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Cheyenne Animal Shelter asks city and county for $1 million, outlines cost-recovery budget
Summary
The Cheyenne Animal Shelter asked the City of Cheyenne and Laramie County for a combined $1,000,000 contract increase for the coming fiscal year, presenting a cost-recovery model and saying the request would cover roughly 84% of prior-year sheltering expenses while reducing donor dependence.
Britney Tennant, CEO of the Cheyenne Animal Shelter, told city council members at a work session that the shelter is seeking a combined city-plus-county contract payment of $1,000,000 for the next fiscal year to help close a budget shortfall.
Tennant framed the request around a new cost-recovery accounting model that uses the prior fiscal years actual sheltering expenses as the baseline and reconciles annually so the contract more closely matches real costs. "What we're asking you for this year to start to close that gap is a million dollars," Tennant said during the presentation.
Why it matters: The shelter presented data that the sheltering program's fiscal-year actual cost was about $1,700,000, with roughly $1,190,000 allocated to jurisdictions and about $540,000 attributed to the shelter…
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