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WATERTOWN â The city school district and Flower Memorial Library have been sued by a town of LeRay couple who are upset with a $14 charge added to their school tax bill to fund the library.
John W. Eisenhauer and Kathleen Anne McGlynn Eisenhauer filed suit in state Supreme Court in Jefferson County on Jan. 5, against the city, the city school district and its Board of Education, as well as the Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library.
The Eisenhauers claim the fee is an arbitrary tax imposed on non-city residents without representation.
The city school districtâs Board of Education approved the $77 million school budget on May 26, including a question on the ballot about whether to provide $75,000 annually to the Flower Memorial Library, a fee in addition to the regular school budget. The city school district is collecting that tax revenue from taxpayers on behalf of the library. School tax bills for 2020-21 had a separate line item for the amount dedicated to the library.
Sunday, December 20, 2020 - 8:03 am
BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week
OGDENSBURG – In the 2020 budget Ogdensburg Public Library has lost a $100,000 in funding from the city, which will result in cuts of three full time positions and reduce two additional full-time positions to part-time.
Beginning Jan. 1 the library will have just eight employees, six of which will be part-time.
The lack of funding in recent years caused the library to lose it’s designation as a central library system.
Director Penny Kerfien said it’s a state designation that allowed two part-time jobs to be funded through the state and provided $40,000 toward materials. However to get the designation the library needed to meet criteria from the state that included local funding and operating hours that weren’t possible due to cuts.