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Rangely staff say animal shelter in 'crisis'; town to seek engineering bid package
Summary
Town Manager reported the shelter lost water due to a lateral leak and described the facility as in a precarious condition, proposing spending about $30,000 to produce a full bid package so council can evaluate replacement costs.
Town Manager told the council the municipal animal shelter suffered a water outage after a lateral feed leak that left the facility without running water for the day and said the shelter now appears to be in a crisis-like condition.
The Town Manager said the leak is "in our lateral feeding the building, fairly close to the building," and that staff had chosen not to dig the repair immediately; he warned the shelter "has been out of water all day and will be out of water until we get that repaired, hopefully, tomorrow." He described preliminary engineering work as insufficient to obtain contractor bids and proposed commissioning a full bid package. "If this really is a $750,000 project, we're looking at ... $30,000 I would like," he said when describing an estimate to complete design and bid documents.
Council members pressed whether the town should proceed now or wait for grant funding; staff said they plan to sit down with shelter volunteers and explore grant options and budgeting across the next one to three years before committing to construction funds. No formal motion to fund the engineering work was taken at the meeting; the manager offered to return with a firm proposal.
