To: Board of County Commissioners
From: Christopher R. Swanson, Sheriff
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RE Approval to establish a budget for the purchase of a Search and Rescue K9, K9 vehicle upfitting, and the related K9 Training and supplies expenses that will follow. The request is to establish expense line 2651-311.00-978.000 in the amount of $41,000.00 to issue purchase orders to Northern Michigan K9 ($10,500.00) and Arrowhead Upfitters ($26,902.00); and to establish the following expense line 2651-311.00-955.014 to cover the K9 training, and related supplies/expenses from various vendors
recommendation
BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
Request to setup and approve a $75,000.00 spending budget to purchase a Search and Rescue K9; Vehicle Upfitting and related K9 training/expenses from the following line items (in coordination with Fiscal): 2651-311.00-978.000 ($41,000.00) and 2651-311.00-955.014 ($34,000.00) for the Sheriff/Paramedic Rescue Division. Requesting initial approvals to issue PO's to NMK9 to purchase the K9 in the amount of $10,500.00 per provided quote, and to issue a PO to Arrowhead Upfitters in the amount of $26,902.00 per provided quote.
BACKGROUND:
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DISCUSSION:
Currently there are no trained K-9's in the Genesee County area that are in-use by any Police agencies in which the caliber of this K-9 is going to be utilized to do with the Genesee County Office of the Sheriff. This K-9 will be an "Off-Leash Search and Rescue K-9" equipped with a GPS collar. The following examples are what the K-9 will be trained and used for: Building Collapses, Wooded Areas, Missing Children, Walk-Off Alzheimer's patients, etc. Once the dog finds the victim, it will lay on/stay with his/her target and it's location will be sent to the handler (via the GPS equipped collar) to retrieve the search and rescue victims.
IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCES:
N/A
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
This is a request to setup and establish budgeted purchases from 2651-311.00-978.000 ($41,000.00) and 2651-311.00-955.014...
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