Dillon Moran’s Attempt at Manipulations to Try to Get His Legal Bills Paid

Saratoga Springs Accounts Commissioner Dillon Moran is a serial violator of transparency. No other previous Council member in the history of this city has so often failed to post planned resolutions on the City Council agenda in a timely manner that would give his fellow Council members and the public time to give his proposals sufficient consideration.

The most recent last-minute posting concerns Moran’s demand that the city appeal Judge Walsh’s recent decision, which holds that because Moran hired his lawyer regarding a criminal matter (as compared to a civil matter), he is not entitled to have his legal expenses paid by the city. Readers may recall that, rather than consulting his fellow Council members, Moran went ahead and hired a Manhattan attorney at $1,200 per hour to represent him during the on-call pay scandal investigation.

Moran failed to include this item on his agenda for the upcoming Council meeting that was posted on the city website on Friday. He didn’t bother to raise the issue of an appeal at the pre-agenda meeting on Monday morning. Yet at 11:14 AM, moments after the pre-agenda meeting had adjourned and before Moran had even posted this item at the last minute on his agenda, Otis Maxwell, the chair of the Saratoga Springs Democratic Party, sent out an email blast to mobilize committee members to attend the Council meeting in support of Moran.

I leave it to the readers as to why Moran behaves this way.

But the other question is why the Democratic Committee behaves this way. The Committee repeatedly mobilizes to support whatever position Commissioner Moran takes without ever questioning or conducting their own research into the veracity of the information he provides. I feel this is no longer the Saratoga Springs Democratic Committee but has become instead the Saratoga Springs Dillon Moran Committee.