Res 2024-147 approving an Interlocal Agreement with Hays County to provide Hays County with Animal Shelter Services

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B. Hays County agrees to: 1. Designate a representative as the County's representative in all matters related to this Agreement; 2. Appoint a representative to the San Marcos'Animal Shelter Advisory Committee; 3. Pay San Marcos annually for the provision of animal shelter services upon execution of this Agreement. Costs payable to San Marcos include all expenses as outlined in Exhibit VII.This amount does not cover extraordinary animal services such as a case of animal cruelty involving two or more animals. Hays County will be required to cost-share, with San Marcos on a case by case basis,the expenses of any such animal-related case; 4. Fully comply with the policies and guidelines of the Shelter as they now exist and as they may be amended from time to time as well as any State law or agency rule governing the treatment of animals. Any noncompliance with the Shelter's Standard Operating Procedures (Exhibit 1) may result in termination of this Agreement; 5. Within 7 days of execution of this Agreement, Hays County will provide all Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's),general orders or other policies/guidelines governing Hays County animal control activities to the Director of Neighborhood Enhancement. 6. Within 2 months of the execution of this Agreement, amend Hays County Animal Control Ordinances to synchronize with San Marcos Animal Control Ordinances in the following topics: animal stray hold periods;Trap, Neuter and Return program (TNR); microchipping required; spay/neuter requirements for impounded animals; 7. Hays County Animal Control Officers will be responsible for completing full intake procedures (Exhibit 11) for all impounded animals, including, but not limited to; entering the animal into the Shelter's database, providing intake vaccines and intake preventatives, uploading a clear photograph of each impounded animal into the Shelter's database, uploading any relevant documents and/or forms to the animal in the Shelter's database, placing the animal into a cage/kennel, affixing a kennel card top each impounded animal's cage/kennel, properly aging and sexing the animal, notifying vet services of any known injuries or illness for impounded animals, creating memos in the Shelter's database to inform staff of attempts to locate possible owners, owner contact information (if known), bite histories/circumstances, any behavior or aggression behaviors noticed, and any other pertinent information necessary for Shelter staff to know about. SMRAS will provide assistance when available; 8. For after-hours drop offs, Hays County will be responsible to complete all steps outlined in section B(7), with the exception of printing the kennel card. After hours drop-offs may be kenneled in the cage banks in the sallyport area. The Animal Control Officer must complete all steps of the intake process and fill out an after-hours intake form (Exhibit III) and affix it to the cage in sallyport. 9. Hays County will not drop off injured animals at the SMRAS after hours and must make arrangements to take the animal to an emergency vet. 10. For safekeeping drop-offs (owner arrested or incapacitated) Hays County will provide all details in a memo, including, but not limited to;the circumstances/reason for the impoundment, all known owner contact information (name, home address, phone number(s), email address), next of kin if known, location (hospital orjail) of owner if known. In addition, Hays County will document any contact with the known owner, such as whether or not the owner has been advised that their animal is at the Shelter. When possible, Hays County will have the owner fill out and sign the Authorization for Third Party Release Form (Exhibit IV). 11. Hays County Animal Control Officers will be responsible to make all reasonable attempts to locate an impounded animal's owner and return the animal to the owner prior to bringing it to the Shelter. This includes, but is not limited to; scanning for microchips, checking for tags, contacting known owners