The commission is supposed to function as a "structured support system" and a liaison between Metro Animal Care and Control, the Metropolitan Board of Health and the community.

The Metro Nashville Council ordinance that would establish the group notes that it's necessary in part because the government-run shelter facility is operating at maximum capacity.

Nashville is a step away from establishing a new advisory board over Metro Animal Care and Control.

At the Metro Nashville Council’s Nov. 18 meeting, the group advanced a bill creating the Metropolitan Animal Care and Control Commission on its second of three readings. Since it was first filed Sept. 30, the bill has garnered wide support from council members with 29 of the 40 members now signed on as co-sponsors.

According to the bill

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