Agenda Item # 5
Columbus Consolidated Government
Council Meeting
07/18/2006
Agenda Report # 9
TO: Mayor and Council
SUBJECT: Memorandum of Understanding/PAWS Columbus, Inc.
INITIATED BY: Public Services Department
Recommendation: Approval is requested to enter into a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with PAWS , Columbus Inc., for the development, ownership,
staffing, operations and maintenance of an animal control facility and animal
resource center.
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.
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 the laws of the State of Georgia ("PAWS").
Attachments