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10 <br />relationship with APS and to consider again likely impacts upon volunteerism if that <br />were to be among the recommendations of this task force and then recommend it to <br />the Board of County Commissioners, <br />So unless there are other questions from the task force, forme, our staff or other <br />members of our staff who are present or from the public, then I will yield the <br />podium, <br />Thank you.. Are there any questions from task force members? <br />Yes, go ahead Bonnie. <br />Bonnie: Gwen, do you have any feeling yet on Draft C how you would redefine the <br />relationship with APS? Do you have anything in your mind yet about that? <br />Gwen: Again, that is an element for discussion among the members of the task <br />force. Your,job is not completed yet, Ms, Norwood.. What we recognize is staff and <br />also we believe from the prior conversations with the task force that if there is a new <br />facility that is created and operated by APS and the Board of County Commissioners <br />would choose to centralize and to have the sheltering under the County Manager's <br />office, that there would be a need to have some better understanding as to how those <br />two separate facilities would operate so that one would not be perceived as the evil <br />umpire where animals may go to depart to be euthanized so there would not <br />inherently be a sense of competition between two facilities that might not be under <br />the same control and operation. <br />Bonnie: Thank you, Gwen. <br />Mr, Textoris: Gwen, the papers a week or so ago had the university possibly offering <br />up an extra five years on top of the lease that is already there for the shelter which <br />would be 2006 plus five, I believe to the year 2011.. One, I wonder if you've heard <br />any more in terms of concrete statements or anything from them and second to alert <br />the task force that maybe this would have some function in teens of our decision <br />over the next couple to three weeks because money is involved and putting things off <br />and whether the shelter would be renovated versus going on with the program for <br />2006, etc. so it is a little bit of a complication there, <br />Gwen: It is a consideration, Mr. Textoris,. The county's position has been that with <br />the deadline of 2006 that was what we were like reaching to be able to be at a <br />particular point to begin the planning for that kind of development. I believe that it is <br />welcomed news in terms of what the university will allow but I don't believe that <br />necessarily gives any kind of relief to the sense of urgency associated with being able <br />to identify a site, identify the funding and to be able to develop a new shelter. One of <br />things that we did realize in the report from HSUS is that the facility that we do have <br />at present is not the best facility for running a modern progressive animal sheltering <br />operation.. There is a consideration for the county as it relates to what types of <br />