This blog has previously reported on the two years during which Saratoga Springs Accounts Commissioner Dillon Moran promised numerous dates for deploying the Short Term Rental (STR) portal, which property owners can use to register.
According to the timestamp on his campaign Facebook page tonight (November 3), on the eve of the election, Moran claims that he deployed the software last Friday (October 31) and that his office is already processing applications.
This is a screenshot from Moran’s campaign Facebook page. The red line was added.
The problem is that, according to both the available documents and his remarks at the October 31 pre-agenda meeting, it was not up on Friday.
In this clip from the Friday meeting, he tells his colleagues that it would take twenty-four hours for the vendor to deploy it. He then says, presumably because the next day is the weekend, it would not be up until Tuesday.
So if it takes twenty-four hours and if he advised his colleagues of this on Friday morning, it could not possibly have been available that night.
In addition, this time stamped city website page from Saturday morning, November 1, shows that the page had not been updated since August,
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It won’t be official until the absentee ballots are counted in (I think) about 10 days, but it looks like Moran lost the election and we won’t have Dillon to kick around anymore. Unofficially, he’s behind by 433 votes.
Put the champagne on ice, but don’t pop the cork quite yet.
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