Southern California Library Focuses on Immediate Needs

Is your library “Deteriorated. Outdated. Ill-kept. Dilapidated. Tired. Shoddy. Threadbare.”?

Some say the public library at Escondido, CA is, and the City Council has approved spending $400,000 on immediate “health and safety” repairs; much more of course is needed to completely update the facility.

The money for the immediate improvements and the more extensive ones would come from $10.4 million in a capital reserve fund that had been earmarked for a new library slated to cost about $30 million. The city planned to use its money as the required matching funds for a state grant that never materialized. Sign on San Diego has the story.