 Good evening, everyone. I'm Josh Peterson for Dennis Wyman. Thanks so much for joining us tonight. All bids for the Bemidji Carnegie Library Project were rejected tonight by the Bemidji City Council. The bids came in significantly higher than expected and out of reach to be covered by the project's fundraising committees. The project to save the landmark began over six years ago. The bids were a million dollars more expensive than expected. So the council gave the Carnegie Committee a brief extension to dissect the bids to find an affordable option for the project. Cutting the cost of the project may be hard to do, but all options are currently now on the table. If these were good options, we would have looked at them before. The possibility exists that we can phase the project and do pieces of it or completely eliminate pieces of it in combination with perhaps the tax credits. You know, we're not taking any options off the table right now, just looking at every possible way that we might save costs for the project construction. The City Council gave the Carnegie Committee until June 1st to find out and present a cost-effective viable option for the project. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.