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Resident calls for accounting and enforcement at Pima animal-care services
Summary
A Pima County resident criticized animal-care operations, named a director, and said he started a petition demanding timely enforcement and an accounting of the department’s civil-complaints process and $5,000,000 budget.
Joe (Joseph) Lasalvia, a resident of Pima County’s District 2, addressed the board during call to the public to criticize what he described as repeated enforcement failures by the county animal-care provider referenced in the transcript as PAC.
Lasalvia described multiple incidents — including a neighbor’s dog that mauled and killed a pet and a separate fatal mauling he said involved a foster dog with a known history of aggression — and said the incidents demonstrated negligence. He said a petition he started calls for “timely and substantive enforcement” and for a full accounting of PAC’s civil-complaints process and its $5,000,000 annual budget. “That wasn’t an accident. That was negligence,” Lasalvia said.
Lasalvia said he reported incidents to the director (named in the transcript as Steve Kozlicek) and that he was dissatisfied with follow-up from Supervisor Hines (as referenced in the transcript) and staff. Supervisor Connaugh asked the clerk to share constituent information with the county administrator so workforce-development staff could explore wraparound services for a constituent who had been living at the Salvation Army house.
The board did not take formal disciplinary or budget action during this meeting. Chair Scott asked staff to follow up with additional information or possible agenda items for future meetings; Supervisor Connaugh explicitly requested staff follow-up on this constituent’s needs.
Next steps: staff were asked to provide information to the county administrator and re-engage with the constituent and with the petitioner’s concerns; any changes to PAC policies or budget would require future board action.
