The Sammamish Parks and Recreation Department will hold a public meeting tonight to offer the public an opportunity to share ideas about the proposed remodeling of the old Sammamish library into a recreation center.

The public input meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Monday, March 8, at Inglewood Junior High School, 24120 NE 8th Street, Sammamish.

The Sammamish City Council’s long awaited decision last year to purchase the old Sammamish Library building to allow it to be converted into recreation center was hailed as a temporary solution to what is becoming a serious problem on the Plateau – a lack of community recreation facilities.

Though the building will remain under the ownership of the city, the Redmond/Sammamish Boys and Girls Club, part of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, will fit and operate the center.

The city purchased the building from the King County Library Service in Sept. 2009, for about $3.4 million.

Currently operating out of a temporary building on 208th Ave NE in Redmond, the Boys and Girls Club has raised more than $1 million dollars to contribute toward turning the library into a recreation facility with a focus on teens.

For additional information regarding this meeting contact Janie Marie at (425) 295-0500 or via email at jmarie@ci.sammamish.wa.us