The funds will pay for much needed repairs and upgrades to the Civic Center and South Chula Vista branches.
Chula Vista has secured more than $19 million in state grant funding to make critical repairs to its two oldest public libraries. The funds will pay for several repairs to the Civic Center branch, located on F Street, and the South Chula Vista branch on Orange Avenue. Joy Whatley, deputy director of Community Services for the city, pursued the grant funding.
73 million from the Building Forward Library Facilities Improvement Program, which “is the largest single investment made by the state in California’s public libraries,” according to the state library’s website. More than $487 million in grants were allocated to 278 local libraries via two separate rounds of funding this year and in 2022. The money is supporting the construction of seven new libraries, upgrades and repairs for three dozen others and expansion of programming for several more.
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