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08-20-2003 CITY OF EDGEWATER ANIMAL CONTROL BOARD August 20, 2003 7:00 P.M. CITY HALL CONFERENCE ROOM MINUTES CALL TO ORDER Chairperson, Donna Wagner called to order the regular meeting of the Animal Control Board at 7:05 PM in the City Hall Conference Room. ROLL CALL Members present were: Chairperson Donna Wagner, Deborah Brazzell, and Karen Mason. Also present were: Captain Jill Danigel, and Board Secretary Shontella Jackson. Absent were: Elizabeth DiMascio who called on 8/15/03 stating she would not be present and Dr. David Vanis. APPROVAL OF MINUTES MOTION by Karen Mason, SECONDED by Deborah Brazzell to approve the minutes of the May 21, 2003 meeting. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. New By -laws were presented to the board with corrections from the previous by- laws sent in the packets. MOTION by Deborah Brazzell, SECONDED by Karen Mason to approve the bylaws. Chairperson Donna Wagner signed off the approved by -laws. NEW BUSINESS POSSIBLE SHELTER CONTRACT Capt. Danigel conferred the possible shelter contract update with Halifax Humane Society. Capt. Danigel spoke with a representative of the Halifax Humane Society and understood that they were expanding. Capt. Danigel informed them that we were looking for a shelter and Halifax Humane Society stated that they are lobbying very hard not to have a contract with the City. Capt. Danigel asked why and he said that they were overextended as it was and that the expansion would not allow them to keep up with the contracts they already have. But he would be willing to train an animal control officer in euthanasia. Halifax stated if we do the euthanasia they would do the disposal. In October, we will explore the euthanasia option. Chairman Wagner asked have we every thought about contacting the County. Capt. Danigel stated not yet but that will be next. Capt. Danigel stated that we do have a new part -time ACO Ray Frazee is a police officer helping temporarily. OLD BUSINESS Chairman Donna Wagner revisited the Universal tag issue. The three big counties that the universal tag people say are still doing universal tag and the spay /neuter program is not happening. Orange County is no longer participating in any thing, and the other two went out and brought buses. They are doing their own spay /neuter instead of doing rebates. In our ordinance it says that we are suppose to have a spay /neuter program. Dr. Vanis gave Chairman Donna Wagner some figures that there are approximately 17,000 animals in Edgewater. Dr. Vanis and Dr. Nieves composed the figures from records of animals that were vaccinated in a year. Other than forcing people to comply we need to educate them and explain what really is going on. The pet festival was discussed briefly. Chairman Donna Wagner stated she did some checking with the City Park and Recreation Dept. and the month of October is pretty full. Suggestions were made to table this item and to consider the spring for the pet festival. ADJOURNMENT MOTION by Karen Mason, SECONDED by Deborah Brazzell to adjourn the meeting. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. The meeting was adjourned at 7:20 pm. Next Meeting will be held on November 15, 2003 at 7 p.m.