Florida Officials Shine Green Light
on Joint-Use Library
Add another joint-use library project to the growing number of cost-saving initiatives around the nation: The Seminole (Fla.) City Council approved September 26 a plan for a $6.8-million library facility on the Seminole campus of St. Petersburg Junior College that will double as the Seminole Community Library. Slated for completion in 2003, the library will be almost twice the size of the city’s 17,000-square-foot present site.
“I think the council was right in taking time” to okay the plan, Seminole Mayor Dottie Reeder said in the September 28 St. Petersburg Times, referring to a series of snags the project hit in recent weeks despite council members having approved the concept on December 8, 1998. Those issues, which revolved around contract language, were resolved by inserting an exit clause and a sentence emphasizing the role of city officials and SPJC in lobbying the state in the 1999–2000 legislative session for the final $3 million needed to build and equip the library.
Posted October 2, 2000.
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