MARY HAS A LITTLE LAMB

Well kiddies, it looks like Mary Zlotnick will be drawing her complaint out for a time while making the City spend more of our money.  Let me know if you think Mary is being self serving in her fight for her good name.  First, she goes to the police last year and after an examination of her complaint the police find nothinf wrong in the Accounts Dept.  Then by having lunch almost every day with HR Joe, this move creates an immediate conflict of interest for her.  Then after removing office materials from the department offices, it looks like she discussed the files with her HR lunch friend and the newspapers.  My sources that are in the proceedings tell me Mary sunk herself during not only early testimony but also when she was on the stand.  This has all the signs of a shaft that Zlotnick is trying to give John Franck and staff, when she has no idea how assessments work in the City,

Speaking of Zlotnick, she was given a reference by her good friend, none other than Deputy Mayor Shauna Sutton.  This in itself should explain why there is turmoil in the department.  It appears Sutton doesn’t do anything unless she wants to drag someone down.   The Mayor has had a far away look in his eyes for a while, I hope this doesn’t mean he’s off the Pepsi and is moving up into adult beverages.

How one can look at the past and current Council meetings and honestly say they don’t want a professional in the building has to be blind and deaf.

We even have an acidic blogger, whose motto is,’if we find a story with no merit, we’ll make one up.

Below are two pictures below, and I would like you to give a response:  Can you tell, of the two which one is the blogger and which one is learning to read a newspaper? Hint - it makes sense whe the blog and blogger are bananas. 

WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?

The answer is so simple I shouldn’t even ask the question.  However, I can’t help myself when it’s about someone who is such a schmuck. 

When is a person not a citizen of Saratoga?  Answer- When he doesn’t live in Saratoga.

At the City Council meeting tonight we witnessed again, a person who plops himself in the front row so he can tape the meetings and also be the first one in line to make comments or statements to the Council regarding City business.

HEY TIGS, YOU DON’T LIVE IN SARATOGA SPRINGS.  He has castigated the Veitch family because several of the clan works for the City.  It is hilarious because he admitted at the meeting tonight that 1. His father was Fire Chief, 2. His uncle was Police Chief, 3. Another uncle was a Captain on the force and 4. He worked for the City (his supervisor of his told me that he was about to get fired because he couldn’t even back up a truck, so he got ‘hurt’ in the nick of time to collect permanent disability).  He and his family have been sucking from the tit of the City and its citizens and he criticizes the Veitch clan with hateful spew.  Naughty fruitcake.

Also some information that came out of the meeting was the fact that John Franck and his office except for Mary Zlotnick had done nothing wrong in the ‘Assessment Saga’.  Also the problem here is that the Human Resource fellow that works for the City and gets paid over $1,400.00 a week for 3 work days per week may have leaked confidential information out and Zlotnick may have been the recipient.  The Council over Mayor Johnson’s protests (it would seem that he may be getting some kickback money, although the only proof is that even after discussing the topic last week with the rest of the Council, pleaded amnesia about what went on in the meeting.  Franck alluded to the fact that he heard Johnson snoring).

It looks like Zlotnick might find herself in a lawsuit brought by the City for leaking confidential information (a pattern that she cannot learn from).  I don’t think that anything went Johnson’s way.  Johnson at one point accused the Council of being political, can you imagine that?  He even trapped himself when Pat Kane from Saratoga Citizen made reference that Deputy Mayor Shauna ‘Tuna’ Sutton has been keeping the ballot wording buried under a stack of papers.  The Mayor jumped right on Kane saying his department has nothing to do with the matter.  Later in the meeting it was pointed out that the City Attorney was working on the draft (the City Attorneys work under Johnson’s Department) and he started to stutter a string of excuses.

The Mayor did make one great point; he suggested that a professional was needed in the HR department “because it is very important to have a professional”.  I guess he thinks we don’t need a professional working for the Council to streamline and run a more efficient government, to that point he would like to keep the amateurs running the City. 

The Mayor also announced tonight that he finalized the Lillian's parking lot deal after 5 years with Sonny Bonaccio.  The City recieved $750,000.00 which is 1/2 the price they could have gotten.  The other reason this sounds crazy is that the plans of what Bonacio is going to build on the lot were approved years ago, long before he paid for the lot (can you say Johnson & Bonacio in the same breath?)

Johnson may be nearing an impeachment as he has clearly put himself and his interests ahead of the City’s.

Well, time to go out and fight crime, I think I will go down to Malta and see who’s causing trouble there.

ASSESSMENTS

It seems like City Hall is in a state of confusion again.  With no Professional oversight, not that John Franck isn’t a professional, has a stooge in his department who has caused a controversy much as she has done in almost every job or organization she has been involved in.  This story may not even be worthy of news when the Attorney General makes its decision.  It appears that an independent appraiser will appear and try to have your assessment lowered much as an appraiser performs his or her duties to estimate the value of a house so a Bank can have a figure to use in making a mortgage loan.  The important word here is ‘independent appraiser’ which means they get paid, think of representation by an attorney, they don’t represent for free.

I think one must understand the whole City assessment picture before rendering an educated complaint like some bloggers have done.

But, I digress.  Mary Zlotnik has been asked to leave almost every job or volunteer position she has ever held.  She has held many of her past jobs for as little as a few months.  It seems that she may becoming a new Remiga Foy in that if it is not done her way she’ll find a way to ‘make it so’, as Jean Luc Pickard used to say. “I would tend to believe that she has a poor job history at her former position at City Hall based on her track record”, said an aquatints  of Mary’s.  Here’s hoping that after the Attorney General’s decision, Mary Zlotnik doesn’t find herself in a lawsuit that might not end in her favor.

Tighe Misses Another Big Story

Hi all, from Captain America:

Well once again our super sleuth detective blogger John Tighe has missed out on another big story in his beloved Saratoga Springs (he lives in Milton).  Telling the world how someone 'donated' seats to Yanni's performance at SPAC and someone 'donated' a one year patron's pass that allows him free food and open bar, he has the nerve to slam some of the patrons that actually bought and paid for their own patron pass.  John was seen stuffing his wife's pocketbook with 'pigs in a blanket' and mustard sauce to go along with them.

Now here is the story that none of his sources gave him any information about but gave every other local blogger.  The City has not received a building permit for the Woodlawn garage project.  It is a law that a permit be in plain site to be seen by all.  When Saratoga's blogger 'Citizen Nancy's, Nancy Muldoon asked the crew chief at the site if the City had to get a permit (again, a law that the City must follow for any remodeling or new building of any City owned property, he "Yes, we work for the city and the city is supposed to have a permit." I then asked him where I could get the permit and he quipped, "Ask the Mayor for one."  So she travels to City Hall and goes into the Building Dept. and asks to see a copy of the permit and is told that she would have to FOIL to look at it (there isn't one), then the office worker said she is not supposed to answer any questions from anyone.



John Tighe, Milton's Super Sleuth Being Programmed By Scott Johnson



It seems like our King, I mean Mayor who is a puppet of Remiga Foy and friends thinks he is beyond the law in performing his job duties.  This has been his method of operation for 5 years.  He is following Remiga's Law 'if it ain't done my way, hit the highway'.