Bond Measure to Provide $25 Million for Libraries
Library supporters are praising the overwhelming passage of the city’s Proposition L, a bond measure that will provide $25 million for library improvements.
Eighty percent of voters supported the measure, far more than the required two-thirds approval.
City librarian Wini Allard said the bonds will be used primarily to expand the existing main library and upgrade technology and facilities at the three branches.
The main library on 6th Street will be expanded by 50,000 square feet when an addition is built on adjacent property. The new building will double the size of the main branch, Allard said.
The same firm that designed the Los Angeles Central Library, Hardy Holtzman Pfeiffer & Associates, will work on Santa Monica’s facility, Allard said.
“It’s such a tribute to this community that they value education and libraries to that degree,” Allard said of the easy passage of the library improvement bond.
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