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Article: Humane society may face lawsuit City tells group to share more of shelter with competitor
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- November 4, 2004
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Colorado Springs officials are ready to sue the Humane Society of
the Pikes Peak Region for $3 million if it doesn't share more of the
city animal shelter with a competing group.
City Manager Lorne Kramer said in a letter Tuesday that the
longtime animal-care provider is in default of an agreement it signed
in 1999, when it built the Abbott Lane shelter with the city.
The city has been in negotiations with the humane society all
year. Kramer and others say the organization has kept most of the
shelter off-limits from the Colorado Humane Society, a group that
took over animal-control duties from the Pikes Peak humane society
this year.
That violates a section of the agreement stating that ...