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Palm Beach County board signals support to pursue new main library, asks staff to model bond options
Summary
Library officials proposed a 16-year capital campaign including a new 150,000-square-foot main library; commissioners endorsed the renovation plan and asked staff to return with cost estimates and draft voter-approved bond language for the library taxing district.
County library staff presented a capital plan and asked the Board of County Commissioners for direction on renovating branches and pursuing a new main library that would replace the aging Summit Boulevard facility.
"The Palm Beach County Library System is thriving," Douglas Crane, director of the county library system, said during his presentation. He described the system's history, its service footprint (18 branches plus a bookmobile) and the library's status as a dependent taxing district established by the Florida Legislature in 1967.
Crane outlined a proposed new main…
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