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No decisions in Executive Session
In breaking with tradition, the City Council met in executive session at the end of last night's City Council meeting, to discuss both the ongoing Recreation Center Law Suit and the settlement with DEC.
I had already left the chamber at that point, and although I followed the webcast until until about 10:20 p.m. -- at which time the regular agenda was still going on -- I tuned out before the break for executive session.
Public Officer's law requires the government to announce any actions taken in executive session, so I called Mayor Scott Johnson today and asked what, if any, actions had been taken, and he reported none.
"I think we were all too tired," he said.
Who can blame them, last night's meeting brought a level of intensity I haven't felt so the old Tommy McTygue v. Val Keehn days.
I had already left the chamber at that point, and although I followed the webcast until until about 10:20 p.m. -- at which time the regular agenda was still going on -- I tuned out before the break for executive session.
Public Officer's law requires the government to announce any actions taken in executive session, so I called Mayor Scott Johnson today and asked what, if any, actions had been taken, and he reported none.
"I think we were all too tired," he said.
Who can blame them, last night's meeting brought a level of intensity I haven't felt so the old Tommy McTygue v. Val Keehn days.
posted by The Saratogian City Desk at
6:11 PM
3 Comments:
Andrew J. Bernstein:
Thanks for reporting this. Mayor Johnson routinely violates the Open Meetings Law by taking the City Council into executive sessions without following proper procedures.
Public business should be conducted in public, but Mayor Johnson seems to think that all the important decisions should be made behind closed doors.
"Old Tommy McTygue" against young Val Keehn was just a brief chapter in a long sordid tale.
MacTygue fought with everybody for 30 years. Republicans never seriously tried to get rid of him, so it finally took a Democrat to lead the effort. Happily for Saratoga Springs, Mayor Keehn finally got the job done.
Tommy McTygue was ready to retire he barely campaigned. What he did do is rid the city of Val Keehn and for that we should all be eternally grateful.
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