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FY 2009-10 <br /> Departmental Budget Summary <br /> Department Animal Services <br /> 2008-2009 Performance Highlights <br /> • Approximately 4500 animals sheltered and 7,000 field service responses (2008) <br /> • Adoptions, owner returns, and rescue transfers totaled 2239 animals (2008) <br /> • Stable service contracts with Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and Carrboro <br /> * Growing volunteer program-5838 hours in 2008 <br /> * Impending opening (April/May) and integration of three divisions <br /> * Preparation work for the new center and division integration <br /> ® Low-Cost Vaccination Clinics and preventative educational efforts <br /> • Rabies exposure investigations and enforcement actions <br /> • Community Spay/Neuter Fund and The $20 Fix in Orange County <br /> • Continuing pre-adoption spay/neuter program <br /> 2009-2010 Budget Impacts <br /> ($42,968 Reduction) <br /> • Service Reductions ($12,750) <br /> o Eliminating the microchipping of adopted pets (while offering it electively) <br /> o Eliminating school educational programs <br /> o Eliminating leash sales and the bathing and grooming of adopted pets <br /> * Savings from Division Integration and Resource Realignment ($14,779) <br /> o Transportation (employee mileage and field service mileage) <br /> o Photocopiers; office supplies; and telephone lines and services <br /> o In-house versus outsourced spay and neuter of adoptable animals <br /> • Line Item Reductions ($15,439) <br /> o Training and staff development <br /> o Uniforms and gear <br /> Future Considerations <br /> • Service levels, staffing challenges and the operation of the new Animal Services <br /> Center <br /> ® Revenue streams and options <br /> 76 <br />