Oct 01, 2021
There are solely seven days till the ultimate October Metropolis Council assembly agenda should be posted.
Meaning now we have seven days to make it clear to town council members that No Kill in Austin is vital and deserves their pressing consideration.
There are a lot of layers to this drawback, however proper now probably the most vital issues that you just, as a supporter of the animals who want us to save lots of their lives, can know is that we merely want a relationship with town that is sensible.
APA! has saved Austin No Kill by taking animals off town’s kill record each single day for 10 years now. We are going to proceed to try this. We is not going to conform to proceed serving as Austin Animal Middle’s overflow accomplice. It doesn’t make sense to our mission as a nonprofit group or the pets that by no means get an opportunity to depart a shelter alive.
It’s not truthful to function an overflow accomplice for Austin Animal Middle anymore for 2 important causes:
First, the rebuildable land leased to APA! by the Metropolis of Austin has been dramatically lowered to only one fourth of what we have been promised within the Lamar Seashore Grasp Plan. This isn’t mirrored anyplace within the negotiations with metropolis employees or in our precise license settlement. It’s as if it doesn’t matter. However it does matter to us as a result of, as soon as we signal an settlement, we can not use the property sooner or later the best way now we have been for the final 10 years. This implies we cannot construct something new on this property that may even come near matching our present capability. It’s unreasonable to count on APA! to supply the identical stage of providers to the Metropolis when the property now we have been given in alternate for these providers has been so considerably lowered.
Second, the Metropolis of Austin Animal Middle has obtained over $10,000,000 extra {dollars} per yr than that they had when Austin first turned a No Kill metropolis. Our mission is to remove the killing of pets in shelters and so long as an animal is in danger in Austin, we are going to put it aside. It isn’t cheap to ALSO ask APA! to supply free providers to Austin Animal Middle that they’ve been funded to supply to Austin folks and animals.
We consider that APA’s help of the Metropolis of Austin, in conserving Austin No Kill and driving town to be progressive and sustainable, is definitely worth the land we’re being given. Metropolis Council should determine in the event that they agree. Please contact your council member’s workplace immediately with an electronic mail and follow-up name for those who agree. It’s so vital that the council workplaces hear your voice earlier than they make the ultimate dedication.
Thanks,
Ellen
