Saratoga Springs Politics

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As the number of COVID cases continues to climb, Saratoga County fails repeatedly to hire the appropriate number of contact tracers.

According to the December 16, 2020, Daily Gazette, “… [Saratoga} county has seen its number of active cases grow more than five-fold since the middle of November, setting several new daily records for number of cases confirmed.”

On Tuesday, December 15, 2020, the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors authorized the hiring of an additional 25 contract tracers which brings the authorized number to 75. Yet the county has stumbled for months unable to fill the original target of 50 set back in May.

State guidelines require 30 tracers per 100,000 persons. As our county has a population of approximately 269,000, we should have at least 69 tracers.

According to the minutes of the November 4, 2020, Health and Social Services Committee of the County Board:

Currently they have hired 19 and of that 19, 3 did not work out leaving a total of 16 on staff. 10 of the staff are working part time hours and the other 6 work full time.

November 4, 2020 minutes

Stunningly, in the midst of the pandemic crisis this November we had the equivalency of about 10 full time tracers when we needed 69.

Does Anyone Think There Is A Problem?

The following people were listed as attending the meeting where the lack of tracers was discussed:

Present: Chairman Dick Lucia; Committee Members Todd Kusnierz, Darren O’Connor, Sandra Winney, Benny Zlotnick; Supervisors Tara Gaston, Mo Wright and Chairman of the Board Preston Allen; Chad Cooke, Matt Rose, County Administrator; Steve Dorsey, County Attorney; J. Wes Carr, Youth Bureau; Sandi Cross, Office for the Aging; Cathy Medick, Public Health; Michael
Prezioso, Mental Health & Addiction.

This roster includes the Chair of the Board of Supervisors, seven other Supervisors, the County Attorney, a representative from Public Health, and the Deputy County Administrator.

Not one of these county officials asked the obvious question: Why in over six months are we utterly failing to deploy enough tracers?

Then, on December 2, 2020, the county’s Human Resources Department posted a notice that the county was no longer accepting applications for contract tracers!

Maybe An Effective Solicitation Might Help?

Until this week, the solicitation for applications on the county website was extremely brief. Missing was any information as to the requirements for the position. It simply announced the position and its pay rate and directed people to send in their resume to a person at a county address. That is send as in U.S. Mail.

So I called the county. It was then that I learned that the requirement for the job was the completion of an on-line, seven hour course at the Johns Hopkins University’s website and a flu shot.

I wrote to both Dr. Daniel Kuhles who is the new Saratoga County Commissioner of Public Health and to Margaret (Marcie) McNamara, head of the Department of Human Resources, asking why they thought the county had been unable to fill the positions.

I received a prompt reply from Ms. McNamara informing me that she had referred my question to Dr. Kuhles. I have not heard from Dr. Kuhles.

Coincidentally, yesterday (December 18, 2020) the county posted an updated solicitation which now properly states the qualifications for the job and describes the duties of the position.

Hopefully, posting a proper solicitation (after eight months) on their website will assist in their efforts to recruit people.

Don’t Email That!

Interestingly, the new solicitation indicates, though, that neither email nor fax applications will be accepted. Why the county is requiring hard copies of applications to be mailed is hard to understand. If they want to hire people as quickly as possible, requiring applicants to use the U.S. Postal Service seems like just another impediment.

This is of course the holiday season. I went to the post office two days ago and the line was so long that I gave up trying to buy stamps that day. We have also been repeatedly warned by the media to expect delays in mail deliveries.

In The Middle of a Pandemic, Why Require Everyone To Work On Site?

Another odd thing about the solicitation and about the county’s policies in general is the requirement that people work on site, not remotely.

At the last Supervisors’ meeting Karen Hagen, the County District Attorney, requested approval to allow her staff, at her discretion, to work remotely. She pointed out that there is the risk that if a staff person tested positive for COVID-19 her staff could end up in quarantine unable to deal with arrests of criminals.

The Board ended up approving Ms. Hagen’s request, but when Supervisor Gaston tried to expand the option to other departments, she ran into push back. For those of us who have observed the county for some time, the response was Kafkian. The usual suspects complained that such an action was precipitous without the benefit of carefully crafted policies.

I find this particularly odd because the county already dealt with employees working remotely early on in the pandemic when the Governor required that municipalities limit on site personnel by 50%. This was what precipitated the notorious county COVID bonuses for those who would be required to work on site. Those who follow this blog will remember how these same people routinely violated rules, regulations, and procedures during this period.

Requiring that tracers work on site seems especially bizarre. If they are working in the same space, and one of them tests positive for the virus, the entire team might have to be quarantined.

There is also the obvious question as to why after all of this time, there is no policy to allow remote work. After all, the city of Saratoga Springs successfully addressed the need for remote work months ago.

A Violation of Labor Law?

The job notice describes the contact tracer jobs as contractual and warns that:

“These are “Contract” positions at $25/Hour and do not provide any additional benefits, ie: healthcare, paid time off.”

In addition it states:

“Saratoga County’s Contact Tracing program operates seven (7) days a week between the hours of 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM. Weekend and evening hours may be required depending on established schedule and the needs of the County. [their emphasis].

This limited information raises a number of concerns. Labor law discourages “contract” employment because it can be abused as a way to circumvent the paying of benefits like the employer share for social security and Medicare.

According to this website:

An independent contractor is your status if:

• You supply your own materials or equipment.
• The employer does not give you all the things you need to do the job.
• If you can be let go from a project at the discretion of the employer.
• If you can choose to go to work or not without the worry of being fired as an employee.
• If you control how many hours you work each week. [my emphasis]

So on its face it appears that given what the county is requiring, these positions do not meet the definition of a contract worker.

