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October 21, 2022 City of Little Canada 2077 W Larpenteur Ave 515 Little Canada Rd E Little Canada, MN 55117 Dear Municipal Administrator, Animal Humane Society continues to partner with local municipalities to improve the lives and welfare of animals as well as the impact they have on people in our community. We look forward to continuing our partnership with you in 2023. I am happy to share that there are no significant changes to the language of the contract. Many of you have had constructive feedback over prior years, and we think the language is in a good place. We did add a lot of municipalities over the past year, so there were some things we wanted to clarify. - Deceased animals still need intake paperwork filled out for them. - If you do have a larger case or need forensics, please refer to our Humane Investigations team instead. These services are provided at no cost to municipalities. - ACO’s should not be using this process to circumvent the owner surrender process. An owned animal needing to be surrendered needs to be coordinated through our Pet Helpline. - A line has been added to the end of the contract where you can put your best email contact for Account Payable - where we would send invoices. - We have also sent a more thorough FAQ for questions that have arisen during the year. To align our fees with our costs, there is a small 3% increase to our fees. We have also found that the admin fee does not cover our staff and cremation costs, so we have added a specific fee for this service. This means that charges in 2023 would be: - Admin Fee - animal is returned to owner - $25 - Hold Fee - animal is not returned and is held at AHS for 5 days - $214 for dog/cat; $49 for other - Quarantine Fee - animal is held at AHS for 10 days for rabies quarantine - $428 - DOA Fee - animal is brought in deceased, held and cremated by AHS - $40 - Humane Investigations - must be coordinated with our HI department and does not come with any fees If you have any questions about the program in general, please feel free to contact me at the email or phone number below. If you have any questions about specific billing issues or animals, please contact Astrid Roed, our site manager in Woodbury. You will receive a contract digitally that has already been signed by Janelle Dixon, our CEO. Please digitally sign the contract in PDF format and return to us via the same email address as we sent the contract to you. We appreciate your partnership as we seek to serve both the people and animals of our communities.