The Sealy City Council approved naming the new animal control facility after Sealy Police Department’s former Animal Control Officer, the late Gary Kollatschny, during the March 1 regular meeting in the city council chambers at city hall.

“I am happy to report that as of yesterday afternoon, the keys to our new animal control facility have been turned over to us. It is completed,” Sealy Police Chief Jay Reeves said.

Reeves said the new facility is beautiful and a world apart from the old one.

“We would like to name the facility after Gary Kollatschny, who was our long-time animal control officer. He worked for the city for about 15 years and was not only loved by our department but by the entire community. He developed relationships that (are) still working today and through those relationships, he was about to get (this facility) built for the city at no cost,” Reeves said.

Sealy Mayor Carolyn Bilski said she remembers Kollatschny and the hard work to build community relationships with the animals and thought making him the namesake was a good idea. Councilmember Yvonne

Councilmember Yvonne Johnson made a motion to name the new animal control center the “Gary Kollatschny Memorial Animal Control Facility,” which passed unanimously.

Reeves also spoke to the council about the racial profiling report from SPD that was sent to the state.

“It is a form that we fill out every single year to the state and part of the police reports that we submitted to council for your review on it. The numbers were very consistent with every other number,” Reeves said. “We have had zero racial profiling complaints, zero complaints in the last year.”

Councilmember Dee Anne Lerma motioned to accept the report as records that passed unanimously.

Council discussed a bid placed by LC Paving and Construction on the Westview Drainage improvement project for $62,193. The council unanimously approved the bid proposal for the project.

After an executive session, councilmember Chris Noack motioned to approve Mercedes Bencomo City Secretary and authorize the city manager to discuss salary. The motion carried unanimously.