File #: CONS 25-207   
Section: Consent Status: Agenda Ready
Meeting Body: City Council
Agenda Date: 5/6/2025 Final action:
Subject: Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate Donations to and Fee Revenue From the Hayward Animal Shelter for Use by the Hayward Animal Shelter Through Fiscal Year 2025-2026 in an Amount Not to Exceed 500,000
Attachments: 1. Attachment I Staff Report, 2. Attachment II Resolution

DATE:      May 6, 2025

 

TO:           Mayor and City Council

 

FROM:     Chief of Police

 

SUBJECT                     

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  Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate Donations to and Fee Revenue From the Hayward Animal Shelter for Use by the Hayward Animal Shelter Through Fiscal Year 2025-2026 in an Amount Not to Exceed 500,000                                                             

 

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RECOMMENDATION

Recommendation

 

That the City Council adopts a resolution (Attachment II) authorizing the City Manager to accept and appropriate donations to and fee revenue from the Hayward Animal Shelter revenue for Fiscal Years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 for use by the Hayward Animal Shelter in an amount not to exceed $500,000 ($250,000 respectively for each year).

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SUMMARY

 

Community members, businesses, and organizations routinely provide monetary donations to the Hayward Animal Shelter to support various necessary expenditures such as veterinary care, spay and neuter services, feline Trap-Neuter-Return programs, and subsidies for low to no cost adoptions. Each of the donations and fees, regardless of the amount, require Council approval to be appropriated and used to support the Animal Shelter. For smaller donations, the approval process can cost more in staff time than the funds received.

Staff requests that the City Council approve an appropriation of donations and fee revenue in an amount not to exceed $500,000 for use by the Hayward Animal Shelter annually through the end of fiscal year 2026. Staff does not anticipate receiving more than $250,000 in donations and fee revenue each fiscal year (for 2025 and 2026) but if it does, staff will return to the City Council to increase the appropriation request.

 

 

ATTACHMENTS

Attachment I                                          Staff Report

Attachment II                                          Resolution