The opinions that I express here are that of my own and have nothing to do with my employer. I am a resident of Queens County and a taxpayer of New York City and State and am outraged about the situation with Thomas Galante, the CEO of the Queens Library.
Mr. Galante has a perk filled salary of $392,000 which is more than the Governor or the Mayor. The New York Daily News reports that library's board of trustees paid a consulting firm $28,000 to review Galante's contract and come back with a recommendation for revising his contract. I wish they would use that $28,000 for books for the small branch libraries. The Daily News article also revealed that until recently Galante had a $2 Million "Golden Parachute" that was removed by the trustees.
$140,000 was also spent to renovate Galante's office including a private smoking deck courtesy of the taxpayers.
This is outrageous to me as I have observed that the book collection at my local branch is so small. Anecdotally, the salaries at Queens Library are low in comparison to other public libraries.
A library director should fight for better resources for his organization and for competitive salaries for the librarians and clerks who directly work with the public.
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