Our current animal shelter is located on the City of Globe property cemetery. The property that the shelter has been built on is jointly owned by the City of Globe and Gila County. The existing animal shelter building has many structural deficiencies and does not have the necessary space and equipment to meet current needs. The High Desert Humane Society claims ownership of the animal shelter building.
 
In 2016, Paul Jepson, City of Globe Manager, and Chris Collopy, Code Enforcement Director, notified Michael Scannell, Gila County Deputy County Manager, and Michael O'Driscoll, Gila County Health and Emergency Management Division Director, the the City has a need to expand its cemetery to create additional grave sites. Mr. Scannell and Mr. O'Driscoll were told by Mr. Jepson and Mr. Collopy that there exists a high probability that the City will run out of grave sites by 2020. Mr. Jepson has requested that Gila County consider an agreement with the City of Globe to relocate the County's shelter operations to a 4-acre spot known as the Community Center Property. Discussions are currently being conducted to determine the best and most efficient and legal way for Gila County to deed ownership of the current animal shelter property to the City of Globe and have the City of Globe deed the 4-acre Community Center Property to Gila County.

 

This project was started under the former Board of Supervisors' and a work session was scheduled on February 28, 2017 for the incoming Board of Supervisors' to present this project to them and gain their input and direction. During this work session, staff was instructed by the Board of Supervisors' to research additional properties that may be acceptable to construct a new animal shelter on and bring that information back to present during another work session.

The property presented to the Board of Supervisors' during the February 28, 2017 work session was the Globe Community Center site.