Having received many office visits, calls and emails and having been approached in stores and even at church, the Town wants to share the following in helping the voters to make their decisions: The …
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Having received many office visits, calls and emails and having been approached in stores and even at church, the Town wants to share the following in helping the voters to make their decisions:
The Town Council is aware that the Director of the Massena Town Public Library and some trustees want to become a School District Library and no longer want the Town of Massena to provide funding or make trustee appointments.
The Massena Town Public Library, as stated in written library history, was chartered in 1902 and established a primary place of business at 60 Main Street (the Town Hall) in 1904. The library was given to the Town in 1934 after acting on a petition by their Library Board. In 1962, the library was transferred to the location on Glen Street (the premises originally of Hattie A. Anderson with reference to the estate of Julia O. Hyde in 1916). The building was given to the Town in September 1962 and dedicated to Henry H. Warren. The cost then was estimated $425,000 for 17,000 square feet. In 1975 the Town provided $99,180 from real property taxes to support the library. In 2023, the Town provided $514,471 to the library.
For general information, the Town of Massena has provided funding in the amount of $14,152,798 since 2001, certainly the largest amount of funding provided for a public library in all of St. Lawrence County. Over many years, the Town of Massena has willfully provided for, including custodial maintenance inside and outside, contracts for services including equipment such as boilers, humidifiers, air control handlers (as well as their annual inspections and respective quarterly and annual maintenance contracts for roof, library resource center, library lift, internet service, security, utilities, supplies, books, periodicals, computers, general purchasing, advertising, payroll duties including state and federal taxes, with corresponding quarterly reports, health insurance coverage, NYS Retirement, union negotiations (Teamsters), auditing and annual filing with tax cap and tax ID.
Sue Bellor
Massena Town Supervisor