Well you can tell it is an election year in Saratoga
Springs. We’ll start with Scirocco, has
your lawn debris been picked up weekly since summer? Have you seen articles in the paper about all
the projects large and small that Scirocco takes credit for? If you answer yes
to these 2 questions then you have to know election time is this November.
Scirocco can’t really take credit for much as he
contracts out quite a lot of what DPW does.
He hires more outside contractors and engineers as much as the City
hires outside attorneys.
The rest of the 1 1/2 years the City looks like crap,
ripped up roads all over the City and City property looking terrible, overgrown
grass is common place, Congress Park is a mess and Broadway doesn’t look any
better until 6 months before an election and it has been this way since he has
been in office, he bit off more than he could chew when he took office.
The lawsuits that he has had against himself and the City
have been numerous. Among the ones out
there involves the City Engineer he suspended earlier this year because he
supports Dillon Moran and the water hookup fee which I don’t think is wrapped
up yet.
Remember that his son who works for him in DPW was
arrested on 4 counts of DWI and allowed to stay on the job. Skip had another fellow who worked for the
water Dept. drive him to the job sites.
He also cries he doesn’t have enough help but I am told by someone in
the Finance Dept. that he turns money back every year to his darling Michelle
to make her look good.
Skip was also involved in voting to give Hot Dog Eddy
Miller and his girlfriend a contract to do business with the City through their
business. Yes, Skip hired the Hot Dog to
work for him in Public Works (he gets the Independence endorsements that way
and a nice campaign donation).
This November you must vote for Saratoga native Dillon
Moran.
ONTO COMM.MADIGAN
Well you can tell it is an election year in Saratoga Springs. Commissioner Madigan who has lost the
Democrat line on the ballot due to losing the Democrat primary has broken off
on being a Democrat. She is running on
the Independence line and that Party is run by none other than DPW employee Hot
Dog Eddy Miller and his girlfriend. This
Party has never ran a candidate but once that I can remember but just endorses
friends of theirs. Commissioner Madigan
is as thick as a heavy burgundy with Hot Dog’s girlfriend and also voted to
give Hot Dog Eddy Miller and his girlfriend Joanne Foresta a contract to do business with the City through their business, both Scirocco and Madigan received the endorsement and a nice campaign donation from the Independence Party run by an employee of Scirocco and Commissioner Madigan’s best friend. This information was taken to the Ethics Board but since that board is run by biased men and a woman they decided that nothing wrong happened, WOW.
Commissioner Madigan has had a few of her own problems I
am sure you know about. The 30 year deal
with the fiber optics company that will cost Saratoga Springs a fortune and
believe it or not this Company is the only entity that can run cables through
our sewer lines.
This week she announced a 0.05% tax cut for City
taxpayers even though expenses have risen. Madigan’s plan, an increase of $1.1
million over the adopted 2019 budget. Contractual wage increases, additional
funding for information technology, increased commodity costs, and health
insurance accounts for much of the year-over-year change. Personnel and
benefits are up 1.9% and 2.5% in 2020, respectively.” By the way there is a story going around the
City of a very unknown and non transparent present the Commissioner will
receive if elected this Fall and that will be an all expense paid (by
taxpayers) top of the line health care policy all complete for life, yes life. Should elected officials get lifetime
benefits for life? What happened to
serve the people? Now, back to the tax decrease. The Commissioner plans on paying the rising
expenses with the budget surplus which she has been draining every year since
she has been in office to pay for these increases which has given her the magic
of not raising taxes over the last 8 years.
This is not a sound practice to run a City. Well there will be more as election time
draws near.
We must vote Morrison for Commissioner of Finance to not
only save the large expense of for life health insurance benefits but also not
leaving the City with much of a surplus.
This November you must vote for Patty Morrison.
THE PREDICTIONS:
Mayor – Tim Holmes
Commissioner of Finance – Patty Morrison
Commissioner of DPW – Dillon Moran
Commissioner of PS – Robin Dalton
Supervisors : 2
Matt Vietch
Steve Mittler
