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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute agreements, and any necessary amendments, with The Michelson Found Animals Foundation, Inc., and Stray Cat Alliance, both nonprofit organizations, to allow Long Beach Animal Care Services to provide a variety of services to decrease shelter euthanasia of cats, from April 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
On March 22, 2016, the City Council authorized agreements between The Michelson Found Animals Foundation, Inc. (Found Animals), Stray Cat Alliance (SCA), and the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department, Animal Care Services Bureau (ACS), collectively known as parties (Parties) to decrease shelter euthanasia of stray cats in the ACS shelter through the Return to Field Program (Program). The Agreement expired on March 31, 2020, and the Parties would like to continue the partnership through March 31, 2021, to fully transition the Program to ACS effective April 1, 2021. The original partnership was a pilot program designed to increase the number of stray cat lives saved and to give ACS time to develop and work through the most effective procedures, create documentation, and develop staff training materials.
The proposed agreements will contain the following major provisions:
ยท ACS: Will ensure qualifying stray cats are sterilized, microchipped, vaccinated, and treated for fleas. ACS will identify the location where the stray cats were found when brought to the shelter. If treatment or sterilization is needed, ACS will provide the care within 72 hours of admission, and without jeopardizing the health of the stray cat, stray cat will not remain in recovery more than 48 hours. After treatment and recovery, ACS will release all qualifying stray cats to SCA for release back into the community where the stray cats were found. Qualified treated stray cats will be returned to the location where they were found after a minimum of 24-hours of recovery and before 72-hours ...
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