8/13/13 - The Fenton City Council approved hiring an outside firm last night to provide guidance to the Fenton Library's renovation project. The Downtown Development Authority is working with the city to provide renovations to the aging building, which was never designed to be a library. A feasibility study was performed to determined if the structure was even sustainable as a library, and if so, what kind of repairs and improvements need to be made. Assistant City Manager Mike Burns says they plan to replace carpeting, repair the leaky roof, upgrade mechanical and electrical systems, paint, and improve the building's exterior. He says city staff has no experience in library improvement and no vision for how it should be implemented. Last night, the city council approved spending up to $9,375 to hire Library Design Associates, a specialty firm based in Plymouth which deals exclusively with libraries, to guide the project. A total of $200,000 over two years has been budgeted for the library renovation project. (TD)
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