At a time when Burbank is raising fees and using one-time funds to plug a $1.1-million budget gap, is keeping the dream of a new Central Library really worth keeping alive — at least to the tune of $3.5 million?
Apparently the City Council thought so when it approved allocating $3.5 million toward a roughly $16-million budget for a revamp of the aging Central Library. The council did so in an effort to, as Public Works Director Bonnie Teaford put it, “keep the dream alive” for once-grand plans to completely replace the facility.
Those original plans have since gone out the window, facing a price tag that has ballooned to more than $100 million.