Looking to the Future - Sheltering Needs
In November 2019 the City's voters approved $6.6 million in GO Bonds for a new Animal Shelter. The GO bond funds are anticipated to have supplemental funding of $2.4 million from donations from a capital campaign for the shelter. To date, the bonds have not been issued and the capital campaign has been on hold while staff evaluates regionalization of services at the direction of City Council.
In 2017, the Animal Advisory Board's membership expanded to eleven members, and their duties were expanded to include:
- Review of policies, programs and practices of the current animal shelter
- Review animal capacity calculations and animal population trends
- Review and recommend policies, programs and practices for implementation in the new animal shelter
- Determine the shelter program needs versus wants and identify budget needs of each
- Recommend funding options for the programming of space
- Recommend a capital campaign for the new animal shelter
More information about the board's activities and this project is available online.