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<br /> <br />Sustainable Services <br />• Support strategic plan for managing pet overpopulation to control <br />medium and long-term animal service costs as well as to reduce the <br />use of euthanasia a means of population control. <br />• Support efforts to advance the plan for managing free roaming cats <br />in Orange County as a critical component of the overall strategic <br />plan. <br />• Support efforts to meet or exceed professional standards within the <br />field of animal welfare and animal services, including initiatives to <br />provide service to underserved areas by developing new and <br />different community relations <br /> <br />Making County Government Accessible, Understandable and Transparent <br />• Serve as a sounding board for various issues and policy concerns. <br />• Coordinate with staff to inform the County Manager and the BOCC of <br />strategic initiatives and significant policy considerations <br />• Conduct research and make policy and/or program <br />recommendations to the BOCC as needed <br />• Identify needed amendments to the UAO for based upon the <br />experience of the Animal Services Hearing Panel Pool. <br /> <br />Advisory Board Roles and Responsibilities <br />• Provide a setting for stakeholder communication about animal- <br />related matters <br />• Providing leadership to the appeal hearing panels by having three (3) <br />board members be part of the Animal Services Hearing Panel Pool <br />and chair the hearing panels <br />• Recommend ASAB applicants to the BOCC and orient new members <br />to the role and responsibility of the advisory board. <br />• Supporting the Pat Sanford Animal Welfare Grant with board <br />members serving along with staff on the annual grant application <br />review panel. <br /> <br />What are the concerns or emerging issues your board has identified for the <br />upcoming year that it plans to address, or wishes to bring to the Commissioners’ <br />attention? <br /> <br />Unified Animal Ordinance: Several items of concern have arisen in the <br />hearing process experience over the last year. Some of these are more <br />technical issues but there is a general policy issue as well, namely, <br />whether there should be more gradations in the manner in which a dog is <br />declared a danger to the public. As one panel member recently noted after <br />a challenging hearing, the ordinance does not have a lot of flexibility in this <br />area and everyone would feel better about their service if more tools were <br />available to use in administering this part of the ordinance. Thus, the <br />ASAB will be considering whether there are reasonable options that may