When I was elected to the office of president on the Franklin County Humane Society board my very first comment was “Let’s get the shelter built!” I firmly have that as my goal in my time as president. This will be one of the best facilities in the state! Our city and county deserve it! For far too long we have watched other cities lead in areas from which we should have been the leader. Now is the time!
In our negotiations with the city and the county over the last couple of years we have tried to make sure that we were very conscious on costs. However, things couldn’t be avoided in the last couple years due to COVID and now inflation. We have budgeted and made adjustments along the way. That being said, I’m proud to say we are well on our way to getting a shelter built.
John Hibbard
One issue I would like to raise is the access road. The city has stated publicly they gave us the land. That is not correct. It is leased and still city property. As a private citizen it’s hard to see the logic behind charging the humane society for a city road that’s on city property, that’s going to be maintained by the city and primarily used by city trucks — all for access to the shelter we are building for Frankfort and for Franklin County citizens to use. Notably we asked with help from the city and county to build it and we were told they could not build it. Then the prep work on the site was higher than expected. This added additional infrastructure costs. The total cost projections now sit at over $1 million dollars.
We ask you to contact your commissioner and tell them you are in favor of funding the shelter properly. We are at the cusp of something great here in Frankfort that will last for decades!
John Hibbard, of Franklin County, is president of the Franklin County Humane Society. He has been a financial professional for over 20 years and has served on the humane society board for seven years. He can be emailed at Jhibbnzeus@yahoo.com
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, City of Frankfort - find money to build the road to the shelter and to the city nature preserve and the area just beyond where mulch is dumped - all on city property! While nice to know, I don't care about our city having the best animal shelter around compared to others - the citizens and our animals here deserve the best for our community! DO IT FOR OUR PEOPLE AND THEIR PETS! PLEASE.
They are spending it all , paying a developer to build a parking garage and transient center? I hope they put in public bathroom facilities for the transients .
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, City of Frankfort - find money to build the road to the shelter and to the city nature preserve and the area just beyond where mulch is dumped - all on city property! While nice to know, I don't care about our city having the best animal shelter around compared to others - the citizens and our animals here deserve the best for our community! DO IT FOR OUR PEOPLE AND THEIR PETS! PLEASE.
They are spending it all , paying a developer to build a parking garage and transient center? I hope they put in public bathroom facilities for the transients .
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