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0 i srRiBvTg /8.044.0 --- <br /> ,y ?4 f & - <br /> ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY <br /> 1081 AIRPORT ROAD •• CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA 27514 <br /> TELEPHONE 919-967-7383 <br /> Shirley Marshall, Chair <br /> Board of Commissioners <br /> 106 E. Margaret Lane <br /> Hillsborough, NC <br /> Dear Ms. Marshall: <br /> On May 27th Dr. E.W. Van Stee and I had a very unsatisfactory meeting with the <br /> County Manager, Ken Thompson. I was under the inpression that the meeting was to <br /> discuss the Shelter budget needs; however, Mr. Thompson expressed himself in a <br /> strongly accusatory posture, stating that the APS and the County had disagreements <br /> on two fronts, and that we have not been cooperative 1) in providing documenta- <br /> tion about concerns the APS had about Animal Control, and 2) that we had not, <br /> "after being asked repeatedly to do so" returned the budget forms and information <br /> requested. <br /> 1. Providing documentation_about concerns the APS had about Animal Control. I <br /> told Mr. Thompson that the APS, and I personally, feel that the Task Force ad- <br /> dressed solutions to the problems we perceive with Animal Control. <br /> 2. The APS had not after being asked repeatedly to do so returned budget forms <br /> and information and refused to do so." The form he referred to is the "OC Non- <br /> Departmental Application for Contribution, Fiscal Year 1987-88." I told Mr. <br /> Thompson a) that APS had never returned that form since we contract with the <br /> County to run an integral service for the County, that the "fit" of the form did <br /> not seem to work with the Shelter, and that we had instead attempted to provide a <br /> thorough budget request reflecting what APS considered the most thorough and <br /> suitable information about Shelter operations; and b) that I had not been asked to <br /> return the form. Mr. Thompson persisted, insisting that APS had always returned <br /> it and I had been asked repeatedly to do so. At that point I asked to see a copy <br /> of one of the forms previously sent to the County, and Mr. Thompson sent Mr. <br /> Kittrell to the files to retrieve one. Mr. Kittrell returned: There was no form <br /> on file (since we had never sent one in). I also restated that I had not been <br /> asked to send the form in. Mr. Thompson asked Mr. Kittrell at this point if I had <br /> been asked to do so, and Mr. Kittrell said that he had only sent it in the mail <br /> and had not asked me for it. I then interjected that Mr. Kittrell had, however, <br /> asked me for demographic information on the animals impounded since 1979 and <br /> wanted me to compile this information. It is my understanding that Mr. Kittrell <br /> wanted this information for background data and not for any budgetary plans at <br /> this time. I told him I did not have the time, but that I would at the earliest <br /> possible time collect the reports for all months since the Shelter opened in 1979 <br /> and provide those to him. I did this, on my own time, spending an evening <br /> xeroxing the materials at Kinko's. (They have not yet picked up from the <br /> Shelter.) <br /> 1 <br />