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Saratoga Springs Mayor Meg Kelly has decided not to seek a third term. The Democrat, now entering her fourth year as mayor, spoke to WAMC’s Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Lucas Willard.
Prior to serving as mayor and a member of the five-person city council, Mayor Meg Kelly was a Deputy under the city’s previous mayor, Joanne Yepsen.
Now, with a year left of her second two-year term, the Democrat says at the end of 2021 it will be “time to turn the baton over and reinvent” herself.
“I do think that my team is an excellent team. We’ve done superior work with the council and the employees in city hall but it’s time. Everybody knows when their time is, and I felt it, and I just said, It’s time.’ So there was nothing that pushed me over the edge for this. This is just something that…I did two terms, that’s a good civic duty and I’ve done my public service and it’s time to turn it over. And I think I’m leaving it in a much better place,” said