PVPC Towns: Monson, Palmer, and Ware
CMRPC Towns: Warren
Animal Cross-Border Control Shelter Service Analysis and Implementation (DLTA 2015, 2017 & 2018)

The participating communities kicked off a pilot scale regional arrangement at the start of fiscal year 2017 after getting pressure from the State's increased regulatory practices for shelter compliance. The pilot was made possible after engaging PVPC and CMRPC to help explore and determine the feasibility of sharing animal control resources. After implementing the pilot, the immediate benefit to the towns through the shared arrangement was the use of an existing shelter in Palmer and access to a fulltime animal control officer to oversee the shelter and respond to calls as-needed. Since the start of the implementation of the regional partnership, each of the communities have committed and remain dedicated to support building an adequate regional animal control facility and take steps toward fully consolidating their animal control services in the long term as part of their operational capacity building campaign.

Project Status: To-date, the communities have reaffirmed their partnership by extending their regional contract, and submitted an application and received a $65,000 Efficiency and Regionalization grant through the Commonwealth's Community Compact Program. Funds will support Phase I pre-development planning for future construction of an adequate regional animal control shelter facility. Phase I will include a regional procurement for an engineer to help with site selection and complete the technical study and architectural designs of the regional facility. PVPC's 2018 DLTA has been awarded to the towns to continue to provide ongoing project management and coordination of grant tasks.

PVPC Project Staff:
Joshua A. Garcia, Municipal Services Manager

CMRPC Project Staff:
Andrew Loew, Principal Planner
Connor Robichaud, Administrative Assistant