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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~_ <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 21, 1999 <br />SUBJECT: Appointment of two 19A County-Appointed Animal Cruelty Investigators for 1999- <br />2000. <br />DEPARTMENT: Health <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />August 2, 19991etter from APS Executive <br />Director to County Manager <br />Excerpt from G.S. Chapter 19A-45 <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/1~ <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 227-2031 <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rosemary L. Summers, Health Director <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: - - ezt. 2411 <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />PURPOSE: To consider the nominations for County-Appointed Animal Cruelty Investigators <br />BACKGROUND: Since September, 1994, the Board of Commissioners has each yeaz appointed <br />or reappointed (an) employee(s) of the Animal Protection Society to act asCounty-Appointed <br />Animal Cruelty Investigator(s) under Chapter 19A, a law which provides a civil remedy for cruelty <br />to animals. The Board of Health has reviewed these nominations and recommended forwazding <br />them to the Boazd of Commissioners for appointment. <br />The two nominees aze employees of the Animal Protection Society and have received special <br />training in this area. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: The investigators act as volunteers, at no salary cost to the county. <br />RECOMMENDATON(S): The Manager recommends that the Boazd of Commissioners appoint <br />Dean Edwazds and Jon Gilmore asCounty-Appointed Animal Cruelty Investigators for 1999-2000. <br />