The Saratoga Springs City Council on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, will consider a resolution to deny payment of former Public Works Commissioner Jason Golub’s legal bills. Golub had city DPW employees work on a drain at a rental property Golub owned. The employees were operating on city time, using city equipment, and city materials. The criminal case against Golub was dismissed on a technicality with the charging document.
The resolution (below) is devastating. The key issue is that the city’s indemnity law is meant to protect elected officials from lawsuits growing out of something they did during the performance of their official duties. By his own statements, it is documented that Golub was operating as a private citizen with a plumbing problem on a property he owned when he had the city’s employees do the work.
Pages 2, 3, and 4 of the Resolution
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