That’s barely five percent of our total intake of cats. When we have 132 adopted, 42
fostered, and only seven sent out, I’ll agree it’s worth looking into our criteria on deciding
whether a cat’s feral or adoptable, but those numbers don’t point to a widespread issue.
We have taken the step, as the Mayor has pointed out twice now, to bring in an outside
group to audit our process, including our criteria for determining what cats are feral versus
adoptable. We are taking the steps, regardless of what’s being said, and the numbers don’t
bear out a widespread issue. That’s all I wanted to point out.
Sean Saunders – I would like to bring up a community event this weekend. Two of our high
schools that have League City residents in them will be in a band competition this
Saturday, Dickinson High School and Clear Lake High School. If you’ve never been to one
of these competitions, these kids work their butts off. Most of these kids start practicing
getting ready for this competition during the middle of the summer, if not the beginning of
the summer, and they work their butts off all the way through to these competitions. If you
get a chance, come out and cheer on. Everybody knows I’m going to be partial to
Dickinson High School of course, because that’s where my son goes to school. I’ll be
cheering on both these schools while I’m there. If you have a chance, this Saturday, the
30th, it’ll be at Challenger Stadium. Thank you.
Tommy Cones – Just for a point of clarification, Mr. Crews, you’re absolutely right,
nobody tells me how to vote. Just for the record. That’s all I had Mayor.
Tom Crews – Thank you for confirming that, Mr. Cones. I don’t have much to say, I just
wanted to pass along something I thought, the change, Devereux, we went to their yearly
gala. I was not aware that Devereux had started to change to now their focus on children
with heavy autism. I wanted to reach out to anybody who was more interested in that
program, take the time to learn a little bit more about it. Thank you.
John Bowen – Thank you. The one thing I’d like to point out about the cat thing is we do
not have community cats. If there are cats in your neighborhood that are running around,
they are considered feral cats, whether you’re feeding them or not. So, when those cats are
picked up, and spayed, neutered, and released, they are considered feral cats. They can’t
go tracking down people who may be feeding them to provide proper care. That was the
whole purpose of this, so that we didn’t have these cats, which some people refer to as
community cats, which is against the ordinances of the City, to have them breeding and
multiplying. This whole thing about picking up friendly cats and not returning them, it’s not
about the friendly cats. If the cat’s running the streets, it’s considered a feral cat. It’s
against ordinance to allow your cats or animals to run the streets. Thank you.
Justin Hicks – I’ll speak to something a little bit different. I want to take a change of
course and actually point out something that I would consider measurable to maybe
possibly a staff and an engineering department success. In case if nobody’s been around
lately, we’ve obviously had some serious drought conditions and heat, with the ground
being as dry as it was, and obviously with the heavy storm that we had the other day could
have been a recipe for disaster, but if everybody takes notice, there were no reports of any
