PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Peninsula Humane Society will conduct a public forum to seek comment from county residents regarding the organization’s proposal to construct a modern, state-of-the-art animal care and adoption center in the Port Angeles/Sequim area.
It will be held in the Peninsula Room of the Red Lion Hotel, 221 N. Lincoln St., at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24.
To attend the free forum, residents must register in advance at www.ophumanesociety.org or facebook.com/OPHumaneSociety.
Tim Crum of the consulting company, Animal Shelter Fundraising LLC — which is based in Phoenix — will facilitate the forum.
Animal Shelter Fundraising recently was authorized to conduct a building planning study to make recommendations for the optimum size, animal housing capacity and location of a new animal shelter.
Study begins September
Animal Shelter Fundraising will begin the on-site portion of its feasibility study sometime in September.
The Humane Society feels it has outgrown its 2,900-square-foot facility, which is west of Port Angeles at 2105 W. U.S. Highway 101.
The building, built in 1956, is “showing signs of excessive wear and tear,” according to the Humane Society.
It was built to house 28 dogs and 70 cats, but in recent years, it has handled more than 2,000 animals annually, said Mary Beth Wegener, executive director of the private, nonprofit Humane Society chapter.
The Humane Society has no estimate of the cost of a new shelter yet, Wegener said.
That will depend on the price of the property that is suited for the shelter’s needs and other factors, she said.
For more information, phone 360-457-8206.