Town of Little Elm Animal Shelter. Capital Improvement Plan

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1 Town of Little Elm Animal Shelter Capital Improvement Plan

2 Statistical Averages 2007 and 2008 Approximately animals are boarded at the shelter each year animals are adopted out each year. Nearly 3000 people visit the shelter each year.

3 Town Of Little Elm Animal Shelter 1104 W. Eldorado Parkway

4 Current Facility Challenges Only 1900 square feet Room for 20 canines Room for 30 felines No Crematory (currently freeze carcasses and use Lewisville Landfill to dispose of them). Currently lease our facility. It is aged and not originally deigned to serve as a shelter. Heating and cooling is accomplished by window units / gas furnace. They are inefficient, costly to repair and maintain and provide inadequate ventilation. All canine pens share a common drain which poses health risks due to cross contamination. Will lose necessary parking lot due to the widening of Eldorado Parkway. No laundry room / no laundry machines

5 Current Facility Photos Carcass storage / Poor cooling system No Quarantine Room Narrow Hallways / Hard to place animals into pens while using catch poles. No guillotine doors on current pens.

6 Current Facility Photos (continued) No designated cat room Lack of Storage Space Narrow Hallways

7 Proposed Facility Could be built on existing land near the Town Service Center (1 acre). Minimum square footage to meet current 2008 needs = 3,500. Anticipated square footage needed to meet the demands over the next years = 4,000 to 5,000. Estimated cost to build per square foot is $209. A 3500 square foot facility is estimated to cost $732,000. A 5000 square foot facility is estimated to cost around $1,000,00. Crematory machine $43,000 in addition to building costs.

8 Proposed Facility (continued) A 3500 square foot building would give the shelter: Room for approx. 30 canines (includes 2 quarantine and 2 isolation pens) Room for approx. 50 felines (includes a small quarantine room and a small isolation room) A laundry and food storage room A mechanical room Canine and Feline adoption rooms Outdoor pen for canine exercise and socialization

9 Proposed Facility Conceptual Design

10 Crematory Machine Pennram LLC-50 Long-life Animal Incinerator features and benefits: Animal Incinerator has a large front-loading door for easy access Heavy-duty steel-plate construction Crematory has a totally leak-proof design Structurally superior, high-temperature refractory or brick lining Totally smokeless crematory operation, even with plastic caskets Fuel efficient temperature controlled modulating burners Fully automatic operation of crematory, including startup and shutdown Heavy-duty industrial grade gas, propane or heating oil (off-road diesel) burners Fully EPA compliant in all fifty states Factory installation of crematory is available From 50 to 1,000 pound per hour capacities available Single private cremations or multiple remains processing Twenty-five year design Very low maintenance Full Factory Warranty Can be used to perform fee based services for veterinary offices / citizens

11 Shelter Comparison (Exterior) vs. Existing New

12 New Shelter Designs by Quorum Architects Our design of Mesquite s s new Animal Shelter and Adoption Center included changing the way people view the animals. Instead of seeing them in cages, dogs and cats are brought out individually to meet their potential adoptive parents. This makes for a much nicer atmosphere and a design that works for four-legged animals as well as it does the two- legged kind. We performed the master planning, design and construction administration for the 11,380-square square-foot project. Design Start Date: September 2003 Design End Date: May 2004 Construction Completion: December 2005 Construction Cost/Funding: $2.0 million General Obligation Bonds

Municipal Infrastructure

The Town of Hebron Section 5 2014 Plan of Conservation and Development Municipal Infrastructure C. Public Works (Draft: 5/2/13) This section of the plan will identify the services provided by the Town