2006 S Animal Services - Contract with Town of Chapel Hill for County Provision of Animal Control & Emergency Animal Rescue Services (EARS)

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• A quarterly report listing the number and types of calls handled at the Shelter within the Town limits will be forwarded to the Chapel Hill Police Department. • All County employees responding to service calls under this agreement will receive training pertaining to the Town's Animal Control Ordinance. • The County agrees to provide an animal control vehicle and necessary animal control equipment for the use in the Town. • Scheduled vacation time and sick leave time for the appointed Animal Control Officer will be covered by the County from Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, for emergency services only. • The Town and the County will cooperate to train County employees providing EARS service in the requirements of the Town's Animal Control Ordinance. 2. B. Chapel Hill Emergency Animal Rescue Services (EARS) • EARS hours are from 6:00 pm to 9:00 am Monday through Friday and all holidays and weekends. • The County shall provide trained, qualified personnel to respond to calls for EARS within the Town by going to the scene when necessary to protect and preserve the health and safety of the public and the life and health of animals. • Qualified personnel of the County shall, when necessary and proper in the judgment of County personnel, provide first aid treatment and/or take animals requiring care to veterinary facilities according to County policy. When immediate veterinary care is not needed in the judgment of County personnel, an animal may be taken to the Shelter. Sick and injured animals will be handled according to the Shelter operating policy. ' • The County may, in its discretion, bear the cost of emergency care and shelter costs for animals that do not appear to have an owner or keeper, or where the owner or keeper can be identified, charge the owner or keeper with the cost of emergency care and shelter costs of the animals consistent with the Shelter operating policy. • County employees or their designees shall attempt to contact at a time which is reasonable under the circumstances in each situation, the,owner or custodian of each animal involved in an emergency requiring the assistance of the Shelter. • Where Town Public Safety and/or Town officers are also on the scene of an animal- related emergency, the County personnel shall cooperate with Town personnel in matters involving safety of persons and/or enforcement of the Town's animal control ordinance.