At Montgomery County animal shelter, wait continues to build
Puppies and cats are influenced, just like people today, by the budgeting selections that the Montgomery County Commission will make this spring.
The lookup carries on for home somewhere in the group for the county’s Animal Care & Control Section to construct a new and more substantial animal shelter.
Just like each other function of nearby govt, Animal Treatment & Manage is getting to factor in the realities of development.
Until the new animal shelter property is secured, the complete budgeting approach for that section led by David Kaske, director, is considerably in limbo.
So considerably, so excellent, Kaske stated this week after an original price range listening to for his section, but there stay a large amount of unknowns about last paying out totals.
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“I was pleasantly astonished by the way the hearing went, but I do not know what the closing overall for the office is heading to be due to the fact there will be some alterations, and we have not obtained into conversing about personnel expenditures nevertheless,” Kaske said.
“For the minute we are predominantly dealing with day-to-day departmental operating charges.”
Kaske explained two places in the county are at the moment acquiring seems as opportunity sites for the new animal shelter, but there is substantially get the job done nonetheless to do in securing a site.
“There is some property on Rossview Road that we have been on the lookout at, and there is also a web-site we are searching at in north Clarksville,” Kaske reported.
“We need to have a new facility, and the money for the land obtain is nonetheless there in the budget. That money may possibly just have more than into the subsequent fiscal 12 months,” he mentioned.
Architectural and layout pounds totaling $750,000, and separate from the land buy cost, are proposed in the 2022-23 spending budget for the new animal shelter.
But Kaske just isn’t certain if that price for designing the facility will be accredited by commissioners if the property isn’t secured before long.
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The present Montgomery County animal shelter at 616 N. Spring St. downtown is at potential with canine and puppies, and around capacity with cats.
“Appropriate now we have 43 huge dog kennels, and 26 smaller canine and puppy kennels, and they are full. We in all probability have about 90 cat cages and we at this time have about 65 cats in the shelter,” Kaske explained.
“With it getting springtime, we count on to be total to potential with cats, soon,” he added.
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