More on Los Angeles Ed Boks Saga
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ADL-LA NOTE: The LA Animal Services Employees declared No Confidence in Ed Boks and Linda Barth, now the City Council is asking Boks resign. Interestingly enough the LAAS Commission who is supposed to be the "overseers" of the shelter system AND Boks himself, don't have the backbone nor the courage, nor the simple morality to declare a "No Confidence" vote" in Ed Boks. Do you know why? Because Mayor Villaraigosa hand picked two mouth pieces to be on the LAAS commission which is a complete conflict of interest. Villaraigosa fired at least TWO past commissioners who spoke openly and honestly about the corruption at LAAS and demanded change; the ones Villaraigosa kept on the commission are so inept and weak, that they would never challenge his authority. So the result is that the animals have only YOU to count on. The Commission is a NON-ENTITY for the animals imprisoned and killed inside LAAS.
SHAME ON THE LAAS COMMISSIONERS: TODAYS WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!
The Commissioners:President - VACANT
Kathleen Riordan, Vice-President
Archie J. Quincey Jr.
Irene Ponce
Tariq Khero and Ruthanne Secunda
L.A. animal services reinstates free sterilization services
Department head Ed Boks reverses his decision to suspend the program for low-income pet owners, a move that prompts more criticism of his management.
By Carla Hall
March 26, 2009
The Los Angeles Department of Animal Services has reinstated its program to give low-income residents vouchers for free spaying and neutering of their pets, the department's general manager, Ed Boks, announced Wednesday.
But Boks' reversal of his decision to suspend the program two weeks ago, which prompted an outcry from animal welfare advocates and members of the Los Angeles City Council, did not placate one council member who is suggesting he resign.
"I think it's time for Mr. Boks to find another place to work," Councilman Dennis Zine said. "It's been a continuing saga of him and his mismanagement."
Zine said Boks' recent actions were part of a list of decisions over the last few years that the councilman believed were ill-conceived.
Boks, who can be fired only by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, said e-mails from the public and from animal welfare advocates praised his reversal. He added, "I stand ready and willing to meet with Dennis Zine any time, any place to help move the department forward. This has been an open invitation for well over a year."
Boks said he cut off vouchers for free sterilizations only as a last resort to cope with his department's budget shortfall. On Monday, council members excoriated him for not seeking the advice of the council or the advisory bodies to Boks' department before suspending a program that helps low-income residents comply with the city's ordinance requiring residents to spay and neuter their pets.
"You don't make a rash decision that undermines our spay and neuter program," Zine said. "The program is designed to keep animals alive and not be killed. And many low-income families want to comply but don't have enough money."
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L.A. Animal Services reinstates spay and neuter voucher program
4:21 PM, March 25, 2009
L.A. Department of Animal Services General Manager Ed Boks' decision to cut the city's spay/neuter voucher program for low-income pet owners was met with almost uniform disapproval when it was announced earlier this month.
"No one regrets cutting these funds more than I do," Boks said of the move, which he explained was made only due to dire financial straits resulting from a budget shortfall. But vocal critics, including Councilmen Dennis Zine, Jack Weiss and Tony Cardenas, said Boks' explanation simply wasn't good enough. How, they asked, could a city that recently mandated sterilization of pet cats and dogs do away with the very program that made it possible for low-income owners to comply with the law?
Zine, Weiss and others aired their grievances against Boks in a Public Safety Committee meeting Monday. From LAist:
"You have a tendency not to work with anybody, and what you've done is alienate a whole bunch of people -- the folks that love animals, council members," fumed irate [Councilman Zine]. "What you've done is one blunder after another. This is another example of shortsightedness.''
Then Zine hit Boks about his blog. "I don't know of any general manager in the city of Los Angeles that has time to do a blog with all their responsibilities, yet you find time to do a blog."
Elizabeth Oreck, a member of the city's Spay/Neuter Advisory Committee, added her voice to the chorus denouncing Boks' decision, saying that firing staff would be a better money-saving option than cutting the vouchers. "I understand the need to make budget cuts, but eliminating this program is not going to reduce the deficit because the people who no longer have the resources to comply with the law are going to start relinquishing their animals in order to avoid the penalty of noncompliance, and that's going to create a greater burden on our already overcrowded shelters, which is just going to increase the budget deficit," Oreck said.
