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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary documents including any necessary subsequent amendments, with the Helen Sanders Cat Protection and Welfare Society, of Boulder, CO, to partner with Long Beach Animal Care Services to take cats and kittens into its care directly from Long Beach Animal Care Services for the purpose of rehoming, providing spay/neuter education to adopters, and arranging for routine and other necessary medical care services to cats and kittens transferred into their care, for an annual contract amount not to exceed $50,000, from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2025, with two optional five-year renewals, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The Helen Sanders Cat Protection and Welfare Society (CatPAWS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 2010 to address the problem of abandoned and stray felines and unwanted litters of kittens by providing spay/neuter education, offering vouchers, and taking in cats, focusing on those in public shelters. CatPAWS takes felines from Long Beach Animal Care Services (LBACS) and cares for them to help reduce overpopulation at the shelter, often covering medical issues and surgeries at their own expense.
For over a decade, CatPAWS has been a primary partner and supporter of lifesaving work at LBACS in several capacities and has operated as a rescue organization that has saved thousands of cats entrusted to LBACS, including over 700 cats and kittens since 2017, and an additional 1,200 cats and kittens while under a previous partnership that established the Long Beach Little Paws Project Kitten Nursery.
The new partnership will assist CatPAWS with certain mandatory expenses related to the care for cats and kittens taken into their care from LBACS, enabling both CatPAWS and LBACS to expand their capacity so more animals may be helped at the shelter and in the community.
In addition to saving lives through the re...
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