There could be a new home for Fresno County's Politi Branch Library

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno County nationalist room is looking to determination into a bigger space.

For 50 years The Politi Branch Library has been serving the Fresno assemblage with immoderate nationalist room needs.

Now the room has outgrown the determination and wants to determination into the erstwhile Rite Aid building, astatine Bullard Avenue and First Street.

“When this abstraction became available, we thought, hey, man, that's a cleanable spot to determination the room implicit here,” said Fresno County Supervisor Steve Brandau.

He said it is imaginable that determination volition beryllium a caller location for the Politi Branch Library.

However, Brandau said neighboring businesses had their qualms astir the room relocating to the erstwhile Rite Aid building.

“Some of the different storefronts here, including the discount store and others, were acrophobic that the room would instrumentality up each the parking space,” helium explained.

The statement hindered the library's advancement for months, however, precocious a woody was enactment connected the table.

The Fresno County Board of Supervisors volition see a lease statement to rent the abstraction for up to $7.8 cardinal implicit 10 years.

“They're going to person immoderate parking here, capable for the library, but we're not going to instrumentality each the parking. And so, each the different stores volition inactive beryllium capable to parkland in. Their customers tin park, too,” Brandau said.

Brandau said the determination would let the room to amended service the community, with a larger space, and much modernized areas.

“At Fresno County, we're dedicated to our room strategy and providing fantastic libraries for the community,” helium added.

The Fresno County Board of Supervisors volition ballot Tuesday to spot if the room tin officially marque the determination to the property.