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Trustees, city staff weigh options and fundraising for library campus amid rising construction costs
Summary
An ad hoc committee presented concepts for renovating or replacing the library building and discussed financing scenarios, likely voter measures and the need for design documents to pursue grants. Trustees asked for mid/min/max options and emphasized integrating the senior center and community center into a campus plan.
Trustees and staff spent a second agenda item on Oct. 9 reviewing the library campus site-plan work and financing options prepared by a consultant group (referred to in the meeting as “group 4”).
Dean Serlin, reporting for the site-plan ad hoc committee, said trustees asked the consultant to reorganize comparisons among three options — renovate (A), single-story new building (B), and two-story new building (C) — so differences could be more easily compared and so the committee could identify a “B-plus” or “C-minus” blend that would meet need without driving costs to the consultant’s high-end estimate.
Nut graf: The committee recommended producing a clear mid/min/max set of options and asked city…
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