Board of Directors

Mike McKonly

President

Keith Lutz

Vice President

Keith Lutz has been the Vice-President and co-owner of Kleen-Rite Corporation since 2002, prior to this he filled a variety of roles in the family business.

In addition to Kleen-Rite, Keith has served as President of the Pennsylvania Car Wash Association for over 10 years and was given the associations Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Keith currently serves as President of the Columbia Economic Development Corp an organization he co-founded in 2005. He is a Board Member of the Columbia Healthcare Foundation, Columbia Animal Shelter, Harold and Judy McKonly Family Foundation, International Car Wash Association and is on the Corporation Board of Lancaster Bible College. He is also a past board member of the Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce and Columbia Education Foundation. He is a member of the Sunsnappers, Elks, Lions, Convene and attends Columbia Church.

Keith is a 1995 graduate of York College of PA with a BS in Accounting and served in the United States Marine Corps Reserves from 1992-1998.

Keith will celebrate 25 years of marriage to his wife Angela Lutz in the coming year, they are the proud parents of 6 children Haley, Adriana, Sophia, Teagan, Simone and Tate.

Tammy Loughlin-Jalbert

Executive Director

Tammy began her animal welfare career in 2008 as a volunteer and in 2011 had the good fortune to become the first director and volunteer coordinator of the Westerly Animal Shelter in RI, elevating it’s status to one of only four premier shelters in RI. She has gone on to hold senior executive leadership positions in both non-profit and municipal animal welfare agencies. She also served as the first Executive Director of Stand Up For Animals in RI. 

Tammy is one of the first directors to complete the Public Sector Consortium Leadership Training, and Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster training affording Westerly Animal Shelter the distinction of a critical shelter in the event of a natural disaster. 

She has launched two spay/neuter and wellness clinics in her tenure in animal welfare and helped to save over 2000 dogs from high kill shelters in Tennessee. She answered the call to drive critical animal care supplies from Rhode Island to Texas in the wake of hurricane Harvey in 2018. 

Tammy is currently the Executive Director of the newly built Columbia Animal Shelter in Columbia, PA and has been an integral part of the process of building this brand-new shelter from concept to fruition.

Tammy believes that “Our focus is on our clients that have fur and tails, and they are all very connected to us as people. Our services are critical to our community and the pets they call family”.

Originally from Indiana, Tammy has lived in CT, RI, and now has settled in PA, where she is currently a board member of Columbia Public Library. She enjoys the outdoors, traveling, and spending time with family and friends. Tammy and her husband have one dog, two cats, a blended family of 10 children, and 9 grandchildren.

Amy Mitchell

Board Member

Amy, with over 28 years of experience in the insurance industry, is a dedicated advocate for her clients, working tirelessly to secure comprehensive coverage and competitive pricing, including Risk and Claims Management services. She holds certifications as a Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) and Certified Insurance Service Representative (CISR), along with various licenses. Amy’s career at Murray began as a personal lines receptionist and has progressed to Vice President of Commercial Solutions. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Columbia Animal Shelter.

Amy is married to Mark, a USPS postal carrier, and they have two children: Jenna, the Director of Pennsylvania and Agriculture for the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, and Chandler, a medical school graduate starting his residency in Internal Medicine. The family has three pets and are avid Dallas Cowboys fans.

Bob Bradfield

Board Member

Bob is currently serving in his 1st year on the board for the Columbia Animal Shelter.

Bob has been a lifelong pet owner and pet lover. His love for pets started as a young boy when his first pet was a puppy.

Bob is currently employed as a Vice-President/ Commercial Lending Relationship Manager at C & N Bank and has over 20 years of finance / banking experience.

Bob is a graduate of Altoona Area High School and received his Bachelor of Science in Business Finance from Millersville University. Bob is married, has 2 sons, and enjoys spending time with his family, 2 cats, and 1 dog. Bob also enjoys anything sport-related, traveling, and spending time with friends.

Julie McMurtrie

Board Member

Hello, my name is Julie McMurtrie and I currently live in Millersville, PA. I have been married for 27 years and my husband and I have one daughter, who is 25 years old and a Special Education teacher at Penn Manor High School.

I was a Special Education teacher with the Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13 for 31 years. I went to Millersville University and received my Bachelors/Masters degree in Education in 1988.

From 1988 to 2019, I taught in the following programs: Life Skills Support, Physical Support, School to Work program, and the Willow Valley Work Immersion program. I retired in 2019 in order to take care of my elderly parents, one of which has Alzheimer’s.

