In a raucous session, the State Bond Commission today approved a $1 million grant for renovation work for the Westport Library.
The project was among more than $350 million approved by the commission in a session where the prospect of more borrowing sparked what Gov. Dannel P. Malloy called one of his “weirder” confrontations with legislators.
Malloy and two Republican legislators who sit on the commission, Sen. Scott Frantz of Greenwich and Rep. Chris Davis of Ellington, sparred over the necessity for hundreds of millions of dollars in approved borrowing, CTMirror.org reported.
The State Bond Commission agenda listed the Westport Library grant as part of a $18,542,950 “library expansion for new conference, media, collections and staff rooms.”
Town bodies recently approved a $5 million appropriation for the project, for which a groundbreaking is expected in about three months.
