TACA Newsletter (Winter 2011 (pdf)

 Jason Garcia, with the City of Robstown take over as the 2011-2012 TACA President. Jason has been actively involved on the TACA Board for the past 8 years. He is very excited and dedicated to serving the TACA members this year. As we enter the new year of 2012 the TACA officers, board members, regional advisors and staff will be meeting to plan the 2012 TACA year on January 14^th.  If any of the TACA members have ideas or needs that they would like addressed at this meeting, get in contact with Jason, his e-mail address is jgarca7389@sbcglobal.net or his cell 361-533-4452.

During a TACA board meeting at the annual training conference,  the Association of Certified Cruelty Investigators (ACCI) asked TACA to take over its training for the state of Texas.  ACCI is a  501-(c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the training of professional humane/cruelty investigators employed in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.The primary purpose of ACCI is to educate law enforcement, animal care professionals, and other interested agencies and individuals in all aspects of animal  cruelty investigations.  Read the rest of the store in the winter issue of the TACA Newsletter.

TACA will be making changes in regards to accepting submissions of continued education classes attended and presented to TACA for recording. Starting in 2012 ALL certificates sent to TACA for continued education recording MUST have on them that the class  was DSHS  approved and number of hours approved for.  TACA will not contact  those that submit records that do not have the required information on the certificates they will be discarded as invalid submissions. ALL TACA issued certificates for class hosted by TACA including euthanasia and ACCI training classes will be imprinted with the TACA seal for authenticity that the certificate was issued by TACA and preventing any fraudulent altering of a TACA issued certificate. Additionally the official letter verifying continued education hours that was jointly agreed upon with TACA and DSHS will no longer be e-mailed, you can request the letter in an e-mail but it will only be mailed by USPS. When mailed this letter will also be imprinted with the TACA

TACA welcomes 5 new board members to the TACA board this year. Nora Cortino, with the City of Houston, Karen Hoffman, with the City Of Pasadena, Edna Stambaugh with the City of Cedar Hill, and Carlos Gonzales with the City of Port Isabel and Sammy Garza with the City Of League City.  Regional Coordinators recommended by the president to the board for approval are; Rhonda McClendon with the City of Lufkin for DSHS regions 4/5 and 6, Fred Sanderson with the City of Irving for DSHS regions 2/3 and 7, Aaron Vannoy with the City of Abilene for DSHS regions 1, 9, and 10, and David Travis with the City of South Padre Island regions DSHS regions 8 and 11.  These individuals Contact information is available by clicking on the contact us tab at the top of this page.

TACA will be holding its 38^th  Annual Conference at the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake, located  in Nassau Bay, Texas.  The conference dates are November 12^th – 14^th.  The room rates are $90.00 for single and double.  For those that would like to stay an extra day before or after the conference the hotel is located on Clear Lake.  There is park that you can fish at about 2 minutes away from the hotel.  It is located across the street from the Johnson Space Center and Space Center Houston.  You are minutes away from the Kemah Boardwalk, which has restaurants, rides and carnival style games, and about 30 minutes away from Galveston and Downtown

Houston.  Start making your plans to attend the conference.

The Winter Newsletter is now available on the TACA web site. If you have any information for your area or an article that you would like to submit for the next issue which will be the winter issue please submit to tacaexsc@consolidated.net