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Municipal employees who donated part of their paychecks for Haitian relief raised $211,693.06, officials said yesterday.

When Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced the eight-week program in mid-January, they said if each of the city’s 300,000 workers contributed just $1 each pay period, $1.2 million would pour in.

Just 3,478 employees signed up.

But that was just one element of the city’s effort.

Within a couple of weeks of the catastrophe, Bloomberg reached out to residents and companies throughout the city and pulled in more than $1.2 million through the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York.

One hundred percent of the proceeds went to aid organizations in Haiti.

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