Frisco | October 2023

Election

BY ALEX REECE

Shelter updates could ll Frisco needs

Digging deeper

The Frisco Citizen Bond Committee recom- mended a $5 million bond item to build a shelter on its May 2023 general election ballot. Frisco City Council members ultimately decided against including the item.

shelter. “We’ve been so full this year,” Brown said. “[There are] dogs in the crates in the hallway because we don’t have enough kennel space, [and] cats we’ve been buddying up [with] younger ones [to] make more room. It’s very much needed.” Multiple crates of dogs are being kept in the shelter hallways due to a lack of kennel space.

A nearly $6 million expansion to the Collin County Animal Shelter to be considered by voters on the Nov. 7 ballot could help ease growing pains in Frisco and nearby cities. One piece of a $683 million bond package on the ballot is a $5.7 million renovation project for the animal shelter that would be completed by February 2027. The expansion is desperately needed, said Joanie Brown, an animal control ocer at the

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City leaders have had multiple meetings with potential partners for an animal shelter over the years, but none have been the right t, Mayor Je Cheney said at a Sept. 25 town hall. “There has not been a viable partner that has presented itself at this point,” Cheney said. “City Council [and] city sta are still exploring those [options].” Animal intake rate The Collin County shelter has seen an increase in need in recent years. Intake numbers from July to July

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Collin County Animal Shelter volunteers keep animals in the hallways in temporary kennels.

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