Anna would pay Collin County $91,943 this fiscal year to send stray and surrendered animals to the county shelter in McKinney, under a new four-year agreement on the commissioners court's consent agenda for Monday, Nov. 9.
The city has already signed. The copy attached to the county's agenda item carries the city manager's signature dated Sept. 22. The agreement would run from Oct. 1, 2026, through Sept. 30, 2030, according to a memo to commissioners from Misty Brown, the county's animal services division manager, dated Oct. 22.
This is a separate contract from Anna's animal control agreement, which covers officers answering calls in the city. The shelter agreement covers housing and care once an animal reaches the building at 4750 Community Ave.
How the bill is figured
The new agreement replaces earlier shelter contracts and is written for 10 member cities, Anna among them, plus several smaller towns and utility districts that pay a flat fee. Each city pays a slice of two shared costs, divided by population:
- A base operations fee, set at $1,887,815 for the shelter as a whole starting Oct. 1 and rising 3.5% a year for the life of the agreement.
- A maintenance and capital contribution of $190,000 this year, scheduled to grow to $240,000 in fiscal 2028, $290,000 in 2029 and $340,000 in 2030.
A county billing sheet uses a 2026 North Central Texas Council of Governments population estimate of 36,935 for Anna, or 4.42% of the total. That works out to $83,535 in operations and $8,407 toward maintenance and capital this year. Anna pays no non-resident surcharge, a fee charged only to cities with residents outside Collin County.
For comparison, the same sheet lists McKinney at $578,245, Princeton at $118,317 and Melissa at $72,108. A note on the sheet says Frisco will stop using the shelter after November 2028.
