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Animal Care Advisory Bo examines future shelter siteBy Kathy Hanks_The Hutchinson News khanks @h utchrte tvs. comMembers of the Animal Care Advis ory B oar d tromped throu gh the mud Tuesday to see the bare beginnings of their dream.Bob Fairbanks, building official for the city of Hutchinson, led the first tour of the future Hutchinson Animal Shelter, which currently consists of several squared areas with white plumbing pipes sticking up from the ground“As soon as the floors are poured, it will start going up,” Fairbanks said of the shelter, which will be located on seven acres about a half mile south of the Kansas Correctional Facility on SeveranceBoard members examined the construction, which is being handled by Fby Construction Co. They alsomade plans for a public groundbreaking at 1130 a.m. July 26.While construction still remains on schedule, with estimated completion by the end of the year, a priority of the board is to hire a shelter director.The consensus of the board members was to have a director hired by September or October in order that the candidate would have input in developing protocol as well as hiring staff.Nancy Scott, director of planning and development for the city of Hutchinson, reviewed a tentative plan with the animal care advisory board, laying out threeoptions for shelter management.The first option, and the one the advisory board will recommend to the city council, was for the shelter to be city managed and operated with the advisory board.A second option was to contract for management and sen'ices, using the advisory board The third option was for a private operation with a private board of directors.With the first option, Scott explained the city of Hutchinson would own and operate the new shelter under the supen'ision of the police department. It would be funded through the annual budget process.The shelter director, technicians and animal control cfficers would be city employees under the supervision of the police department.One reason for recommending a city-operated shelter, according to Scott, is that the city pools resources together, and it would offer cost effective services to the new shelter.She said a drawback to a contracted shelter was it was provided a lump sum for its sen'ice s. The operators could spend the funds however they wished and not make choices that included the animals’ welfare.The city budget process will continue through July 26, Scott said. The current 2006 proposed animal shelter budget has an additional $50,000 in unanticipated expenditures for the first year of operation.The animal shelter board is requesting $284,153 for 2006.
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Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Wed, Jul 13, 2005
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