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Community service officer details enforcement activity and shelter intake, council hears grant plans
Summary
Rangely’s community service officer reported increased code-enforcement activity, shelter intake and adoptions this year and said the shelter has applied for a roughly $36,000 grant to repair outdoor kennels and will pursue additional veterinary funding in December.
The community service officer (CSO) presented operational statistics and shelter activity to the council. She said that since the CSO division re-started in spring, the office has conducted approximately 100 bin inspections, completed more than 50 fingerprint checks, documented 10 to 15 dog-bite cases, issued nearly 20 citations (noting that before the new program some code-enforcement citation counts were lower), and sent about 700 code-enforcement letters.
On animal-shelter operations the CSO said the town’s shelter received 82 dogs this year (about 50 were strays, 26 owner surrenders, three were failed adoptions and three came in where the owner was in custody). She reported 22 cats entered this year, mostly stray kittens. Adoptions and returns included 24 dog adoptions, 43 dogs returned to owners, 16 dog transfers to other shelters, 16 cat adoptions and 10 cat transfers.
"Between me and Caitlin, since April to, I believe, this past Monday, we've done approximately a 100 bin inspections, 50 plus fingerprints done... We've had about 10 to 15 dog bite cases," the CSO said, summarizing enforcement workload and shelter intake. She said the shelter applied for a grant to repair its outdoor kennels and requested roughly $36,000; she added the shelter will apply for another veterinary-support grant in mid-December.
Council and staff discussed feral-cat concentrations in the East Raven area and a derelict trailer that has complicated removal efforts; trapping and spay-neuter-release through a grant was discussed as a potential approach. The council asked staff to continue outreach and to seek owner contact information where possible.
