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All members and Matt begin discussing the St. Patty's motorcycle ride and planning who they should contact for routes and permits, ideas for shirts, food, etc. Will need to get people registered, contacts bars, onsite registration, online. Becky: Have you heard anymore of adoption at Pet Supplies Plus? Matt: No but it's just a matter of asking them what weekend. All the members discuss with Matt about prior adoptions. Suggestions moving forward would be to have at least 1 adoption per month. In the summertime they could be outside of Pet Supplies Plus. Incorporate other rescues /shelters. Focus on adoption events and Motorcycle ride. Ernest: Do you have any short comings in the ordinance that you're having problems with at this point? Matt: We have stumbled across a few actually, Todd is making a comprehensive list or things. The breeding permits are a little bumping, minor things about adoption ages of puppies. We are figuring these things out as we are enforcing different things. Emily asks for a potential list of all the issues that have been found in the ordinance so far so she can go over them with City Council Attorney. Becky: In the past we never looked at the ordinance as a living breathing thing to see where the glitches were. So once we can get these things we can amend the ordinance. Matt: We are keeping a tally, and now that we have a lawyer again it's nice to be able to lean on her a little bit. Becky: Do you guys have the ability to do database stuff on your computers Matt: Yeah fancy excel, we are working on putting together a call log, to track daily basic complaints. Todd is working on a lot of this data. Betsy Culp: I do have the INDIANA code, it was 8 weeks to sell, 15- 17 -18 -10 Members discuss animal advocacy and breeders selling puppies at 4 weeks. There is a summer full of outreach events. Matt: On October 4T" we are having a big event for 360, at the FOP. That will be a brew fest, "PAW - TOBER-FEST". Becky suggests working on a calendar of events for the commission and the public. Becky: Maybe start keeping that on your Facebook page, the events. See about incorporating some of the other rescues for events and on social media. Matt: Good idea, we have a lot of things coming up. Sort of like a central calendar for all the welfare rescue things in the community. That will bring a lot of traffic to us. Commission members recapping duties for moving forward planning the motorcycle ride. Need to get a date, contact police, routes /permits /date. Ernest: any motions to get back together again next meeting? 3 yes. Meeting closed