Louisiana SPCA resumes providing animal control services for New Orleans

Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu today that the Louisiana SPCA will continue to provide animal control services in the city in 2011 under a new collaboration aimed at four-year contract. Full spca_sign_algiers.JPGView Costanza sizeRusty, and Times-Picayune archiveThe filmed for Louisiana SPCA facility in Algiers, May 2007.
SPCA services were provided more than 60 years, but the two sides in recent talks on a new agreement because the organization and said he could not provide services of $ 1,700,000 in the provision of the city in 2011.
Under the new agreement, the city approved that this figure will rise to $ 1920000.
"This is a great victory for people and pets from New Orleans," said Landrieu. "As I did with many of the contracts so we have to negotiate guided my responsibility to credit to provide quality services at a price the city can afford Los Angeles / SPCA has been providing quality animal control services for the enforcement of contracts left all .. just like the community a great partner, and the Council on volunteers and those donor and we are pleased to be in charge of the financial arrangements in place for the next four years .. "
LA / SPCA is nationally recognized, standard-setting in the field of animal care and shelter, "and I said Zorrilla, CEO of SPCA / Los Angeles." We hope to continue this high quality services our citizens have come to wait for animals from New Orleans. "
In a new window Los Angeles / SPCA to pay $ 160,000 per month, or $ 1,920,000 annually for a full-service animal control, with annual consumer price adjustment for each indicator in January