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Consent-Law & Justice Services # 16.
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| Board of Supervisors |
Sheriff-Coroner/Public Administrator |
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| Subject |
| Approve one-year revenue agreement for animal control services with the City of Winters from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020 in the amount of $60,908. (No general fund impact) (Lopez/Johnson) |
| Recommended Action |
| Approve one-year revenue agreement for animal control services with the City of Winters from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020 in the amount of $60,908. |
| Strategic Plan Goal(s) |
Operational Excellence
Safe Communities |
| Reason for Recommended Action/Background |
Yolo County, through the Sheriff’s Office Animal Services Section, is contractually responsible for providing all cities, unincorporated areas, and the campus of UCD with animal control ordinance enforcement, dog licensing, shelter operation and spay/neuter education services. In the past fiscal years, the Sheriff’s Office has contracted with the City of Davis, City of West Sacramento, City of Winters, City of Woodland, and the University of California, Davis (UCD) to receive reimbursement of such services. The Sheriff’s Office received Board approval for four of the five agreements on December 17, 2019, with the intention to return with the City of Winters Agreement after they received their City Council approval. The term of the proposed agreement is from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020 for a total amount of $60,908.
The Sheriff’s Office will provide:
- The pickup of stray animals not in the presence of their owners that may be injured or sick and require the provision of medical care per Penal Code section 597(f);
- The provision of rabies control including quarantine of biting animals and the pickup of high risk rabies animals for testing, per Health and Safety Code sections 120210-121690;
- Assistance to the Yolo County Coroner, fire departments, or other law enforcement agencies;
- Response to vicious animals;
- Response to contained stray or free roaming dogs;
- The receiving and forwarding of Animal Complaint Reports to the appropriate jurisdiction; and
- Response to wildlife only if there is a bat, skunk, or rabies control issue.
Services shall be limited to 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Services will be provided outside these specific hours only when authorized in advance by a representative of the requesting city or UCD, except for when required by Health and Safety Code section 121595 and 121600 or Penal Code section 597(f). In addition to the agreed compensation amounts, an additional hourly fee of $44.00 per hour will be reimbursed by the cities or UCD for any extraordinary incident defined as requiring a response time of more than ten County staff hours.
Total program cost to the cities and UCD is based on the adopted fiscal year 2019-20 Animal Services budget. The cost is allocated between the cities of Davis, West Sacramento, Winters, Woodland, UCD, and Yolo County based on a three-year averages of the number of animals housed and number of calls for service. A reduction of the costs for each jurisdiction is based on the three-year average of animal licenses sold. The representatives of the cities and the University mutually agreed that the program should be funded based such parameters to smooth out any drastic changes to patrol calls, animals housed, and /or licenses sold from year to year. As a result, net program costs are recovered through these revenue agreements, with Yolo County only responsible for the portion of costs associated with animal shelter and patrol services provided to the unincorporated areas of the county.
Previously the revenue agreement has had a two-year term, however, the Sheriff’s Office has decided on a one-year term to better forecast future costs. The Sheriff’s Office continues to work with the participating agencies to look at every option possible to reduce the operating expenditures, increase revenues, and enhance the services provided by the Animal Services Section. In an effort to increase licensing compliance and reduce agreement amounts, an agreement provision has been made that, should the revenue collected from licensing within each city's jurisdiction exceed the anticipated fiscal year amount, the final quarter payment due to the County will be adjusted accordingly. The participating agencies have agreed to take a more active role in reducing service calls after hours, which has been in effect for several fiscal years.
Because this agreement is between government entities, Board of Supervisors approval is now requested. |
| Collaborations (including Board advisory groups and external partner agencies) |
| County Counsel has approved the attached agreement and approved as to form. The County Administrator provides oversight in reaching concurrence with the participating cities and UCD on the calculation of each entity’s portioned cost of the program’s $3,079,857 budget. Sheriff-Coroner staff have historically collaborated with each jurisdiction in reaching the methodology to prorate the program’s costs. |
| Competitive Bid Process |
| As this agreement is a revenue agreement, no competitive bid occurred. |
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| Source of Funds for this Expenditure |
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Explanation (Expenditure and/or Revenue) |
| Further explanation as needed: |
| The 2019-20 Animal Services current adopted budget appropriation of $1,867,219 for Law Enforcement Services includes the $60,908 in reimbursement revenue from the City of Winters Agreement. The general fund amount of $553,938 for FY 2019-20 Yolo County portion was included in the adopted budget, therefore no additional general funds will be required. |
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