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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: March 7, 2017 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 4-b <br /> SUBJECT: BOCC Recognition of Employees and Organizations that Served During <br /> Hurricane Matthew and the Western North Carolina Wildfires <br /> DEPARTMENT: Human Resources <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Community Partners Listed by Fire Brenda Bartholomew, Human Resources <br /> Department and Name Director, (919) 245-2552 <br /> PURPOSE: To recognize Orange County employees and community partners who served <br /> other North Carolina residents and communities in need of assistance during Hurricane Matthew <br /> and the Western North Carolina Wildfires. <br /> BACKGROUND: A few days before Hurricane Matthew arrived off the east coast of Florida, the <br /> North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDACS) gathered <br /> information from North Carolina counties for potential emergency response that would likely be <br /> needed in North Carolina. NCDACS also called some members of North Carolina Animal <br /> Federation (NCAF), including Orange County, for assistance with gathering information from <br /> NCAF members that might be able to assist Eastern North Carolina with emergency response. <br /> On the morning of October 15, 2016, after being on standby for more than week, Orange <br /> County Animal Services deployed five staff members to Kinston, North Carolina to relieve a <br /> team that had been in place there since Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina earlier in October. <br /> Those staff members were: <br /> • Jasmine Johnson <br /> • Shane Oakley <br /> • Tammy Boggs <br /> • Gretchen Biehl <br /> • Tiani Schifano <br /> These staff volunteered to form a pet colocation shelter team and worked in Kinston from <br /> October 15 through October 21. The team cared for a group of animals that were being <br /> sheltered for people housed at the Red Cross Shelter on the same elevated college campus <br /> and coordinated with pet owners to assure the welfare of the animals. The team started with 48 <br /> animals in their care and 27 animals still remained when the group was relieved by another pet <br /> colocation team. <br />