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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The East Baton Rouge Parish Library Board is expected to receive a report in April outlining potential sites for the system's long-awaited south branch library.
The board voted last month to hire Leotta-Evers Consulting LLC to help it find a location, after the system failed to come up with an optimal site on its own, but the $15,000 contract had to be vetted by the Parish Attorney's Office.
Library Director Spencer Watts told The Advocate (http://bit.ly/1d74RJe ) Thursday the contract has been approved and he expects a report from the site selection firm in about 15 days.
"They've done a lot of preliminary work already," he said. "I would expect that they are well on their way now."
The Library Board has spent at least six years trying to move forward on an estimated $6 million new branch to serve the growing south Baton Rouge area. After talks on two properties dissolved last year, the board started the process over of trying to identify a suitable site in the affluent southern part of the parish, where property tends to be less available and more costly.
The south branch library is among several ongoing projects to address the system's growth.
The new $40 million Main Library at Goodwood opened earlier this year and an official dedication ceremony has been set for April 12.
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