The Building & Grounds Committee of the Acadia Parish Police Jury met in public session at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 2001, in the Courthouse Building, Police Jury Meeting Room, Crowley.
It was motioned and duly seconded that all action items contained in this report were taken, reviewed and discussed by the Building &Grounds Committee and are to be presented as agenda items. Motion carried.
Discussion and/or action items to be considered are as follows:
Building & Grounds Committee
ALTON STEVENSON
CATHERINE LACOMBE
JIMMIE PELLERIN
Juror Catherine LaCombe presented research on several possible sites for the new Parish Animal Shelter all of which were located near the City of Crowley.
Juror John Humble, Sr., took particular interest in one location adjacent to the Crowley Road Maintenance Facility on Roller Road. The property included approximately six acres of land belonging to the Thibodeaux Family. Mr. Humble pointed out that the advantage of having the property would be that all road maintenance activities could be moved to Roller Road making available the property on Highway 90 for the Parish Animal Control Shelter.
The Committee recommended meeting with the property owners to obtain information regarding the purchase of approximately six acres of land adjacent to the Crowley Road Maintenance Facility on Roller Road along with an appraisal of the property in question.
THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE, THE PRESIDENT ADJOURNED THE MEETING UNTIL THE NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED COMMITTEE MEETING.
The Personnel Committee of the Acadia Parish Police Jury met in public session at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 2001, in the Courthouse Building, Police Jury Meeting Room, Crowley.
It was motioned and duly seconded that all action items contained in this report were taken, reviewed and discussed by the Personnel Committee and are to be presented as agenda items. Motion carried.
Discussion and/or action items to be considered are as follows:
Personnel Committee
CECELIA BROUSSARD
JOHN BEARD
CATHERINE LACOMBE
Juror John Beard asked about guidelines that would direct the day to day activities of the Animal Control Program. He emphasized concern over the apprehension of cats indicating that the program should be strictly for domestic wild or stray dogs. He said the Animal Control Officer had no place to put cats and also mentioned that several calls were on weekends and included animals such as skunks.
Mr. Beard was also concerned about who was to direct the animal control activities in the Parish indicating that there was some conflicts with authority.
There were mixed comments concerning the policies in place regarding different types of animals. It was stated also that no overtime was allowed for the program and that the focus should be on emergencies.
Juror Cecelia Broussard’s opinion was that the Animal Control Officer should be supervised.
Other members of the Jury expressed their concern for a lack of recordkeeping and calls where animals were not being picked up.
Mr. Stevenson’s suggested that the program be discontinued until the Parish has a permanent Animal Shelter.
It was suggested that the Animal Control Officer be supervised for a period of time in order to clear up any questions about policies and procedures.
The Committee recommended establishing a 180 day probation period during which the first 90 days, all activities related to animal control including but not limited to organization, training, policy implementation, daily activities and interpretation of job description shall be under the direction of the Emergency Manager’s Office after which the following 90 days will be an unsupervised observation period for evaluation purposes. The Emergency Manager shall also provide objective comments related to past animal control activities following review of historical data.
THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE, THE PRESIDENT ADJOURNED THE MEETING UNTIL THE NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED COMMITTEE MEETING.
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