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Library gets additional funding
A year ago, just before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, the City of Gallup was talking about how to build a new regional animal shelter. Now they’re talking again.
At the Feb. 25, 2020 City Council meeting, Jackie McKinney was the outgoing mayor. He said he had friends on both sides of the land issue and didn’t want to encumber the incoming mayor over site selection. So the council voted to table the issue.
Gallup got its new mayor, Louis Bonaguidi, at the same time COVID was entering the picture.
The sites under consideration for the shelter included an expansion of its current location (Balok Street off U. S. Highway 491) with the...