animal-shelter-update

A building project in Jefferson is set to get back underway.

The Greene County Animal Shelter ran into an issue in May with a soil compaction problem that caused part of the foundation to sink several inches. City Administrator Mike Palmer says the contractor is installing 50 foot mechanical casons under the entire structure to support the foundation and the facility. He addresses what will also happen to the existing base and foundation.

“And the answer is that they’re going to remove some of it, re-compact it, then they’re going to beef up the concrete slab inside with more reinforcement bar.”   

The City Council also approved $6,030 to be spent on additional soil testing and Palmer explains how they didn’t need to do that.

“It turns out that since it wasn’t a soils problem at the base, that we’re not going to have to pay that anymore.”

Palmer adds the expected completion date might be pushed back from September to October, which is still within the contracted amount of days.