Celina will pay Collin County about $388,000 over the next year to pick up stray animals and house them at the county shelter, under two contracts on the Commissioners Court's consent agenda for Monday, Oct. 12.
The first, a new interlocal agreement for shelter services, carries a price of $196,908 for the year that started Oct. 1 and runs through Sept. 30, 2027. The second extends the county's animal control agreement with the city for another year, through the same date, at $190,860. It is Amendment No. 21 to the city's existing animal control agreement with the county.
Both show up in the county budget office's notes as revenue for the county's Animal Services fund, and the copies attached to the agenda items are labeled as signed.
How the bills are set
The county divides shelter costs among the cities that use it according to their share of the combined population, using 2026 estimates from the North Central Texas Council of Governments. Celina's estimate is 78,647 people, or 9.42% of the total. That works out to $177,875 for operations and $17,902 toward maintenance and capital costs, plus a $1,131 surcharge tied to nonresidents.
Only McKinney ($578,245), Frisco ($551,122) and the county's unincorporated area ($296,228) are billed more for the shelter in the county's fee table. Prosper's share is $125,096 and Princeton's is $118,317.
A note on the table says Frisco will stop using the county shelter after November 2028.
Animal control costs are split the same way among a smaller group of cities and the county's unincorporated area. Celina accounts for 20.81% of that group's population, the largest share of any city and second only to unincorporated Collin County.
Its starting figure of $205,652 is cut by $8,794 in credits from flat fees paid by small towns and utility districts, and by $5,998 to reconcile what the county budgeted for 2025 with what it actually spent.
Countywide, the animal control charges total $959,386 and the shelter charges about $2.1 million.