after i sat in on the meeting of county commissioners, who failed to list the topic of complaints at the AC on their agenda/website- i brought up some issues to the commissioners during the meeting, including having an animal advisory board. then i rang up my contact who wrote to the commissioners straightaway-
if the commissioners refuse this help, and want to cover up their chief animal control officer/lack of involvement with the complaints at AC, and if they try to force the issue of animal board of health - our work is not done ! we do have a plan B. 
Hi [county commissioners],
My name is [x] and I am the CEO of the [x] Humane Association and President of the [x]. I have been following the animal shelter situation in your community and have spoken with some of your local animal welfare groups over the past year or so. Both [my group] and the Humane Society of [x] County are members of our state federation of animal welfare organizations.
It has come to my attention that your County Commissioners may be interested in improving the situation at your shelter and have discussed a possible evaluation- possibly by the State Board of Animal Health. While the SBOAH does many great things, they have limited knowledge of animal sheltering best practices, programming, etc.
A goal of our state federation [x] is to elevate the sheltering community in Indiana. [my] County has been of particular interest to us as a shelter that frankly, isn’t moving forward and has a lot of issues with best practices, etc. Our state group provides free/low cost training sessions throughout the state as well as many other functions.
While we are not comfortable visiting the shelter and doing an onsite evaluation as the staff there may not be particularly warm to that idea, [x] would like to offer to produce a document for you that would give you a road map of where your shelter should be, best practices for adoptions, cleaning, policies, etc. Our board is made up of members of the major animal shelters in Indiana including, Bloomington, Ft. Wayne, Evansville, Indianapolis, Kokomo and New Albany.
Our cumulative expertise in the area of animal sheltering could at this point be a good source of information for change at your local shelter and hopefully helpful to the commissioners in making decisions for the betterment of your community, its animals and the shelter itself.
Our board has members who lecture nationally and sit on national animal welfare boards. We hope we can share our knowledge with your community.
Please let me know if we can be of assistance and if there is anyone else I should be contacting at this point. We would also be happy to send a team to meet with the commissioners themselves to discuss and/or present the report.
Thanks so much and I look forward to hearing back from you.
All the best,
[x]
[x]
CEO
[x] Humane Association
Leading, Advocating and Educating for Animal Welfare
President, [x] Welfare Organizations