MOORHEAD — Should JLG Architects design Moorhead’s new regional library and community center?
The City Council will decide that question the evening of Monday, May 8.
If six council members agree, Mayor Shelly Carlson and City Manager Dan Mahli will have the green light to authorize up to $3.5 million in design work by the team of North Dakota-based JLG and Miller Hull, an architectural firm based in Seattle.
“I’m itching to get going,” Carlson said Friday, May 5.
Last November, more than 64% of Moorhead residents who voted on the issue agreed to add a one-half-cent sales tax to finance up to $31,590,000 for a new library and community center. Construction of the building alone is expected to be $26 million.
Carlson said that the process leading to Monday’s vote “was pretty lengthy and pretty intense.”
She said JLG Architects should “be…
