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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 8, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5-d <br />SUBJECT: Contract with the Town of Chapel Hill for Animal Control and Emergency <br />Animal Rescue Services (EARS) <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager's Office PUBLIC HEARING: (Y(N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />John Link, County Manager, ext 2300 <br />Proposed Contract Gwen Harvey, Assistant County <br />Manager, ext 2307 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To request BOCC approval for entering into a contract with the Town of Chapel Hill <br />to provide the Town with animal control and emergency animal rescue services beginning July <br />1.2004. <br />BACKGROUND: On April 20, 2004, the BOCC authorized action steps for the transition of the <br />Orange County Shelter operations from the Animal Protection Society (APS) to the County <br />Manager effective July 1, 2004. The BOCC was informed at that time of several pending <br />contracts that would need to be negotiated and brought forward for approval consistent with the <br />agreed upon transition. <br />The attached contract has been developed and reviewed by the Town of Chapel Hill to provide <br />for the continuation of animal control services and emergency animal rescue services to the <br />Town as were previously provided to the Town through contract with the APS. <br />Under the proposed contract with the County, as was the case under the contract with APS, an <br />Animal Control Officer is housed at the Shelter whose principal responsibilities are the <br />enforcement of the Town's animal control ordinance within the Town limits, including the <br />response to animal control emergencies within the Town that occur Monday-Friday between <br />8:OOAM and 6:OOPM. <br />The Emergency Animal Rescue Service (EARS) is a program that APS had provided under <br />contract to both Chapel Hill and Carrboro. EARS covered the response by an-call APS kennel <br />technicians to animal injuries, animal cruelty, animal rescue, animals in need of assistance, <br />rabies suspects in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and all calls in the Town limits of Chapel Hill and <br />Carrboro after hours -from 6:OOPM to 8:OOAM, Monday through Friday, and 24 hours on <br />