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The Office of the Inspector General of the City of Chicago is seeking feedback on its proposed 2024 audit and review of city agencies, including CACC. Please review the link and then provide FEEDBACK encouraging the OIG to more fully investigate CACC's policies .
https://igchicago.org/community-feedback-form/
Ignore the first prompt and skip to the one that says:
“Which Audit and Program Review projects from the Annual Plan do you think would have the most positive impact on the City? Which projects are most important to you as an individual?”
You can split up your answers and add different ones under the second prompt that reads:
“Is there something you would have liked to have seen that’s not here? For example, an issue that’s important to you?”
Here are some talking points for you to consider:
Talk about your concerns with CACC; ideas include:
•how many animals they’re killing man’s all without warning
•how they’re not prioritizing saving lives,
•how they treat volunteers, including the gag order they are under
•the way they’ve pulled back from working with area rescues,
•the way owner surrenders are killed and not given a chance to be adopted,
•the way the agency is misusing its funding by using most of it for salaries in the six digit numbers
•the way field officers are not answering calls from the community for hours and sometimes days, saying they only have one truck for the whole city
•the rude way in which the community is treated by the staff when potential adopters go to try to meet animals
•CACC has not had an audit since 2013. As a result, CACC has not complied with the standards of care needed to secure the humane and healthy treatment of animals under its care.
•An audit would hold the CACC staff accountable for their actions, with more transparency to the public, so that CACC may deliver its mission and vision, putting the animal interest first.
• Currently CACC kills one out of three dogs that go into the shelter and they confuse that number by categorizing the deaths. Where is our humanity if the shelter does not even attempt to actively save the lives of the homeless companion animals under city stewardship? Animal problems are people problems and if the city shelter is negligent, what kind of an example is it sending to the people of the community?
• Does CACC assure the humane care of animals through sheltering, pet placement, education and animal law enforcement?
***STATE WHY THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT TO YOU!
� UNDER THE PROMPT THAT SAYS: “Is there anything else you would like us to know?”
If you do not have a Chicago zip code, explain that you are a CACC networker, that you follow, share and pledge on CACC posts or that you have fostered or adopted (or facilitated fosters/ adoptions) at CACC.
� DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Dec 31, 2023. Please do it TODAY so you don’t forget!
LASTLY, an audit of CACC is not a given! The other proposal — Public Safety/CPD — is going to have WAY more replies than the Audit proposal. So we REALLY really need to be on this and SHARE WIDELY.
� WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED FILLING OUT and SUBMITTING, please write “Done and shared” in the comments. THANK YOU!!
Here's the feedback form.
https://igchicago.org/community-feedback-form/