SNIP Collier Inc. now has a 60-year lease with Collier County, allowing it to provide more services in Immokalee and countywide, as the nonprofit raises funds to build a medical-rescue facility.

The Board of County Commissioners unanimously agreed to extend a 30-year, $1-per-year lease negotiated in July 2020 for the county’s former Domestic Animal Services Immokalee facility at 405 Sgt. Joe Jones Road, near Seminole Immokalee Casino. The extension broadens terms to add adoptions and routine and emergency veterinary care to the low-cost clinic, which already offered vaccinations, spay and neuter services, educational classes and intake for animals legally relinquished by owners.

Founder Tom Kepp needs to raise $1.5 million more to design and build the 3,000-square-foot facility, but that was difficult with only about 25 years left on the lease, so he asked county officials to extend it and allow him to provide adoptions and other services.