The City Council created this adhoc committee on December 1, 2021, to evaluate a rabies vaccination program in the region and determine ways for collaboration in communities. Following the adhoc committee's work, the City Council voted to seek guidance from county, state, and federal governments in the coordination of the oral rabies vaccination component of a wider rabies management campaign on April 20, 2022. City Manager Marc Meyers reported to City Council on July 7, 2022, that there was no support for an ORV program from county, state and federal governments.
Membership
Mary Ellen Bell | City Council rep. |
Elizabeth Dingley, Chair | City Council rep. |
Roo Dunn | City Council rep. |
Anna Hunt | |
Chris Marks | |
Rose McConnell | |
Peter Smith | |
Marc Meyers, City Manager | Ex Officio |
Membership updated 3-18-2022
Meetings
March 15, 2022 | |
Minutes | |
March 29, 2022 | |
Agenda | Minutes |
April 19, 2022 | |
Agenda | Minutes |
Previous work
In response to an influx of rabid animals in 2019-2020, which resulted in 18 fox attacks on people and pets, the City partnered with the USDA and Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife on response including public education and a trapping program to reduce population densities of locally abundant rabies vector species to mitigate the human-wildlife conflict.
Trapping Program Press Release
A rabies adhoc committee was created by City Council to consider options for addressing potential rabies outbreaks. This committee met from January 2021-July 2021.
Two products from that adhoc committee's work:
Greater Bath, Maine Oral Rabies Vaccination (ORV) Zone Design, provided by USDA
Rabies Ad Hoc Committee Update for Council, August 4, 2021
For more information on rabies, visit www.cityofbath.com/rabies.