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Committee backs $3.24M LPF appropriation to complete Main Library teen digital media lab
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee approved forwarding a Library Preservation Fund supplemental to the Board to cover a $3.24M funding gap for a teen digital media lab at the Main Library, part of a $5.5M capital project that includes a Literacy & Learning Center and tenant improvements.
City Librarian Luis Herrera and the library’s CFO presented the Main Library Teen Digital Media Lab project and asked the committee to appropriate about $3.24 million from the Library Preservation Fund to close a funding gap in a $5.5 million project.
Herrera described the teen center as a roughly 5,000‑square‑foot space with a makerspace, audio and video studios, computer technology, a collection and flexible performance/teaching areas, designed with input from 19 young people who participated in charettes with…
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