The city of Orange has hired a new municipal financial director, Jack W. Kelly, a former senior budget analyst for Essex County.

"I have the utmost confidence in Jack's ability to bring a sense of organization to the finance department," Mayor Robert L. Brown said yesterday.

Kelly, 30, who lives in Belleville, has a "wealth of knowledge, experience and qualifications in public administration," Brown maintained.

The certified municipal finance officers's "low-key but thorough management style will be an asset for this administration and Orange," the mayor added.

Kelly replaces Pompeo Cirelli who has been serving as Orange's acting financial director. Cirelli now returns to his post of municipal senior accountant.

Kelly holds a 1980 bachelor's degree from Kean College, as well as a 1984 master's degree from that same institution.

Besides Kelly, the other appointed members of the mayor's administration are Thomas Morrison, the city's business administrator; Charles Cobbertt, police director; Arlene Kempt, municipal engineer; Frank Gallagher, fire director; Barbara Brown, tax assessor; and Joseph Fonzino, health director.

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