Transmittal - 2/1/2023ERIN MENDENHALL
MAYOR DEPARTMENT of PUBLIC LANDS
OFFICE of the DIRECTOR
SALT LAKE CITY CORPORATION
451 SOUTH STATE, ROOM 138
P.O.BOX 145470, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84114-5470
WWW.SLCGOV.COM
TEL:801-535-7922
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CITY COUNCIL TRANSMITTAL
Date Received:
Lisa Shaffer, Chief Administrative Officer Date sent to Council:
TO: DATE: January 31, 2023 Salt Lake City Council
Darin Mano, Chair
FROM: Kristin Riker, Director, Public Lands Department _______________
SUBJECT: Salt Lake County Animal Services for Salt Lake City
STAFF CONTACT: Kristin Riker
Public Lands Director
Kristin.Riker@slcgov.com
Carmen Bailey
Public Lands Deputy Director
Carmen.Bailey@slcgov.com
COUNCIL SPONSOR: N/A
DOCUMENT TYPE: Information Item
RECOMMENDATION: Review documentation and briefing
BUDGET IMPACT: N/A
BACKGROUND:
Salt Lake City has contracted with Salt Lake County’s Animal Services to provide animal
services within the City since 1991. The contract with Animal Services, which is up for
renewal on June 30, 2024, has provided administration, personnel, equipment, and
supplies necessary to support a modern, well-equipped animal control department in
compliance with applicable laws and standards including, but not limited to:
Lisa Shaffer (Feb 1, 2023 13:40 MST)02/01/2023
02/01/2023
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Licensing – Collection of licensing fees, issuing licenses, enforcing license requirements,
and enforcing and supporting special programs such as the rabies clinic and neuter/spay
clinics.
Regulation – The regular and systematic program of animal control enforcement,
enforcement of state laws and regulations and City ordinances, and providing a fully
equipped animal control unit which shall respond to requests from within the City Limits
24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
Controlling and Shelter Services – Catching stray domestic animals, operating the
shelter, impounding stray animals, collecting fees and fines owed for impounded
animals, providing temporary housing and care for all animals coming in the shelter
from the City Limits including companion animals and livestock, and providing medical
treatment for animals while in shelter care.
Special Programs – Several programs including community outreach and education
programs, adoption events, Community Action Teams, Trap-Neuter-Release,
Rescue/Foster, Behavior Assessment, and Humane Education. All special programs are
provided to maintain the County’s “No-Kill” status.
Other Services – Selling impounded animals, adoption for impounded animals,
“euthanizing” and disposing of impounded animals and handling injured or sick animals.
CURRENT SERVICES:
Animal Services processed 3124 animals for Salt Lake City in 2022. Intakes include: 1543
Impounds, 1 abandon, 327 DOAs, 24 transfers, 1074 strays, 68 owner surrender, 74
returns, 12 offspring and 1 euthanasia request.
All calls requesting services are classified by priority 1 thru 5 when they are received.
Field officers and staff respond according to the severity and urgency of the request. The
range begins at the least urgent, priority 5, including permit inspections and quarantine
releases. The most severe calls, priority 5, are for animal injuries and animal attacks.
For 2022, Animal Services received 668 priority 1, 846 priority 2, 3610 priority 3, 684
priority 4 and 980 priority 5 calls. The most calls received are priority 3 which includes
animals at large (“off-leash” and roaming), impounds and cruelty investigations. Most
field calls are condensed in three areas within Salt Lake City – Rosepark, Glendale and
Liberty Wells.
Animal Services issued 205 citations and Notice of Violations in 2022. The most
common violations for these being: animal at large, no license, and no rabies.
The U.S.Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
reports that 152 raccoons and 156 skunks were trapped in Salt Lake City under the Urban
Wildlife Assistance Program. The program also assisted the public with written/phone
consultations as well as personal in person consultations.
Animal Services has several programs and resources for citizens including a monthly pet
food pantry, free animal microchipping, and free animal behavior training workshops.
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Animal Services has also purchased new license tags that include a registerable QR code
to help reunite lost pets with their owners.
