Primary Department: Public Health Services
Primary Department Head/Elected Official: Leah Barton ─ Interim Executive Director
Secondary Department: County Administration
Secondary Department Head/Elected Official: Diana Ramirez - County Administrator
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Transmittal
Project ID (if applicable): N/A
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): N/A
MWBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A
MWBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): N/A - Not a grant item
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Transmittal by Public Health Services of a report on progress made toward the recommendations made in the Veterinary Public Health (VPH) Assessment Office of County Administration (OCA) report.
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Background and Discussion:
On October 8th, during the discussion of the OCA report on Veterinary Public Health (VPH), Commissioner Garcia made a motion to discuss VPH’s progress made toward the recommendations made in the VPH Assessment OCA report on the March 27th Commissioners Court. OCA made three general considerations in the report.
- Continue developing intake management strategies, building out shelter staff, and promoting responsible pet ownership.
- Embrace the One Health Framework and enhance activities in the context of Social Determinants of Health and the Community Health Assessment’s (CHA) findings.
- Continue prioritizing collaborations with the City of Houston BARC and nonprofit organizations.
VPH already has programs and activities around intake management strategies, collaborations with BARC and nonprofits, and promoting responsible pet ownerships, and have taken additional actions since the October 8th motion. The attached slide deck provides a breakdown of existing activities and what has been implemented since the OCA report came out. Though not a recommendation, the OCA report discussed the Socially Conscious Sheltering framework and how other shelters have started to move to that philosophy. VPH is moving to adopt this framework and the progress towards adopting this is documented in the slide deck.
Expected Impact:
To inform court members of the progress VPH has made towards OCA’s recommendations and to show what the shelter is doing to improve the health and wellbeing of both animals and people in our community.
Alternative Options:
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County Strategic Plan Goal: 2. Connect our community with safe, reliable, equitably distributed, and well-maintained infrastructure.
County Strategic Plan Objective:
Justice/Safety Initiative (Goal 1):
Infrastructure Initiative (Goal 2):
Economy Initiative (Goal 3):
Health Initiative (Goal 4):
Climate/Resilience Initiative (Goal 5):
Housing Initiative (Goal 6):
Additional notes related to the Strategic Plan:
Prior Court Action (if any):
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Directed Public Health to return to the March 27th, 2025, Commissioners Court to provide an update on progress made to implement the recommendations made in the OCA Vet Public Health Report. |
Location:
Address (if applicable): 612 Canino Road
Precinct(s): Countywide
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Anticipated Court Date: March 27, 2025
Anticipated Implementation Date (if different from Court date): March 27, 2025
Emergency/Disaster Recovery Note: Not an emergency, disaster, or COVID-19 related item
Contact(s) name, title, department: Corey Steele, Director of Veterinary Public Health, Public Health Services
Attachments (if applicable): Progress on OCA Recommendations presentation