By Daily Press Staff
The Santa Monica City Council and the library board will hold a special joint meeting to discuss the new main library tonight.
The public is invited for the presentation and to discuss the initial conceptual plans with Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners and with Library and City staff.
Moore Ruble Yudell was selected to design the new main library in 2000 following passage of Proposition L by Santa Monica voters in 1998.
The Santa Monica-based firm has built, expanded, and renovated several libraries, including the Powell Library and the Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library at the University of California, Los Angeles campus; the Fairchild Engineering and Applied Science Library at the California Institute of Technology; and the Humboldt Library in Berlin, Germany.
The Santa Monica library plan being proposed would be 104,000 square feet and is expected to cost $49.5 million. About $45 million of that are included in the city’s capital improvements program, with the remaining funds to be appropriated in next year’s budget.
The meeting begins at 6:45 p.m. in council chambers at Santa Monica City Hall, 1685 Main Street.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 13, 2001. Read the original PDF.