Approval is requested to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with \n \n PAWS , Columbus Inc., for the development, ownership, staffing, operations and \n \n maintenance of an animal control facility and animal resource center.
Approval
Approved
Background
The citizens of Columbus voted in 1999 to approve a Special Local Option Sales
Tax (SPLOST) that included an authorization for the expenditure from the
special sales and use tax thereby imposed in the sum of $2,000,000 for
construction of a new Animal Control facility. PAWS has acquired approximately
11.824 acres of real property in the Cooper Creek, Milgen Road area located in
parts of Land Lots 6 and 7, 8th District, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.
A portion is proposed to be developed as an animal resource campus a portion of
which will consists of the Animal Care and Control facility to be operated by
the City and a portion will be an Animal Resource Center to be operated by
PAWS. The City and PAWS have agreed to cooperate in the design and the
construction of the Animal Care and Control (ACC) Facility and the PAWS
Facility on the property.
Analysis
PAWS will provide a site master plan and architectural designs for the
development of the Property for approval by the Committee. A copy of the site
master plan is attached to and made a part of this agreement as Exhibit "A".
Financial Considerations
The allocated $2,000,000 for constructing the new animal shelter.
Projected Annual Fiscal Impact Statement
Legal Considerations
The City Attorney as well as PAWS, Columbus Inc., legal representatives have
both reviewed and approved this document. A copy of the MOU and site master
plan is attached.
Recommendations/ Actions
Authorize the City Manager to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
with PAWS , Columbus Inc., a nonprofit corporation organized and existing under