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July 21, 2009
For BARC, A Change (Agent) Is Gonna Come
Photo by bf_photos BARC has inked a six-month contract with Houston consultant Gerry Fusco to address physical, financial and operational procedures at the troubled animal-control facility. Houston Health and Human Services spokeswoman Kathy Barton told Hair Balls that Fusco will be ... More >>
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July 27, 2009
BARC Puppy Literally Washed Down The Drain
A stray puppy at BARC was placed in the wrong cage and washed down the drain last Thursday night, Health and Human Services Spokeswoman Kathy Barton confirmed today. She would not give the name or position of the person who placed the puppy in the cage, but said the person has been susp ... More >>
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August 4, 2009
A Three-Hour Council Meeting On BARC Achieves...About What You'd Expect, Unfortunately
Photo by dunkvThe biggest surprise during yesterday's City Council Committee on Human Services and Technology meeting on BARC was not that it was three hours of meaningless bureaucratic babble -- Hair Balls had $50 on that -- but that the ghost of Dante Alighieri showed up. "Aband ... More >>
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August 10, 2009
BARC Whistleblower's Case To Continue
Photo by Craig MalisowShelby Kibodeaux, outside the courthouseA Harris County Court judge found probable cause this morning in the case of a BARC volunteer accused of filing a false police report; the next court date is scheduled for August 28. With all the change-agentization taking place at BAR ... More >>
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August 11, 2009
The Chronicle's Columnist Does BARC Again, And Again The Result Is WTF?
If you heard what sounded like a sonic boom this morning, it was the thunderclap of Hair Balls's head exploding. And why would that be? Because one of the nation's biggest newspapers -- the daily for the fourth-largest city in the country -- allowed a columnist to print the bizarre evangelic ... More >>
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August 13, 2009
An Interview With BARC's Change Agent
Photo by allygirl520BARC could install a 3,000-square-foot building to house cats within a month, interim chief Gerry Fusco and Health and Human Services Spokeswoman Kathy Barton told Hair Balls Wednesday. It was a bit of welcome concrete information, something that's been scarce since Fus ... More >>
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August 18, 2009
Timing Of Vote For BARC's "Change Agent" Contract Surprises Some, Like Councilmembers
Photo courtesy GHCVBSilly fuckin' us.We thought that when a Houston City Councilman says something, we're supposed to take him at his word. But sometimes we forget that this is Houston, and things are done a little differently.At the August 3 Human Services Committee meeting on Gerry Fusco's BARC ... More >>
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August 19, 2009
A Bit Of A Slowdown In The Rush To Approve BARC's Change Agent
Photo by wsilverCity Council did not vote on BARC interim chief Gerry Fusco's contract because it was not completed in time for the meeting, according to the mayor's agenda director."The documents weren't in," Marty Stein told Hair Balls. "....In this case, what happened was, because this is ... More >>
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August 24, 2009
Council Hears About More BARC Stuff, This Time Some Nasty Divorce Allegations
It seems a day can't go by without some drama regarding the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care. Today's edition involves a 2006 allegation of abuse against BARC Interim Bureau Chief Gerry Fusco made by his then-wife. The Harris County Sheriff's Office report was posted on an online animal- ... More >>
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August 26, 2009
City Council Once Again Considers BARC; Once Again Does Little To Nothing
Photo by abcrumleyCity Council delayed voting again on extending the contract for Gerry Fusco, the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care's interim chief. Council members Ronald Green and Pam Holm asked that the vote be tabled. (Green told Hair Balls earlier this week that he hadn't read the contra ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2009
Vote Delayed, Entertainingly, On BARC Chief's Contract
Photo by abcrumleyCity Council once again delayed the vote on extending BARC Interim Chief Gerry Fusco's contract today, possibly killing any chance to revive the vote in the future. Fusco's initial agreement with the city, made possible via a $49,500 purchase order, expires Friday.Health a ... More >>
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September 15, 2009
The "No-Kill" Advocate Issues A Report Showing All's Still Not Well At BARC
Photo by wsliverHair Balls has just been making our way through "no-kill" advocate Nathan Winograd's just-released assessment of the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care, and we have one question for city officials: When are you going to sue this guy for libel?!We ask that because the BARC descri ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2009
BARC's Change Agent Finally Gets A Contract
City Council unanimously approved hotly debated 6-month contract for Gerry Fusco, interim chief for the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care. The unanimity was a bit of a surprise, given the sharp critcism doled out two weeks ago by Councilwoman Jolanda Jones, who said she felt Fusco had refused to ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
City Is Trying To Scare Up BARC Funds By Hassling Veterinarians, One Says
Photo by riquardIn a move to raise revenue for a new adoption center, the City of Houston is ordering veterinarians to provide clients' names and their pets' licensing information. According to a September 28 letter from Administrative and Regulatory Affairs Director Alfred Moran to&nbs ... More >>
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November 20, 2009
La Plus Ca Change At BARC
Photo by wsilverPeople who aren't fans of dogs accidentally strangling themselves with their leashes aren't going to like this story: On Wednesday, a dog at the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care died after, as previously mentioned, it got caught up in its leash while a staff member c ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2009
BARC's E-Mails Detail Neglect, Mismanagement & A Change Agent's Thin Skin
Internal e-mails among Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care's new administrators and volunteers from September 20 to October 9 show a newly independent city agency plagued with miscommunication and continued animal negligence -- the same problems BARC suffered under its f ... More >>
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December 8, 2009
How Much Are Taxpayers Spending For Trite Analysis? No One's Saying
If there's one thing Gerry Fusco, the interim bureau chief for the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care, loves, it's hiring consultants. If there's one thing he and BARC spokeswoman Elena Marks don't love, it's telling the public how much taxpayer money is going to those consultants -- and ju ... More >>
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December 10, 2009
R.I.P. La Strada
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Blogs
December 11, 2009
BARC Gets A New General Manager -- Update
David Atencio, a former regional sales manager for 24 Hour Fitness, has been hired as the general manager for the embattled Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care. A press conference will be held at 1:30 at City Hall, according to an e-mail from Mayor Bill White's Office. Atencio's name has been ... More >>
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January 8, 2010
BARC Fires a Vet, But Hey It's All Good
Photo by SquidHouston's Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care fired a veterinarian Thursday, but Interim Bureau Chief Gerry Fusco said two part-time vets will cover those hours so there will be no lag in services. Fusco and Janice Evans, communications director for Mayor Annise Parker, ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
BARC Vet Who Helped In Controversial Case Has A Reprimand On Her Record
The Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care's chief vet, who was instrumental in the decision to operate in-house on a severely injured dog -- who did not survive surgery -- was reprimanded by Virginia's veterinary board in 2007.According to documents filed with the Virgina's Department of Health Pr ... More >>
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September 21, 2010
BARC Supervisor, On Tape, Squelches Employee Complaint And Says Mayor Has His Back
BARC, making sad puppies everywhereWhen Chatauqua Allen, a supervisor at the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care, was shut out of certain meetings, she got the nagging notion that it may have to do with her race.The feeling was compounded when Allen, who is black, w ... More >>