as compared to the pilot program ": hUs:Hocl2etinfo.com/DailyAdol2tionOl2tions
That's absurd. Virtually all good shelters allow visitors to walk through the kennels. Why is OCAC sticking with the bizarre
claim that COVID restrictions were somehow good?
If OCAC doesn't face the facts, how can it fix its problems?
A recent op-ed in the OC Register goes through a myriad other problems at the shelter:
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Another opinion piece in Voice of OC looks at the misrepresentations made by the shelter's director.
htips://voiceofoc. org/2024/09/mavrovouniotis-the-oc-animal-shelter-director-is-all-image-and-no-substance/
You can find more on OC Animal Care's troubles on OCShelter.com