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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: February 17, 2015 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Resolution Acknowledging February 24, 2015, as Spay Neuter Day USA in <br />Orange County, North Carolina <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Animal Services PUBLIC HEARING: No <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Spay Neuter Day Resolution <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Bob Marotto, Director, Animal Services 968-2287 <br />Sarah Fallin, Program Director, Animal Services, <br />942-7387, ext. 224 <br />Michelle Walker, Chair, Animal Services <br /> Advisory Board, 919-448-8029 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To request that the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) officially resolve that <br />February 24, 2015, is “Spay Neuter Day” in Orange County. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: Animal Services staff and the Animal Services Advisory Board (ASAB) <br />recommended that the BOCC adopt a resolution making February 24, 2015, “Spay Neuter Day” in <br />Orange County. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has nationally designated the last <br />Tuesday of each February as “International Spay Day.” <br /> <br />Spay Day USA was originally created in 1995 by the Doris Day Animal League (DDAL), and in 2006, <br />HSUS assumed responsibility for Spay Day USA. Since the creation of Spay Day USA, participants <br />have spayed or neutered more than a million animals, preventing millions of potential births. As a <br />result, millions of taxpayer dollars have been saved that may have otherwise been needed to provide <br />animal control and sheltering for the offspring of these animals. <br /> <br />In Orange County, the issue of pet overpopulation is a priority. Working together, Animal Services <br />staff and the ASAB prepared a five-year strategic plan on the basis of best practices in the field of <br />animal welfare and public policy: Managing Pet Overpopulation: A Strategic Plan of Orange <br />County, North Carolina (see http://www.orangecountync.gov/animalservices/spayneuter.asp). <br />Fundamental to this plan is targeting spay and neuter in our county to decrease the rate of <br />reproduction of dogs and cats and thereby contain the number of animals that must be sheltered and <br />the costs of caring for those animals. <br />