CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY FIFTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-23-133 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Tammy Fiebelkorn, by request
RESOLUTION
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Approving And Authoring A Grant Application From The Petsmart Charities And Providing An Appropriation To The City Of Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department In Fiscal Year 2023/2024 (Fiebelkorn, by request)
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WHEREAS, the PetSmart Charities wishes to grant the City of Albuquerque $60,000 to facilitate multiple efforts geared toward pathways to adoption; and
WHEREAS, the City of Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department will utilize grant funds to facilitate pathways to adoption and adoption support, including targeted advertising that grows awareness toward adoption, foster and volunteer programs; adoption support for working cat adoptions, an exciting and relatively new program at AWD that provides homes for otherwise hard to adopt cats; and
WHEREAS, the City of Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department desires to accept these funds, which require no City match or indirect overhead to support this project.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL, THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE:
Section 1. That the attached application for PetSmart Charities for the amount of $60,000 in grant funds is hereby approved, and its acceptance and filling with the appropriate official or office is and in all respects approved.
Section 2. That upon approval, funds in the amount of Sixty Thousand dollars ($60,000) are hereby appropriated to the Animal Welfare Department to facilitate multiple efforts geared toward pathways to adoption in the Operating Grant Fund 265 for Fiscal Year 2023/2024.