Animal Shelter to stay in Texas City

TEXAS CITY — Despite earlier plans to build the new county animal shelter on land near Jack Brooks Park, County Judge Jim Yarbrough said Tuesday the animal resource center approved by voters last fall will remain in Texas City.

The judge said Texas City officials offered up land adjacent to the Joe Vickery Animal Shelter for construction of the new center.

Because Texas City and the nearby communities of San Leon and Bacliff account for 40 percent of the animal shelter’s calls for service, keeping it in Texas City was the logical choice, Yarbrough said.

The Galveston County Animal Resource Center would be housed in a new building on Loop 197 near state Highway 146, with the plan being to tear down the Vickery Animal Shelter, Yarbrough said.