To: Dale K. Weighill, Governmental Operations Committee Chairperson
From: Jay Parker, Director Genesee County Animal Control
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RE: IDEXX Laboratories Change Order Request
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BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
Please accept this memorandum as a request to increase the current Purchase Order #23-04317 to Vendor IDEXX Laboratories from $40,000.00 to $60,000.00. to remit payment for balance of the FY23/24.
BACKGROUND:
IDEXX Laboratories is the current vendor that Animal Control uses in the diagnosis of our stray animal population and police cases. IDEXX runs labs for our infectious carried diseases, necropsies, heartworm and acts as our third-party confirmation where prosecution is involved. To date we have performed labs on 39 potential police cases. IDEXX provides in-house testing equipment, supplies, and accurate lab results for said needs. This aids in early detection, treatment of our animal population and helps the county, local police departments and the Prosecutor’s Office with convictions.
DISCUSSION:
With the increase of intakes, an active surgical center, and police related cases in this fiscal year, we have exceeded our original request and require more to meet our need.
IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCES:
N/A
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
With a full-time Veterinarian, who meets the needs of the shelter and the court system, our needs are challenging the approved budget. Animal Control has decreased the funds required from outside sources, and those funds have been applied to meet this need. Said expenditure funds are available within Animal Controls budget and can be taken from Animal Control line item 2130-430.00-801.004.
IMPACT ON FACILITIES:
N/A
IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY:
N/A
CONFORMITY TO COUNTY PRIORITIES:
Genesee County Animal Control takes in stray animals from all walks of life, under many circumstances within Genesee County. It is the responsibility of Animal Control to test, treat and provide for the welfare of its animals and to decrease the spread of infectious diseases. It is also our responsibility to provide creditable information to aid in the prosecution where it is deemed necessary.
TO THE HONORABLE CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE GENESEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, GENESEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
BE IT RESOLVED, by this Board of County Commissioners of Genesee County, Michigan, that the request by the Animal Control Director to authorize and approve a Change Order to PO# 23-04317, said change being necessary to increase the order by $20,000.00 for a new total amount of $60,000.00 to be paid from account 2130-430.00-801.004 (Service Contract General), to continue to provide testing supplies and diagnose laboratory results to aid in the decrease of infectious diseases in Genesee County’s intake stray population, heartworm treatment, and the prosecution of animal cruelty within the FY23/24, is approved (a copy of the memorandum request being on file with the official records of the July 17, 2024 meeting of the Governmental Operations Committee of this Board).