Salem City Manager Rex Barbee says work is 99-percent complete on mold removal at the Salem Animal Control Facility on the Cartter Road.
He provided an update after Monday night’s city council meeting.
“They checked all the rooms and basically found most of the mold they remediated was in an interior room that used to be the meat locker so we had to remove some of the interior wall, fiberglass, and that type of thing. We remediated the mold that was down near the floor. That’s the room they wanted to convert to a confinement area so we’ll make that an air-tight room so they will have a place to quarantine dogs that may have issues that we don’t want to spread around.”
Barbee says the cost of improving the isolation room will be around $2,600 above the cost of the mold mitigation. The expenditure was within what the city council gave Barbee permission to spend at an earlier meeting.
