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Animal Services to replace Chameleon with Shelter Buddy; city data to integrate with Power BI
Summary
Animal Services staff told the commission they plan to replace the Chameleon database with Shelter Buddy to consolidate volunteer, foster and shelter records. A targeted go‑live date is May 5 and staff training days are planned prior to launch.
Animal Services briefed the Animal Advisory Commission on a planned replacement of its shelter management software. Jason Garza said the department intends to retire the long-used Chameleon database and adopt a vendor implementation based on the Shelter Buddy platform.
Garza said the replacement is intended to consolidate multiple systems into a single database to improve data integrity and reporting. "Our go live date is targeting May 5," Garza said, and…
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