Nevada City, CA – On Sept. 22, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office (NCSO) Animal Control Supervisor, Stefanie Geckler, was unanimously elected president of the California Community Animal Responses Teams (Cal CARTS), an organization dedicated to elevating individual CARTS throughout California by sharing best practices, developing standardized training programs, enhancing state integration of CART responders, and augmenting funding availability for CART sustainability and interoperability.
Her presidency came about organically, according to Geckler, driven from her desire to elevate animal care, resources, and emergency support in not only Nevada County, but throughout California communities.
“When I joined the Cal CARTS board in March of this year, I had not intended to become the future