Cieza now has a new animal shelter.

The Councillor for Public Works reports that, after the halt suffered by the construction works of the new venue due to the lockdown, the construction has been completed and the work has been accepted.

In a press release, the Councillor for Works and Infrastructure of the Cieza City Council, Francisco Saorín, has confirmed that The construction and outfitting of the municipal animal shelter, the Sierra Ascoy Zoological Center in Cieza, has been completed. and that the works have been accepted by the City Council.

“With this work,” Saorín explains, Action has been taken at the facilities for collecting abandoned animals located in the Ascoy industrial estateThe current facilities of the zoological center are located on a plot of 2,510 m2 which is accessed through the extension of Chicharra street.

The councilman recalls that [something] has been done actions for the consolidation, adaptation, improvement and expansion of the previous infrastructureThe work has involved the expansion of kennels, for which the row of module 1 has been doubled, a small building as an area for washing animals and a cattery.

Furthermore, a intervention in the sanitation area, since the previous one was saturated with solids and had breaks. Regarding the repair of kennels, a comprehensive intervention has been carried out starting with the demolition of the previous workFurthermore, a Work has been carried out on the pavement, and the access doors in the treatment room and toilet have been replaced, and the exterior animal bathing area has been repaired..

The project It was drafted by a municipal technician and set a a tender price of 101,444.67 euros and an execution period of six months, with a warranty period of one year from the date of the provisional acceptance certificate.

Finally, Saorín concluded by recalling that, with the same, “In addition to fulfilling what citizens voted for through the Participatory Budgets for 2019, this responds to a repeated demand from the animal rights community.”A continuous improvement project that began during the last legislature through the Department of Citizen Participation, and which currently continues to have the support of the citizens through participatory budgets, which have once again provided this improvement project with a new economic allocation to continue expanding facilities and services.