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16 1. Accept dead animals brought to the County Shelter by County residents, City and County municipalities, or Caltrans and Contractor shall dispose of such animals. 2. Dispose of dead animals in a lawful manner using an appropriately qualified and licensed disposal company or method. 3. Develop a written disposal procedure that will include at least a weekly pick up of dead animals. I. Transferring animals into County Shelter 1. If the Contractor desires to transfer animals into the County Shelter from nearby Bay Area animal shelters to assist when such shelters are dealing with an emergency, such as a natural disaster, Contractor shall do the following: a) Request written approval from the County Program Manager of Animal Control and Licensing Manager or other designated County Contract Administrator. The County will respond to such requests in writing within 3 business days. In the event of a need to house animals for another county during a disaster, the County will respond within 24 hours. If the County grants such approval, the written notice of approval will state the maximum number of animals the Contractor is allowed to transfer in pursuant to that consent based upon factors including available shelter space. Detailed documentation on an appropriate Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) form will be kept to record, on a daily basis, on the number of Contractor staff caring for the animals to include hours worked, along with supplies, as well as number of days sheltered for each animal. This will allow for reimbursement if declared a federal disaster, or reimbursement from other local jurisdictions. b) Periodically, and only as space and resources allow, Contractor may purposefully transfer, house or bring into the County shelter animals from another animal shelter, partner group or agency within or outside the County to be housed in the County Shelter for the purpose of adoption at the Contractor’s other shelter or location only if a monthly report is sent to the Program Manager of Animal Control and Licensing or their designee outlining the number of animals transferred into the shelter along with each animal’s individual animal identification number. If Contractor plans on transferring in more than 30 animals a month Contractor will obtain written approval from the Program Manager of Animal Control and Licensing or their designee. Contractor will reimburse the County and Participating Cities for the costs of vaccines, preventative care, treatment, food, facility use and maintenance, and staff time to care for these animals. The cost will be calculated by the number of days that animal is housed at the County shelter at the rate of $15 per animal per day. This rate may be adjusted annually, based on changes to Consumer Price Index and the Parties will meet and confer before the rate is adjusted. In addition to this daily rate, the Contractor will reimburse the County and Participating Cities for the actual costs of vaccines, flea treatment, dewormer, DTM cultures, canine heartworm and feline FIV/FeLV tests on a per animal basis. The Contractor will reimburse the County and Participating Cities each quarter of the fiscal year and will provide a report in a form reasonably satisfactory to the County and Participating Cities that details the fees owed pursuant to the applicable daily rate and any other applicable costs to be reimbursed to the County and Participating Cities. This obligation to reimburse the County and the Participating Cities does not apply to situations where an animal needs to be transferred in to the County shelter where the animal is held because of a bite or potential dangerous dog designation and where the incident occurred in San Mateo County, but the animal was first taken to another animal shelter. In such cases, the animal shall be classified as a “Transfer in” in the Chameleon software intake statistics.