Jan 20, 2022
Hello everybody! And a contented new yr! I’m hoping this reveals you and yours smartly. I sought after to succeed in out these days to supply an replace on the place we stand with our plans for APA!’s campuses, land, and amenities.
As a reminder, your voices had been heard in November as you helped us get the APA! Solution handed with Austin Town Council. In that solution, town council directed us to paintings with the Town of Austin personnel to resolve an consumption proportion quantity in accordance with the ones animals vulnerable to euthanasia. We proceed the ones discussions with town and may have an replace to proportion with you in February.
Whilst we stay hopeful that we can in any case achieve a brand new settlement with town animal services and products and signal a long run hire to stay a small portion of our operations on our The town Lake Animal Heart (TLAC) campus once imaginable, we’re excited to be exploring our enlargement irrespective of the TLAC result.
The APA! Board of Administrators and a few different superb volunteers had been using their connections to assist us in finding Austin homes to buy and amplify our footprint. At this time there are a few attainable homes we’re having a look at and as the belongings is, in fact, at a top rate in Austin, we’re having a look at homes with present constructions lets alter to suit our techniques and services and products – and in addition homes with most commonly open land. According to what we discover and will come up with the money for, the APA! management staff is operating on other answers with a gaggle of architects to puzzle in combination which techniques and services and products would have compatibility the place and the way easiest to maximise every situation of belongings mixtures for lifesaving.
What this implies for APA! staff individuals and supporters is that vary – however thrilling trade – is at the horizon very quickly. By means of this time subsequent yr, lets probably have 4 places, together with TLAC and Tarrytown! With this increasing footprint we’re ensuring that every attainable position supplies a drastic growth to what now we have now. We all know {that a} refuge must serve the needs it will have to – now not mass housing in uncomfortable kennels however getting every animal who wishes us maximum the care, reinforce and rehabilitation they want to get them in a position for a house (whether or not it’s foster or adoptive house) and out of kennel as temporarily as imaginable!
We can proceed to stay you knowledgeable of our belongings growth and your reinforce we’ll want throughout this thrilling time. Thanks as all the time for being a part of this superb lifesaving group for other folks and pets.
Ellen