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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 />November 2005 <br /> <br /> <br />Departmental Highlights <br /> <br />1. Activities integral to the development of the Animal Services Department are continuing. In <br />addition to this evolving monthly report, our administrative staff is redesigning the Animal <br />Service web pages to ensure that they are complete and up-to-date and that they conform to the <br />new forms and standards of the County’s Information Technology Department. The revised <br />website includes pages for both the Animal Control and Animal Shelter Divisions; and it is <br />expected to be introduced and used starting around the middle of December. <br /> <br />Also, our program staff has developed a new Animal Services brochure. In a single place, the <br />brochure describes our department’s animal control and animal sheltering services, e.g., adoption <br />possibilities, rabies clinics, spay/neuter outreach, pet licensing, and so forth. Copies of these <br />brochures are available from our Program Coordinator, Sarah Fallin, who may be reached at the <br />County’s Animal Shelter. <br /> <br />2. The third meeting of the Animal Services Advisory Board (ASAB) was held on November 16th, <br />2005. Among the issues addressed at this meeting were the standing committees responsible for <br />appeals of dangerous dog declarations and adoption denials and the elements and features that are <br />desirable for the design of the County’s new integrated Animal Services Center (aka Animal <br />Shelter). The ASAB also set a monthly meeting calendar for the first half of 2006 and received <br />select updates from the Animal Services Director that included rabies control, various recruitment <br />efforts, and miscellaneous items <br /> <br />3. One of the department updates received at the recent ASAB meeting concerned the greyhound <br />case that was successfully prosecuted and resolved through the coordination of Animal Services <br />staff, the Office of the District Attorney, and others. Given the accomplishment of this case, this <br />update is reproduced below in its entirety: <br /> <br />a. Defendants (Kenneth & Robbin Wiseman) pled no contest to 47 charges of animal <br />cruelty on October 31st, 2005 <br />b. Defendants were sentenced as follows: <br />i. Three years of supervised probation, with the option of appeal for reducing the <br />length after one year