There is also the problem of attracting employees under these terms. If the contract employee must pay their own contribution for social security and Medicare and the amount the employer normally pays it will significantly reduce their pay. Just as problematic will be their need to set up the administrative requirements to withhold some of their income for taxes along with contributing to their social security and Medicare.

Could it Be That The County Leadership Doesn’t Believe There Is A Crisis?

So what I think happened was that one of the early executive orders issued by Governor Cuomo required counties (and other municipalities) to hire contract tracers. The county approved the hiring of fifty tracers in May, but the leadership of the county didn’t really believe in the threat of the pandemic. They went through the motions of approving tracers simply to comply with the executive order. It was only many months later, after WNYT (channel 13) did a story on the gross failure of the county to carry out tracing , that they finally responded to the issue of actually hiring the number of tracers they had approved months before.

Of course there is also the possibility that they simply created the positions and were so incompetent that they were unable to effectively hire people.

One can only hope that in January the Supervisors elect a chair who will clean house at the county and hire people who are competent to serve us.

In a separate post I will be writing about this week’s meeting of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors (December 15, 2020) but the events at the meeting prompted me to ask Supervisors Tara Gaston and Matt Veitch about reform for Saratoga County.

The tradition at the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors has been to promote the chair of the Law and Finance Committee to the chair of the Board of Supervisors.

This year that would mean promoting Daniel Pemrick (Town of Greenfield) to head the Board. Pemrick has been a loyal member of the “Usual Suspects” who have been responsible for the litany of mismanagement we have all had to suffer through.

If they stay united, the Supervisors representing the largest municipalities have the votes to end this practice and appoint someone who has actually demonstrated the competence to be the chair.

I emailed both Tara Gaston and Matt Veitch to see if they would go on record as supporting change. I asked them “Do you plan to vote for Supervisor Pemrick [for chair of the BOS]? I interpret their responses that they will not be supporting Supervisor Pemrick.

From Tara Gaston:

No. In addition to the failures of current leadership, Pemrick and Allen both refused – several times – to recognize me at the Board when properly seeking to be recognized. While there is (unfortunately) no requirement that they do so in the rules, the behavior is disrespectful to another elected official, harms my ability to act on behalf of my constituents, and – particularly when considered with the failure to control the floor when personal or political debates arise in the course of a meeting – smacks of bias. I have made it clear that past practice (where the succession is also determined in closed caucus) does a disservice to County residents. I will be voting in January for the individual seeking the position who I believe is best positioned to steer the ship away from the rocks and work hard for County residents. Just as we obtain our positions as Supervisors through proving our worth and leadership to voters, so should a Chairperson to the Board.

Email from Supervisor Gaston, December 16, 2020

From Supervisor Veitch

As far as your second question, I am ready to vote for new leadership at the County Board of Supervisors for 2021.  I won’t say anything more on that at this time.

Email from Supervisor Veitch, December 17, 2020

The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership (SCPP) has had a checkered history and now finds itself in financial trouble.

Prior to the creation of the SCPP, the Saratoga Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) had been set up by the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors to attract businesses to the county and create jobs. Supervisor John Lawler (Waterford) had tried to require the SEDC to add members of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors to their board. SEDC declined to accept the appointments presumably because they didn’t want to become politicized and get sucked into the minefield that is the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors. Lawler and the usual suspects then created the SCPP and funded it using moneys from the county’s bed tax (a tax levied on hotels/motels).

Things did not go well with SCPP which produced very little in the way of economic development. There was a kind of shotgun marriage between SCPP and SEDC which has been rocky. That sordid story will be left for another time.

Our story is about the debacle in the SCPP funding this year.

The bed tax in Saratoga County has historically produced about $900,000.00 yearly in revenue for the county. The county designated half of that money to annually fund SCPP.

The problem is that COVID has devastated the hospitality industry and the income from the bed tax has plummeted this year

So now we are coming to the end of 2020. Based on the usual $900,000 income the county has paid SCPP $375,000.00 so far with the final payment to be provided in January for another $125,000.00. The problem is that the income from the bed tax is down 67% so SCPP will have spent approximately $300,00.00 more than the actual revenue that has been generated by the bed tax to fund them this year.

So, one might ask, how is it that no one noticed that this was a developing funding problem until this, the final month of 2020? Was no one in the county administration monitoring this? Did the SCPP alert anyone that there was a looming problem? Apparently not.

As if this were not bad enough, next year’s budget crafted by County Administrator Spencer Hellwig continues the magical thinking by projecting another $900,000.00 from the bed tax for next year to fund SCPP.

The minutes from the November 16, 2020 “2021 Budget Workshop” are instructive. Supervisor Phil Barret (Clifton Park) questions County Administrator Spencer Hellwig how the anticipated bed tax figure in the budget for 2021 was arrived at. Hellwig’s utter indifference to the fact that the number he submitted to the Board bore no relationship to reality is shameless.

He [Phil Barret] asked where that number was for next year. Mr. Hellwig said the number is $900,000. Mr. Barrett said it appears for 2020 bed tax is going to be down 67% that’s the estimate from the Treasurer. What was it before Covid, $1.1M?

Mr. Hellwig said the budget was $1.1M.

Mr. Barrett said that was pre-Covid. He said a 67% drop is a significant amount of money. We heard from the Chamber at the Economic Development meeting this month that first quarter will be very difficult with the loss of conventions, weddings and going into the winter which is always the worst quarter of the year anyway. He said the 2021 projection is rather rosy to say the least. Based on everything we have heard he doesn’t know how we would think we would receive $900,000 or anywhere near that. He asked Mr. Hellwig if he was sticking to that projection.

