ANIMAL SHELTER MODIFIES PROPOSAL.Byline: Helen Gao Staff Writer GLENDALE - In a last-ditch plan to salvage its position as the city's animal control authority, the embattled em·bat·tled adj. 1. Prepared or fortified for battle or engaged in battle: embattled troops; an embattled city. 2. Glendale Humane Society A humane society is a group that aims to stop animal suffering due to cruelty or other reasons. Examples Examples of humane societies include: The Humane Society of the United States, Peninsula Humane Society, American Humane which was founded in 1877 as a network of offered on Friday to make significant capital improvements and phase out its current board of directors in exchange for a long-term contract with the city. Because of concerns about operations at the West Ivy Street shelter, city officials have withheld the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. group's $45,000-a-month stipend sti·pend n. A fixed and regular payment, such as a salary for services rendered or an allowance. [Middle English stipendie, from Old French, from Latin st since August, although it has continued to provide animal control services. The offer detailed in a two-page proposal comes in the aftermath of a recent audit that listed five dozen problems at the organization, including conflicts of interest, improper record keeping and substandard substandard, adj below an acceptable level of performance. animal care practices. The proposal seeks ``a reasoned and rational approach'' to solving problems and getting a new contract signed. ``It is our sincere hope that the city will enter into discussions with us as soon as possible to resolve this issue,'' the proposal said. If a contract is not signed in the next few months, interim shelter Executive Director Nicholas Gilman Nicholas Gilman, Jr. (August 3, 1755–May 2, 1814) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the U.S. Constitution, representing New Hampshire. has said, the agency cannot survive much longer or afford to make all the changes recommended by the audit. City officials did not respond formally to the proposal. If the two sides do end up at the negotiating table, Gilman said, the shelter will seek more funding than in the past. He noted that the shelter spent $90,000 of its savings last year to subsidize sub·si·dize tr.v. sub·si·dized, sub·si·diz·ing, sub·si·diz·es 1. To assist or support with a subsidy. 2. To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy. its operations for the city. ``We can be faulted for not asking enough money in the past,'' he said. ``It's possible the reason the audit showed us being deficient is because we weren't asking for enough money.'' The proposal calls for the shelter to renovate areas designed for dogs, cats and rabbits; add an infirmary infirmary /in·fir·ma·ry/ (-ah-re) a hospital or place where the sick or infirm are maintained or treated. in·fir·ma·ry n. ; update the front lobby; and convert a storage garage into a state-of-the-art cat-adoption area. In addition, the proposal lays out a time line to phase out the society's nine-member board. Three members would be replaced in the near future, three more by 2002 and the remaining three by 2003. ``It would be dangerous for any organization that is a nonprofit to make a 100 percent change immediately,'' said Gilman, who noted that it takes time to recruit and approve new board members. In the weeks since the release of the audit, Councilmen Frank Quintero and Bob Yousefian have been adamant that the shelter board be replaced. Mayor Gus Gomez said he hadn't seen the proposal, but favored putting the animal control contract out to bid. |
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