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<br /> <br />Orange County Animal Services <br />501 W. Franklin St, Suite 106, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919) 968-2287 <br /> <br />Animal Control <br />PO Box 8181 <br />304 Revere Rd <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />(919) 245-2075 <br /> <br />Robert A. Marotto, <br />Director <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Animal Shelter <br />1081 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd <br />Chapel Hill, NC 27514 <br />(919) 967-7383 <br />Monthly Report <br />Orange County Animal Services <br />July 2006 <br /> <br /> <br />Departmental Highlights <br /> <br />1. The County has received several proposals in response to the RFP for the design and engineering <br />of the new Animal Services Facility, and these are presently under review. It is expected that a <br />recommendation will be made to the Board of Commissioners sometime in September. The <br />County Clerk’s Office continues to accept applications for members of the Design Committee to <br />assist with the design of the new facility. Appointments to this committee are approved by the <br />Board of County Commissioners, who will also provide the committee with guidance on the new <br />facility and its expected place within the county. <br /> <br />The University of North Carolina and the County will be preparing a new lease for the land that <br />the existing shelter is occupying, ensuring that operation of the current shelter can continue <br />through the end of 2009. This is expected to allow a smooth transition between the current shelter <br />and the new facility. While there will be some environmental remediation in the vicinity of the <br />existing shelter that will require temporary changes to both access and parking for several months <br />in the winter of 2007/2008, the University and the county are committed to maintaining <br />continuity of operations until the changeover to the new facility is complete. <br /> <br /> <br />2. At the end of July, there had been fourteen (14) positive rabies tests—one (1) skunk, one (1) fox, <br />two (2) bats and ten (10) raccoons. Eleven (11) of these involved definite exposures; however in <br />three (3) cases tests were conducted to be “safe rather than sorry”—insofar as initially it was not <br />possible to rule out an exposure—but it was ultimately determined that there were no exposures <br />in these three cases. In 2005, there were twenty-three (23) positive rabies tests in the County. All <br />but five of those involved raccoons; the remainder included positive tests for two foxes, a bat, a <br />beaver and a dog. <br /> <br />Three low-cost rabies vaccination clinics were held in July, bringing to fifteen the total for the <br />year. At the clinic held at Paws n’ Claws Pet Boutique in Rougemont on Wednesday, July 19th, a <br />total of fifty (50) animals – forty-one (41) dogs and nine (9) cats – were vaccinated. At the clinic <br />held in the parking lot of the Hillsborough Courthouse, on Thursday July 20th, a total of one- <br />hundred eight (108) animals – seventy (70) dogs and thirty-eight (38) cats – were vaccinated. <br />And at the Carrboro Century Center in Carrboro on Saturday, July 22nd, a total of one-hundred