After two years as director of Richmond Memorial Library, Beth Paine has resigned the position, Board President Leslie Moma says.
Moma issued a press release Monday announcing Paine's departure. She was hired in March 2023 to replace former director Bob Conrad.
"Beth will remain available to us as we transition to new leadership," Moma said. "Her contributions will continue to help the library serve the needs of our community. During her tenure there were numerous positive developments: modernizing library policies, increasing operational efficiencies, overseeing improvements to our building and grounds, and evaluating staff skills and talents and promoting them to positions that enabled them to utilize their diverse talents.”
After her first year as director, Paine recommended that the library, for the first time in decades, take over its own financial and purchasing duties from Batavia City School District, which provided them as in-kind services as part of its landlord-tenant relationship.
Paine's job responsibilities then included the payroll and related duties, she had said, and the library accounts payable clerk and accounts receivable clerk had taken over the bookkeeping tasks. The library also hired an outside accountant to “oversee all of these functions, and we have hired a payroll company to process our payroll,” Paine had said of the new arrangement.
