Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Mayor Carolyn Kirk said Tuesday she is asking the City Council to appropriate $50,371 from the city's free cash reserve of $4.8 million to lift the funding for the Sawyer Free Library above the state certification threshold and assure the facility's permanent participation in the Inter-Library Loan System. Helen Freeman, the library's technical services librarian, holds library media that was borrowed from another library.

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