The Savings Ran Out. The Bill Didn't.
Carmella’s 2027 budget plans to take $947,883 from the city’s debt reserve. On the city’s own year-end numbers, the reserve will have about $844,000 left after this year.
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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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What an Honest Budget Would Cost
Carmella’s 2027 budget raises the city tax bill on a home assessed at $150,000 by $85. She calls it “a modest 3.4%.” It stays that modest because of what the budget leaves out.
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, ...
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...