Manhattan Beach library will undergo reconstruction

Manhattan Beach city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a $1.2 million agreement with Johnson Favaro, an architecture and urban design company, for reconstruction of the Manhattan Beach library. The funds for this project come from Manhattan Beach residents’ property taxes. The city’s general funds will not be used to fund the project, according to the city staff report. “(The current) library is too small for its purposes,” said Margaret Donnellan Todd, Los Angeles Count