Mr. Hellwig said he put the tentative budget together and this Board makes the final decision. If there is a feeling that it is rosy or that number should be changed, that’s up to this Board to decide.

Mr. Barrett said he thinks there should be a realistic number and a transparent process. If the Board decides to spend $900,000 in the budget which would be all of his [Spencer Hellwig] estimate, he thinks there needs to be a realistic bed tax estimate. Then be honest everything over that amount is Fund Balance [JK: in simple terms the money tucked away in savings.] It’s not going to be bed tax, it will be fund balance if indeed we do indeed decide to spend over a certain amount.

Budget Work Shop Minutes

Supervisor Theodore Kusnierz (Moreau) then pressed Hellwig about the overspending this year. How was it that the county issued a contract for more than the moneys that were approved?

We have heard that the projected bed tax for 2020 is going to be down about 67% and by his calculations that is about $300,000 and the County provided $500,000. He said someone exceeded their authority, he believes. He wants to know how we got to something that was legislatively approved by this body to being more than what we approved. He doesn’t understand this.

Mr. Hellwig said he doesn’t know what else to say. The contract authorized the payments. The payments were made in accordance with the contract.

Mr. Kusnierz said he understands the payments were made in accordance with the contract. The contract doesn’t mirror what the Board approved.

Minutes of 2021 Budget Workshop

Hellwig again simply shrugs off the fact that the contract authorized money that the county tax would not cover.

Supervisor Lawler (one of the usual suspects) appears to be unconcerned that the horse has left the proverbial barn and that the SSPC does not have the money to pay back the county:

There is no way to know what the bed tax will total before the year is over. We have a very unusual year here due to the circumstances. He said what he believes the Administrator did was to follow past practice, to advance funds of $125,000 quarterly, no money has been advanced this quarter as Supervisor Kusnierz has stated it does not appear the sales tax is going to be sufficient to cover the allocations already made.

Minutes of 2021 Workshop

Granted there is no way of knowing precisely how much bed tax will come in by the end of the year, but it begs credibility that in March when the shutdowns in New York began, that the county and SCPP were unaware that they were facing a potential shortfall.

The Saratoga Springs Supervisors

I have written to the Saratoga Springs Supervisors, Matt Veitch and Tara Gaston, asking them to address this mess:

“I am writing both of you regarding recent developments that raise serious concerns over the county’s management:

Item #1:

It is my understanding that the Prosperity Partnership was to be funded from the income collected from the County’s bed tax in 2020.  This year the County had anticipated paying the Partnership $450,000. It appears now that as a result of the pandemic that is approximately $300,000 more than the bed tax is producing.  To cover this deficit the Partnership potentially will not receive a fourth quarter payment from the County and be required to reimburse the County for the balance due. Not surprisingly the Partnership is now hoping the County will cover this deficit.

In light of the scale of the loss, my question is why wasn’t this problem brought up months ago?  Was this a failure by the County administration to monitor the declining revenue?  What responsibility did Prosperity Partnership have in this matter?  They had to be aware of the precipitous decline in the bed tax moneys.  Did they contact the County about the crisis or did they simply keep spending the money knowing the source of their funding was falling short?

As the taxpayers are being asked to bail out the Prosperity Partnership, we deserve to know how all of this happened.

Item #2

According to two news reports on WNYT there have been serious problems in Saratoga County regarding the effective contact tracing of infected COVID-19 persons.  Their stories documented that  a number of people infected with COVID including a nurse and a WNYT reporter were never contacted for tracing even thought the County had been made aware of their infection.

WNYT reported that the standard model for determining how many contact tracers are needed is thirty per one hundred thousand.  As the most recent numbers I have been able to find for the Saratoga County population is 229,863, we should have sixty-nine tracers.  According to the Daily Gazette  as of last week the County had only twenty-three.

I have also been told that the County budgeted for fifty.  If this number is correct and in light of the many warnings of a spike in infections coming after Thanksgiving, why did the County wait until December 2, 2020 to post these jobs?

As COVID-19 is a deadly disease, the failure to properly trace is not some bureaucratic, technical oversight but represents the potential death of people in our county.  People in Saratoga Springs deserve to know how this apparent failure occurred.  Who was responsible for determining when and how many people to hire as tracers and why did they fail to act in a timely manner?  How many tracers is the county planning to hire and what is the plan and timing for making them operational?

As advocates for our city, I hope you will pursue these issues at the budget meeting this coming week and then respond to this email.

Thank you”

The Franklin Community Center has received a donation of $1,000,000.00 from Mike and Stacey Arpey toward the purchase of the Masie Center. Eliot and Cathy Masie have dropped the asking price from $2.6M to 2.1M as part of the effort.

This is a link to the WNYT story.

[JK: A reader has written to me advising that Karl Zeilman was employed by the county years before he became the Saratoga County Republican Chairman]

On Monday, December 7, 2020, Saratoga County set a record for COVID infections with 101 reported. There has been a 145% increase in cases during the last two weeks.

WNYT has had two stories that expose the woefully inadequate efforts being made by Saratoga County to do contact tracing to help control the outbreak of the virus.

The WNYT story on Tuesday night (December 8, 2020).

The WNYT story on Wednesday night (December 9, 2020).

According to research done by WNYT, there should be 30 contact tracers per 100,000 population. Saratoga County has a population of 229,863. Using that metric, we should have 69 tracers. In fact, according to the Daily Gazette the county currently has only 23.

The WNYT story documents that Saratoga County residents who were found to be positive for the virus and were told they would be contacted by a tracer subsequently heard nothing.

Dr. Daniel Kuhles, the newly appointed Saratoga County Health Commissioner, told WNYT that the county is working on hiring more tracers.