Along with teaching students with special needs, I have always been a strong advocate for rescuing animals. I have been rescuing dogs, cats, rabbits, Guinea pigs, turtles, pigeons, and horses for many, many years.

I started volunteering for ORCA, the Organization for Responsible Care of Animals, back in 1993. I was an ORCA hotline volunteer, foster parent for many dogs, Guinea pigs, pet rats, rabbits, turtles, and pigeons. I was also an ORCA board member from 2010-2016.

At that time, my passion for rescuing animals became more focused on puppy mill rescues. So, I started volunteering, fostering, and adopting neglected and abused dogs from ATTT- A Tail to Tell Puppy Mill Rescue.

I currently own six rescue dogs. Three dogs from ATTT Puppy Mill Rescue, three dogs from ORCA.

I also recently adopted 2 senior horses who will now be able to spend the last years of their life in a loving and caring home.

Jill Romine

Board Member

Jill has been a Realtor since 2004 serving York and Lancaster Counties. She currently is a realtor for Remax. She is an Army wife and they have 2 teenage boys, Gaven and Patrick. She has always loved animals and has a 10-year old flat coated retriever named Stella, who enjoys her rides on Jill’s SUP in the local river and lakes in the area.

Luann Monk

Board Member

My name is Luann Eshleman Monk and I have been married Thomas A Monk IV for over 24 years. I am employed by Susquehanna Glass since 1993. I have had many positions with Susquehanna Glass as a Sales Clerk, Packing Department, Deep Etch Department, Silkscreen Department, Laser/Engraving Department, Office (Accounts Receiving and Accounts Payable), and I am currently Customer Service/Order Entry.

I have one married daughter Tabatha, 2 granddaughters (Myla and Immogen) and one grandson Finley. One married stepdaughter Heather and a grandson Ethan.

I also get to enjoy my time with my dog Stella who is a English Setter. At this time, I do not have any cats, but at one time I had 2 dogs and 3 cats. I am not ruling out that one day I will have a cat or two in the future. I love spending time with my family. My husband and I also enjoy entering our two cars (Cadillac CTS Coupe 2013 and Chev Corvette 2008 into car shows locally (have placed in some of the shows). When I have some time to myself, I also enjoy reading Danielle Steele books.

When I heard that Columbia was going to have an Animal Shelter, I thought it would be nice to help animals. (I wanted to be a veterinarian when growing up). I have been volunteering with the shelter before it was even built. I used to physically help in the shelter doing the everyday cleaning and feeding the cats and dogs, but now most of my time is now used to help raise money for the animals.

Patty McKonly

Board Member

Patty McKonly is one of the founding members of the Columbia Animal Shelter. Her mother-in law, Judy had the wonderful idea of starting an animal shelter in Columbia PA. After the building was bought and renovations were started she passed away, leaving Patty, her husband Mike and cousin Keith to complete the task!! It was a true labor of love and we are very proud of what it has become!

Originally from NJ, Patty went to college at Elizabethtown College, graduated and never left! She has a BA degree in psychology and a Masters of Education from Millersville University. She worked as a School Counselor at the Willow Street Career and Technology Center for 10 years. After retiring from there she became the Human Resources Administrator at Kleen-Rite Corporation. She and her husband Mike started the Best Price Propane Company and she also managed the Kleen-Rite Car Wash for several years.

After retiring from those 3 positions about 4 years ago, thanks to Mike’s children becoming involved in the businesses, she became the property manager at Kleen -Rite Corp. as well as the full time property manager of their vacation rentals and long term rentals in PA. FL, MI, and MD.

Patty also manages Kleen Acres Farm where they have chickens, 4 horses, 1 goat, a camel and MANY barn cats. thanks to adopting many feral cats from the Columbia Animal Shelter.

Patty and Mike McKonly have been married for 22 years. They have a blended family of 6 children, 6 grandchildren, one dog and 3 house cats!

Patty’s hobbies include horse back riding, traveling and gardening.

Alan Landsman

Board Member

Alan’s animal welfare efforts started in 2022, when he began trapping, ‘fixing’, and caring for a displaced colony of community cats in his backyard. Shortly after, he and a handful of other volunteers founded the Columbia Cat Action Team, commonly referred to as CCAT in the borough. CCAT is a TNR group that serves Columbia. In 2023 they successfully got the borough’s feeding ordinance changed to allow residents to feed community cats, as long as they participate in the CCAT program, and register their colony with the borough. CCAT also became an official subcommittee of the shelter in 2023 and in 2024 Alan accepted a seat on our board. The volunteer group he leads has helped over 300 cats to date and they continue to make a positive impact month after month.