Long Beach\u2019s proposed 2019 city budget has a treat for shelter pets rolled up among its recommendations: an adoption-coordinator position and an animal-adoption pilot program.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven as general euthanasia has gone down and adoptions have gone up, we\u2019ve been adding new positions at Animal Care Services (ACS)\u2014the marketing area and others,\u201d said Mayor Robert Garcia at a July 31 press conference. \u201cThis is an additional position that will be specific to animal adoptions. And of course, that will be inclusive of fostering and other details.\u201d<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LongBeachAnimalCare\/videos\/1984609691559670\/?t=0<\/p>\n
Pets like Cinco are benefitting from ACS\u2019s recently hired community information specialist\u2019s videos. Video courtesy of ACS.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Long Beach Animal Care Services manager Ted Stevens said that his department will be fleshing out the details of what the program is going to look like should it be approved in the budget.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll be looking at whatever it takes to promote a positive outcome for animals,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cRescues, volunteers, hiring an additional coordinator\u2014all these things work together for adoptions. We\u2019re already working on a foster program, and this budget item will help.<\/p>\n City manager Pat West stated that $500,000 is not yet allocated in budget, so Long Beach residents are encouraged to attend community budget meetings in each district, which have been tentatively scheduled for August, and voice their priorities. Budget oversight committees are also planned for August and September, and the public is invited to attend those as well. The entire proposed budget can be seen here<\/a>,\u00a0 and graphic representations are available on the city\u2019s data aggregate, OpenLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long Beach\u2019s proposed 2018 city budget has a treat for shelter pets rolled up among its recommendations: an adoption-coordinator position and an animal-adoption pilot program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[68],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","tag-the-scratching-post","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}