{"id":282936,"date":"2013-11-15T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T22:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=282936"},"modified":"2013-11-16T16:21:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T22:21:42","slug":"tyler-signs-sales-contract-on-land-for-animal-care-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=282936","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Signs Sales Contract on Land for Animal Care Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=282938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-282938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/11\/image007-150x150.png\" alt=\"image007\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-282938\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Tyler City Manager Mark McDaniel Thursday entered into a sales contract of $550,000 for the possible purchase of 10 acres of land to be used for a future animal care facility.  The City Council authorized McDaniel to take the action during Wednesday&#8217;s meeting.  The property is located at 4218 Chandler Hwy.  The City began investigating the potential of purchasing the parcel after ending discussions with the SPCA about building a new facility on land that was donated to them.  According to a city news release, an assessment of the property offered by the SPCA revealed that more than $400,000 would need to be invested for infrastructure before construction of a new 10,000 square foot facility could begin. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The infrastructure costs with the lot on the SPCA property were prohibitive,&#8221; said McDaniel. &#8220;Also, in exchange for the land, the City would have had to donate to the SPCA a $375,000 building that we recently constructed nearby.&#8221;  Mayor Barbara Bass added, &#8220;Not only would we have to put in $400,000 to get started, we would then have significant construction costs for a new building. The property we are interested in off of Hwy 31 already has a 20,000 square foot building on it and all infrastructure is in place.  We feel this makes much more financial sense than the lot offered by the SPCA.&#8221;  The sales contract the City entered into allows for 30 days to evaluate the property.<\/p>\n<p>According to KETK, local SPCA President Deborah Dobbs had earlier expressed uneasiness with the city&#8217;s move.  &#8220;Our concern is that the city is starting over with needs assessments, and feasibility studies and architects when we&#8217;ve actually sought out some of the experts in the field across the country and paid for them to do this,&#8221; said Dobbs. But she added, &#8220;At the end of the day, whatever happens, we want the animals to get a shelter.&#8221; McDaniel says the city invites the SPCA into its project, &#8220;but we feel like that it&#8217;s such an important project that the city really needs to be in the driver&#8217;s seat on this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Tyler City Manager Mark McDaniel Thursday entered into a sales contract of $550,000 for the possible purchase of 10 acres of land to be used for a future animal care facility. The City Council authorized McDaniel to take the action during Wednesday&#8217;s meeting. The property is located at 4218 Chandler Hwy. The City &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=282936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler Signs Sales Contract on Land for Animal Care Facility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 07:23:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282940,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282936\/revisions\/282940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}