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Library and museum leaders urge trustees not to cut local funding as board weighs budget cuts
Summary
Representatives of the Darwinder Barfield Library Museum Association and the Darnell Barker Museum asked trustees not to reduce village support, citing usage and program figures; trustees discussed cuts to the library line as a potential budget option.
Graham Tedesco Blair, introduced himself as the executive director of the Darwinder Barfield Library Museum Association and asked the Board of Trustees of the Village of Fredonia not to reduce the association’s budget line. Blair told trustees the association received about $187,000 annually in 2009 (approximately $121,000 for the library and $66,000 for the museum) and said that annual village support has fallen to $45,000. Blair provided usage figures: about 3,500 Fredonia cardholders, roughly 38,000 visitors in 2024, almost 40,000 physical circulations and over 13,000 electronic circulations; the collection totals…
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