Lafayette Mayor-President Joel Robideaux is holding a town hall meeting Wednesday night about the Lafayette Parish Animal Shelter.

The goal is for the parish to achieve “no-kill” status by 2020.

Experts form Target Zero, a national group that works with animal shelters across the country, will be at the meeting.

They’ll talk about that needs to be done for the Lafayette Parish Animal Control Center to become a “no-kill” facility by 2020.

Lafayette Consolidated Government leaders hope to increase the number of animal rescues and adoptions.

Robideaux says having a no-kill shelter is more humane and cheaper since animals would no longer be euthanized.

It would cost $6,000,000 and be paid for with the existing public health millage.

The current shelter – built 25 years ago – on Pont des Mouton Road is only 6,000 square feet.

The goal is to increase capacity by building a new 20,000 square foot animal shelter for Lafayette parish.

The meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. tonight at the Picard Center for Child Development on 200 East Devalcourt Street in Lafayette.