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i ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. S—e, ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 16. 1997 SUBJECT: Reappointment of County Animal Cruelty Investigator and Appointment of a Second Animal Cruelty Investigator DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: NO BUDGET AMENDMENT: NO ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Albert Kittrell TELEPHONE NUMBERS: ext. 2300 Hillsborough -732-8181 Chapel Hill -968-4501 Durham -688-7331 Mebane -227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider reappointing the County Animal Cruelty Investigator and appointing an additional Animal Cruelty Investigator. BACKGROUND: At the September 6, 1994 Commissioners meeting,the Board appointed an Orange County Animal Protection Society staff person to serve as the County Animal Cruelty Investigator. The appointment was made under the provisions of North Carolina General Statutes 19A. The animal cruelty investigator was appointed to serve without any compensation or other employee benefits for a one year term subject to removal for cause by the commissioners. On October 2, 1995, the Board reappointed an APS staff person as the County Animal Cruelty Investigator for a second term. On September 17, 1996,the Board reappointed Amanda Graham,APS Associate Director, for her third term and an additional County Animal Cruelty investigator, John Martenis, an APS staff person,to his first term. The APS has requested the reappointment of Amanda Graham for her fourth term as the County Animal Cruelty Investigator and the appointment of Sandy Christiansen, an APS staff person, as the second animal cruelty investigator to replace John Martenis. North Carolina General Statutes 19A does authorize the Board to appoint one or more animal cruelty investigators. The second animal cruelty investigator would be appointed under the same conditions as the first investigator, no compensation and a term of one year.