2025 - 2026 Budget Book - Flipbook - Page 184
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Animal Services
Jill Gunn
Director
The goals of the Bastrop Animal Shelter is to provide medical care to abandoned and homeless animals, to provide
them with shelter and to educate the community to promote responsible pet ownership.
Bastop Animal Services was established in 1988. They have grown since then and continue to do so as Bastrop County
grows. Currently, they have 2 separate buildings containing a total of 90 large indoor/outdoor kennels and 8 play yards.
They have 2 cat housing areas, including a communal cattery. Bastrop County Animal Services encompasses both
Animal Control and the Bastrop County Animal Shelter. They offer animal control services 7 days a week from 8:00am
to 4:00pm, as well as limited emergency after-hours and holiday animal control response. The animal shelter is open
to adoptions and owned animal surrenders.
The Bastrop County Animal Shelter is a Public Service organization and an "Open Intake Facility" — meaning that all
dogs and cats within the County as well as those that are picked up by City Animal Control Officers for Bastrop, Elgin,
and Smithville are housed there. They do their best to find adoptive homes and work with rescues to save as many
animals as possible.
Animal Services Department
$2,500K
Animal Services Approved Budget FY 2022 - 2026
$2,000K
$1,500K
$1,000K
$500K
0
FY2022
FY2023
Expenditures Actual
FY2024
FY2025
FY2026
Expenditures Budgeted
In FY2025, the Animal Services expenditures budgeted reached $2 million, marking a 10.68% increase from the
previous period. Actual expenditures for the same year were also $2 million, reflecting an 8.93% rise compared to the
prior period.
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