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Accept a $50,000 Rachael Ray: Save Them All grant funded by the Rachael Ray Foundation and administered by Best Friends Animal Society to reduce shelter deaths for the period of August 26, 2019 through September 1, 2020; Authorize the Sheriff, pending County Counsel concurrence, to execute the agreement and any amendments that remain within budgeted appropriations; and Approve an Appropriations Transfer Request (ATR) of $50,000 to recognize unanticipated grant revenue and related appropriations associated with Animal Care Services' Hipped to be Tipped - Shelter Neuter Return project (4/5 vote required)
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Sheriff recommends that the Board of Supervisors:
1. Accept a $50,000 Rachael Ray: Save Them All grant funded by the Rachael Ray Foundation and administered by Best Friends Animal Society to reduce shelter deaths for the period of August 26, 2019 through September 1, 2020;
2. Authorize the Sheriff, pending County Counsel concurrence, to execute the agreement and any amendments that remain within budgeted appropriations; and
3. Approve an Appropriations Transfer Request (ATR) of $50,000 to recognize unanticipated grant revenue and related appropriations associated with Animal Care Services' Hipped to be Tipped - Shelter Neuter Return project (4/5 vote required).
SUMMARY:
The Sheriff's Office Animal Care Services Division (Animal Care) entered into a partnership with Best Friends Animal Society (Best Friends) to conduct an assessment of the County's animal shelter operations. One recommendation was to increase spay/neuter funding to help solve the overpopulation issues with community cats, thereby reducing the number of cats brought in to the animal shelter. In response, Animal Care applied for a Rachael Ray: Save Them All (STA) grant funded by the Rachael Ray Foundation and administered by Best Friends. The STA ...
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