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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008 Animal Svc - Town of Hillsborough emergency after hour animal servicesQ~,~ 1a13hod~ zi- m- • NORTH CAROLINA ORANGE COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL AND PROTECTION SERVICES AGREEMENT This Animal Control and Protection Services Agreement is entered into by and between Orange County, North Carolina, (hereinafter the "County"); and the Town of Hillsborough, North Carolina (hereinafter the "Town") as of the 1St day of January 2008. WHEREAS, the Town desires that the County provide animal control and emergency animal after hour calls services within the Town during the 2007-2008 fiscal year; and WHEREAS, the County desires to provide animal control and emergency animal after hour calls services within the Town during the 2007-2008 fiscal year; and WHEREAS, the Town Board of Commissioners has previously adopted a resolution authorizing the County to enforce the County's "Animal Control Ordinance" (the "Ordinance") within the jurisdictional limits of the Town; and WHEREAS, the Town Board of Commissioners desires that the County continue to • enforce the County's Ordinance within the jurisdictional limits of the Town; and WHEREAS, the Town has, and hereby does, designate the Orange County Animal Services Director to be responsible for determining when a dog located within the Town is a "potentially dangerous dog" pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 67.4.1; and WHEREAS, the Town has, and hereby does, designate the Appeals Committee established by Section 5 of the "Rules of Procedure Governing the Organization and Operation of the Orange County Animal Services Advisory Board" to hear any appeals for a "potentially dangerous dog" determination pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 67-4.1. NOW THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto mutually agree as follows: 1. Designation of Office of Animal Control. (i) The Town shall and hereby does designate Orange County Animal Control as its "Office of Animal Control," (hereafter "the OAC"). (ii) The County will designate and schedule one (1) Animal Control Officer employed by the County (hereafter the "ACO") to respond to emergency .and routine animal service calls within the Town. (iii) The ACO shall provide animal control and protection services to the Town during the hours of 8:00 am through 5:00 pm, Monday through • Friday. The scheduled on-call ACO will respond to emergency calls as described below. • 2. A. Hillsborough Animal Control And Protection Services (i) During the hours of 8:00 am through 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday the ACO will respond to all routine and emergency animal services calls related to animals located within the Town. (ii) All service calls received and/or responded to on behalf of the Town under this Agreement will be handled in accordance to the County's Animal Control Ordinance, North Cazolina General Statutes pertaining .to animals and policies developed by Orange County Animal Services. (iii) The OAC will receive animal service calls during the hours noted in Section 1 above. (iv) A quarterly report listing the number and types of calls handled by OAC within the Town limits will be forwazded to the Hillsborough Police Department. (v) All County employees responding to service calls under this agreement will receive training pertaining to the County's Animal Control Ordinance. (vi) The County agrees to provide adequate personnel and equipment to respond to calls as required by this Agreement. (vii) If the designated ACO who is responsible for the provision of services under this Agreement to the Town of Hillsborough is on leave as a result of illness, vacation, etc., then the County will only respond to emergency service calls within the Town between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. 2. B. Hillsborough Emergency Animal After Hour Call Services (i) After hour call service hours are from 5:00 pm to 8:00 am Monday through Friday and all holidays and weekends. (ii) The County shall provide trained, qualified personnel to respond to calls for after hour service within the Town by going to the scene when necessary to protect and preserve the health and safety of the public and the life and health of animals. (iii) Qualified personnel of the County shall, when necessary and proper in the judgment of County personnel, provide first aid treatment and/or take animals requiring caze • to veterinary facilities according to County policy. When immediate veterinary care is not 2 needed in the judgment of County personnel, an animal may be taken to the County Animal • Shelter. Sick and injured animals will be handled according to the Shelter operating policy. (iv) The County may, in its discretion, bear the cost of emergency care and shelter costs for animals that do not appear to have an owner or keeper, or where the owner or keeper can be identified, charge the owner or keeper with the cost of emergency care and shelter costs of the animals consistent with the County Animal Shelter operating policy. (v) County employees or their designees shall attempt to contact at a time which is reasonable under the circumstances in each situation, the owner or custodian of each animal involved in an emergency requiring the assistance of the County Animal Shelter. (vi) Where Town Public Safety and/or Town officers are also on the scene of an animal-related emergency, the County personnel shall cooperate with Town personnel in matters involving safety of persons and/or enforcement of the County's animal control ordinance, and/or North Carolina General Statutes pertaining to animals. 3. Upon receipt of invoice for the services of Animal Control and Emergency After Hour Calls,~the Town shall make one payment on January ls` of each year to the County in the amount of Thirteen Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty Two Dollars and 00/100 ($13,682). 4. This Agreement shall be in effect for the period beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2008, subject to annual renewal as negotiated and agreed upon by both parties in writing. 5. Either parry may terminate this Agreement for any reason by providing the other party 30 days written notice of intention to terminate the Agreement. 6. The Town will indemnify and hold the County harmless for any and all claims, demands or actions whatsoever arising from the County's provision of services under this Agreement unless the same results from the intentional or negligent conduct of the County. It is the intent of this Section 6 that the Town indemnify the County to the fullest extent permitted by law. In witness whereof, the parties hereunto cause this agreement to be executed in their respective names to become effective on the date hereinabove written. North Carplina By: Bany JacobsjChai~ar~pf Commissioners • Town of Hills ou ,North Car ' Eric Peterson, Town Manager -----~. Clarence F. Birlchead, Town of Hillsborough Chief of Police This instrument has been pre-audited in the manner required by the Local Government and Fiscal~trol Act. C~~~~ Finance Officer, own of Hillsborough • • 4