Wiscasset Public Library Trustee Tom Boudin tried to get fellow Edgecomb residents to give the library nearly $9,000 this year. But at the annual town meeting last month, voters gave that library and the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library $2,000 each.

Boudin didn’t give up there. He recently floated an idea to Edgecomb se-lectmen to increase the town’s contributions to both libraries. The Boothbay Harbor library had asked for $4,000.

The idea was to seek individual donations and match them 2-1 with money from the Maro F. Hammond Memorial Trust, Boudin said in a June 24 interview. Boudin was one of the Hammond Trust’s original trustees; the selectmen are now the trustees.

The campaign could make up the gap between what the libraries sought and what they received, Boudin said.

Last year, when Edgecomb’s contribution fell short of the Wiscasset li-brary’s request, Edgecomb residents wanting to check out books had to pay part of the nonresident fee, Boudin said. He hoped that situation could be reversed, if the request was fully met this year, he said.

In a May 23 email to Edgecomb Selectman Stuart Smith, Boudin wrote that a Hammond family member had indicated support for the idea “if there is no specific beautification project for which funds are being accumulated.”

Income the trust generates is supposed to help beautify Edgecomb or help preserve the town’s heritage, according to a trust document.

Library funding does not qualify under either of those uses, so Edgecomb selectmen on Monday night decided not to tap the fund for that purpose, Board of Selectmen Chairwoman Jessica Chubbuck said. However, they did discuss possibly using some income from the trust for work on local cemeteries, which could be considered either a beautification or heritage matter, she said.

Chubbuck said if Boudin would like to do some other form of fundraising for the libraries, she would be willing to help him.