WHAT: Greene County Animal Control, County Services open house
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday
WHERE: 641 Dayton Xenia Road, Xenia
CONTACT: Greene County Animal Control 937-562-7400
Animals at the Greene County animal shelter will be available for adoption during the day.
WHAT: Greene County Animal Control, County Services ribbon cutting ceremony
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday
WHERE: 641 Dayton Xenia Road, Xenia
CONTACT: Greene County Animal Control 937-562-7400
Animals at the Greene County animal shelter will be available for adoption during the day.
Greene County will unveil a $707,000 animal shelter and county services building expansion during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday and open house on Saturday.
Construction on the expansion, which will allow the departments to improve services, took about a year to complete and included adding 5,459 square feet to the 11,242 square-foot building on Dayton Xenia Road.
“We are happy to see this project come to fruition and are looking forward to the increased efficiency and improved customer service we will be able to provide,” said Greene County Administrator Brandon Huddleson.
Renovations to the animal shelter include better administrative offices, a private adoption room where people can spend time with animals, a classroom, a three-room surgical suite with state-of-the-art equipment and an enclosed garage where animals can be securely unloaded from a vehicle.
“The garage is something we’ve always needed,” said Dr. Harold Brown, the Greene County Animal Control director.
Brown said the expansion should be able to help with improving the care of animals at the shelter which he hopes will result in increased adoptions.
Now, the county shelter has 91 cats – triple the average feline population at the facility. For a limited time, the shelter will offer reduced adoption fees, typically $85, for cats to $20 to $40 depending on the age of the feline and how long it has been at the shelter.
“Once they get in our program, we keep them until we can get them adopted,” Brown said.
The expansion within the county services area of the building includes adding an office to the front of the building and moving all employees under one roof. Before the construction, customers had to walk through the garage to get to county services staff in the back of the building.
“Our general contractor, Arcon Builders, basically built the shell of the project with our own county employees performing the finish work, said Greene County Services Director Carl Geisler, in a written statement. “We wanted to be as efficient as possible with funds as we could and also assure the quality of the work we expect with all of our county projects.”
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