I checked the county website and found that the notice for hiring additional contact tracers was not posted until December 2, 2020. Given the dire warning issued by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) that the Thanksgiving Holiday would result in a dangerous spike in cases, it is hard to understand why the county would wait until December to start to hire more staff.

When Dr. Kuhles was asked by Channel 13 if he expected to have enough staff to contact all infected cases he answered, “I can’t predict the future…It’s certainly our goal.”

Consistent with the way this county operates, the process is completely opaque. It remains unknown as to why it took so long to decide to hire more tracers. It is also unknown as to how many tracers the county plans to hire.

It would be helpful if our Saratoga Springs Supervisors, Tara Gaston and Matthew Veitch, took a more public role in explaining why the delay and what the plan is for addressing the need for proper tracing.

All of this seems like an extension of the county’s COVID salary bonus debacle.

I would remind the readers that the chair of the Saratoga County Republican Party, Karl Zeilman, is also the head of the county’s Emergency Response Center. It seems to me ill advised to have such a partisan individual in such a high profile position especially in light of what Channel 13 has exposed. I have no way to know how capable Chairman Zeilman is but the fact that he is the County Republican Chairman creates the appearance that he got his job through cronyism. In the interest of credibility, Chairman Zeilman should consider seeking some other employment.

This county seems to blunder from one expose of incompetence to the next.

I received this message from the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation concerning a proposal to demolish historic buildings on Phila Street. As unfortunately has happened with other historic properties in town, the owners of 65 and 69 Phila Street have failed to maintain these structures in violation of state and local regulations and are now requesting demolition due to the condition of their properties. The Design Review Commission will review the owners’ applications for demolition on Wednesday, December 9th at 6:30 PM via Zoom.

In yet another example of their tone deaf approach to government the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors has established something called “Executive Order 203 Compliance Group” to address the issue of police reform and race. This was in response to executive order 203 issued by Governor Andrew Cuomo requiring municipalities to re-evaluate their law enforcement agencies with special consideration to problems of race.

In order to put the county’s committee appointments in context it is helpful to compare them with the city’s.

As readers may recall, the city of Saratoga Springs established its committee several months ago. The deadline to submit reports to the state from these committees is in February and given the scope of the charge by the executive order, this is not far off.

The Saratoga Springs committee is a diverse group drawn both from the community as well as from the ranks of public safety. Saratoga Springs Police Chief, Shane Crooks, is on the committee. It includes people of color. It is chaired by persons of color. Here is the list of the city’s committee:

Camille Daniels (Co-Chairperson) 
Jason Golub (Co-Chairperson)
Vince DeLeonardis, City Attorney
Winston Grady-Willis, Skidmore College
Terry Diggory, Saratoga Immigration Coalition
Daesha Harris, MLK
Chuck Caputo, Saratoga Pride
Shane Crooks, Chief of Police
Andrew Sephas
Cecilia Hayes
Steven Boxley
Kimberly A. Galvin
Kristen Dart

The city’s website includes extensive supporting documents to assist the public to both understand the issues and to better participate. Note the publishing of police policies for activities related to the use of force.

This is what transparency is all about.

Related Documents

1. NYS Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative
2. Executive Order 203
3. SSPD Policy 300 – Use of Force
4. SSPD Policy 302 – Handcuffing and Restraints
5. SSPD Policy 303 – Control Devices
6. SSPD Policy 304 -Conducted Energy Device (TASER)
7. SSPD Policy 305 – Officer-Involved Shootings and Deaths
8. Use of Force Model Policy, NYS MPTC
9. National Consensus Policy and Discussion Paper on Use of Force
10. Recommended Guidelines for the Use of Conducted Energy Devices, NYS MPTC
11. New Era of Public Safety – Chapter 1
12. New Era of Public Safety – Chapter 4
13. Arrest Totals by Residence, Race, Gender.pdf
14. Lexipol Agreement for Use of Subscription Material

Saratoga County: A Club Closed To The Public

In a recent Times Union article, with a flourish of magical thinking, the Board of Supervisors self congratulated themselves by extolling the appointees to the county committee as “diverse group of local stakeholders.”

The make-up and charge to the committee is available on the county website.

The committee is co-chaired by the county’s Director of Mental Health Michael Prezioso, and by the Undersheriff Richard Castle. In addition it includes:

District Attorney Karen Heggen

Public Defender Andrew Blumenburg

Assistant County Attorney Michael Hartnett

Malta Supervisor Darren O’Connor

Mechanicville Supervisor Tom Richardson

Opal Hinds, Attorney practicing in Schenectady

Racism? What Racism?

Ms. Hinds is the only member of the committee that is not employed by the county and the only member of color. Ms. Hinds is originally from Jamaica. She is an attorney practicing law in Schenectady. According to the Times Union article Ms. Hinds told the newspaper that ?”…she has not had any negative experiences regarding racism in the U.S.” I find this rather stunning. At the risk of sounding snarky, I am impressed by the ability of the county to find a person of color for their committee who has not experienced racism.

To their credit, the committee has met frequently. They have met five times including their first meeting on October 27.

I have skimmed the minutes of the meetings. What impresses me is both the earnestness of the members of the committee and their obliviousness regarding their insularity. Bare in mind that this committee is supposed to be addressing racism as it affects law enforcement. For all the time they have met, the word racism has hardly appeared in their minutes. Granted the meetings do include thoughtful discussions regarding issues like the use of body cameras and the role of School Resource Officers assigned to schools.

This apparent myopia has to do with the fact that the members of the committee are all white with the exception of Ms. Hinds who herself allegedly has little experience with racism.

They have apparently solicited input from some groups from the general community. One meeting included participation by the superintendents of area school systems and another had participation by clergy. As far as I could tell, all the clergy were white.

