New town employee helps Finance Director
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
There is a new name on the town's payroll, and that makes Finance Director Connie Voges very pleased. On Feb. 5, Irene Larivee joined the finance department as budget analyst, a position approved within the FY07 budget.

MICHAEL GALVIN/The Independent Larivee: "I found this job to be very intriguing because I love numbers and because of the puzzle aspect,"

"She will be the primary numbers person for the budget process, doing budget monitoring, producing reports and being involved in state reporting," said Voges, who has been working for the town since the year 2000. "She will be pulling everything together for me and Libby [Gibson, the town administrator]. We so need to have another set of eyes on it. Her background and experience have prepared her for doing the kind of analytical work that's needed, and I'm delighted to have her here."

Raised in Deerborn, Mich., Larivee moved to the island from Attleboro, Mass. in April 2006 and married David Larivee, a 15-year resident, last October. He works for Air Freight Delivery Service and Cranberry Transportation, Inc. The couple have two children from his first marriage.

Larivee earned a bachelor's degree in accounting information systems from Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Mich. Her career began as a senior project manager for OfficeMax at its Cleveland, Ohio headquarters. She moved on to senior project manager for digital systems at Staples' headquarters in Framingham, Mass., then became a senior consultant for CAP Ventures in Norwell, Mass. Following that, Larivee was a logistics manager at Ikea in Stoughton, Mass. before moving to Nantucket and being employed as the accountant and bookkeeper at Cranberry Transportation and Nantucket Air Freight.

There were particular aspects of the finance department job that attracted her on both professional and personal levels.

"I found this job to be very intriguing because I love numbers and because of the puzzle aspect," she said. "When you or a group of people assemble a puzzle you need to look at each piece to see where it fits at that moment in time as well as in the future. Only then will you have the goal achieved of assembling a beautiful picture."

In her free time, Larivee enjoys reading, walking the bike paths, and completing Impossible Puzzles that have no borders, are composed of repetitive images and come with five extra pieces to drive a

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