The Cultural Hub at Tom Davies Square is cleared to proceed, with a near-unanimous city council greenlighting a $65-million central library/art gallery.

City staff cited an estimated cost of $68.8 million, but Mayor Paul Lefebvre amended the proposed motion during tonight’s meeting to limit its budget to $65 million.

This keeps the project’s constraints within existing municipal coffers, Lefebvre clarified to his colleagues, and ensures they don’t go back to the taxpayer seeking more money.

The city’s elected officials also expressed support for a $65-million limit in February, which draws from $68 million in debt the city has already secured for the library/art gallery project and the mothballed Junction West convention centre (minus what has already been spent.)

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