City Council Set to Accept $3 Million Donation for Ocean Beach Library Expansion — March 11

Frank Gormlie February 28, 2025 1 Comment 0 Likes 1630 Views

The San Diego City Council is all set to formally accept a $3 million for the expansion of the Ocean Beach Library. The formal acceptance was scheduled for Tuesday, March 4th but has been postponed to March 11.

This will be a momentous occasion for OB residents as the expansion has been on the City’s backburner for years. Members of the Friends of the OB Library are elated.

Here’s some of the formal language — the agenda item is number 100:

Item 100: Acceptance of $3 Million Donation for the Ocean Beach Library Expansion Project.
Total Estimated Cost of Proposed Action and Funding Source:

This action is for acceptance of grant funding. The $3,000,000 in grant funds received will support the Ocean Beach Branch Library Expansion project for library construction and related costs.
Council District(s) Affected: 2.

Proposed Actions:
(R-2025-5)

Resolution authorizing the Mayor or designee to execute an Agreement to accept a donation of up to $3 million from the Library Foundation for the purpose of expanding the Ocean Beach Library Expansion Project and related construction costs.

Authorizing the Chief Financial Officer to increase the Fiscal Year Capital Improvements Program Budget, and to accept, appropriate and expend an amount not-to-exceed $3 million for the purpose of the Ocean Beach Library Expansion Project and related construction costs, contingent upon receipt of the donation.

Author: Frank Gormlie

A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.