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y <br />• A quarterly report listing the number and types of calls handled at the Shelter <br />within the Town limits will be forwarded to the Chapel Hill Police <br />Department. <br />• All County employees responding to service calls under this agreement will <br />receive training pertaining to the Town's Animal Control Ordinance. <br />• The County agrees to provide an animal control vehicle and necessary animal <br />control equipment for the use in the Town. <br />• Scheduled vacation time and sick leave time for the appointed Animal Control <br />Officer will be covered by the County from Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to <br />6:00 pm, for emergency services only. <br />• The Town and the County will cooperate to train County employees providing <br />EARS service in the requirements of the Town's Animal Control Ordinance. <br />2. B. Chapel gIill Emergency Animal Rescue Services (EARS) <br />• EARS hours are from 6:00 pm to 9:00 am Monday through Friday and all holidays <br />and weekends. <br />• The County shall provide trained, qualified personnel to respond to calls for EARS within <br />the Town by going to the scene when necessary to protect and preserve the health and <br />safety of the public and the life and health of animals. <br />• Qualified personnel of the County shall, when necessary and proper in the judgment of <br />County personnel, provide first aid treatment and/or take animals requiring care to <br />veterinary facilities according to County policy. When immediate veterinary care is not <br />needed in the judgment of County personnel, an animal may be taken to the Shelter. Sick <br />and injured animals will be handled according to the Shelter operating policy. <br />• The County may, in its discretion, bear the cost of emergency care and shelter costs for <br />animals that do not appear to have an owner or keeper, or where the owner or keeper can <br />be identified, charge the owner or keeper with the cost of emergency care and shelter <br />costs of the animals consistent with the Shelter operating policy. <br />• County employees or their designees shall attempt to contact at a time which is <br />reasonable under the circumstances in each situation, the owner or custodian of each <br />animal involved in an emergency requiring the assistance of the Shelter. <br />• Where Town Public Safety and/or Town officers are also on the scene of an animal- <br />related emergency, the County personnel shall cooperate with Town personnel in matters <br />involving safety of persons and/or enforcement of the Town's .animal control ordinance. <br />