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Consent-Law & Justice Services # 18.
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| Board of Supervisors |
Sheriff-Coroner/Public Administrator |
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| Subject |
| Approve one-year revenue agreements for animal control services with the City of Davis, City of West Sacramento, City of Winters, City of Woodland and the University of California, Davis (UCD) from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 totaling $1,780,461. (No general fund impact) (Lopez/Johnson) |
| Recommended Action |
| Approve one-year revenue agreements for animal control services with the City of Davis, City of West Sacramento, City of Winters, the City of Woodland, and UCD from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 totaling $1,780,461. |
| Strategic Plan Goal(s) |
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Safe Communities |
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| 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 UCD to receive reimbursement of such services. The term of the proposed five agreements with each jurisdiction is from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021, with all agreements totaling $1,780,461 as detailed in the table below.
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FY 19/20 |
| Davis |
$318,723 |
| West Sacramento |
621,245 |
| Winters |
50,710 |
| Woodland |
738,530 |
| University of California, Davis |
51,253 |
| Total |
$1,780,461 |
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
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, 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 $47.00 per hour will be reimbursed by the cities 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 Recommended Fiscal Year 2020-21 Animal Services budget. The Sheriff’s Office will return to the Board with amendments to the Agreements reflecting anticipated changes to the Adopted fiscal year 2020-21 budget. These anticipated changes are due to increases to the County’s General Liability budgeted expenditures and repayment costs for a Countywide energy-efficient improvement project, which included improvements to the animal shelter buildings. Such budgetary changes were added to the Animal Services budget after the Recommended budget was approved by the Board of Supervisors.
The total program cost is allocated between the cities of Davis, West Sacramento, Winters, Woodland, UCD, and Yolo County based on a three-year average 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 in 2015 that the program should be funded based on 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.
In FY 19-20, the Sheriff’s Office moved from conducting two-year term revenue agreements to a one-year term to not only ensure full cost recovery but to also allow for budgetary flexibility year over year. The Sheriff’s Office will continue to work with the participating agencies to look at every option possible to optimize the operating expenditures, increase revenues, and enhance the services provided by the Animal Services Section. In an effort to increase licensing compliance and potentially reduce agreement amounts, a provision in the agreement allows for a reduction to the final quarter payment should the licensing revenue collected within each city's jurisdiction exceed the anticipated fiscal year amount. The participating agencies have agreed to take a more active role in reducing service calls after hours, which has been in effect since 2015.
Because these agreements are 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 agreements 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 $2,894,433 Recommended budget. Sheriff’s Office staff has historically collaborated with each jurisdiction to prorate the program’s costs. |
| Competitive Bid Process |
| As these agreements are revenue agreements, 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 2020-21 Animal Services current Recommended budget appropriation of $1,780,460 for Law Enforcement Services includes the cumulative amount of $1,780,460 in reimbursement revenue from the city and UCD agreements. The General Fund amount of $532,487 for FY 20-21 Yolo County portion was included in the Recommended Budget. The Sheriff’s Office will return to the Board with amendments to the Agreements reflecting changes anticipated in the Adopted FY 20-21 budget from increases to General Liability and expenditures for energy improvements at the shelter. |
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