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a. Animal Services is partnering with Kidzu Children’s Museum in Chapel Hill for programming and outreach. b. Request received and application completed for UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Nonprofit Board Fellows Program to work with ASAB and staff. 4. Volunteer Guidelines for ASAB Members a. Director Bob Marotto discussed potential need for policies governing ASAB members who are also OCAS volunteers regarding the following: i. Recognizing that role as advisor and volunteer are entirely separate ii. Recognizing that ASAB member has no special standing as a volunteer iii. Recognizing that ASAB member must meet highest standards in his/her role as a volunteer b. Staff will explore the issues and proposed solution to be presented to the ASAB for review. 5. In light of retirement of County Manager Frank Clifton, Director Bob Marotto discussed goal of balance of tensions between operations and governance. Old Business 1. Unified Animal Control Ordinance a. Director Bob Marotto discussed in detail a document created by staff highlighting changes to proposed Unified Animal Control Ordinance and explaining rationale for each as directed by the BOCC. b. He also reviewed a meeting between chairs and staff of ASAB and Agricultural Preservation Board that took place on August 19, 2013. Suggestions from that meeting included changing proposed Unified Animal Control Ordinance to provide that acts involving at-large livestock that are outside of farmer’s control not considered a nuisance and make explicit that there is discretion as to whether a farm animal off property should be considered as a public nuisance. c. Public Comment: Bonnie Hauser gave comment in support of a Unified Ordinance with no substantive changes in order to allow individual consideration of all identified areas of concern, as well as an appeal process for entire ordinance to a quasi-judicial body analogous to the Board of Adjustment. d. Commissioner Bernadette Pelissier commented on analogous process of creating a Unified Development Ordinance and suggested that changes that do not impair operations could be deferred until after consolidation. e. ASAB voted unanimously to approve the document prepared by staff, with two suggestions for staff to: (1) provide additional explanation of the originating source(s) and rationale for chosen content where differences among existing ordinances were reconciled and (2) consider the possibility of (to the extent feasible) providing to the BOCC alternate drafts of the proposed ordinance with the three controversial issues of trespass, watchdog, and livestock left unchanged. Meeting adjourned at: 9:00 PM Name of Minute Taker: Michelle Walker