Councillors will vote on Monday night’s meeting whether to create a working party to examine whether the library should be relocated or a new facility built. 

But Cr Maher worries the review may choose to move the library to a temporary home which would later become permanent as a way of scrapping plans to build an entirely new meeting.

Mayor Laurie Bishop said if it was supported by Council the group would “re-look at the commitment we’ve made”.

Cr Bishop said this is because it would be impossible to meet the commitment laid out in Council’s Strategic plan of building a new library by 2018 due to lack of funds.

Council’s agenda for the November 24 meeting says that a special rate variation may be needed to pay for the new library along with possible grant applications and loans.

Cr Maher said library staff were willing to wait for a new purpose built library and that Council.

“There’s no urgency on the part of the library staff to move, they’re quite prepared to sit there until they can move into a new library,” Cr Maher said. 

Council’s Community Strategic Plan 2013-2048 calls for a new library in just four years’ time as the current building only has room for 60 per cent of the space necessary. 

The agenda for Monday’s meeting recommends the working party be comprised of the general manager Glenn Wilcox and half the councillors.