Salisbury Zoo for the construction of
their animal health building.
funds from one project to another,"
said city attorney Mark Tilghman.
directed toward the animal health
building with any remainder going
toward construction and engineer-
ing of the Riverwalk along the Wi-
comico River East Prong.
the animal health building is current-
ly unknown. The contract for the
construction is around $1.8 million,
with the city and state already each
contributing $500,000 and private
donors to the zoo supplying a big
chunk of the $800,000 they've
raised through donations.
chase of several room-sized animal
cages as well as the generator and
pump for a new sprinkler system;
the as of yet unknown cost of those
additions will come out of the
$539,000 re-allocated this week
from the Public Improvement Bond.
the zoo's animal health building is a
worthy use of the money, though
Councilwoman Terry Cohen asked
the Salisbury Zoo to keep a close
eye on continued costs.
understand that everyone wants to
get this done," she said. "It's been a
long time coming. At the same time,
this is, in essence, an insurance pol-
icy for the animals and it's a really,
really expensive one."
hen suggested focusing on making
sure there is funding in place to sup-
port everything that currently exists.
something new but what we're go-
ing to get is that if all of our fundrais-
ing efforts only go towards new ad-
ditions for the zoo," she said. "We're
not going to have enough money in
the coffers to maintain what we've
got."
that money has to be managed
carefully, said Stacey Weisner, ex-
ecutive director of the Delmarva
Zoological Society (DZS).
ly well," she told Cohen. "We com-
municate at all times to let them
know what's getting done."
ships between the zoo, the city and
private donors. Councilwoman Lau-
ra Mitchell singled out those donors
for the contributions they've made
to the Salisbury Zoo.
eryone that was involved with this
but most of all the donors, the peo-
ple that believed enough in the zoo
and cared enough about the zoo to
give up their hard-earned money,
over $800,000. That's a whole lot of
donating and that's a whole lot of
appreciation," Mitchell said.
City Council voted unanimously to
move forward with the re-allocation
of a portion of the funds from a 2008