Today, only about two weeks after the decision was announced, the Department of Animal Services announced its reversal.
"After a review of the program with several City Council offices and the mayor's office, the department developed a plan to restore distribution in a manner we believe is fiscally prudent, sustainable and consistent with the most pressing community needs and the City Council's guidance when it approved the landmark Spay/Neuter Ordinance in February 2008," says a statement released by the Department. "As of today the Department is reinstating distribution of the $70 certificate for qualified low-income residents ... and to senior and disabled residents also meeting the Very Low Income Level."
Animal Services says it will implement "strengthened procedures" to verify that those applying for the vouchers meet the income requirement of less than $30,300 annual income per household.
Certificates can be obtained at any of the city's six shelters.
The blog that drew such objection from Councilman Zine contains no mention of the controversy and has only been updated once since the voucher debate began.
-- Lindsay Barnett
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Now is the time for everyone to call, e-mail and write the mayor's office and his deputies and tell them that Ed Boks and Linda Barth MUST GO, and the city must bring in No Kill Solutions to consult and revamp our city shelters into progressive, humane and compassionate facilities where life and not death prevails.
Robin Kramer
Robin Kramer's Office: 213-922-9739
Robin.Kramer@lacity.org
Dan Grunfeld
Dan Grunfeld's Office: 213-922-9750
Dan.Grunfeld@lacity.org
Jimmy Blackman
Direct Office Phone Number: 213 922-9748
Office Assistant's Number 213-922-9749 Jessica Oleta
Jimmy.Blackman@lacity.org
Antonio Villaraigosa
Home Address (which YOU are paying for:) 605 S. Irving Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90005
200 North Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fax at (213) 978-0655
mayor@lacity.org
More information about the slaughter of innocent animals going on inside LAAS under the command of Ed Boks are contained on the web sites www.StopTheKilling.net and www.LAKills.net
ADL-LA Disclaimer: Nothing contained in this publication is intended to encourage or incite illegal acts. Some of the information in the posts have been received anonymously and ADL-LA cannot make any guarantees for the accuracy of these reports. Any views or comments stated in this report are not necessarily the views of ADL-LA.
ADL-LA NOTE: The LA Animal Services Employees declared No Confidence in Ed Boks and Linda Barth, now the City Council is asking Boks resign. Interestingly enough the LAAS Commission who is supposed to be the "overseers" of the shelter system AND Boks himself, don't have the backbone nor the courage, nor the simple morality to declare a "No Confidence" vote" in Ed Boks. Do you know why? Because Mayor Villaraigosa hand picked two mouth pieces to be on the LAAS commission which is a complete conflict of interest. Villaraigosa fired at least TWO past commissioners who spoke openly and honestly about the corruption at LAAS and demanded change; the ones Villaraigosa kept on the commission are so inept and weak, that they would never challenge his authority. So the result is that the animals have only YOU to count on. The Commission is a NON-ENTITY for the animals imprisoned and killed inside LAAS.
SHAME ON THE LAAS COMMISSIONERS: TODAYS WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!
The Commissioners:President - VACANT
Kathleen Riordan, Vice-President
Archie J. Quincey Jr.
Irene Ponce
Tariq Khero and Ruthanne Secunda
L.A. animal services reinstates free sterilization services
Department head Ed Boks reverses his decision to suspend the program for low-income pet owners, a move that prompts more criticism of his management.
By Carla Hall
March 26, 2009
The Los Angeles Department of Animal Services has reinstated its program to give low-income residents vouchers for free spaying and neutering of their pets, the department's general manager, Ed Boks, announced Wednesday.
But Boks' reversal of his decision to suspend the program two weeks ago, which prompted an outcry from animal welfare advocates and members of the Los Angeles City Council, did not placate one council member who is suggesting he resign.
"I think it's time for Mr. Boks to find another place to work," Councilman Dennis Zine said. "It's been a continuing saga of him and his mismanagement."
Zine said Boks' recent actions were part of a list of decisions over the last few years that the councilman believed were ill-conceived.
Boks, who can be fired only by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, said e-mails from the public and from animal welfare advocates praised his reversal. He added, "I stand ready and willing to meet with Dennis Zine any time, any place to help move the department forward. This has been an open invitation for well over a year."
