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~0 Page 2 Members for review. Caroline asks that if anyone has any suggestions or comments to please send those to her or Pat Sanford. Animal Placement and Fostering Updates Jessica Allison gave a brief summary of accompanying documents on the foster program and sheltering activities for the months of July and August. She was excited to report that these are the highest adoption numbers reported so far this calendar year. Adoption/Placement Coininittee Progress Report- Jessica Allison reported that the committee met on August 10`f', 2007 and made a few revisions to the Partner/Placement document. The committee discussed and decided that it would be prudent to gather input from the rescue groups with whom we currently work. The documents have been sent to six selected groups and to the county attorney for additional feedback. Information gathered via this process will be review at the committee's next meeting scheduled for September 28, 2007. Bob Marotto reported that there were three low cost rabies clinics in conjunction with World Rabies Days with over 200 vaccinations administered. Animal Identification: Provisional Proposal- Bob Marotto reported that staff has reviewed current practices to develop a coherent as well as a practical approach to animal identification and it was decided that it would be best not to add another tag to the one that the Animal Shelter alreadyprovides. Instead, that the Shelter will continue to issue the rabies tag as our licensing tag, but order them from a private company instead of the North Carolina Health Department so that we can have our contact information added to the tags. There are two primary groups that leave the shelter without tags (approximately 1 %) and those are animals that are too young to receive rabies vaccines and reclaimed animals that have a current rabies vaccination. Strategies for ident~ing animals in these two groups are a generic tag for puppies and kittens indicating that have a microchip, and ahard-written collar for those animals with a current vaccination. Another option would be on-site personalized identification machine but due to the cost of the machine and staff ng issues it was decided that this option would need to be explored further. More research will be done and a final product will be brought back to the committee for review and approval. New Business- Creation ofASAB Nominations Subcommittee- Caroline Green, Daniel Textoris and Tracy Carroll have agreed to be on this committee and will come back to the October 17`x', 2007, ASAB meeting with a proposed slate of of icers and at a subsequent meeting in November the vote will take place. Required Annual Review of ASAB Committee Structure-Bob Marotto gave an overview of the requirements of our charter and the two committees that we currently have are the Potentially Dangerous Dog Committee and the Adoption Appeals Committee. Motion was made by Pat Sanford and seconded by Jean Connerat Austin to maintain the two standing committees. VOTE: Unanimous Motion was made by Jean Connerat Austin and seconded by Pat Sanford to adjourn the meeting at 7:45 p. m. VOTE: Unanimous. Next ASAB Meeting: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 6: 30 p. m. in the Southern Human Services Center Conference Room, 2501 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill.