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Animal Control / Animal Shelter through the years

Explore reported actual expenditures. Expand a line item to compare its reported amounts.

ExpenditureActual2019-2020Actual2020-2021Actual2021-2022Actual2022-2023Actual2023-2024Actual2024-2025
Personnel
94,75962,53473,46184,030111,050114,648
FICA7,0694,8135,3946,1798,3298,437
Group Life & Health Insurance10,7348,24515,16815,82718,01422,966
11,2595,9929,1378,44510,34217,197
Workers Compensation Insurance2,0047982,4781,4882,6843,771
Employee Education & Training3,626220478322762262
Disability Insurance249169231251324414
Deferred Compensation
Subtotal — Personnel129,70082,771106,347116,542151,505167,695
Operations
Printing111960
6,2826,30111,80515,28516,47230,351
Telephone4613461,0163,8922,9963,599
6,1015,2831,8363,0214,65014,788
Travel5180329494177200
Janitorial Supplies1,2597923221,6063,7287,860
Clothing & Uniforms1,3051,0441,6358436961,624
Veterinary Supplies9,2696,4049,94113,74116,89222,719
Painting Supplies
Other Building Materials106
2,1706,8637,5939,61710,42016,118
Gasoline & Diesel1,718829616411432137
1,24310622317
Fleet Management4,4004,4004,4004,4004,4004,400
1,0504,1384,44312,5056,14117,687
Liability Insurance8966556556938191,896
Subtotal — Operations36,78337,25744,81466,52567,823121,485
Capital
Fixed Assets3,3353,376999360360
Subtotal — Capital3,3353,376999360360
TOTAL ANIMAL CONTROL / ANIMAL SHELTER169,818123,404152,160183,427219,688289,180
Latest budget — FY 2026-2027Compare the proposed budget with the amount Council approved.

Approved amounts authorize spending; they are not actual expenditure. These are the stages printed in the budget book, which may not include later amendments.

BudgetBudgeted / amendedFY 2025-2026Manager proposedFY 2026-2027Council approvedFY 2026-2027
Department total309,300294,900294,400
Budget line items
ExpenditureBudgeted / amendedFY 2025-2026Manager proposedFY 2026-2027Council approvedFY 2026-2027
Salaries125,000112,000112,000
Overtime2,0002,0002,000
Salaries: Part-time---
FICA11,0008,5008,500
Group Life & Health Insurance30,00024,00024,000
Retirement10,0009,0009,000
Retirement - 401A8,6007,8007,800
Workers Compensation Insurance3,7004,0004,000
Employee Education & Training2,0002,0002,000
Disability Insurance600600600
Deferred Compensation1,5001,5001,500
Printing200200200
Electric20,00020,00020,000
Water3,0003,0003,000
Sewer3,0003,0003,000
Gas6,0006,0006,000
Telephone3,0004,1004,100
Repairs and Maintenance Motor Vehicle & Equipment100100100
Repairs and Maintenance Buildings & Grounds4,00024,00024,000
Travel1,5001,5001,500
Janitorial Supplies9,0009,0009,000
Clothing & Uniforms2,2002,2002,200
Other Operating Supplies12,0008,0008,000
Vet Supplies - Animal Control20,00015,00015,000
Paintin g Supplies500500500
Small Tools400400400
Other Building Materials500500500
Gasoline & Diesel1,0001,0001,000
Tires & Tubes600600600
Vehicle & Equipment Parts500500500
Fleet Man agement4,4004,4003,900
Exterminating Contract1,5001,5001,500
Other Contracts15,00016,50016,500
Liability Insurance3,0001,5001,500
Fixed Assets3,500--

A dash means no numeric amount is shown in that source cell. No proposal is substituted for a missing approved amount.

Budget source · PDF page 75 · Budget source · PDF page 76

What the records showRelated decisions, supporting records, and unanswered questions.

The new shelter’s first full operating year provides context for changes in utilities, supplies and contracts.

2023-2024 actual source · page 74 · 2024-2025 actual source · page 75

The FY2024–25 amendment schedule assigns a $7,000 increase to this department’s retirement account (01-0908-5144), changing its budget from $8,000 to $15,000. This is its share of the $629,000 General Fund retirement increase, not a separately verified actual payment. Department pension amendment allocation · page 119.

The audited FY2025 discussion identifies the $629,000 retirement budget increase as an additional defined-benefit pension contribution. Audited pension amendment context · page 24.

