Missoula County will likely sue a Salt Lake City company over failed safety inspections for an expensive climbing structure for kids that was installed in the Missoula Public Library.

On Wednesday, the county's director of people and risk Erica Grinde asked the Missoula County commissioners to authorize the county to engage in litigation against the company, called Process Curiosity.

"To date the county has invested just shy of $300,000 in both legal fees and vendor costs," Grinde said.

The structure, called the DNA tornado or the DNA climber (meant to show kids the structure of DNA while they climb from one floor to another inside the library), has been a source of contention for some time.

In 2019, the City of Missoula was awarded a large federal grant. At least $365,000 of that mone

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