WESTBOROUGH – When Annual Town Meeting convenes on Saturday, March 23, there will be a request of $1.6 million toward the repair project for the Westborough Public Library.
That request will be made by the Library Building Committee (LBC); the funds will be used for design development and construction documents.
Once the documents are ready, the committee will go to 2025’s annual Town Meeting with a request for the repair project itself.
The project’s costs would cover everything from construction to moving and storage.
During its meeting on Jan. 30, the committee voted for a design/build concept, instead of having a construction manager at risk.
According to LBC Chair Robert Petrucelli, the construction manager would not be necessary, since it would be a repair project instead of a major renovation.
The design/build concept would also save about $1 million.
Plans for the repair project began to form early in 2023, after a Special Town Meeting in December 2022 rejected plans for a major renovation. The repair project would focus on some of the library’s major issues, such as the roof, windows and installing a second set of restrooms.
Miniature golf and other Westborough library programs
The library held its annual mini-golf event on Friday, Feb. 2, and Saturday, Feb. 3. Visitors young and old could play an 18-hole course that wrapped around the first and second floors.
Unlike last year, when an admission was charged, the Friends of the Westborough Library picked up the tab.
Miniature golf is among the programs being offered at the library this winter.
From now through March, the library is offering a winter wellness program, which includes a virtual walking program. Check the library’s calendar for details.
For vacation week Feb. 20-24, there will be programs on meditation, a Family Game Day, a workshop on plant slime, a learning to code program for fourth- to sixth-graders and more.
For information on programs and the project, visit www.westboroughlibrary.org.
