Petition to get a new animal shelter in Montville is gaining signatures

Now new at 4:30 in Montville the town is running into more problems trying to build a new animal shelter the channel 3i team first told you about these problems with the shelter back in October now people who live there are really trying to take matters into their own hands channel 3 New London bureau chief Luke haash explains Town leaders first anticipated this building costing a few hundred th000 to fix up and replace instead it's looking like it will cost more like 2 million we need a new ani

mal control facility a has surely caught up with this 1960s building it can make you cry it's too small there are structural issues it's difficult to clean and has failed state inspection multiple times I'm a kennel uh operator if I failed inspection they would close my doors and I'd have to fix the problem Rebecca Maurice owns Allbright canines she's a certified dog trainer who teamed up with dog lover and Gan starting a petition to get Montville a new shelter and they quickly got 12 100 signat

ures people would say can you stay just a little bit longer because I have to go get my husband and have him sign too they're hoping the petition will speed up the build process the town has been searching for Grants to help pay for it all so far no luck the community investment funds that we've been asking for we've been denied at least four or five times there is still one Grant out there if the town's denied again there is a backup plan if that falls through we're going to be looking at getti

ng a referendum to get that money to to build that another option is regionalization outsourcing the facility to a nearby town but that comes with mixed opinions say Montville has to go to New London or they have to go to dville and now they have to drive to help you you're looking at longer response times I'm not against it different area perfect less money perfect in the meantime some improvements have been made here as the town searches for the cash for a permanent solution in monville lukid

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