LAGUNA HILLS : City to Consider Building Library
The young city, without a library within its borders, will spend $24,000 on a study to determine whether it should build its own system or continue to pay for access to an Orange County branch.
The city has been paying $538,000 annually so its residents can use a branch of the Orange County Public Library District in nearby Mission Viejo. But the county, strapped for cash, is turning over that branch to Mission Viejo and delaying a planned county branch in neighboring Aliso Viejo until 1998.
So the city of Laguna Hills, incorporated 30 months ago, decided last week to hire the consulting firm of David M. Griffith & Associates to help it figure out what to do.
The city is one of several looking at the costs and benefits of opening their own libraries in the wake of the county’s cutback in library hours and services.
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