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From Noah's Ark PACJuly 8, 2009
As you are aware by now, BARC fired its most recent bureau chief yesterday afternoon. This means that BARC is now on its way to having five directors in five years (seven if you count interim directors). In this time, the Department of Health's, Stephen Williams, has fanatically convened a host of distraction tactics in an effort to keep you quiet on the problems at BARC.
While animals languish at BARC without proper feeding and care, Williams has wasted your time with:
1. Mayor's Task Force on Animal Protection
2. Mayor's Working Group on Animal Protection
3. Committees of the Working Group on Animal Protection
4. Evaluation Committee with Deoniece Arnold
and more recently...
5."Stakeholder" Meetings with MCV Consulting (an organization paid $11,000 to do what
you paid Winograd to do while the City said they did not have the funding)
6. Incident Command Team (a fancy name for city government lackeys)
7. BARC Advisory Board
8. Chief's Council with Ray Sim
9. BARC Partnership Council
10. BARC Improvement Teams
And now, according to Lisa Falkenberg's blog, Williams will be bringing in a "change agent." This will undoubtedly result in more wasted time and more dead dogs and cats.
During Williams' tenure, he has approved, overseen, directed or allowed:
- A vet handling controlled substances without a license (violating state laws);
- The installation of known faulty air conditioners from old animal control trucks into new trucks resulting in the slow, painful heatstroke deaths of several animals;
- Puppies drown by being washed down the drains of BARC's uninhabitable facility, many, many times;
- Animals not being fed enough or not fed at all;
- The violation of the health department's own mission to protect the public with a drop in vaccination percentages to eight percent, also helping create a distemper outbreak that led to the deaths of many of your pets and rescues;
- The firing and slandering of Dr. Gil Costas, one of the most capable and respected veterinarians in Houston;
- Hiring of a vet with a history of state board violations resulting in license suspension;
- The decision to allow a convicted child sex predator to serve as the front door "greeter" at BARC;
- Development of a "cat ward" to warehouse cats in an room without air conditioning in Houston's summer heat;
- Locking down of the north kennel so that you can't easily see the conditions of MOST of the animals at BARC;
- Passed on the hiring of very competent and capable bureau chief candidates including Dr. Pat Ryan, now head of Montgomery County's animal control;
- Again violated the mission of the city's health department to protect the public by routinely adopting out unneutered/unspayed animals (most dog bite cases including fatal dog bites cases involve unaltered animals). Obviously, this process also helps increase the number of Houston's stray animals;
- BARC's inability to track the numbers of animals at the facility, numbers being adopted, numbers being killed.
- The trapping of animals left to bake in Houston's heat while they wait endlessly for animal control.
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In light of ALL of this, the Mayor's spokesperson said yesterday referring to Bill White, "I think he has a strong sense of confidence in Stephen Williams. Stephen Williams has done some remarkable things with the health department in the various responsibilities and duties the health department oversees and so he is relying on Stephen to carry this out."
The only thing remarkable about Stephen Williams is that Bill White has allowed him to perpetuate BARC's culture of cruelty for five entire years. Stephen Williams has failed to address the problems at BARC and it is time for him to go.
It's also time for everyone involved with BARC or with knowledge of abuses at BARC to speak up. By keeping quiet, you aid Stephen Williams in continuing the cycle of cruelty and neglect at BARC. It's time to bring the problems to light- all of the problems- so that we can pave the way to lasting change at BARC.
Please email Bill White, Houston's City Council and current candidates for mayor TODAY to ask that Stephen Williams be terminated. Please include the list above of Stephen Williams failures.
Let these politicians know how to get your vote!
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