Troy Isn't Schenectady. Not Yet.
Schenectady’s mayor wants to raise the city’s property tax levy 42.8 percent. Saratoga Springs is proposing 18 percent. Albany, 15. Next to them, Carmella’s 3.4 percent looks like good management, ...
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Mayor Carmella Mantello won Troy's 2023 race on a promise of "competence over cronyism." Two and a half years in, her own city council has sued her. This is the record.
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Carmella's Budget Counts on Jobs Nobody Will Fill
Carmella’s 2027 budget assumes $2.53 million in city salaries will never be paid. The jobs are on the books. The money to fill them is not.
Carmella Vetoed State Law. The Council Overrode Her.
The Troy City Council copied New York State’s definition of an emergency into the city charter. Carmella vetoed it. On September 17, the Council overrode her 6-0.
Troy's Flock Audit Makes the Council's Case
The Troy Police Department produced a case-by-case tracking log to argue against the City Council’s proposed 48-hour data deletion window for Flock cameras. Every closed arrest in that document cam...
Three Flock Cameras Destroyed in Troy. The Council Was Winning Without This.
Three Flock Safety license plate readers were destroyed overnight in Troy, their poles cut in half. Mayor Carmella Mantello and Police Chief Dan DeWolf issued a joint statement calling it “the late...
The City Moved the Sign Twenty Feet
The sign at Hoosick Street and State Route 7 went up on a state right-of-way, without a council vote and without NYSDOT clearance. At an intersection on one of the busiest corridors in the city, it...