$4.5 million Carson City animal shelter approved

A $4.5 million animal shelter budget was authorized Thursday for Carson City’s proposed facility, but without breaching a $4 million cap in city sales tax money.The Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to amend a plan of expenditure for capital projects, increasing the top line for the shelter budget but holding firm on the plan’s limit of at least a penny less than $4 million in city sales tax-related bonds allocated for the new shelter. The Reno-based Nevada Humane Society, which had pledged $2