County Pet Useful resource Heart within the works

By Megan Wehring

HAYS COUNTY – Austin Pets Alive! has been chosen to run the Pet Useful resource Heart. 

The Hays County Commissioners Courtroom awarded a request for proposals contract to Austin Pets Alive! and approved workers and basic counsel to barter a contract on Nov. 22. Earlier on Sept. 27, the court docket authorised a request for proposals for a corporation to help with the creation, improvement and operation of a Pet Useful resource Heart. 

“I’ve lengthy envisioned this middle, working with a wide range of animal advocates and organizations to get one step nearer to a holistic, centralized Pet Useful resource Heart that additionally addresses human social providers, which shall be paramount to supporting our underserved neighborhood,” mentioned Choose Ruben Becerra in a Fb submit. “With Austin Pets Alive! and Hays County on the helm, our pets are one step nearer to this new actuality.”

Austin Pets Alive! was based in 1997 by lawyer James Collins and his then-wife Judy Ford as an all-volunteer advocacy group to assist enhance homeless companion animal lifesaving. The group not your common animal shelter; it pioneers innovating lifesaving packages designed to save lots of animals most vulnerable to euthanasia.

A contract shall be introduced again earlier than the commissioners court docket to approve and finalize the contract award.