. >> all right, my name is brandy and i am the director of advocacy for the sfpca and i thought that it would be useful to use the information so that we can make sure that we are all on the same page and the san francisco spca has a pact with acc and pursuant to which we take any healthy dog or cat that acc offers to us and we also regularly go above and beyond the terms of the pack by taking every adoptable dog or cat with a treatable medical condition as well as those with behavior problems that we can address. the number one destination for dogs and cats, entering acc is the san francisco spca. at the same time, thanks to the prevention programs the number of dogs and cats that are entering acc have delined ten percent in the last ten years alone, these two shelter system is not opt mal for animals or for their guardians. and transferring the animals between the two shelters greatly increases the stress on the animals which could ex-sas bait the problems and increases the risk of sickness and decide, and confuses the guardians that are unsure of where to go, we found that in many

there was mentioned here on this note that the animal adoption pack between sfaca and sfpca is supposed to be working and it is not working well any more and in that is imports a majority of cats and dogs from outside of san francisco and declines the number that are adoptable from acc and this is well known in the animal community. they are offering to take on acc's adoption roles because they are not in nigh opinion not doing a very good job with that right now. just like i said, please consider to keep acc a city agency and please fund it. thank you. >> thanks, next speaker? >> hi, my name is jamie ray and i am the founder and the director, of san francisco wild life rehabilitation program. and i would like to just talk a little bit about our program and also about the animal care and control. and the care of wild life does require a department of fish and game license, there is no facility at, animal care and control to provide the care for injured and orphaned wild life, and that means, that we have nothing in the city where the marin county has wild care and the human society and