At the end of last week, the Chronicle‘s Bradley Olson reported that the city’s troubled Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC) is under the supervision of a new director:
Ray Sim, most recently the director of Animal Care and Regulation in Broward County, Fla., has been on the job for two weeks, said Kathy Barton, a spokeswoman for BARC. Barton said he would not be available for an interview until next week. More detail about how he was selected also would not be available until then, she said.
[snip]Sim, a University of Utah graduate who also studied business administration at Brigham Young University and Westminster College, has worked in animal care since at least 2004, according to a copy of his application. He left his previous post in Broward County in January after only three months because, according to his application, county officials anticipated privatizing that facility.
Sim spent one year before that in El Paso as deputy director of animal services and led an animal services department in the Gainesville, Fla., area from 2004 to 2007, he stated on the application. He became a “certified animal welfare administrator” in 2004.
Sim will head an agency that receives far less funding relative to the city’s population compared with Dallas, Austin and San Antonio.
Will head? Apparently he has been heading.
So why all the secrecy about his hiring, especially from an administration whose mayor claims to favor transparency?
On the topic of BARC, here’s another sad tale of ineptitude. We wish Mr. Sim luck in cleaning up that mess. He’s going to need it.
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