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Board makes veterinarian hiring top priority as shelter weighs mobile unit and on-site surgery upgrades
Summary
The advisory board adopted hiring a veterinarian as its top goal and directed staff to study outfitting an on-site surgery suite; staff detailed recruitment challenges, local private-practice offers, and cost estimates for mobile and fixed surgical options.
The Animal Control Advisory Board voted May 7 to make hiring a veterinarian the board’s top goal and asked staff to get cost estimates to outfit the shelter’s euthanasia/treatment room as a surgical suite if necessary.
Why it matters: shelter leadership said hiring a veterinarian could cut outsourcing costs and improve throughput by enabling on-site spay/neuter and other surgeries. The board also discussed a mobile surgical trailer as an alternate or complementary approach.
Jen (staff member) told the board the veterinarian position has been advertised and the advertised part-time rate was raised to $97 an hour (a reported part-time-equivalent of $97,000 annually…
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