Recent challenges include a substantial increased pet population numbers in Salt Lake
County following the Covid-19 pandemic. This has increased the workload for
sterilizations, animal behavior issues and overall shelter intake. To overcome these
challenges Salt Lake County has funded 2 regional projects: a mobile spay and neuter
clinic and a study for a regional animal care campus that includes a state of the art
adoption center.
NEXT STEPS:
Animal Services are constantly seeking funding through donations, grants, partnerships,
and innovative volunteer programing to maximize services.
ATTACHMENTS:
A. SL County Animal Services Presentation
Notes:
Individuals who are available to present to City Council at Work Session:
Talia Butler, Division Director Salt Lake County Animal Services
Carrie Sibert, Liaison coordinator, Salt Lake County Animal Services
Rachel Hopper, Field Lieutenant, Salt Lake County Animal Services
cc: Lisa Shaffer
Mary Beth Thompson
ATTACHMENT A
SL County Animal Services Presentation
2022 Annual Report
Salt Lake City
Animal Services had been working towards No-Kill
programming since 2008, but the first official year
achieving No-Kill was 2013. Since then, we have
maintained No-Kill every year, saving tens of
thousands of lives, and making 2023 an important
milestone for our agency, our community, the cities
we are honored to serve, and the pets that enrich
our lives.
Today we share with you the services and
initiatives that help make this possible. Thank you
for supporting the work that we do and for caring
about people and pets in our community.
After hours on-call emergency
Holidays, Nights, & Weekends Field Service
Emergency/Disaster Response & Equipment
Ability to handle cases with:
large #s of animals
livestock
exotics
Online Licensing & Pictures
Enrichment (Agility/Training)
Adoption Counseling & Follow-Up
On-Site fully staffed operational Veterinary Clinic
Lawful Ability to:
Provide Surgeries/Misc. Clinic Services
Administer Vaccines to Owned Pets
Prescribe Medicine
Outreach Programs with dedicated staff:
Injured Animal Fund
National leader in no-kill sheltering
Large social media engagement & community support Over 46,000
followers
No-Kill Sheltering.
Animal Services has maintained our no-kill status with a live release rate over
90% since 2013. Our agency is currently the largest no-kill municipal shelter in
Utah, and one of the largest in the nation.
Public Awareness.
Visibility with the public, achieved through social media reach, web visits, earned
media, community events, and training. Our goal is to have over 1,600,000
interactions with the public in 2023.
High Quality Service and Economies of Scale.
As animals don’t know jurisdictional boundaries, it is important to use a unified
approach so that all animals in our community can benefit from life-saving
programs and all citizens can benefit from an increased quality of services.
Safe Employees.
Our goal is to provide employees with the training, equipment, and resources they
need to do their jobs well and to stay healthy and safe.
Outcomes & Indicators
2022 interesting facts & highlights
Over 5,000 children & adults
attended our humane education
presentations
Volunteers spent 2,500 hours
with pets in the shelter.
Foster homes spent over
93,000 hours caring for pets.
Over 21,000 pounds of
food & treats were fed to our
shelter pets.
3,300 pets were sterilized by
our in house veterinary clinic.
2022 accomplishments
Cat room remodeled
from funds raised in
honor of Betty WhiteNaco Award winner
for our Hounds Around
Town program
14th time winning
Best in State
Category Dogs Cats Other/Wild Total Animals
Beginning Shelter Count 76 136 33 245
Intake Totals 2581 3249 437 6267
Adoptions 918 1100 106 2124
Transfers/Rescue 169 628 162 959
Redemptions 1327 1276 104 2707
Euthanasia 122 208 69 399
Outcome Totals 2536 3212 441 6189
2022 Summary of Asilomar Stats 1-1-22 to 12-31-22
Full Asilomar stats are available upon request.
Features Adjusted Totals - Excludes Owner Requested Euthanasias
Live Release: 93%
959
Animals
rescued!988
Animals
fostered!
