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The Park County Animal Shelter is now open to the public every day thanks to a recent change in staff schedules.
At the April 17 monthly board meeting, Operations Director Ryan Johnson …
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The Park County Animal Shelter is now open to the public every day thanks to a recent change in staff schedules.
At the April 17 monthly board meeting, Operations Director Ryan Johnson presented his proposal to switch the five staff to four 10-hour days per week instead of five eight-hour days, as a way to provide the staff to keep the shelter open to the public Sundays and Mondays, the two days that had been closed.
The shelter is now open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. every day.
“Everybody's on board and highly in favor of this,” Johnson said, adding, “This is just more of a matter to keep us open till five o'clock on those days when we're already here.”
With essentially two shifts each working four days a week, he said Wednesday will include overlap and enable training.
The board added its support.
“All of the research, all of the correlation, says remove every barrier to adoption and foster as possible, which includes expanding the hours and using the community and everything you're doing,” board member Katina Koller said. “So thank you for that.”
