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Animal Services Advisory Board (ASAB) Approved Minutes for August 20, 2008 Meeting Present ASAB Members: Daniel Textoris, Ross Oglesbee, Jean Austin, Dewana Anderson, Tracy Carroll, Kris Bergstrand and Rachel Beckham Absent ASAB Members: Susan Elmore, Moses Carey, Bonnie Norwood, Suzanne Roy and Pat Sanford. Others in Attendance: Animal Services Director Bob Marotto, Animal Shelter Manager Jessica Allison, and Administrative Assistants Paula Ragan. Public Members Present: Ted Dorsi Welcome and Opening Comments—ASAB Chair, Ross Oglesbee, called the meeting to order. Motion was made by Daniel Textoris and seconded by Tracy Carroll to approve the Agenda dated June 18, 2008. VOTE: Unanimous. Motion was made by Jean Austin and seconded by Kristine Bergstrand to approve the minutes dated July 16, 2008, with the removal of the last sentence under General Public Comments and adding “since the licensing fees have recently been increased this issue was referred to the Spay Neuter committee and if not this year in subsequent years another fee adjustment may be requested”. There were also a couple of typographical errors and under the Placement Partner update section the incomplete sentence was removed. VOTE: Unanimous General Public Comment—Mr. Ted Dorsi addressed the Animal Services Advisory Board about concerns he has after being a recent victim of a dog attack. The Orange County Potentially Dangerous Dog Committee upheld the declaration of Potentially Dangerous Dog to the dog that bit him. One of Mr. Dorsi’s concerns regards notification to citizens about potentially dangerous dogs. He suggested that public safety would be enhanced if there were an educational process such as flyers on doors or information accessed through the internet available to citizens so that people know where dangerous dogs reside. Another of his concerns is the amount of fines, and the release of an animal from the County’s shelter before the owner has paid civil penalties in full. He asked the ASAB to exercise its authority to address these concerns. A brief discussion ensued and Chair Oglesbee asked Mr. Dorsi if he would provide a written version of his statement and asked staff to provide more information about these concerns at a future ASAB meeting. Unfinished Business— Tethering Ordinance Update— Bob Marotto said he expects to know within the next week whether the item of Tethering will be scheduled for the Board of County Commissioners meeting scheduled for September 2, 2008. He noted that it is possible that the item will be rescheduled for a work session to give the Commissioners the opportunity to discuss the proposed tethering ordinance amongst themselves. As soon as information is available a public notification will be provided. Also, it was decided that since the ASAB Liaison, Moses Carey, had already discussed the process and next steps for reviewing this item, there was no need to contact him for further discussion. July Statistical Summary—Ms. Jess Allison gave an overview of the July, 2008, statistical summary. She reported that there continues to be an increase in intake compared to last month and last year’s statistics. There were 545 animals taken in this month compared to last year’s 397. She expressed that this is typical for this time of the year and that it is hard to really determine how much this is a result of the economic bad times but that it is reasonable to say that there is some relationship.