Personnel, Audits, and Hiring Committee

JOURNAL – PERSONNEL, AUDITS, AND ANIMAL WELFARE COMMITTEE Monday, October 24, 2022 ROOM 1050, CITY HALL ­ 10:00 AM 200 NORTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 MEMBERS: COUNCILMEMBER PAUL KORETZ, CHAIR COUNCILMEMBER MARQUEECE HARRIS­ DAWSON COUNCILMEMBER MIKE BONIN (Adam Lid ­ Legislative Assistant ­ (213) 978­1076 or adam.lid@lacity.org) Pursuant to Assembly Bill 361, and due to concerns over COVID­19, this Los Angeles City Council committee meeting will take all public comment by teleconference. The audio for this meeting is broadcast live on the internet at https://clerk.lacity.org/calendar. The live audio can also be heard at: (213) 621­CITY (Metro), (818) 904­9450 (Valley), (310) 471­CITY (Westside) and (310) 547­CITY (San Pedro Area). Members of the public who would like to offer public comment on the items listed on the agenda should call 1 669 254 5252 and use Meeting ID No. 161 602 6414 and then press #. Press # again when prompted for participant ID. 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To ensure availability, you are advised to make your request at least 72 hours prior to the meeting/event you wish to attend. Due to difficulties in securing Sign Language Interpreters, five or more business days notice is strongly recommended. For additional information, please contact the Legislative Assistant listed above. Notice to Paid Representatives: If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at (213) 978­1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org. MULTIPLE AGENDA ITEM COMMENT ITEM(S) (1) 22­1174 Motion (Koretz – Blumenfield) relative to reviewing the position of Animal Notice to Paid Representatives: If you are compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require you to register as a lobbyist and report your activity. See Los Angeles Municipal Code 48.01 et seq. More information is available at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. For assistance, please contact the Ethics Commission at (213) 978­1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org. MULTIPLE AGENDA ITEM COMMENT ITEM(S) (1) 22­1174 Motion (Koretz – Blumenfield) relative to reviewing the position of Animal Care Technician. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (2) 22­1175 Motion (Koretz – O’Farrel) relative to developing a program for the annual promotion of spay and neuter and the City’s spay/neuter law. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (3) 22­1176 Motion (Koretz – O’Farrell – Blumenfield) relative to creating a centralized program that would handle the processing of applications and oversight of any disciplinary procedures determined to be necessary in connection with the Department of Animal Services’ (DAS) volunteer recruitment and management programs. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (4) 22­1179 Motion (Koretz – O’Farrell) relative to fully utilizing the Orange List to be sure that organizations and individual who would be willing to cover the costs of expensive vet care are always notified and given the opportunity to save the lives of these sick and injured animals. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (5) 22­1180 Motion (Koretz – Blumenfield) relative to funding necessary to optimally run the DAS, including funding for all seven City­owned shelters and funding and staffing for a Citywide Cat Program and an enhanced Spay and Neuter Program. Community Impact Statement: None submitted.  Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (5) 22­1180 Motion (Koretz – Blumenfield) relative to funding necessary to optimally run the DAS, including funding for all seven City­owned shelters and funding and staffing for a Citywide Cat Program and an enhanced Spay and Neuter Program. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (6) 22­1181 Motion (Koretz – Blumenfield) relative to establishing a plan for reinvigorating the Animal Cruelty Task Force. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (7) 22­1183 Motion (Koretz – Blumenfield) relative to the DAS’ program to incorporate Targeted Local Hire trainees into its shelter operations. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (8) 22­1184 Motion (Koretz – O’Farrell) relative to ensuring the best possible treatment of cats, rabbits and all other small animals by both staff and volunteers during their stays at City animal shelters. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (9) 22­1185 Motion (Koretz – Blumenfield) relative to utilizing a joint Labor­Management Committee is fully and regularly operational to enhance DAS performance. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (10) 22­1187 Motion (Koretz – O’Farrell) relative to planning to ensure that all dogs in its shelters are regularly exercised and properly attended to. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin  Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (10) 22­1187 Motion (Koretz – O’Farrell) relative to planning to ensure that all dogs in its shelters are regularly exercised and properly attended to. Community Impact Statement: None submitted. APPROVED: (1) Yes­ Koretz, (2) Absent­ Harris­Dawson, Bonin (11) 07­1212­S7 DAS and City Attorney reports and Ordinance relative to amending the Los Angeles Municipal Code to require domesticated pet rabbits to be spayed or neutered on the same basis as dogs and cats. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted. CONTINUED If you challenge this Committee's action(s) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk at or prior to, the public hearing. Any written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk before the City Council's final action on a matter will become a part of the administrative record. Materials relative to items on this agenda can be obtained from the Office of the City Clerk's Council File Management System, at lacouncilfile.com by entering the Council File number listed immediately following the item number (e.g., 00­0000). Telecommunication Relay Services Telephone communication is one of the most important forms of communication in society today. Due to advancements in technology, telephone devices have evolved with new services and capabilities. Individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, and individuals with a speech disability are following these trends and are rapidly migrating to more advanced telecommunications methods, both for peer­to­peer and third­party telecommunications relay service (TRS) communications. Telecommunications Relay Service is a telephone service that allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls. TRS is available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories for local and/or long distance calls. TRS providers ­ generally telephone companies ­ are compensated for the costs of providing TRS from either a state or a federal fund. There is no cost to the TRS user. What forms of TRS are available?There are several forms of TRS, depending on the particular needs of the user and the equipment available: TRS includes: Text to Voice TIY­Based TRS; Speech­to­Speech Relay Service; Shared Non­English Language Relay Service; Captioned Telephone Relay Service; Internet Protocol Relay Service; and Video Relay Service. Please visit this site for detail descriptions, https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications­relay­service­trs. Don't hang up! Some people hang up on TRS calls because they think the CA is a telemarketer. If you hear, "Hello. This is the relay service .. . " when you pick up the phone, please don't hang up! You are about to talk, through a TRS provider, to a person who is deaf, hard­of­hearing, or has a speech disability. For more information about FCC programs to promote access to telecommunications services for people with disabilities, visit theFCC's Disability Rights Office website. Service; Captioned Telephone Relay Service; Internet Protocol Relay Service; and Video Relay Service. Please visit this site for detail descriptions, https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications­relay­service­trs. Don't hang up! Some people hang up on TRS calls because they think the CA is a telemarketer. If you hear, "Hello. This is the relay service .. . " when you pick up the phone, please don't hang up! You are about to talk, through a TRS provider, to a person who is deaf, hard­of­hearing, or has a speech disability. For more information about FCC programs to promote access to telecommunications services for people with disabilities, visit theFCC's Disability Rights Office website.