Houston's BARC

Houston's Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC aka Houston's animal control) kills approximately 30,000 animals every single year.  Many Houstonians are not aware that BARC exists and they certainly are not aware of the inhumane treatment that has been going on there for years.  We MUST make them aware so that they will speak up with us in our efforts to bring positive changes to BARC.  Thousands of people speaking up for the animals can make a big impact.

 

Please help us with this effort!  We need EVERY Houstonian to speak up with us.  If we don't, BARC will continue killing 30,000 animals every year for decades to come.

 

Learn more about BARC by clicking on any of the links below or on the right.

 

 

HOUSTON'S HALL OF SHAME - Click here for list of newspaper articles and lawsuit

 

REPORTS

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BARC Budget & Houston Population compared to other cities
BARC's budget compared to other Texas cities. Also a comparison of the population of Houston and other Texas cities. Prepared by Margaret Gondo
BARCBudgetComparison.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [1.2 MB]
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Nathan Winograd's Assessment Report - Sept 2009
Nathan Winograd's assessment of BARC
WinogradAssessment-Sept2009.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [32.0 MB]
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MCV Report July 2009
MCV Consultants report July 2009
MCVReport07-2009.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [550.5 KB]
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2005 Mayor's Task Force Report 11-22-2005
MayorsTaskForceReport-BARC-11-22-2005.pd[...]
Adobe Acrobat document [332.5 KB]
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Gerry Fusco Contract Part 1
FuscoContractPt1.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [133.7 KB]
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Gerry Fusco Contract Part 2-Scope of Services/Goals/Timeline
FuscoContractPt2.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [333.7 KB]
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Gerry Fusco Contract Part 3
FuscoContractPt3.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [1.6 MB]
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Gerry Fusco Harris County Police Report
Fusco-HarrisCoPoliceReport.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [2.3 MB]

Gerry Fusco's Short term Goals

Email dated 09/18/09:

 

Team,

We at BARC took the 196-page report issued by Nathan and isolated some facility-related issues that I thought could be addressed fairly quickly. Many were already in progress so it is validating to see we were seeing some of the same things.

Please recognize these are just some of the facilities-related items he mentioned and understand that other operational things are already being addressed as many of you know. Anyway, just wanted to communicate with you on some fast actions we are taking and hope you recognize we will continue to drive to improved treatment of our friends. Feel free to circulate this. I only sent this to the e-mail addresses I had memorized!

 

Gerry

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Gerry Fusco's short term plans for BARC 09-18-2009
FuscoShortTermPlans-09-18-2009.xls
Microsoft Excel sheet [33.0 KB]

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