Aug 24, 2021
Buddies,
In 2017, the Austin Town Council handed a answer that APA! may keep at the The city Lake Animal Heart (TLAC) belongings for 3 25-year agreements (75 years!). Town personnel and APA! had been directed to barter and execute an settlement over the following 3 years.
Since then, APA!, with the superb assist of our pro-bono legal professionals at Drenner Workforce, and the Town has been in intense negotiations, leading to two emergency extensions to permit either side extra time to return to a consensus. This has confirmed very tricky and our precise long run is unknown. We need to just remember to, as a valued APA! spouse, are being introduced alongside extra totally as this unfolds and a last resolution is reached within the months forward. What’s an important so that you can know nowadays is that it’s unimaginable for APA! to function with the TLAC facility provider settlement lately in position, and because of the state of our facility, we haven’t any selection however to both renegotiate the ones phrases or discover a new facility. We wish you to pay attention to this as we proceed to paintings with the Town of Austin to resolve our long run within the months forward.
I’m positive you’re asking: why can’t you simply stay your present phrases? The highest-line solution to this is that it’s difficult. The headaches contain necessities across the parkland that TLAC sits upon, the campus structures in quite a lot of levels of disrepair, the Town’s Lamar Seaside Grasp Plan, operations at each Austin Animal Heart and APA!, and our imaginative and prescient for the way forward for No Kill. It’s an excessive amount of to pack into one letter. To be able to stay you knowledgeable however now not beaten, we can be sharing this data in items over the following couple of weeks. We welcome your questions and ideas as you listen our plans spread.
Once we began APA!, our purpose was once to make Austin a sustainable, No Kill town. We envisioned a spot the place all pets could be in reality protected from loss of life and the place euthanasia because of house and points in time would not exist. Now, greater than a decade and just about 100,000 lives stored later, now we have succeeded in enjoyable that challenge year-over-year, making Austin the most secure position in The united states for misplaced and homeless pets, and spreading that territory into the remainder of Texas. This won’t exchange, regardless of the end result of our dating with the Town.
As we’re sustained solely on donations and depend closely on fosters and volunteers, lets by no means have completed making, and preserving, Austin No Kill with out your tireless improve. Your ongoing funding has helped us turn out to be Austin and display the arena what it seems like when a group comes in combination to paintings against one purpose. Each greenback you’ve given, each hour you’ve spent volunteering, and each puppy you’ve fostered or followed have led to what has come to appear customary however is in reality odd.
Thanks,
Ellen Jefferson, DVM
President and CEO
Austin Pets Alive!/American Pets Alive!