The Department of Agriculture and Environmental Management protects the health and safety of people by addressing structure fire hazards existing on properties in the environments where people live, eat, and play. Inspections are done to ensure that there is safe defensible space to minimize the risk of fire spreading to a structure. If the property does not meet the established Minimum Fire Safety Standards, staff educates property owners and encourages voluntary compliance by clearing space around the structure. The number of inspections performed is an indicator of the potential risk to the general public. The compliance rate represents the percent of property owners that took positive action to make their property safe and the number of parcels abated represents the number pf properties in which the County stepped in as a result of non-compliance to oversee the application of mechanical abatement.

The Department of Agriculture and Environmental Management protects the health and safety of people by addressing structure fire hazards existing on properties in the environments where people live, eat, and play. Inspections are done to ensure that there is safe defensible space to minimize the risk of fire spreading to a structure. If the property does not meet the established Minimum Fire Safety Standards, staff educates property owners and encourages voluntary compliance by clearing space around the structure. The number of inspections performed is an indicator of the potential risk to the general public. The compliance rate represents the percent of property owners that took positive action to make their property safe and the number of parcels abated represents the number pf properties in which the County stepped in as a result of non-compliance to oversee the application of mechanical abatement.

In an effort to reduce the population of homeless pets entering local animal shelters, the Department of Agriculture and Environmental Management aims to increase the accessibility of affordable spay/neuter services for both owned and homeless pets in the county. The Department generates and reports the numbers of surgeries performed by County staff to determine the percent change from the prior year.

The Agriculture and Environmental Management Department records the live-release rate for pets that enter their shelter.