Sack them all

Good riddance to Tom Galante, the grossly overpaid emperor of the Queens Library whose money-grabbing maneuvers have apparently proven too much even for his toadies on the library’s board of trustees.

The Daily News’ Juan Gonzalez, who exposed Galante’s mind-boggling dealings, broke the story Thursday that the trustees were rushing to send their $392,000-a-year golden boy out the door with an $800,000 package.

Within hours, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ordered the board to postpone action, and Gov. Cuomo signed legislation authorizing Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Mayor de Blasio to remove trustees as they see fit. Fire away, they must. With the backing of a complicit board, Galante scored his excessive compensation in a five-year, endlessly renewing contract that set his sever- ance at about $2 million. Then, regardless of his extraordinarily high compensation, he got permission from the board for a second job as business manager for a Long Island school district.

Along the way, he and the board awarded construction contracts to an ally at that district — and became targets of FBI and Department of Investigation probes sparked by Gonzalez’s revelations.

Still worse, a 10-member faction of the 19-member board refused to suspend Galante, voted for absolute secrecy and, finally, tried to send their partner in scandal off with $800,000. That prompted Cuomo to speedily sign a bill aimed directly at reining in the board.

The panel has members appointed by the mayor and borough president. De Blasio and Katz must sack all those who aided and abetted Galante and appoint top-notch replacements, who will open the library’s internal workings under him to full scrutiny before paying him a penny.