{"id":7394,"date":"2024-02-12T16:09:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/san-antonio-acs-touts-new-hiring-days-after-attorney-accuses-department-of-negligence\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:09:17","slug":"san-antonio-acs-touts-new-hiring-days-after-attorney-accuses-department-of-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/san-antonio-acs-touts-new-hiring-days-after-attorney-accuses-department-of-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio ACS touts new hiring days after attorney accuses department of negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         San Antonio Animal Care Services sent out a press release Monday touting the &#8220;early impacts&#8221; of a strategic plan the embattled city department put in place after a major budget increase last fall. After City Council voted to bump up ACS&#8217;s annual budget by 33% to $28.5 million, the department hired &#8220;close to 20&#8221; additional animal-care officers, according to the announcement.\u00a0ACS Director Shannon Sims, who&#8217;s set to retire this summer, told council last fall he&#8217;d add a total of 29 staffers if given the proposed budget boost. ACS issued Monday&#8217;s release days after attorneys representing a couple charged in a deadly 2023 dog attack told the Express-News that the department&#8217;s negligence led to the fatality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Animal Care Services sent out a press release Monday touting the &#8220;early impacts&#8221; of a strategic plan the embattled city department put in place after a major budget increase last fall. After City Council voted to bump up ACS&#8217;s annual budget by 33% to $28.5 million, the department hired &#8220;close to 20&#8221; additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}