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City auditor reports progress and remaining gaps in animal services follow-up review
Summary
A city follow-up review found 5 of 34 prior audit recommendations implemented and most others in progress, noting improvements in care documentation, microchipping, and live-release rates but continuing staffing and drug-inventory gaps. Councilmembers asked about staffing, timelines for a shelter expansion and documentation of controlled drugs.
The Denton City Auditor on Oct. 14 reported substantial progress but outstanding work on recommendations from a January 2025 audit of Animal Services, finding five recommendations implemented and 28 in progress.
The auditor’s follow-up review, presented to the Denton City Council by Madison Rorschaw, said animal-care monitoring improved after staff implemented a daily health-and-wellness monitoring system and streamlined standard operating procedures. The report also found live-release rates have “regularly surpassed” the commonly referenced 90% goal, and that the city implemented a microchipping fee and better public information for lost-animal searches.
The follow-up matters because the original audit identified risks including inconsistent daily-care documentation, gaps in vaccine recording, lack of inventory procedures for non-euthanasia drugs, and insufficient staff to deliver both field services and expanded shelter care. The auditor said roughly 50% of animals sampled had documented daily care for every day in the shelter and that inventory…
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