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Residents, council members press city to review animal-control contract after complaints about cost and responsiveness
Summary
Multiple residents and council members on June 2 urged Ceres to scrutinize the county animal-control JPA (SASA) and study whether buying a vehicle or moving some services in-house could reduce the roughly $881,000 cost cited in the budget.
During public comment at the Ceres June 2 budget workshop, several residents and council members pressed staff to re-examine the city's contract for animal-control services after describing slow response times and raising the program's reported cost.
"$800 and some odd thousand dollars a year is just bizarre for animal control in Ceres," a resident said during public comment, echoing other…
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