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Orange County Animal Services <br />1601 Eubanks Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 <br /> <br />ANIMAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD (ASAB) <br />Meeting Summary <br /> <br />6:30 to 8:00 p.m. <br />Wednesday, November 21, 2018 <br /> <br />Orange County Animal Services <br />1601 Eubanks Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 <br /> <br /> <br />MEMBERS PRESENT: Maureane Hoffman (Chair), Evelyn Daniel, Elmore, Beth Grooms, Lee <br />Pickett, Amanda Schwoerke, Bryan Stuart, Edmund Tiryakian, Lisa Wells <br />MEMBERS ABSENT: Molly Mullin, Susan Elmore, Diane Obeid <br />STAFF PRESENT: Bob Marotto (Animal Services Director); Andi Morgan, Animal Services <br />Assistant Director <br /> <br />Agenda approved <br />Meeting summaries for September and October approved <br /> <br />No public comments <br /> <br />New business: <br />2019 Meeting Schedule <br />3rd Wed of the month except for holidays <br />No meetings July or December <br />Proposed schedule approved (as amended to reflect corrected years and November <br />date) <br /> <br />Progress Report & Work plan <br /> Bob talked about priorities and strategic goals <br />Maureane suggested additions to plans with respect to community services section for <br />next year. Bob will add a sentence or two <br />Ed suggested attaching article about the barn cat program; also suggested making it <br />explicit our success with respect to “lifelong muzzling,” add dogfighting legislative <br />advocacy. (Maureane agreed with this but thought it should be couched in terms of <br />using a behavioral assessment to make the determination rather than a once-size-fits all <br />inflexible standard) <br />1. community’s and media’s positive reception of community-cats program <br />2. being able to allow for “revisit[ing], review[ing], and rescind[ing]” of dangerous-dog <br />declarations