There are days when I have to wonder what’s going on over at the Marion County Public Library (MCPL) System. Cost overruns on projects, cut backs in services where needed and just a general public perception of incompetence. You’d think that would be enough to shame some people, but not there. The Indianapolis Star is reporting this morning that the CEO of the MCPL, Linda Mielke is getting a 4 percent raise. The raise would bring Mielke’s salary to $122,000 annually. If I knew the Library Board would reward bad behavior with a raise I would have signed up a long time ago.

When asked about her raise, Mielke told the Star, ‘I don’t want to talk about my raise. Everybody else got a raise.” If I ran the library system the way Ms. Mielke has I wouldn’t want to talk about my raise either.

If there was ever a reason (or 122,000 reasons) to privatize the entire Marion County Library system, this is it.

Posted: 03|23|06 at 6:49 am by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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