San Angelo's City Council will hear a laundry list of Animal Shelter requests on Tuesday. Possible program changes total $767,493 and fall into three categories, public safety, shelter operations and outreach/crime preventions.
The city's loose dog problem has been years in the making, partly driven by the shelter's returning unaltered dogs to irresponsible pet owners. Despite the city having a juggernaut public information office, vendor Concho Valley PAWS has often served as the public face of the city shelter.
The last time Shelter Chief Morgan Chegwidden presented to Council there were "no new funds" available. I imagine this wish list will not go over well.
Update 5-21-24: Shelter Chief Morgan Chegwidden tried to narrow down the scroll like list to items needed to get the temporary shelter facility completed for use during the long promised shelter renovations. Construction Manager Al Torres told City Council the construction documents would be completed in 30 days and then the original project could be put out to bid. That's late June 2024.
Morgan said it would take $120,000 to make ready the temporary shelter facility. She added another $112,000 in staff costs to operate both facilities after encouragement from Assistant City Manager Michael Dane. City Manager Daniel Valenzuela added the list of possible program changes is a better fit for a general fund budget workshop meeting. The topic ended with no motion and staff responsible for bringing the item back with a funding source.
Update 7-16-24: City staff indicated the budget for the temporary shelter is $232,000 and indicated Council already approved that amount.
Update 8-9-24: The City is yet to seek bids for those urgent Animal Shelter renovations (funding requested in early 2023).
Update 9-26-24: Shelter renovation bid documents have not been put on the city's purchasing website. It's hard to complete a project without bidding it out.
Update 12-3-24: Mr. Torres informed City Council that an electrical change order is needed for the permanent shelter renovation. Morgan will bring that change order to Council on December 17th. Once approved the engineers need four weeks to complete the redesign. The project can then go out for bid. Construction is expected to begin in February 2025 and will take six to nine months to complete. The temporary shelter is expected to be completed prior to construction starting on main shelter operations.
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