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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 1, 2004 <br />Action Agent a <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Interim Report and Recommendations from the Animal Shelter Operations <br />Task Force on Governance/Management of the Orange County Animal Shelter <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTAGHMENT(S): <br />A -Two Recommended Models <br />B -Transcript of Public Listening <br />Session <br />C -Staff Response to Questions from <br />Public Listening Session <br />D -Task Force Roster <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Commissioner Moses Carey, ASOTF <br />Chair & Convener <br />Gwen Harvey, Assistant County <br />Manager, ext 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To present the interim report and recommendations from the BOCC-appointed <br />Animal Shelter Operations Task Force on the future governance/management of the Orange <br />County Animal Shelter. Linda Schmoldt, Task Force member, will attend the BOCC work <br />session to present the recommendations. <br />BACKGROUND: The Board of County Commissioners authorized the Humane Society of the <br />United States (HSUS) to conduct an assessment of animal control and animal sheltering <br />services paid for by Orange County government in the winter of 2003. The Commissioners, the <br />Board of Health, and the Board of the Animal Protection Society, Inc. (APS) heard a <br />presentation by HSUS staff on August 28, 2003 detailing the release of the Final Report and its <br />recommendations far improvement. On September 16, 2003, County staff returned to the <br />Board of County Commissioners with a potential process for naming a task force and providing <br />a preliminary listing of major topics within the HSUS report that the Task Force could begin to <br />address, if so directed by the BOCC. <br />On December 1, 2004, the BOCC authorized the appointment of an 11-member Animal Shelter <br />Operations Task Force with the following charge: <br />"To review the detailed observations, recommendations, and discussion contained in the <br />Humane Society of the United States Report on Animal Sheltering in Orange County in the <br />context of recent BOCC decisions [i.e.; authorization of an interim contract with the Animal <br />Protection Society (APS) of Orange County through ,June 30, 2004], and provide <br />recommendations far future action to the BOCC by the second meeting in March 2004. The <br />