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2024 Animal Health and Welfare
Mission Statement Reduce and eradicate animal diseases that are a threat to animals raised for livestock/poultry production. Facilitate trade by ensuring that livestock producers, veterinarians, livestock dealers, auction market operators, and others identify and prevent livestock diseases. Promote the humane care and control of animals by ensuring that pet and livestock owners, pet breeders, and pet dealers identify, correct, and prevent inhumane conditions.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. 1. Provide comprehensive, consistent, and clear requirements, policies, and procedures.
    1. Survey customers to assess satisfaction with policies and procedures and improve performance.
  2. Provide timely issuance of operating licenses.
    1. Reduce the average time to issue operating licenses.
  3. Provide timely response to complaints about inhumane care of animals.
    1. Respond quickly to all humane care complaints.
  4. Provide professional, consistent, and fair inspections that follow the Department's policies and procedures.
    1. Survey customers to assess satisfactions with inspection policies.
Source of Funds General Revenue Fund, Agriculture Federal Projects Fund Statutory Authority 225 ILCS 605/1 & 20 ILCS 5/6.0
Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2024 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2023 Actual Fiscal Year 2022 Actual
Input Indicators
Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 2,740.0 $ 1,970.0 $ 2,082.0 $ 1,434.0 $ 1,346.7
Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 2,740.0 $ 1,970.0 $ 2,082.0 $ 1,434.0 $ 1,346.7
Average monthly full-time equivalents 20.0 18.0 23.0 17.0 16.0
Output Indicators
Number of rendering truck permits issued 500.0 539.0 500.0 509.0 496.0
Number of complaints received and tracked in the docket system 500.0 436.0 450.0 432.0 507.0
Number of animal welfare complaints investigated 225.0 217.0 225.0 220.0 232.0
Number of herds/flocks quarantined or restricted due to disease 5.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 5.0
Number of livestock permits issued for import into Illinois 15,000 14,423 15,000 17,161 10,367
Number of Humane Care Act complaints investigated 225.0 214.0 225.0 194.0 258.0
Number of new livestock premises registered 300.0 327.0 300.0 303.0 339.0
Number of livestock dealers, branch locations, and auction markets licensed 200.0 153.0 200.0 192.0 202.0
Number of animal import permits issued 30,000 24,837 30,000 28,508 26,342
Number of animal welfare, rendering, and horsemeat licenses issued 2,250 2,257 2,250 2,250 2,193
Outcome Indicators
Number of inspections performed 1,500 1,557 N/A 983.0 730.0
Number of herds/flocks released from quarantine 5.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 4.0
Number of Humane Care Act complaint investigations closed 200.0 205.0 200.0 203.0 245.0
Number of Animal Welfare Act complaint investigations closed 200.0 241.0 200.0 188.0 215.0

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