OZARK-One phase of what Ozark-Dale County Public Library Director Karen Speck and Ozark Mayor Mark Blankenship called a “a long, long journey,” ended and another began with the official grand
MICHELLE MANN official grand opening of the library Tuesday afternoon at its new location in Union Central shopping center, across from city hall here.
Blankenship said that the library board approached the commission asking for financial assistance in obtaining a new library that the library board estimated would cost some $4 million. What to do about the aging building located on Saint James Street had been a topic of discussion for more than a decade, he said.
No real action was taken on the suggestion until Blankenship became mayor in 2020. After years of discussion and money talk of costs soaring into numbers that could not be met just through fundraising, the city council agreed to donate the old EMS building, used primarily for storage, and the old Family Dollar Store to the Ozark Dale County Library. “We modified the floor plan the board had when they had originally wanted to build a new facility,” he said.
With 13,032 square feet of space, the new facility is smaller than the former 17,000 library on Saint James Street, but a lot of space in the old library was unused. The mayor acted as general contractor on the project and other city employees were assigned to assist with the project as well. The former library is located at the Saint James Street location since its inception in the 1950s, said Tina Brown Harper, daughter of former Ozark Mayor Douglas Brown, who is credited with start of the city’s library. “The only thing I know to tell you is that in the 1950s Douglas Brown was mayor and wanted a library built in Ozark, “ said Harper who was a child at the time.
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