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I <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />i <br />I <br />I <br />i <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />! <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />one way to reduce the cost of services for municipalities is to encourage citizens to handle, <br />within the law of course, some of their own neighborhood relationships by personal <br />contact and/or mediation efforts with limited City assistance. <br /> <br />A large number of our calls are animal related and most of them deal with dogs. In 1989 <br />we had 413 animal related calls. It may be that the CSO approach, if there is pemeived to <br />be a citizen desire to expand our animal control services, would be the least expensive <br />approach since the CSO position would be a pay rate of around $7.00 to $8.00 per hour <br />and would to the degree that CSO's would be on-duty, relieve regular officers to perform <br />more involved police services and follow-up. We could still use the Humane Society for <br />all other services such as impoundment, euthanasia and for pick-up of contained animals <br />when there is no CSO on duty. The cost for the contract would likely be discounted by <br />25% if it follows the same wording as was in the 1989 contract which gave that discount to <br />cities having CSO's. <br /> <br />Whichever way we go I do not see a reduction in the current $5,000.00+ per year and, for <br />that matter, only an increase if any positive changes are to be made. <br /> <br />MGA/jmt <br /> <br />4~ <br /> <br /> <br />