INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
Meeting Date: October 14, 2024
Subject: Annual Report on the Animal Benefit Fund
Submitted For: Ben Winkleblack, Director
Department: Animal Services
Referral No: IOC 24/7
Referral Name: Animal Benefit Fund Annual Report
Presenter: Ben Winkleblack
Contact: kara.galindo@asd.cccounty.us
Referral History:
In 1988, the Animal Services Department created the Animal Benefit Fund (ABF). The purpose of the ABF is to allow the Animal Services Department to receive donations from individuals, animal welfare organizations, and businesses to support animal health and welfare projects.
On December 8, 2020, the Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution No. 2020/329, authorizing the Department Director to implement the following programs within the Animal Benefit Fund:
1. Medical Assistance Program: This program is for medical assistance and emergency veterinary care for animals that are in the County's jurisdiction and/or have been accepted into the County shelter's care. Funds will be used for medical care over and above the mandated medical care for animals in the care of the shelter and who need further assistance to be made available for adoption or released to a transfer agency. Funds may also be used to provide necessary medical care to an animal to help keep the animal out of the shelter.
2. Humane Education Program: This program helps to support humane education services in the County either by bringing people into County shelter or taking County education programs "on the road" into the community. Humane Education support may also be used to help pet owners resolve behavioral problems that might otherwise cause them to give up their pet, to help shelter animals with behavioral issues that might keep them from being easily adopted, and to create humane education programs for school age children.
3. Shelter Intervention Program: Often, families in a crisis turn to surrendering their pet to a shelter due to lack of financial resourc...
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