CACC ANNUAL BUDGETS 1997-1999

The City continues to underfund the country's largest animal shelter system by almost 50% of the national average. NYC Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani holds the pursestrings and defiantly withholds the desperately needed money to operate this system, despite its dismal track record of killing more than 80% of the animals it receives - more than 40,000 a year. Despite CACC Executive Director Marilyn Haggerty-Blohm's "City Hall connections," she has yet to convince the Mayor that the 1999 CACC budget is still pitifully inadequate. The following is a three-year comparison of CACC budgets provided by the CACC.