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Animal Services to replace Chameleon with Shelter Buddy; city data to integrate with Power BI

2987044 · April 14, 2025
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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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