City Council
MEETING DATE: 3/9/2016
TITLE:
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Update on Animal Control Services with Riverside County
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FROM:
George Crum, Chief of Police
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
This item is presented for discussion and direction only.
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BACKGROUND:
The City currently is contracting with Riverside County Animal Control for 20 hours of field service work with one animal control officer working Monday-Friday from 10:00am -2:30pm to include a 30 minute lunch break. Any hours before or after these contracted hours, to include holidays and weekends is billed at an overtime rate with a minimum of two hours callout pay at $82 an hour for a minimum callout rate of $164 per incident.
The Watch Commanders have always had the ability to make the decision to call out an animal control officer to tend an injured animal, vicious animal calls, dog bite investigations and the retrieval of a dead animal on a public roadway or other locations in the City. Depending on the circumstances, the time day and whether it is a weekday or weekend and the next scheduled time animal control will be returning to work has always been a consideration. There have been some recent concerns by community members who desire a more expeditious timeframe for retrieval of dead animals in and around our City.
Police Administration has researched if there are any contract service providers that we could contract with for dead animal retrieval at a reduced cost from our current provider. No such service providers were located and no viable options other than continuing with Riverside County Animal Control Services were identified. Deceased animals are picked up by our animal control officer and then placed in a freezer at the Animal Campus. The County contracts with a vendor who retrieves these carcasses and disposes of them properly.
There have been several barking dog complaints throughout the City that have either been resolved or are being investigated further. Some of these ...
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