Oct 01, 2021
There are best seven days till the general October Town Council assembly schedule will have to be posted.
That implies we have now seven days to make it transparent to town council participants that No Kill in Austin is vital and merits their pressing consideration.
There are lots of layers to this drawback, however at the moment one of the crucial vital issues that you simply, as a supporter of the animals who want us to avoid wasting their lives, can know is that we merely desire a dating with town that is sensible.
APA! has saved Austin No Kill by means of taking animals off town’s kill listing each and every unmarried day for 10 years now. We will be able to proceed to try this. We will be able to no longer comply with proceed serving as Austin Animal Middle’s overflow spouse. It doesn’t make sense to our challenge as a nonprofit group or the pets that by no means get a possibility to depart a safe haven alive.
It’s now not truthful to function an overflow spouse for Austin Animal Middle anymore for 2 major causes:
First, the rebuildable land leased to APA! by means of the Town of Austin has been dramatically lowered to only one fourth of what we have been promised within the Lamar Seaside Grasp Plan. This isn’t mirrored any place within the negotiations with town body of workers or in our exact license settlement. It’s as though it doesn’t subject. But it surely does subject to us as a result of, when we signal an settlement, we can not use the valuables someday the best way we have now been for the ultimate 10 years. This implies we will no longer construct the rest new in this belongings that will also come as regards to matching our present capability. It’s unreasonable to be expecting APA! to give you the identical stage of products and services to the Town when the valuables we have now been given in change for the ones products and services has been so considerably lowered.
2nd, the Town of Austin Animal Middle has gained over $10,000,000 extra greenbacks in line with yr than they’d when Austin first become a No Kill town. Our challenge is to do away with the killing of pets in shelters and so long as an animal is in peril in Austin, we will be able to reserve it. It’s not affordable to ALSO ask APA! to offer loose products and services to Austin Animal Middle that they’ve been funded to offer to Austin folks and animals.
We imagine that APA’s strengthen of the Town of Austin, in conserving Austin No Kill and riding town to be innovative and sustainable, is well worth the land we’re being given. Town Council should make a decision in the event that they agree. Please touch your council member’s place of work lately with an electronic mail and follow-up name should you agree. It’s so vital that the council workplaces pay attention your voice ahead of they make the general choice.
Thanks,
Ellen