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Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Execute an Alameda Animal Shelter Services Agreement and a Lease Agreement with the Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter (FAAS) for an Amount Not to Exceed $804,300 in FY18/19 with an escalator for the second year, plus $45,000 for Capital Improvements in Fiscal Year 2017-18. (City Manager 2110)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Execute an Alameda Animal Shelter Services Agreement with the Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter (FAAS) for an Amount Not to Exceed $804,300 with an escalator for the second year plus $45,000 for Capital Improvements in Fiscal Year 2017-18.
BACKGROUND
Animal control shelters are regulated under the California Food and Agriculture Code and the California Civil and Penal codes. It mandates that city and county animal control shelters and/or its agencies provide care to animals housed in an animal control shelter to prevent spread of disease, to protect the animals and protect the public good. Historically, animal care and control in the City of Alameda has been provided by the Police Department.
In June 2011, during the height of the recession, the Alameda City Council approved its annual budget, which included steep spending cuts in all Departments in order to close a $7.5 million budget deficit. The Police Department's $1.3 million budget reduction, or five percent of its total budget (at that time), included outsourcing the Alameda Animal Shelter to another community or non-profit organization and eliminating four police officer positions (two in investigations and two in traffic). The alternative to outsourcing the Animal Shelter was the elimination of an additional five police officer positions, for a total of nine police officers. These positions have not been added back into the Police Department since 2011, with the exception of adding another .5 FTE Animal C...
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