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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: February 19, 2019 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Resolution Acknowledging February 26, 2019, as Spay Neuter Day in Orange <br />County, North Carolina <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Animal Services PUBLIC HEARING: No <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Spay Neuter Day Resolution <br />2018 Community Spay/Neuter Program <br />Report <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />INFORMATION CONTACTS: <br />Bob Marotto, Director, Animal Services, <br />919.932.4963 <br /> <br /> Cooper Hatch, Program Coordinator, <br /> Animal Services, 919.932.4965 <br /> <br />Maureane Hoffman, Chair, Animal <br />Services Advisory Board, 919.493.2999 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To request that the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) officially resolve that <br />February 26, 2019, is “Spay Neuter Day” in Orange County and provide an update about the county’s <br />spay and neuter program to the BOCC. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: Animal Services staff and the Animal Services Advisory Board (ASAB) are <br />recommending that the BOCC adopt a resolution making February 26, 2019, “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 />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 for Orange <br />County, North Carolina. Fundamental to this plan is targeting spays and neuters in our county to <br />decrease the rate of reproduction of dogs and cats , thereby containing the number of animals that <br />must be sheltered and the costs of caring for those animals . <br /> <br />The final stage of this plan is to address free roaming cats in Orange County. Accordingly, staff and <br />the ASAB prepared a plan called Managing Free-Roaming Cats in Orange County, North <br />Carolina. A central component of this plan is to more effectively sterilize these (and other) cats in <br />order to reduce their numbers over time. <br />