2006-2007 Annual Report - Santa Rosa County

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Public Services DepartmentThe Santa Rosa County Public Services Department consists of five divisions:inspections and compliance, community planning, zoning, and development;emergency management, animal services, and veteran services. Although our dutiesare very diverse, a central theme for us is customer service. The slogan we adoptedfor the 2007 calendar year was “ Making a Difference … One Customer At a Time.”We believe it is important to show the customer we are serving, that our desireis to assist them to the best of our ability. We believe by teaching and requiringteamwork, our employees develop a vision to assist the customer beyond the wallsof the particular division to which they are assigned. Our hope is to do our part tohelp Santa Rosa County continue to be one of the most desirable communities in thecountry to live, work, and play.Animal ServicesTony GomillionPublic Services Director6051 Old Bagdad Hwy.Suite 202Milton, FL 32583(850) 981-7031 Office(850) 623-1208 Faxtonyg@santarosa.fl.govAnimal services operates the county’s animal shelter and receives animals from variousorigins including owners surrendering their pets, stray animals that are wanderingthe streets, nuisance animals causing destruction of property, aggressive animalsendangering the public, and injured animals that need medical care. Additionally, anadoption center is located at the shelter. The animals found available for adoption arescreened for heartworms, given vaccinations, de-wormed, temperament tested, and arein good health before they are placed in adoption. Over 8,000 animals pass throughthe shelter each year. The office of animal services is open to the public Mondaythru Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Animalservices also has an on-call officer who responds to calls dispatched by emergencycommunications, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6:30 a.m.The staff ofanimal servicesare available24 hours aday, sevendays a week toresidents.Citizen Services at a Glance• Humane traps are available for public use and are distributed on Mondays andTuesdays and can be kept thru Friday at no cost. These traps can capture feral cats,domestic cats, dogs, opossums, raccoons, rabbits and armadillos.• Discount spay and neuter program for income-eligible residents. As part of a onetimegrant of $18,000 from “Florida Animal Friend, Inc.” license plate programgrant, approved applicants who already own their pet pay only $20 for dogs and $15for cats to have their pets spayed or neutered at a participating veterinarian.12
• Bite investigations• Complaints• Cruelty/neglect investigations• Adoptions• Dangerous and vicious classifications of animals who meet criteria.• Night boxes are available to the citizens after business hours from 4:40 p.m.to 8 a.m. This service provides residents a place to leave animals that maybe strays or owned pets.• Requested euthanasia of owned pets for a donation of $15.Fiscal Year 2006/2007 Highlights• Animal Control Officer responses- 8,692• Animals in Shelter- 8,651• Animals adopted- 770, animals transferred to rescues- 163• December 2006 Adopt-a-thon 53 animals adopted• External Adopt-a-thon St. Francis Veterinary Center in Navarre, The ArkAnimal Hospital in Pace, and Whiting Field Commissary, adopting anadditional 40 animals.• Mediacom produced and aired an animal services documentary titled “A LookInside Animal Services” and aired the documentary on channel 27 Gulf CoastNetwork.• Formed a partnership with Mediacom to begin featuring videos of adoptable pets,available as part of their “on demand” service and to produce videos featured onthe animal services web page, and the “Be a Mediacom Pet Champion” program.Dominic PersichiniDirector, Animal Services4451 Pine Forest RoadMilton, FL 32583(850) 983-4680 Office(850) 983-4686 Faxdominicp@santarosa.fl.govAbove left: A new family member is added at the St. Francis VeterinaryClinic Adopt-a-thon.Above: The annual December adopt-a-thon always draws a crowd.Left: Teddy is just one of the successful animal services adoptees.13
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