Boks said he cut off vouchers for free sterilizations only as a last resort to cope with his department's budget shortfall. On Monday, council members excoriated him for not seeking the advice of the council or the advisory bodies to Boks' department before suspending a program that helps low-income residents comply with the city's ordinance requiring residents to spay and neuter their pets.
"You don't make a rash decision that undermines our spay and neuter program," Zine said. "The program is designed to keep animals alive and not be killed. And many low-income families want to comply but don't have enough money."
*************************************************************
L.A. Animal Services reinstates spay and neuter voucher program
4:21 PM, March 25, 2009
L.A. Department of Animal Services General Manager Ed Boks' decision to cut the city's spay/neuter voucher program for low-income pet owners was met with almost uniform disapproval when it was announced earlier this month.
"No one regrets cutting these funds more than I do," Boks said of the move, which he explained was made only due to dire financial straits resulting from a budget shortfall. But vocal critics, including Councilmen Dennis Zine, Jack Weiss and Tony Cardenas, said Boks' explanation simply wasn't good enough. How, they asked, could a city that recently mandated sterilization of pet cats and dogs do away with the very program that made it possible for low-income owners to comply with the law?
Zine, Weiss and others aired their grievances against Boks in a Public Safety Committee meeting Monday. From LAist:
"You have a tendency not to work with anybody, and what you've done is alienate a whole bunch of people -- the folks that love animals, council members," fumed irate [Councilman Zine]. "What you've done is one blunder after another. This is another example of shortsightedness.''
Then Zine hit Boks about his blog. "I don't know of any general manager in the city of Los Angeles that has time to do a blog with all their responsibilities, yet you find time to do a blog."
Elizabeth Oreck, a member of the city's Spay/Neuter Advisory Committee, added her voice to the chorus denouncing Boks' decision, saying that firing staff would be a better money-saving option than cutting the vouchers. "I understand the need to make budget cuts, but eliminating this program is not going to reduce the deficit because the people who no longer have the resources to comply with the law are going to start relinquishing their animals in order to avoid the penalty of noncompliance, and that's going to create a greater burden on our already overcrowded shelters, which is just going to increase the budget deficit," Oreck said.
Today, only about two weeks after the decision was announced, the Department of Animal Services announced its reversal.
"After a review of the program with several City Council offices and the mayor's office, the department developed a plan to restore distribution in a manner we believe is fiscally prudent, sustainable and consistent with the most pressing community needs and the City Council's guidance when it approved the landmark Spay/Neuter Ordinance in February 2008," says a statement released by the Department. "As of today the Department is reinstating distribution of the $70 certificate for qualified low-income residents ... and to senior and disabled residents also meeting the Very Low Income Level."
Animal Services says it will implement "strengthened procedures" to verify that those applying for the vouchers meet the income requirement of less than $30,300 annual income per household.
Certificates can be obtained at any of the city's six shelters.
The blog that drew such objection from Councilman Zine contains no mention of the controversy and has only been updated once since the voucher debate began.
-- Lindsay Barnett
*******************************************************
Now is the time for everyone to call, e-mail and write the mayor's office and his deputies and tell them that Ed Boks and Linda Barth MUST GO, and the city must bring in No Kill Solutions to consult and revamp our city shelters into progressive, humane and compassionate facilities where life and not death prevails.
Robin Kramer
Robin Kramer's Office: 213-922-9739
Robin.Kramer@lacity.org
Dan Grunfeld
Dan Grunfeld's Office: 213-922-9750
Dan.Grunfeld@lacity.org
Jimmy Blackman
Direct Office Phone Number: 213 922-9748
Office Assistant's Number 213-922-9749 Jessica Oleta
Jimmy.Blackman@lacity.org
Antonio Villaraigosa
Home Address (which YOU are paying for:) 605 S. Irving Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90005
200 North Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fax at (213) 978-0655
mayor@lacity.org
More information about the slaughter of innocent animals going on inside LAAS under the command of Ed Boks are contained on the web sites www.StopTheKilling.net and www.LAKills.net
ADL-LA Disclaimer: Nothing contained in this publication is intended to encourage or incite illegal acts. Some of the information in the posts have been received anonymously and ADL-LA cannot make any guarantees for the accuracy of these reports. Any views or comments stated in this report are not necessarily the views of ADL-LA.
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