Edgecomb’s contribution to the Wiscasset Public Library looks like it will stand at the $2,000 approved in May at town meeting.

A week after library trustee and Edgecomb resident Tom Boudin lost his latest effort to bridge the $7,000 gap to the library’s nearly $9,000 request, he has no plans to further pursue the matter.

On June 25, the Edgecomb Selectmen rejected Boudin’s idea to tap the Maro F. Hammond Memorial Trust to match 2-1 any donations received.

Selectmen determined the use would not meet the trust’s criteria. However, Board Chairwoman Jessica Chubbuck offered to help Boudin with some other form of fundraising for the library.

A matching component is the only way fundraising would yield enough money, Boudin said.

He will not be taking Chubbuck up on her offer to help. “Unfortunately I have too much going on in my life to feel comfortable running a fundraising campaign without a match component,” Boudin wrote in a July 1 email to the Wiscasset Newspaper.

Boudin still feels “strongly” that the town should meet the library’s funding request. Not only would that spare residents from paying a prorated, non-residents’ fee for the shortfall, but it would be doing the town’s part to keep the services available to all the towns that use the library, he wrote.

“Just having a facility available even if not everyone uses it has some merit,” Boudin wrote. “I think of it like a hospital. You support and maintain it and may never use it, but when you need it, it is there.”