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Director, Nicole A. Carper will serve as Shelter Operations Manager, and Amy Michelle <br />Eller will serve as Customer Relations Manager. There will also be a written progress <br />report, as requested by the County Commissioners, by the 10t" of each month, <br />indicating what is going well and what is not going well in terms of shelter operations. <br />Purchasing and Central Services Director Pam Jones explained page nine of <br />the abstract entitled Animal Shelter Management/Operations Combined Proposals Cost. <br />She said that the County requested that all casts be based on the County taking the <br />revenue for the adoptions and related items as well as the County assuming <br />responsibility for the expense of the veterinarian. <br />She made reference to the APS-alternate column and said that this includes <br />the veterinarian services, which are estimated by APS at $11,000 per month. This also <br />includes them keeping the revenue for adoption and related items, which is estimated to <br />be $16,000 per month. The net revenue would be $5,000 a month. This is exactly the <br />difference between the APS base and the alternate. <br />PUBLIC COMMENT: <br />Linda Schmoldt shared her letter to the editor that was in the paper today. The letter is <br />as follows: <br />Chapel Hill Herald <br />November 18, 2003 <br />APS stewardship record clear <br />Why did Orange County spend thousands on an evaluation by the <br />Humane Society of the United States, then recommend offering the <br />shelter contract to the same bunch who messed it up? The APS' <br />director is gone. So what? Directors carry out the will of the <br />board. <br />From HSUS's evaluation of the APS: <br />"Overall the animal flow process was disorganized and <br />unstructured. Staff lacked proper training for many of the daily <br />tasks...." <br />"Many animals admitted to the APS were not vaccinated for days or <br />even weeks after arrival." <br />"One kitten and small dog were placed in the night surrender <br />cages by the public on Wednesday evening ... the small dog was <br />still in the night surrender cage on Friday night." <br />"There were dead roaches on the floor." <br />