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Resident urges Austin council auditors to block interim shelter director’s permanent appointment, citing unchanged failures
Summary
Julie Oliver told the Audit & Finance Committee that two‑year‑old city audit findings about inhumane conditions and broken data systems at the municipal animal shelter remain unaddressed and urged rejection of the interim director’s application for permanent appointment.
Julie Oliver told the Audit and Finance Committee on Dec. 3 that Austin’s municipal animal shelter continues to suffer the same systemic failures documented in a city auditor report issued two years ago and urged the council to deny the interim director’s bid to become the permanent director.
Oliver said the audit described animals being kept in “3 by 4 foot crates 24 hours a day” and labeled the recorded conditions inhumane. She said technology and data failures during a shelter software conversion left…
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