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OGDENSBURG — Library users, taxpayers, constituents — one and the same — rallied outside City Hall on Monday night. The group of about 30 people gathered ahead of City Council’s first of two April meetings, asking passing voters and motorists to support a May school district referendum to fund the Ogdensburg Public Library. The library Board of Trustees is hoping for $225,000 in funding from property taxpayers in the district to boost the steady decline in city contributions over the last six years. The phased decline was designed to increase self-sufficiency of both the library and the Frederic Remington Art Museum, eventually cutting the city contribution altogether, City Manager Stephen P. Jellie said. Councilor Michael B. Powers contended the plan was to increase the fund balance and start to slow down contributions, “not to completely phase out, unless necessary.”

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