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County outlines new arts-and-culture director role; job will sit in tourism with no 2025 budget
Summary
Ulster County’s new director of arts, culture and open spaces will be a tourism-department position that reports to the director of tourism and county executive staff, has no dedicated 2025 operating budget and will pay $72,500 plus benefits, county officials said at a Kingston Arts Commission meeting.
Lisa Berger, director of Walter County Tourism, told the Kingston Arts Commission that the county has posted a new full-time position: director of arts, culture and open spaces.
“The position does not have an assigned budget for 2025,” Berger said. She said the salary is $72,500 a year and that benefits “raise it by another 25,000” in value, and that the county has received 65 applications for the job.
Berger said the role is housed in the tourism department and reports to the director of tourism and county executive leadership, not to the county legislature. That reporting…
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