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Joint Animal Services to negotiate two-year contract to provide Mason County field services
Summary
Joint Animal Services staff asked the commission to approve negotiating a two-year, $175,000 contract to provide a field officer and related services to Mason County. The proposal excludes routine stray pickup and sheltering beyond a limited number of seized animals and is contingent on hiring, negotiation and future formal approval.
Joint Animal Services Executive Director Sarah Hock told commissioners on April 21 that staff will seek authority from the commission to negotiate a two-year, $175,000 contract to provide limited animal control field services to Mason County.
Hock said the contract proposal would fund one full-time animal control officer assigned to Mason County (a two-year limited-term hire tied to the contract), administrative costs, and an initial sheltering contingency. "That $175,000 would include one Animal Control Officer ... and it also covers part of this contract would include up to 25 animals, more specifically dogs and cats, that we would house from a sheltering standpoint," Hock said. She added the sheltering contingency is budgeted at about $50,000 to cover specific seizure incidents.
The proposal would not cover routine stray-animal responses across Mason County, Hock said.…
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