GMAC Minutes 12.17.24 Final draft

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they follow the rules that they agreed to—so that we need to abide by the practices, and this would protect them hopefully from being cited. But we also, and there's an enforcement component to that, right, we need to be enforcing those rules, making sure that the feeders out there— have registered, taken that training. Knowing that we're gonna be tracking the populations over time so that we understand—we'll have registered colony managers who work on specific locations and within that quarter that I showed you it's probably we're looking at five feeding stations and five like designated groupings of cats, so be tracking them —a colony manager would be responsible for notifying if a new cat enters into the colony—if that cat is not spayed or neutered after this kind of mass trapping program that we're gonna do we would have a cat help desk that those individuals could call into and receive help and further facilitate the spay and neuter. Now, we are working—this is a lot, skip that slide—we are working on proto- types for a Nene proof feeder for the cats. Right now we're working with—on a location with the Naniloa and we probably need four other locations within this corridor to test a —what we're testing right now is essentially like a chicken coop that comes up off the ground a little bit—the—so that the cats could eat in there but it's low enough to the ground that Nenes would not be able to enter underneath it, so we're testing that, reporting back— I've also got a high school team who's willing to take a look at it to see if there are more cost efficient or better designs that we could utilize in this cause we'll probably need a variety of shapes and sizes of these types of structures, and so what we want to do in this corridor is execute intensive trapping, sterilization, vet and return to colony initiative. So, this mass trapping event would focus on the areas that we indicated, and around the feeding stations there's probably maybe a four week period before that where we'd want to begin feeding those cats on a schedule and migrating them toward the designated feeding stations and out of some of the areas where we don't want them today. And then, that would probably take about 4 weeks. We would do a mass— probably three to four day trapping event, where we would trap the cats— we have a county location that they're gonna allow us to work in to do the mass spay neuter—we bring 'em back—and volunteers do that—you hold them for a couple days to recover and then you re-release them in the designated feeding stations—they would receive sterilization, vaccines and any vet needed, and we would have a testing protocol for any cats that were suspicious for any sorts of problems because we want to make sure we maintain a healthy population in the best way that we can. And then, beyond the communication plan B where they, biggest key, the ongoing management strategy— this is not a one and done—we need to establish and ongoing cat help desk to address community inquiries and provide resources to individuals and businesses. We need to register and train these feeders ongoing so that they're implementing the best practices —they're agreeing to those and that they maintain the designated feeding stations and probably maintenance needed on those overtime because of the kind of environment that we operate in here. We'll be monitoring quality and health in the population trends to assess the effectiveness of management efforts. I'm gonna meet with Jordan when he's back next week from Nene.org— he's extremely bright— has already had some methods for doing this and so we want to see how we can come together with those and combine our resources to create effective tracking. And then we really need 14