Last month, the Bellingham Public Library put out a request for land in downtown Bellingham that they could purchase to expand the library. Their bidding time ended on Friday without a single response.

This leaves the library with the two options that they had before: build on the back lawn of their current site or land that is occupied by the city’s Municipal Court building. The library has already spent $60,000 to study the feasibility of building on their back lawn.

The library board will discuss their options and then present to the Bellingham City council sometime this spring. That means that there is potential for a library levy on the next ballot. How much the levy would be is yet to be determined. It will be interesting to see how Bellingham residents, who are ranked among the highest in the nation for their use of the library, will react to a levy.