What is going on with Johnson & Sutton, the dynamic Smirnoff Duo at City Hall? The Mayor negotiates a 15 minute break for City employees to go cash their paychecks every Friday, and to top it off it is on City time, not on the employees lunch break or one of the 2 fifteen minute breaks they get M-F. Figure the average salary, times that amount by lets say 300 employees then divide by 4 and that is a large sum of money in a year.
The Mayor and Shauna fail to do their due diligence and failed to renegotiate the National Grid contract for 5 years, the City (taxpayers) are short at least $5,000.00 per month for 5 years. After the Mayor is embarrassed and had pressure put on him by some citizens he then sits and negotiates a contract. The Mayor, at a Council meeting then insults the citizens of Saratoga by saying the fault lies with National Grid and he negotiated a super great deal for the City. However, he made a deal based on current market prices and locked us in for a high number of years so we will be behind again in a few years.
The Mayor and Shauna for years spent over $100,000.00 plus City Hall employee time fighting a citizens group to change the Charter. He said publicly 4 years ago that he would appoint a Mayoral Commission to study the issue and 4 years later, 1 week before the election, he announces that he will appoint a 15 member Commission by the end of the year. He also has issued some directives that this Commission will discuss (he told us already), one demand they will change for him is to put the Mayor in charge of the budget, with his large donations to his outside attorney friends imagine how much more he will give them? The Mayor’s Commission will have at least a budget with a minimum of $50,000.00. It would have been much simpler and less costly if he just appointed a Commission 4 years ago, but Herr Mayor likes to play the attorney game. His Napoleon complex is so bad he has been making himself look foolish and smaller. I wonder if the breakdown of his Commission will at least like former Mayor Kehen’s in who sits in the chairs? Keehn appointed 3 Republicans, 3 Democrats and 3 Independents. Her Commission was started a little late but at least she worked accross Party lines to come up with a document.
The Mayor and Shauna failed to renegotiate a contract for 5 years with Time Warner. The contract had expired the first year Napoleon, I mean Johnson took office. He knowingly did not negotiate a new contract which would have raised the amount of money Time Warner paid the City, by the way, The Mayor always says it is someone else’s fault, suck it up, you’re the Mayor and you are failing to do your job.
The Housing Authority is in his lap also. The SSHA is supposed to come before the Council and inform them of the salary figures for the coming year. He never asked the SSHA, as is the Mayor’s job to do so. He keeps reappointing the same Directors to the Board and when he is responsible for not taking corrective action on the bedbug issue (he sat in his chair looking stunned) he then appoints two of the oddest people to sit on a Board, Ken Ivins and Al Callucci, WOW. The only other person he could have appointed that would have topped these two would have been Rich Wirth.
These few examples and some clear liquid on the rocks show us why the Mayor and Shauna should hit the road. The Republicans should strongly consider putting someone else in to run for Mayor. We can’t afford this duo any longer.
If the Republican Committee can show us any mercy, cut the cord with these two Russian Cossack dancers.
