CC 2016-02-23_06b Proclamation Spay DayOF
WHEREAS, pets provide companionship to 65% of households in the United States; and
WHEREAS, nearly 2.4 million healthy and adoptable cats and dogs are put down in animal
shelters each year due to a lack of critical resources and public awareness; and
WHEREAS, spaying and neutering has been shown to dramatically reduce the
overpopulation of pets; and
WHEREAS, programs exist to assist with the cost of spaying or neutering pets and
community cats; and
WHEREAS, veterinarians, national and local animal protection organizations, and private
citizens worked together to ensure the spaying or neutering of pets and community cats
throughout the world in 2015; and
WHEREAS, veterinarians, national and local animal protection organizations, and private
citizens have joined together again to advocate the spaying or neutering of pets and
community cats on "World Spay Day 2016".
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that I, Jim Hill, Mayor of the
City of Arroyo Grande, on behalf of the City Council, do hereby
proclaim February 23, 2016 as "World Spay Day" and encourage the
citizens of Arroyo Grande to have their own pets spayed or neutered ~-', ,:
or to sponsor the spaying or neutering of a pet in need. .£2':::-c
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
Seal of the City of Arroyo Grande to be affixed this 23rd day of
February 2016.
JIM HILL, MAYOR
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