The Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library Board of Trustees has commissioned a study that could lead to a reconfiguration of floor space in the 20-year-old library building on Front Street in the Village of Suttons Bay.

Board president John Krug said the study is being paid by grant funding and donations from Rotary Charities of Traverse City and the Friends of the Library group.

Library Design Associates of Holland, Mich., will conduct the study, Krug said. The review will cover all aspects of the building’s interior including administration facilities, collection areas and space allocation. The firm has recently completed similar reviews for libraries in Cadillac and Petoskey, he said.

“We consider this a priority matter,” Krug said in a prepared statement. “Had our millage proposal passed we would be in a position, pending agreement on results of the study, to execute the work. As it is, however, it will have to be phased in as funds become available.”

Krug said he would not rule out mounting a “capital campaign” to raise funds.

Over the past year, voters in Suttons Bay and Bingham Townships have twice rejected millage proposals that would have substantially increased tax revenues supporting the library. The library continues to be supported by a 0.3-mill allocation from both township governments, however.

Krug said that the building will not be physically enlarged and that the actual reconfiguration of space would not occur until passage of a new millage proposal provides additional operating resources.

“There are many unknowns in the library’s future,” Krug said. “But we need to have this blueprint for a more efficient layout now to help us time that future.”