COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Branch County Administrator Bud Norman says a groundbreaking ceremony for the new county animal building will take place next Monday at 3:00 p.m.
The public is invited to attend. Construction is scheduled to start after the groundbreaking and is expected to take four months.
The new shelter will be built next to the Branch County Jail.
The building will serve both Branch and Hillsdale Counties. Part of a ten year deal between the two counties calls for Hillsdale County to pay $30,000 a year for the first three years. That money will be used for the capitalization of the project.
Plans call for the shelter to house 20 kennels.
A fire in May 2015 forced the closing of the Animal Control Shelter south of Quincy until it reopened on an interim basis later that year while a long term plan was developed.