It should be noted that Saratoga is a very white county. According to minutes from their meetings, the county is 94% white.

Chair Dr. Prezioso: Poster Child For Disfunction and Cronyism

Dr. Michael Prezioso is the co-chair of the “Executive Order 203 Compliance Group.” He is the director of the County Mental Health Department. Dr. Prezioso had previously worked for New York State. In 2008, the Office of Mental Health investigated Dr. Prezioso and determined that he had been guilty of systematic sexual harassment of a secretary in his office. The state ended up awarding moneys to the secretary for her ordeal. Classically, among Prezioso’s duties at the Capital District Psychiatric Center was to train people on issues of sexual harassment.

The New York State statute that set up county mental health departments established mental health advisory bodies. In order to prevent the hiring of directors of mental health offices from being political appointees, the advisory body is required to have a majority of credentialed mental health professionals and it is this body that is supposed to select the directors.

As I documented in blog posts at the time, the Board of Supervisors circumvented the advisory committee and state law when they hired Prezioso. Prezioso had been active in Republican politics in Saratoga County. Following his hire, his management of the local Mental Health Department resulted in serious staff problems documented in my blog and in the media.

Here are some links to these related stories:

Staffing Crisis Under Prezioso

Politicians Acting Badly

Who Hired Michael Prezioso

Board of Supervisors Violate State Law In Hiring

Saratogian Newspaper Confirms Violation Of State Law In Hiring Prezioso

Scandals Plague Saratoga County

Frank Archangelo Enabler

Matt Veitch Dismisses Need To Adhere To Mental Health Laws

More On Matt Veitch and Prezioso

Supervisor Tara Gaston: Classic Double Speak

In the Times Union article, Tara Gaston offered a statement that is emblematic of her approach to county government. I will let the readers judge what she meant in the excerpt.

Saratoga Springs Supervisor Tara Gaston, who has been critical of time it took to appoint a committee, said that she is not concerned with the membership. She is concerned with how it will hear those silent voices.

“I agree it should be a more diverse committee because you can’t figure out if you are missing anything or not if you don’t have voices on the committee,” Gaston said. “However, if that committee is reaching out and doing appropriate engagement with populations that aren’t represented in that particular group, then I lean toward accepting their recommendations. But I’m not sure they are doing it.”

Times Union December 2, 2020

Business As Usual At Saratoga County

The leadership of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors takes no chances. Their selection of the members of the “Executive Order 203 Compliance Group” insures that thorny issues will be ignored and that nothing remotely critical of the county will emerge as a result of their deliberations.

I received a press release from Commissioner of Finance Michele Madigan reviewing the recently adopted budget (December 1, 2020) for next year. The release is well crafted and easily understood and worth the read. The budget was unanimously adopted by the Council. Here are some highlights:

The total of the proposed budget comes to $46,226M down from this year’s budget of $49M.

There is a 6% increase in the city tax rate. This is the first tax increase in nine years.

The monthly increase will range from $6.00 for a home assessed at $200,000.00 to $20.00 for a home assessed at $650,000.00.

The city budget assumes federal aid. The New York State Comptroller has encouraged local municipalities to make this assumption at this point rather than cut services.

In the past the city has paid into the retirement fund early (December) in order to get a modest discount. The city will now reset the 2021 payment to February of 2022 with no penalty. If, hopefully, the federal government comes through with COVID assistance, these moneys will be used to make the retirement payment during 2021.

The city will sell some of its property.

The budget anticipates a decline of 50% from the 2019 New York Racing Association admissions revenue.

The budget also assumes decreases in sales tax, mortgage tax, and VLT aid.

Interestingly, as of this morning (December 2, 2020), neither of the websites for the Pro-Charter group (https://www.facebook.com/commonsensesaratoga/ and https://www.facebook.com/ItsTimeSaratoga/) have acknowledged the failure of their proposed charter at the polls.

This group is not shy about getting media attention and they have easy access to Wendy Liberatore at the Times Union and yet they have been silent on the subject of their defeat. It is not as though the Common Sense Saratoga site is dormant. This morning (December 2, 2020) they posted a link to a Times Union story regarding recent COVID infections at the police department. The link included this commentary by the website managers:

Another example of how the Commission Form of government does not work. The Commissioner and the expensive Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety (paid more than the Mayor of Glens Falls) clearly do not have command and control over their own Police and the simple use of a mask.

Common Sense Saratoga

There is nothing in the article to support their assertion that the police department has not instituted protocols for the use of masks. The TU has also reported a COVID outbreak in the Albany Police Department.

The Financials

According to the New York State Board of Elections, the pro-charter change people raised $60,066.44. Their opposition raised $33,024.06. Roughly the spread was two to one.

The pro-charter change group It’s Time, Saratoga paid Progressive Elections LLC $44,510.10. Progressive Elections is the consulting firm of Libby Post. Ms. Post appears regularly as a panelist with Alan Chartok on the WAMC morning talk show Roundtable.

As in the last two failed attempts to institute a city manager form of government in Saratoga Springs, the International City/County Management Association was the most generous donor to the pro-charter group. This time they contributed $14,943.44. The NYS City/County Management Association, another regular contributor, gave $3,ooo this time.

