For Immediate Release:
January 15th, 2014
The Middletown Township Public Library and the Township of Middletown are pleased to announce the appointment of Kim Rinaldi as Provisional Library Director, beginning on February 24, 2014. Ms. Rinaldi will earn a salary of $95,000.00 per year.
Ms. Rinaldi comes to the Middletown Township Public Library after having served as the Library Director of the Margaret E. Heggen Free Public Library in Washington Township, New Jersey. During her tenure in Washington Township, Ms. Rinaldi managed 26 employees and a $2.5 million annual budget. Ms. Rinaldi has also served as the Director of the Brielle Public Library and as a Senior Librarian at the Ocean County Library, Long Beach Island Branch in Surf City, New Jersey.
Ms. Rinaldi holds a Masters in Library and Information Science from Texas Womens College and has extensive experience in library administration, budgeting and project management. Ms. Rinaldi is credited with outsourcing material cataloging and processing at the Margaret E. Heggan Free Public Library, reducing annual operating costs by $150,000.00. Ms. Rinaldi also managed a successful $2 million library building project.
Ms. Rinaldi is excited to begin her new position as Provisional Library Director and looks forward to working with the Board of Trustees, staff and residents to continue to make the Middletown Township Public Library a premier resource and destination of choice for the residents of the Township.
10 comments:
Kim Rinaldi comes to Middletown with very good credentials. She has proven herself in other positions around the state. Why can't our library board make a solid decision and hire a Director without the stipulation that she can be removed at any time they choose?
no town should be spending this much on a position for the public library. Remind me, what is the avg salary of our town's residents?
As for the previous poster, you should ask yourself why would you NOT include that?
Middletown has become a town of henchmen and thugs so when you seek employment in that town, "prospective employee beware" !
Provisional means pending civil service certification. You know, the certification that labor unions who readers of this blog all support to keep sub-par employees gainfully employed.
Anon 11:31,
You get what you pay for! I for one, want them to keep our library a great place. I heard that they are paying her way less than the old one.
Question for Anon 8:49 a.m.
What keeps sub par political appointees like you gainfully employed....political arrogance and allegiance to the corruption like what currently has overtaken this state !!!
You are just jealous that there are not unions that protect the likes of you, 8:49, in your ill gotten job as another political hack in this town !
You morons don't realize that salaries for Professionals with Masters degrees in the Library Profession and field of Education are proportionate throught the State and the Country.
Also, I'm sure that the Heads of various departments in Middletown receive salaries commensurate to this range as well...yet, you ignorantly spew that "no town should be spending this much for a position for the public library, Anonymous 11:31pm.
In fact, it would behoove you to know that librarians (who have a higher education requirement than teachers) are vastly underpaid.
I love how these ignorant Repugs think that they know everything about governing and everything else for that matter, but when you press them, you realize that they don't know ****.
The ignorant repugs are going to get their comeuppance in the scandal that envelopes this state today. The repugs think they are above the law as they plunder their way through everything they touch....even here in Middletown.....ruthless excuses for human, drunk on their own perception of power!
One way to tell how good she is, is to ask the staff of her last library position. Saving money looks good but it may not tell the entire story.
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