Species Total
Amphibian/Reptile 13
Bird 14
Cat 971
Crab/Fish 4
Dog 1147
Small Mammal 63
Livestock 3
Insect/Arachnid 3
Kitten 629
Puppy 116
Wildlife 161
Totals 3124Dog
36.7%
Cat
31.1%Kitten
20.1%
Wildlife
5.2%Puppy
3.7%
Small Mammal
2%
Bird
0.4%
Crab/Fish
0.1%
Intake By Species
Circumstance Total
Abandoned 1
ACO Impound 1543
DOA 327
Euth Request 1
Owner Surrender 68
Returns 74
Shelter Offspring 12
Stray
(over the counter)1074
Transfer 24
Totals 3124
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Intake By Type
Call Type 4th Quarter 2022 Total
AN01 - Animal Impound 300
AN02 - Animal At Large 242 1
AN03 - Animal Cruelty 152 0
AN04 - Animal In Vehicle 16 1
AN05 - Injured/Sick/In-Distress/Rescue 74 0
AN06 - Wild/Exotic 7 0
AN07 - Animal Attack 58 0
AN08 - Livestock Problem 4 0
AN09 - Animal Bite 100 0
AN10 - Home Quarantine Release 48 0
AN11 - Animal Nuisance 127 1
AN12 - Agency Assist 78 0
AN13 - Special Assignment/TNR 124 0
AN14 - Citizen Inquiry 168 2
AN15 - Permit Inspection 3 0
Contact 8 0
Patrol 2 0
Totals 1511 6788
Field Statistics
AN01
20.9%
AN14
12.4%
AN02
11.9%
AN03
9.2%
AN13
8.4%
AN11
7.3%
AN09
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5.6%
AN12
4.5%
AN07
4.3%
AN10
3.4%
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Calls by Priority High Risk
Low Risk
668
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Citations
NOVs
Citations/Notice of Violations
Most common
violations
No License
No Rabies
Running at Large
205 Issued in 2022
Technical Assistance Direct Control/Trapping
Personal
Consult
Written/phone
Consult Raccoons Striped Skunks
10 115 152 156
Urban Wildlife Program in 2022
The statistics for this program is tracked
and generated by the USDA APHIS.
THESE OFFICERS HAVE GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND IN THEIR DAILY
RESPONSIBILITIES. EACH HAS SHOWN IMPECCABLE QUALITY IN THEIR
WORK AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC.
OFFICERS OF THE YEAR AWARDS
Kathleen Kayo
Jen Niel
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Don Belnap
REGIONAL ADOPTION & EDUCATION
CENTER
ANIMAL CARE CAMPUS GOALS
This facility will serve as an animal
adoption center for animal control
agencies.
Provide educational trainings, interactive
areas, and activities for the public.
Includes a regional dog park, event venue
space, and a variety of animal related
resources.
County Council approved funding for a
study for a regional animal care campus!
MOBILE VET CLINIC THAT WILL PROVIDE
SPAY & NEUTER SURGERIES COUNTYWIDE
MOBILE SPAY & NEUTER CLINIC
The clinic will operate for 18 months.
Each week the mobile clinic will go to
various neighborhoods within Salt Lake
County and provide pet sterilization
surgeries.
The County Council approved funding
for a mobile clinic that will help assist
low income families around the valley.
MONTHLY PET FOOD AND
SUPPLIES GIVEAWAY
PET FOOD PANTRY
Funded and supplied through donations
and grants our agency hosts a monthly
pantry to assist residents in need.
Residents who are struggling and need
assistance with pet food and supplies
can drive up and receive needed food
and supplies when available.
ALL RESIDENTS IN SALT LAKE COUNTY ARE
ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE A FREE MICROCHIP
FOR EACH OF THEIR FURRY COMPANIONS
FREE MICROCHIPPING
Microchipping has helped reunite
countless lost pets with their
owners.
Our Petlink microchips are
internationally recognizable.
Only requires a simple one time
injection and your pet is set for life!
RESIDENTS ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO LICENSE
ALL OWNED DOGS AND IN SOME JURISDICTIONS
CATS AND OTHER PETS PER ORDINANCES.
LICENSING
Licensing is the only lawful way to
prove ownership.
Requires a valid and current rabies
vaccination.
Residents are able to license at the
shelter, online, or by phone
Our new license tags feature a QR
code through pawfinder.com to help
reunite lost pets with their owners
Feb
23rd
mar
9th
Upcoming Free Workshops
Virtual Building
Better Behaviors
Separation Anxiety:
How to Help Your Dog