Largest Contributors To Pro-Charter It’s Time, Saratoga

International City/County Management Association = $14,943.44

NYS City/County Management Association = $3,000

Gordon Boyd = $10,000.00

Jeff Altamari = $10,000.00

Ron Kim = $1,800.00

Tony Krackeler = $1,200.00

Max London = $1,250.00

Dexter Senft = $3,500.00

Listing Of Contributions To Pro-Charter Campaign

INTERNATIONAL CITY/COUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION	12,136.43	28-Oct-20
777 N CAPITAL ST NE SUITE 500
WASHINGTON, DC 20002-4290
INTERNATIONAL CITY/COUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATON	2,807.01	4-Nov-20
777 N CAPITOL ST NE SUITE 500
WASHINGTON, DC 20002-4290
NYS CITY/COUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC	3,000.00	24-Oct-20
980 BROADWAY #627
THORNWOOD, NY 10594
UNITEMIZED	50	23-Aug-20
,
ALDRICH, PHYLLIS W	100	5-Sep-20
49 GRANITE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
ALDRICH, PHYLLIS	200	25-Oct-20
49 GRANITE STREET
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
ALDRICH, PHYLLIS	200	10-Aug-20
49 GRANITE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
ALTAMARI, JEFFREY	6,000.00	18-Sep-20
10 VICTORIA LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
ALTAMARI, JEFFREY	300	14-Sep-20
10 VICTORIA LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
ALTAMARI, JEFFREY	500	19-Aug-20
10 VICTORIA LANE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
ALTIMARI, JEFFREY	200	4-Aug-20
10 VICTORIA LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
ALTIMARI, JEFFREY AND JANET	3,000.00	16-Jun-20
10 VICTORIA LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
AMYOT, AMEJO	100	19-Sep-20
67 FIFTH AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
AMYOT, AMEJO	100	15-Oct-20
67 FIFTH AVENUE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
BALTZ, LISA	25	29-Aug-20
16 CONVER DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BEAL, ELLEN	25	15-Aug-20
103 ELM STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BOYD, GORDON M	10,000.00	8-Jun-20
90 STATE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BROWN, PEGGY AND JOEL	100	24-Oct-20
173 CAROLINE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BRUEGGEMANN, JOHN	50	15-Oct-20
52 STATE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BULLOCK, ANN C	500	29-Jun-20
86 LINCOLN AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BULLOCK, ANN C	10	17-Jul-20
86 LINCOLN AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BULLOCK, ANN AND ROBERT	500	19-Sep-20
86 LINCOLN AVENUE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
BURGER, SARAH J	200	26-Oct-20
4 EQUESTRIAN LANE UNIT 1
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
CHODOS, LAURA B	50	17-Aug-20
768 NORTH BROADWAY
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
CHODOS, LAURA B	100	16-Oct-20
768 NORTH BROADWAY
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
COHEN, SUSAN	50	30-Sep-20
302 NELSON AVENUE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
CORBETT, MOLLY	50	15-Oct-20
23 TYLER DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
CROCKER, HEATHER	50	7-Sep-20
12 PINEWOOD AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
CUNEO, JULIE	400	30-Oct-20
14 AMERICA WAY
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
DAKE, PERNILLE A	100	17-Sep-20
17 TENSPRINGS DRIVE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
DANA, LEZLIE	50	17-Sep-20
170 SPRINGS STREET
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
DUGAN, JEAN	50	10-Oct-20
59 RAILROAD PLACE APT 602
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
EGGER-AIMONE, ELLEN	100	1-Aug-20
106 ELM STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
ELLIOTT, JOYCE E	100	5-Oct-20
204 EMIGH ROAD
MIDDLE GROVE, NY 12850
ENNIS, ERIN	200	26-Oct-20
244 NELSON AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
FARLEY, DESIREE	50	11-Aug-20
4158A SILVER BEACH ROAD
MALTA, NY 12020
FENTON, RICHARD	100	2-Sep-20
23 LEFFERTS STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
FRISONE, GRACE	25	10-Sep-20
38 CENTRAL AVENUE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
GLASER, BARBARA	500	7-Aug-20
100 SPRING STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
HART, SALLY	100	19-Sep-20
177 SPRING STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
HASBROUCK, PATTY	250	18-Sep-20
1 MADISON AVENUE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
HERNANDEZ, DARREN	250	12-Sep-20
26507 MISTLETOE COURT
SANTA CLARITA, CA 91355
HOLMBERG, JULIE	50	26-Aug-20
21 SUMMERFIELD LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KANE, PATRICK	1,000.00	26-Oct-20
19 MARION PLACE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KERAMATI, BAHRAM	100	14-Sep-20
27 GRANITE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KERAMATI, BAHRAM	100	2-Aug-20
27 GRANITE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KERAMATI, BAHRAM	200	26-Oct-20
27 GRANITE STREET
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
KIERNAN, JOANNE	100	26-Oct-20
48 TYLER STREET
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
KIM, RONALD	500	14-Sep-20
PO BOX 318
