Sentences with phrase «shelter operators»

Many litters are from cats with no owners, or at least the mother cats don't have collars or tags, shelter operators said.

«We intend to support a wide range of causes, from large charities and organizations to a single animal shelter operator who needs help,» said The Company of Animals» CEO and founder Dr. Roger Mugford.

Quinn has since worked for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, then for homeless shelter operator Women in Need.

The Animal Shelter Licensing Act provides minimum standards of care based on United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) standards and gives the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry the right to deny a license or to revoke a license of any animal shelter operator who fails to meet the standards of animal care set forth in the guidelines or if the person is convicted of a crime involving animal cruelty.

Giske is a longtime confidante of ex-Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who runs homeless - shelter operator Women in Need — one of Bolton — St. Johns» highest paying city clients.

For shelter operators who worked around the clock for days to tend to stranded and injured pets, the task now is to place the 17 dogs and cats remaining from Orange, Osceola and Seminole, the hardest - hit counties.

Ms. Quinn and WIN were among several subsidized shelter operators joining Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steven Banks and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Dr. Herminia Palacio to announce the repair of 12,000 code violations across the sprawling system since December.

Shelter operators maintain that supportive housing, which would be built with the MOU money, is the best option to aid the homeless.

The new measure in the budget amendments, if enacted in Cuomo's final budget, will grant the state's Office of Temporary Disability and Assistance the power to remove shelter operators and appoint new ones, a Cuomo administration spokesman confirmed.

Shelter clients and community leaders will hold a press conference denouncing the new policies and calling on shelter operator, Hudson River Housing, to suspend the policies while alternatives are found.

But Liu's office told West Side Rag he would not back down on his refusal to authorize the $ 67.6 million contract with shelter operator Aguila, inc. «The Comptroller's office has every intention to continue to use its powers under the City Charter to safeguard taxpayer spending on outside contracts.»

According to the New York Times, the lawsuit Mayor Michael Bloomberg filed last week against John Liu, over Liu's rejection of a city contract with a homeless shelter operator headed by former DHS commissioner Robert Hess, is only the second time his office has sued a city or state comptroller.

Sonoma County shelter operators have faced criticism in the past for taking in animals from outside the area.

And, in fact, some veterinarians, breeders, and shelter operators consider the surgical procedure called «descenting» a form of ferret mutilation.

Shelter operators hoped the ban will shut down an outlet for sales by puppy mills and backyard breeders.

Suffolk officials delivered a termination notice to a homeless shelter operator, the Long Island Women's Empowerment Network in Brentwood, saying its pending audit shows the nonprofit group intentionally overbilled the county by $ 3 million.

Under the act, an «Animal shelter operator» means any individual, entity, association, trust, or corporation that operates a nongovernmental facility that maintains ten or more dogs and cats for the purpose of impounding or harboring seized, stray, homeless, abandoned or unwanted dogs or cats, but not including any facility that does not house or harbor dogs or cats on the premises and only operates through a system of fostering in private homes.

The expansion will also focus on enhancing outreach efforts to families in shelters and shelter operators to encourage families to utilize this additional resource.

The initiative does not affect individuals who raise hunting dogs, livestock facilities, or animal rescue and shelter operators that are not involved in commercial sale of puppies.

Yet another part of the solution is prioritizing on the part of the rescue or shelter operators.

Even the city's first attempt at privatization was met with challenges, including allegations of cruelty and neglect against the shelter operator.

In addition, Hamalot, Inc. provides an education and outreach program designed to reduce the number of pigs needing rescue by educating the public, shelter operators, and even lawmakers on the unique needs of pigs.

The same privacy laws apply in a shelter, SRO, or other apartment building, but the shelter operator or landlord may decide to cooperate with the police and let them in without a warrant.