The Renton City Council will discuss plans Monday night for moving forward with an agreement with the King County Library System to build two new libraries and the issuing of 10-year bonds to pay for them.

The council, sitting as the Committee of the Whole, will meet at 4:30 p.m. to discuss the issues. The regular council meeting is at 7 p.m., when council members would take any vote.

On May 9 the council took its first vote to move forward with the sale of the $18 million in bonds. Monday night’s meeting would be the council’s second and final reading of the ordinance authorizing the sale of the bonds.

The library issue has sparked sharp criticism from some members of the public concerned about moving the downtown branch from its current location over the Cedar River to the former Big 5 site on Third Avenue.

At the May 16 council meeting, council members decided to delay further action on the agreement and the bond measures until after they got more public input.

During the Committe of the Whole meeting Monday, council members will receive a presentation on the libraries and the process so far.

They will be asked if they have had sufficient input from the public in order to vote on the library issues, said Terri Briere, council president.

If council members feel they have not received enough public input, they will discuss how else to get it, whether through a survey, town hall meetings or some other method.

As of Friday, Briere wasn’t sure where the other council members stood on the issue.

The council has received letters and phone calls from concerned citizens, but she isn’t sure how wide a section of the community has been represented in the response, she said.

Regardless of what council discusses in the Committe of the Whole meeting, there will be a committee report presented at the regular council meeting.

The council does not allow any public comment at its committee meetings but the public can comment during the regular meeting.