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KIM, RONALD	1,000.00	24-Oct-20
PO BOX 318
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KIM, RONALD	200	8-Oct-20
P.O.BOX 318
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KIM, RONALD	100	9-Aug-20
PO BOX 318
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KIRWIN, JOHN D	100	29-Aug-20
94 LINCOLN AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KIRWIN, JOHN	25	18-Oct-20
94 LINCOLN AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KOPANS, MATTHEW	50	26-Oct-20
8 EMPIRE AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KRACKELER, TONY	200	24-Oct-20
190 LAKE AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KRACKELER, TONY	500	25-Aug-20
UE190 LAKE AVEN
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KRACKELER, TONY	500	7-Oct-20
190 LAKE AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
LAKHTAKIA, NATALYA	25	26-Oct-20
21 MICHAEL DRIVE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
LAKHTAKIA, NATALYA	25	25-Aug-20
21 MICHAEL DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
LEE, BRIAN	100	14-Sep-20
18 DIVISION STREET SUITE 102
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
LETENDRE, LINDA	10	21-Aug-20
34 GREENFIELD AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
LONDON, MAX	1,250.00	28-Oct-20
3 MOKASHA SQUARE
SAARTOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
LOS, MICHAEL	250	18-Oct-20
100C DIVISION STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MAXWELL, OTIS	100	14-Sep-20
158 LAKE AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MCPARTLON III, JAMES P	1,250.00	26-Oct-20
55 RAILROAD PLACE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MCTYGUE, THOMAS G	100	25-Sep-20
251 COUNTY RTE 68
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MCTYGUE, THOMAS G	100	29-Oct-20
251 COUNTY ROUTE 68
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MCTYGUE, THOMAS	100	14-Sep-20
251 COUNTY ROUTE 68
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MCTYGUE, WILLIAM J	250	5-Sep-20
15 YORK STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MCTYGUE, WILLIAM J	250	8-Oct-20
15 YORK STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MCTYGUE, WILLIAM	250	26-Oct-20
15 YORK STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MORAN, DILLON	200	26-Oct-20
177 LAKE AVENUE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
MORRISON, CHARLES C	500	4-Sep-20
88 COURT STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
NCOLO, ROBERT	25	21-Sep-20
12 MARTIN AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PARDON, JACQUELINE YAEGER	50	17-Aug-20
11 TEN SPRINGS DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PINGEL, MARK	3	17-Jul-20
1 VICTORIA LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PINGEL, MARK	200	26-Oct-20
1 VICTORIA LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PINGEL, MARK	500	3-Jul-20
1 VICTORIA LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
POST, LIBBY	50	26-Aug-20
PO BOX 1115
ALBANY, NY 12201
ROWE-BUTTON, CHRISTINE	1,000.00	9-Oct-20
5 WINDING BROOK DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
ROWEN, BETH	50	14-Sep-20
31 PEPPER LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SCHULTZ, FRANK	500	17-Aug-20
18 PINEWOOD AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SENFT, DEXTER E	2,500.00	10-Aug-20
37 HENRY STREET NO 403
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SENFT, DEXTER E	1,000.00	19-Oct-20
37 HENRY STREET NO 403
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SPENCE, CINDY A	200	4-Sep-20
89 NELSON AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
STROHL, MARTHA	100	5-Aug-20
65 SARAZEN STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
TAUB, LEWIS E	25	24-Aug-20
121 FIFTH AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
TAYLOR, MARCELLINE E	50	17-Aug-20
49 DOTEN STREET
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
THOMAS, BARB	100	4-Sep-20
P.O. BOX 964
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
THOMAS, BARBARA K	50	16-Oct-20
P.O.BOX 964
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
TURNER, ROBERT	400	8-Oct-20
180 PHILA STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
TUZ, PATRICIA	100	25-Oct-20
648 CRESCENT AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
VAN METER, MARGIE H	300	3-Jul-20
175 WASHINGTON STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WALBRIDGE-ALLEN, CATHERINE	50	22-Aug-20
56 FOREST AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WOOD, PHIL	50	28-Sep-20
102C DIVISION STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WRIGHT, ROBERT O	100	22-Oct-20
37 CLARK STREET UNIT 5
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WRIGHT, ROBERT	100	17-Sep-20
37 CLARK STREET
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
WURTMANN, BETH	100	26-Oct-20
40 NORTH STREET
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
YEPSEN, JOANNE	200	24-Oct-20
68 VISTA DRIVE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
YEPSEN, JOANNE	100	26-Oct-20
68 VISTA DRIVE
SARATOGASPRINGS, NY 12866
Total Contributions:	60,066.44

