Information

Type: Deliberation

Department: PHSS - Public Health & Social Services

Directors' Update: Dec. 22, 2021

Business Meeting: Dec. 28, 2021

Summary:

Four members of the Lewis County Dangerous Animal Designation (DAD) Board will have their three-year terms expire on December 31, 2021. Elsista Ridings, Charles R. Snipes, April Hoyt, and Kevin T. Nelson have expressed an interest in serving as full-time members for another three-year term. 

One vacancy remains: Craig Burke stepped down sometime before October 18, 2021. The BOCC appointed Maritza Bravo to fill that vacancy for one day - Oct. 25, 2021 (Res. 21-373) - to ensure the DAD Board had a quorum for its Oct. 25 hearing.

 

Publications:

Cover Letter To:

Additional Copies To: Tailor Arrington, Bri Barlock, Bill Teitzel

Resolution

WHEREAS, the Lewis County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) established the Dangerous Animal Designation (DAD) Board via Resolution 18-351 on Nov. 26, 2018, in an effort to enhance public participation in the dangerous animal designation process according to Lewis County Code, Chapter 6. 05 Animals; and

WHEREAS, the terms for the members of the DAD Board were set to expire December 31, 2021; and

WHEREAS, DAD Board members Elsista Ridings, Charles R. Snipes, April Hoyt and Kevin T. Nelson have each expressed an interest in serving as a full-time member for another three-year term; and

WHEREAS, it is in the public's best interest to reappoint these four full-time members to the DAD Board.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the BOCC hereby reappoints Elsista Ridings, Charles R. Snipes, April Hoyt and Kevin T. Nelson as full-time members of the DAD Board for three-year terms expiring December 31, 2024.

DONE IN OPEN SESSION this 28th day of December, 2021.