Two Toronto city councillors and zoo staff are planning what will be a second major trip to the PAWS sanctuary in a bid to quell concerns over the medical records and health of eight elephants at the California facility.

In an effort to hammer out a transfer plan that would send Toronto’s three remaining elephants, Toka, Thika, and Iringa, to the sanctuary, councillors Giorgio Mammoliti, Michelle Berardinetti, and zoo CEO John Tracogna, announced Thursday that they will fly to California, along with senior zoo veterinarian Graham Crashaw — perhaps after city council meets next Wednesday.

“I have concerns and I’d like to see it for myself,’’ Mammoliti told reporters after emerging from Mayor Rob Ford’s office, where a meeting was held to address the elephant impasse.

Those concerns remain, despite the fact Berardinetti and Toronto Zoo staff already paid a visit to PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society) last year. Berardinetti and Councillor Raymond Cho visited the facility in December and gave it the thumbs-up.

That same month, veterinarians Crawshaw and Dr. Bill Rapley headed a five-member team that visited PAWS, including Toronto zookeepers. Officials gave the zoo team a chance to inspect the facility and made various information about it available, including staff qualifications, quarantine procedures, veterinary protocols and medical records.

The zoo, for reasons not entirely clear, declined to see the latter, and still hasn’t viewed the records.

A stalemate continues over medical records. Julie Woodyer, a representative with Zoocheck Canada, an animal rights group representing PAWS here on the elephant transfer negotiations, says PAWS has concerns about confidentiality agreements involving animals with health issues that have been sent there from other institutions. PAWS wants to guard the confidentiality of those institutions, she said.

Zoo officials say one of their major concerns is a report that some of PAWS’ elephants have been exposed to tuberculosis. According to a confidential email provided to the Star, three Asian elephants have tested positive for exposure, but none of the cases is active, and the animals affected would not come in contact with Toronto’s three African elephants.

Berardinetti, who initially hoped to give the medical records directly to the zoo’s CEO, explained that they’re now in the hands of a PAWS lawyer in Toronto, who will be sitting down with the city’s lawyer.

She said keepers at the Toronto Zoo are doing their best for the elephants under the circumstances, but the conditions here for the trio are “substandard.’’

“We need them to get the elephants to the best place possible,’’ she said, referring to PAWS.

Berardinetti was the author of the motion that led to a 31-4 city council vote on Oct. 24 to send the pachyderm trio to PAWS. But that vote came at nearly 11 p.m. There were no zoo experts in the room, nor was there a staff report on the issue for councillors to study.

Critics of the vote say it was conducted in haste and that questions that should have been asked at the time are now coming to the fore.

Berardinetti and Mammoliti will pay their own way for the upcoming trip, while the zoo will pay flight costs for the CEO and vet.

The elephants were originally thought to be headed to California at the end of April, but Berardinetti said Thursday the new date is the end of June.

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Tracogna, standing feet away from her, told reporters that was merely a target date.

“There’s no end date on time yet. There’s still missing pieces of the equation. The end of June is a new target, but that’s still dependent on when a U.S. import permit is received (to ship the elephants), and resolving the legal aspects,’’ Tracogna said.