Listing of Anti-Charter Contributions

The campaign to defeat the charter was supported by two organizations. They were S.U.C.C.E.S.S and Saratoga Works. The combined total of contributions to both groups totaled $33,024.06.

Largest Contributors To Anti-Charter Campaign

Wally Allerdice (Allerdice Building Supplies) = $1,000.00

John Hendrickson (Widower of MaryLou Whitney) = $5,000.00

Richard Sellers = $8,367.00

Charles Waite (Adirondack Trust) = $3,000.00

William (Bill) Dake (Stewarts Shops) = $3,000.00

Elise Stefanik (Congress) = $1,000.00

Jane Weihe (wife of Blogger) = $1,100.00

Blogger = $30.00 (tee shirt)

Contributors To SUCCESS

SARATOGA COUNTY INDEPENDENCE PARTY	250
102 LUDLOW ST
SARATOGA SPRINGS NY, NY 12866
ALLERDICE, WALLACE W	1,000.00
150 EXCELSIOR AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BAKER, JOHN F	50
PO BOX 1290
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BARKER, MARIANNE M	250
157 INGERSOLL ROAD
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BOCCHI, AMERIGO	50
4 ALFRED COURT
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BROPHY, JOHN T	100
10 FOX RUN
E SANDWICH, MA 02537-1545
CARLSON JR, GEORGE W	50
9 EUREKA AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
CHATFIELD, JAMES V	25
55 RAILROAD PLACE APT. 508
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
D’ANDREA, ROBERT A	100
523 CRESCENT AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
DEJNOZKA, MARK	100
8 EMERALD LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
DORSEY, MATTHEW J	50
28 UNDERWOOD DR
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
FEINSTEIN, EDWARD D	25
59 RAILROAD PL
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
FINNERAN, EILEEN J	100
35 THOROUGHBRED DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
GRANDE, JAMES J	100
34 STORAGE LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
HEALY, WILLIAM J	200
5 VICTORIA LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
HENDRICKSON, JOHN	5,000.00
40 GEYSAR RD
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
HOFFFMAN, MICHAEL	250
38 HIGH ROCK AVE UNIT 6K
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KLEIN, PHILIP W	100
29 WALTER DR
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KLOTZ, KEN	25
232 MAPLE AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KOSS, DAVID	50
160 KAYDEROSS PARK RD
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KUCZYNSKI, HENRY J	100
153 SPRING ST
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MACDONALD, MARCIA	100
3 BEACON HILL DR
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MARTIN, RANDY	200
24 UNDERWOOD DR
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MILLER, EDWARD	250
102 LUDLOW ST
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
NEWKIRK, THOMAS R	500
553 CRESCENT AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PALMETTO, NICHLAS	50
5 BEACON HILL DR
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
POKOIK, LEE	300
1 WALL ST
NEW YORK, NY 10286
POKOIK, LEE	300
1 WALL ST
NEW YORK, NY 10286
PORTER, THOMAS M	50
236 CAROLINE ST
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PORTER, THOMAS	50
236 CAROLINE ST
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
REALS, NATHANIEL P	100
2 BEMIS HIEGHTS DR
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SELLERS, RICHARD	300
P.O. BOX 789
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SELLERS, RICHARD	3,000.00
73 FIFTH AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SMITH, NOEL J	300
410 BROADWAY
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SWICK, EILEEN	50
24 JOSUHA RD
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
TOMPKINS, PATSY A	100
84 REGENT ST
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
VANWAGNER, CLIFFORD L	250
18 ROLLING BROOK DR
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
VEITCH, MICHAEL	100
201 CIRCULAR ST
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WAIT, CHARLES V	3,000.00
658 NORTH BROADWAY
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WEIHE, MARTHA	100
44 WHITE ST
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WROBEL, GREGORY W	100
24 CLARK ST
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WROBEL, GREGORY	100
24 CLARK ST
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
Total Contributions:	17,275.00

Saratoga Works

OLD SARATOGA HOSPITALITY	20
424 GRAND AVE.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SARATOGA PARKING SERVICES, LLC	300
12 FIFTH AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SARATOGA SPRINGS REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE	500
P.O. BOX 3105
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
UNITEMIZED	50
,
UNITEMIZED	30
,
UNITEMIZED	30
,
UNITEMIZED	25
,
UNITEMIZED	20
,
UNITEMIZED	40
,
UNITEMIZED	20
,
ANSPACH, KATHLEEN	20
58 SHERWOOD TRAIL
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
BARKER, JOANNE	100
285 SOUTH MAIN STREET
ALBANY, NY 12208
BROPHY, JAMES	30
95 OAK STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
CAIN, GEORGE	150
6 ROUNDTABLE RD.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
COLE, THOMAS	50
220 CAROLINE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
DAKE, WILLIAM P	3,000.00
90 BRYAN STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
DALTON, JOSEPH	200
14 LOUGHBERRY ROAD
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
DELEONARDIS, COURTNEY	40
30 MAGNOLIA DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
FEINSTEIN, MICHELE	25
59 RAILROAD PLACE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
FINCH, HARRIETT M	100
268 CHURCH STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
FISCHER, TARA	40
186 GRAND AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS 12866, NY 12866
FREEMAN, EVELYN	50
159 GRAND AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
JONES, MATT	500
2 VICTORIA LANE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KAUFMAN, JOHN	30
44 WHITE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KRULCIK, TRACEY A	30
173 OLD SCHUYLERVILLE ROAD
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KUCZYNSKI, HENRY	100
153 SPRING STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
KUCZYNSKI, ROBERT	30
38 CLUBHOUSE DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
LAKIAN, ROBIN	30
78 CAROLINE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MARZANO, JAMES	30
30 CENTRAL AVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MARZANO, JAMES	30
30 CENTRAL AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MCGUIRE, SETH	30
16 WALTER STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
MITTLER, STEPHEN	100
48 YORK AVENE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
NEILSON, THOMASA	200
8 TULL DRIVE
ALBANY, NY 12205
NERD, NATURE	40
44 CENTRAL AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
OBSTARCZYK, CHRIS	40
147 SPRING STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
OBSTARCZYK, CHRIS	100
147 SPRING STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PANETTA, MICHAEL J	30
18 BRIARWOOD DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PARTRIDGE, JANICE E	30
2 MAGNOLIA DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PARTRIDGE, JANICE E	59
2 MAGNOLIA DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PARTRIDGE, JANICE	40
2 MAGNOLIA DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
PARTRIDGE, JANICE	40
2 MAGNOLIA DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
QUIGLEY, LORETTA	30
129 SPRING STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
REYNOLDS, CAROL	50
42 VANDERBILT AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
ROSE, JENNIFER	40
30 CENTRAL AVENUE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
RUBIO, PATRICIA	30
6 AVERY STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
RUBIO, PATRICIA	30
6 AVERY STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SELLERS, BONITA	400
P.O. BOX 789
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SELLERS, RICHARD A	4,500.00
P.O. BOX 789
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SELLERS, RICHARD	450
P.O. BOX 789
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SELLERS, RICHARD	76.98
P.O. BOX 789
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
SELLERS, RICHARD	40
P.O. BOX 789
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
STEFANIK, ELISE	1,000.00
P.O. BOX 500
GLENS FALLS, NY 12801
WEBER, CHARLOTTE C	500
P.O. BOX 772109
OCALA, FL 34477-2109
WEIHE, JANE	500
44 WHITE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WEIHE, MARTHA	500
44 WHITE STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WILDER, NANCY M	100
6 HORSESHOE DRIVE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WOYOTOWICH, CONNIE	1
105 ELM STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WOYTOWICH, CONNIE	522.08
105 ELM STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
WOYTOWICH, MICHAEL	500
105 ELM STREET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
ZANGRANDO, JOANNA	50
24 COLLINS TERRACE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
ZANGRANDO, JOANNA	100
24 COLLINS TERRACE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
Total Contributions:	15,749.06