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BOOK 92 F,4c ®tJ were dispatched to the. call shortly after 9:OOAM. You did not handle the call until 4:5OPM. Several attempts to contact you at home and on the radio were unsuccessful. Finally, at 3:4OPM, you answered the phone at your home. Your excuse was that you checked - out for lunch at home before 2:OOPM and had fallen asleep. You were again given a verbal warning about the lack -of responsibility in doing your job. FINDING: The record establishes that you were assigned this call, via telephone from Animal Control Dispatcher Ruth Lynn,,.while you were checked -out at Southside Animal Hospital on June 30, 1993. It is- also established that you did not respond to the call until 4:5OPM. The paramount question is -- what were your assignments and what duties did you perform during this time interval that would preclude you from responding to the call before some 7 hours and 50 minutes later? The first indication on the log for you on this date is you checking -out at Southside Animal Hospital at 8:4OAM. There is no record to show that you went to Southside Animal Hospital on any assignment related to Animal Control. A check of the records indicated that no animal had been placed at Southside for treatment _ or care and no bills reflect any charge,, bill, or invoice for treating an animal around this date for Animal Control. Therefore, no reason was established for your presence at this facility when you had been assigned a call to respond to. Although you created no formal report for the Animal Control Division, the next information on the radio log is a call from you informing the A/C Dispatcher of you having a Cocker Spaniel in custody from 2554 2nd St. Southwest. This was a "turn -over" and you transported it to the Humane Society. The next entry on the radio log is you checking -out at 12:25PM at 1846 lot Place and enroute to the*Humane Society at 12:27PM,'some two minutes later. You did not check-out at the Humane Society and the next entry is 2:OOPM when you checked -out for lunch without giving a location. No report was submitted in regard to you checking -out at this address or what you transported to the Humane Society, if anything. 'No further contact with you occurred until 3:4OPM when you could not be located on the radio or at the Humane Society. Your response was that you fell asleep at home during lunch and overslept. The record reflects that you responded to only three other calls during the day. You testified under oath that it is not your responsibility to pick up owned animals and transport them to the Humane Society. Yet, you transported a Cocker Spaniel to the Humane Society as a "turn- over" of -an owned animal. This is contrary to your earlier statement and leads me to believe that you feel you should be able to do as you please, without regard to assignments. You also stated that, "according to your log", you had six priority calls that day, four• before the Dispatcher gave you the hamster call. You also testified that you had an injured bird and two bite cases which were very lengthy involved cases. and two stray pups that were given to you before you' received the hamster call. There" is absolutely no record of you having six priority calls including two bite calls that day and no record of you .conducting any bite C: M M M