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ANIMAL CARE SHELTER SERVICES - PRICELESS PETS RESCUE
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DEPARTMENT: POLICE DEPARTMENT
PRESENTED BY: STEPHANIE SELINSKE, LIEUTENANT
CONTACT INFORMATION: STEPHANIE SELINSKE, (714) 754-5293
RECOMMENDATION:
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Staff recommends the City Council:
1. Approve and authorize the City Manager to execute the Professional Services Agreement with Priceless Pets Rescue (PPR) to provide full-service animal sheltering and animal adoption services. PPR will be responsible for the intake, coordination, and management of animals within the City of Costa Mesa for a five-year term, July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2029, for a not to exceed amount of $480,000 annually.
2. Approve an annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) escalation and de-escalation not exceeding 5%.
3. Authorize the City Manager and City Clerk to execute the agreement and any future authorized amendments to the agreement.
4. Authorize the City Manager or designee to extend the PPR interim service agreement (Amendment #6) until June 30, 2024, for a not to exceed amount of $33,000 monthly.
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BACKGROUND:
In 2018, the City explored opportunities to provide a more personalized approach to animal care. At that time, the City created the Animal Services Unit within the Parks and Community Services Department to directly oversee the Animal Care Services' contracts and to track animals from impound to adoption. With an immediate need to put a new animal shelter and adoption service plan in place, City staff from the Police Department, Parks and Community Services Department, and the City Manager's Office worked together to identify possible solutions located in and around the city to care for the communities' animals. At the conclusion of this process, the responsibility for animal sheltering and animal adoption services was contracted to two separate service providers.
In the years that followed, management and oversight of the two providers were determined to be inefficient. Having two ...
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