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New Business <br /> Spay-Neuter Day <br />o At Animal Service’s request, approved motion to endorse the proposed <br />declaration of February 26, 2019, as Spay-Neuter Day, in accord with World Spay <br />Day <br />• Division 5 of the Unified Animal Ordinance <br />o Discussed whether to consider a request from a citizen to change Sec. 4-182 of <br />Division 5 to allow African spurred tortoises and red-handed tamarins to be kept <br />in Orange County <br />o Agreed that the request was not properly before us because the citizen did not <br />appear before the ASAB <br />o Discussed various issues with Sec. 4-182 of Division 5—Keeping of Wild <br />Animals Dangerous to Persons and Property—including clarity of the language, <br />inclusion of specific species, and opaqueness of the criteria for deciding whether <br />to add or delete species from the division <br />o Bob Marotto explained that safety/health is the only ground on which the ASAB <br />can exclude a species under Division 5, and that the ASAB would have to make a <br />recommendation to the BOCC with respect to removal <br />o Approved motion appointing a working group to review and clarify the language <br />of Sec. 4-182, consistent with the group’s best understanding of the ordinance’s <br />language as it currently stands and consistent with the ordinance’s intent, for <br />recommendation to the BOCC <br />o Bryan Stuart (chair), Edmund Tiryakian, Amanda Schwoerke, Bob Marotto, and <br />Irene Phipps were appointed to the working group, and were charged with <br />reporting to the ASAB at its next meeting <br />o ASAB members also proposed possible future projects with respect to Division 5, <br />including recommending revisions to the exemptions in Sec. 4-183, and <br />recommending amendments to the division to allow for excluding species based <br />on criteria other than safety/health (e.g., animal-welfare concerns; conservation <br />concerns; capacity to manage escapes, etc.) <br /> <br />Adjournment and next meeting: <br />• The meeting was adjourned at 7:58 p.m. The next meeting is February 20, 2019, at 6:30 <br />p.m., Orange County Animal Services Center. <br /> <br />Minutes taken: Amanda Schwoerke <br /> <br /> <br />