The finance memo says the Animal Shelter amendments reflect the first full year in the new building, when operating costs had initially been estimated. The attached schedule increases electricity by $13,000, janitorial supplies by $5,000, veterinary supplies by $6,000 and other contracts by $7,000. These are budget changes, not a reconciliation of actual costs. Finance memorandum — May 7, 2025 · page 118.

The attached schedule shows the relevant proposed budget adjustments. Amounts in this schedule are appropriations, not invoice payments. Budget amendment detail · page 120.

Still unanswered: The budget allocation is documented; the actual pension postings are still needed to reconcile the annual retirement amounts and distinguish regular contributions from the additional contribution.

About these figuresWhat is included and what changed between reports.

Animal Control and its later Animal Shelter accounting series (0908), not all Public Works spending. The account continuity does not establish unchanged duties or staffing.

Amounts are shown as reported, without adjusting for inflation. A dash (“—”) means the source shows a dash or does not list a value; it does not necessarily mean zero. Related accounts are grouped for comparison, with available detail under each row.

Sources and methodsOriginal documents, coverage, and how the years were matched.

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Section reconciliation and differences
  • Personnel: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 116,540 earlier; 116,542 later. The later schedule splits Salaries into regular and part-time and Retirement into Retirement and Retirement - 401A; Deferred Compensation is a source dash. The later Personnel subtotal is $2 higher. Of that difference, later regular plus part-time salaries are $1 higher than the earlier Salaries line; the remaining $1 is offset within the source's Operations presentation.
  • Operations: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 66,527 earlier; 66,525 later. The later schedule expands utilities, repairs, supplies, vehicle operation, and contracts into account-level lines. The later Operations subtotal is $2 lower; the overall FY2022-23 department total still agrees because Personnel is $2 higher. Source dashes remain absent/non-numeric.
  • Capital: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 360 earlier; 360 later. Fixed Assets maps directly and the FY2022-23 amounts agree exactly.
How the years were matched
  • The 2022-2023 column now uses the complete later FY2025-26 account breakdown. Its detail agrees with the previously displayed total; the earlier source column is archived.
  • Each column is an ACTUAL fiscal-year column from a later annual-budget presentation; amounts and labels are preserved as displayed.
  • The FY2022-23 budget book, SHA-256 f1612f08fa002e56274dcc2e4f5eee7e3e19ecba804a232806443d678bcdf000, PDF page 55 (printed page 53), supplies ACTUAL 2019-2020 and ACTUAL 2020-2021.
  • The FY2024-25 budget book, SHA-256 f4c780f2efad68059e60dc964557b1855cd2f791eb347a6203cf51834bcad5fd, PDF page 54 (printed page 52), supplies ACTUAL 2021-2022 and ACTUAL 2022-2023.
  • The two source books are non-overlapping for the four selected actual-year columns, so no same-year revision conflict occurs in this extract.
  • Each column contains only the 23 Animal Control detail rows; TOTAL PUBLIC WORKS is excluded because it includes other Public Works schedules.
  • The FY2024-25 presentation labels the section Animal Control and reports FY2022-23 actual total 183,427.
  • The FY2025-26 presentation labels the section Animal Shelter 908, uses account prefix 01-0908 for every detail line, and carries the identical FY2022-23 actual total 183,427.
  • The renamed division profile says it enforces the city's animal control ordinance, manages unwanted animals, investigates cruelty, traps nuisance animals, oversees adoptions, and manages the shelter.
  • The FY2026-27 presentation continues Animal Shelter 908 with the same 01-0908 account prefix and carries FY2023-24 actual 219,688 from the FY2025-26 presentation.
  • Join the fiscal-year expenditure series at department/account 0908. Preserve the displayed historical label by year: Animal Control through the FY2024-25 book's historical schedule; Animal Shelter in the FY2025-26 and later detailed schedules. This establishes accounting-series continuity, not that every operational duty, facility, or staffing arrangement was unchanged.
  • FY2025-26 PDF73 lists three planned positions in FY2023-24 and FY2024-25 and describes the Humane Society relationship. Its timing and effect on scope remain unresolved.
  • The unified view groups source lines using history-crosswalks.json. Original rows remain unchanged. Accounting-category reconciliation does not prove unchanged service scope.

These changes do not establish changes in service quality or explain why spending changed. Budget amendments and meeting decisions have not been reconciled with this series.

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