THE Silverdale Rotary Veterinary Prevention clinic

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THE Silverdale RotaryVeterinary Prevention
clinic Food Bank for families in need

• A Proposal for Improving Our Community

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Introduction

• Why are we here today?
• Goal
• Low Income Veterinary Services (LIVeS) program
• Service a gap in disease control, community
  protection, and veterinary care not provided by
  private veterinary practitioners
• Provide basic vaccines, surgeries, food and
  medications for those under the poverty line

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Introduction

• Why are we here today?
• Families below poverty level with no alternative
• Easily prevented diseases/abuse that threaten the
  family unit
• Suffering of owned and homeless animals in
  medical need of treatable conditions
• Families and elderly report often having to
  choose between buying food for themselves or
  their pet.
• Amazingly, often choose to support their pet
• Enormous tax burdens for a solvable issue, and
  the public blight caused

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LIVeS?
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Why Spay/Neuter?
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Why Spay/Neuter?
Spay and Neuter Works! Kitsap County
people-population has remained stable over the
past 5 years, but pets entering our shelter have
declined by 29!
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Food Bank?
Winter 2009-10 No Starving Horses No Starved
Animals No choosing in family budget
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Track Record

• Rebrand and Culture Change
• Canine Behavior Study and Training Center
• New Cattery, Free Roam, New Annex
• Animal Rescue/Disaster Response Program
• Project Humane 2011 (TBA)
• Aughnay/Bremerton Pepsi Trust
• Boand Foundation Shelter Medicine Grant
• Community Development Block Grant
• 2 Veterinarians, 4 Nurses, 1 Care Technician
• 1 Cruelty Investigator
• Full equipment suite

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Proposal

• The Silverdale Rotary Veterinary Prevention
  Clinic Food Bank for families in need
• 2 new surgery rooms, 3 added surgery tables
• First laboratory, quarantine, and IV fluid
  treatment areas
• First exam room for foster families
• First dental surgery station, microchip/vaccine
  clinics
• First public space for compassionate care
• First Xray Unit
• First food/supply storage and distribution units

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Silverdale Rotary Clinic
Exam Rooms
Quarantine Treatments
New Rotary Clinic 1
Lab
Observation Treatments
Clinic 2
New Feline Free Roam
Sterilization
New Indoor/Outdoor Cattery
Outdoor Rehabilitation and Training Center
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5 Year Plan

• Expenses
• Salary Expense 215K
• Equipment and Ops 200K
• Construction 181K
• Supporting Funds
• Rotary Request 90K over 5 years
• KHS Funds 506K
• (169K to be raised over 3 years)

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Public Awareness

• Parking Lot Entrance and Signage
• Ribbon Cutting with State Representative (TBD)
• Extensive Social Media Network (3600 friends)
• Volunteer Network (700 supporters)
• Rotary Road Signage on Dickey Rd
• Silverdale Rotary Road Signs in Silverdale (3)
• Chamber/newsgroup communications

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Plan

• Direct Treatment
• Improve direct treatment and care of those
  currently suffering in community and KHS
• Prevention
• End the cycle of suffering by preventing its
  creation
• Use education and surgical prevention
• Provide Food, needed surgery
• Sustainability
• The wisest use of funds is achieving permanent
  change, not one time projects
• Change animal and human welfare in Kitsap County

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Direct Treatment

• Improve direct treatment and care of those
  currently suffering in community and KHS
• Converting 50 of current facility into the first
  Kitsap shelter medicine clinic
• Doubling recovery and quarantine space
• Providing surgical and sanitation tools to
  operate
• Updating medicines, treatments, and community
  education areas

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Prevention

• End the cycle of suffering by preventing its
  creation
• Use education and surgical prevention
• Education
• Existing Vet
• Education Plan for Cruelty Investigator and
  Vet/Tech
• Education Program Tracking Plan
• Service Learning Mandate
• Outreach
• Pet Partners with Delta Society
• Surgical Prevention
• Existing Vet with Excellent Record

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Prevention

• End the cycle of suffering by preventing its
  creation
• Food Bank
• Hay Program for starving horses
• Donations to human food banks
• Vaccines
• For low income families with no alternatives
• Parasite Prevention
• For low income
• Microchip clinics and Affordable Pet Insurance
• Because income should not be a barrier to the
  family unit

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Recap
Since May 2009 Worst Recession in
History 150,000 lost in municipal
contracts KHS rebuilt, added programs, added
therapists Raised 400K above budget, saved
300K by being more efficient
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What are the litmus tests?
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress
can be judged by the way its animals are
treated. Mahatma Gandhi
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How do we decide?
Is it the TRUTH? Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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THE Silverdale RotaryVeterinary Prevention
clinic Food Bank for families in need

• A Proposal for Ending Overpopulation and Suffering