The animal shelter project is comprised of three smaller projects and is part of a larger package of projects the city is funding through the State-Local Infrastructure Partnership Act that the Montana Legislature approved in 2023. The project will have a significant impact to shelter operations as the shelter needs to reduce the number of animals in the shelter during construction and relocate them entirely during painting. He said city staff had vetted dozens of projects for ARPA funds and identified several as tier one projects, but some of those got eliminated as other priority projects had higher costs, or were among the tier two projects, to be done if there were remaining ARPA funds after the tier one projects were completed.