ADOPTED -SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Agenda Item No. 32

 

Introduced by the Law Enforcement and Finance Committees of the:

 

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

 

RESOLUTION TO INCREASE INJURED ANIMAL EMERGENCY

VETERINARIAN SERVICES FEES

 

RESOLUTION #07-231

 

WHEREAS, may of the local veterinarians have cooperated with the Ingham County Animal Control Department over the past years by treating injured animals picked up by the department at all hours of the day and night for only a minimal fee of twenty-five dollars; and

 

WHEREAS, the Ingham County Animal Control Shelter Advisory Board and the Animal Control Director have recommended that the fee be increased from twenty-five dollars to fifty dollars per occurrence to more accurately reflect the actual costs of treating these animals on an emergency basis; and

 

WHEREAS, the Animal Control Department wants to continue this service in cooperation with the local veterinarians and the Animal Control Department has sufficient funds within its contractual services line item to pay for these additional costs.

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners authorizes the Animal Control Department to increase the injured animal emergency veterinarian service fee from twenty-five dollars per occurrence to fifty dollars per occurrence to become effective January 1, 2008.

 

LAW ENFORCEMENT:  Yeas:  Copedge, Tennis, Celentino, De Leon, Holman

   Nays:  None          Absent:  Schafer     Approved 9/13/07

 

FINANCE:  Yeas:  Weatherwax-Grant, Grebner, Hertel, Tennis, Dougan

     Nays:   None        Absent:  Celentino        Approved 9/19/07