PROVIDENCE Frank Montanaro s days at the State House have been numbered since former House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello was defeated at the polls in November.
After months of rumors about where he might land, the former state representative from Cranston - and namesake son of a once-powerful labor leader - put in his last day at the State House on Friday.
He left quietly, without fanfare in a state Capitol building still closed to the public.
Montanaro headed business operations for Rhode Island s $46 million a year General Assembly.
As the $167,948 a year executive director of the Joint Committee on Legislative Services (JCLS), he was in charge of hiring, firing and payroll for General Assembly employees and the legislature s army of contractors, from the ever-present construction crews to the redistricting whiz the lawmakers re-hired this year to crunch census numbers.