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Animal Services Advisory Board (ASAB) <br />Approved Minutes for June 18, 2008 Meeting <br /> <br /> <br />Present ASAB Members: Daniel Textoris, Ross Oglesbee, Jean Austin, Bonnie Norwood, Dewana <br />Anderson, Tracy Carroll and Suzanne Roy and Pat Sanford <br /> <br />Absent ASAB Members: Susan Elmore, James Cramer, Moses Carey, Kris Bergstrand and Rachel <br />Beckham. <br /> <br />Others in Attendance: Animal Services Director Bob Marotto, Animal Shelter Manager Jessica Allison, <br />Animal Control Manager Irene Phipps, Administrative Assistants Andi Morgan and Paula Ragan. <br /> <br />Public Members Present: None <br /> <br />Welcome and Opening Comments—ASAB Chair, Ross Oglesbee, called the meeting to order. <br /> <br />Motion was made by Daniel Textoris and seconded by Tracy Carroll to approve the Agenda dated June <br />18, 2008. VOTE: Unanimous. <br /> <br />Motion was made by Jean Ausitn and seconded by Daniel Textoris to approve the minutes dated May 21, <br />2008, with the correction of several typographical errors. VOTE: Unanimous <br /> <br />General Public Comment—None <br /> <br />Information Items— <br /> <br />Animal Ordinance- Bob Marotto presented the members with a copy of a letter dated June 2, 2008, from <br />Laura Blackmon, County Manager to Mr. David Sykes, an Orange County citizen who had come to the <br />ASAB to request that the County’s Animal Ordinances be amended so that animal nuisances included <br />crowing roosters. Manager Blackmon’s letter summarized the ASAB decision against recommending an <br />ordinance amendment and indicated that Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) received an <br />information memo on the ASAB decision as part of their May 1st agenda package. The letter also noted <br />that there were no comments from any of the Commissioners nor was any direction given to staff to do <br />anything different. <br /> <br />Unfinished Business— <br /> <br />Tethering Ordinance Update— Ross Oglesbee reported that several ASAB members attended the last <br />BOCC meeting at which the Commissioners decided they would discuss the proposed tethering ordinance <br />amendment at one of their September meetings. <br /> <br />Some ASAB members would like to request work session with the BOCC prior to that BOCC meeting to <br />provide information and discuss concerns. There was some discussion of the concerns of hunters, and <br />one ASAB member raised the possibility of exempting hunting dogs from the ordinance and involving <br />hunting groups in our discussions. Mr. Marotto agreed to have a discussion with Commissioner Moses <br />Carey regarding the request that the topic of tethering be discussed at another BOCC Work Session.. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />