Animal Control Association Employee of Year

34:37is um I did see Florida Animal Control. Oh so the Animal Control Association Employee of the Year. I saw them. They're hiding though.

34:47Mike, shoe me.

34:50There they are.

34:51Colonel Sanders himself.

34:55All right, I will go ahead and read it as you make your way to the podium.

35:00Resolution number 22-103, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida recognizing Dr. Christine Glenn. For receiving the twenty twenty two Animal Control Association, Employee of the Year Award, and Spencer Conover for receiving the 2022 Florida Animal Control Association Supervisor of the Year Award. Whereas the Florida Animal Control Association represents 72 agencies and over 1,400 animal control officers and animal welfare professionals statewide.

35:31Each year, they recognize outstanding individuals in animal control and animal services. These individuals have distinguished themselves as leaders and shown outstanding achievement within their organizations and communities. And whereas this year, the Florida Animal Control Association has selected Spencer. Conover, Pasco County Animal Services Assistant Director as their 2022 Supervisor of the Year Award recipient, and Dr. Christine Glenn, Pasco County Animal Services Shelter Veterinarian, as their 2022 Employee of the

36:01Year Award recipient. Each of these individuals has shown outstanding achievement and a strong commitment to excellence to the citizens and pets of Pasco. County. And whereas Spencer Conover's engagement with animal welfare leaders across the country has helped to place Pasco County Animal Services at the forefront of the Humane Animal Support Service Coalition as a Tier 1 shelter. This has resulted in new programming to better meet the needs of our community and help PCAS

36:31obtain over $100,000 in animal. And human. Um Humane Animal Support Services Grants. And RAS Spencer has also been called upon to assist other municipal shelters in Florida to help them develop and improve their customer and animal welfare programs. These includes Marion Polk, Hillsboro, Alachua, and Citrus Counties. And RAS, Dr. Glenn has excelled as the shelter veterinarian in Pasco County Animal Services by exemplifying innovation

37:01and process improvement, leading her team to accomplishing over 6,000 surgeries and 150,000 medical treatments in 2021 while hosting two public low-cost vaccine clinics each week. She has also she was also named as Star Performer of the Year for Pasco County in 2021. And REST, Dr. Glenn assisted Hernando County with a cruelty case involving over 140 dogs. While on scene for over six hours, she performed medical exams and conducted

37:31forensic investigation with the Hernando County Sheriff's Office. Dr. Glenn then worked with the Florida The state attorney's office for several months to successfully prosecute the case. And res, Dr. Glenn provided humane uh euthanasia. Technical certification training for several Florida Animal Control Association agency members, monitoring veterinarians and veterinary students for the University of Florida Shelter Medicine Program, and provided training for students in local high school veterinary technical programs in Pasco and Hudson

38:02High Schools, as well as Uh uh as well as St. Pete College and Hillsborough Community College. Now therefore be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby recognizes the hard work of Dr. Christine Glenn and Spencer Conover and celebrates their success in Pasco County Administrator. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this fifth day of April 2022.

38:24Move for approval. Second.

38:25All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Thank you very much. Another honor for our our department.

38:38Commissioner

38:38Oakley. Oh

38:39thank you, Madam Chairman M before I say anything, Mike, would you like to come up and Praise your people a

38:45little bit. I think all that pretty much says it. Uh they they've done outstanding work. These are two shining stars and they represent Pasco very well and uh they're very hard working. Uh we couldn't do what we do out there at Animal Services without these two. They're sort of the backbone of what we do. We couldn't do what we do especially without our medical team and we've got an outstanding medical team and again I gotta say the board's been gracious to us and the county administrator for funding us uh to get an extra of that out there and get additional

39:16vet tech so that we can do vaccine clinics for the public and we can do other uh services. Um that we need to do for the public. So great people, love them to death. And by the way, did I tell you that Dr. Glenn had a baby during all that time? And little Olivia is sitting over here as quiet as convenient. That's great. So

39:34congratulations. Well, Dr. Glenn and and and Spencer, congratulations both of you. We're very appreciative of everything you do. And if you guys keep winning awards, your your wall is gonna be full in your offices. Did you have would you like would you like to say anything? You don't have to, but you're more than welcome to.

39:49Oh yeah. Please address us.

39:51Just real quick, um we're very, very lucky, like Mike said, to have all your support. Um Nikki mentioned uh the organizations that we assisted Marion County, Polk County, Hillsboro County, they don't have a lot of the support from their commissioners like we do. And we're really, really blessed. Um between your support to hand Kathy all the way down to Mike, um this county is well on its way. to a premier status and this team shows up every day proud to set that bar. Thank you.

40:16Thank

40:16you very much. Thank you.

40:17All right, shall we go?

40:20I and I just want to piggyback and I just want to thank you all again for your support and Kathy, Mike, the board, everyone. You guys are awesome and and y we couldn't do what we do without you. Thank you.

40:29Right. Thank you all. We'll we'll come down.

40:31Yep, let's do it.

40:45I just made I just made a decision we're putting your baby in the photo if you want to overrule

40:49it going out.

41:01Okay. Okay. Will you have a better angle this way, Ron?

41:06Did you have the scale of the series?

41:12Oh train here, first, right one first. Right here, one, two, three.

41:21Thank you. Perfect. All right. Okay.

41:24Everybody can just

41:27Okay. Well yeah, if you're eating like side views and like Yeah, but uh put it to both projects, please. Yeah.

41:38You're good.

41:42Over acid.

42:07Up here in my chair. Oh yeah.

42:14Because I just asked my staff that I don't have a copy of these. So I tell them next time print them out, I'm like, wow, they put them on my desktop.