TROY, N.Y. The Troy City Council held a special finance meeting this week to move forward with bonding $3.26 million for various projects throughout the city. The issuance of serial bonds must be approved first by the council’s Finance Committee, which met this week, to be added to the regular meeting’s agenda for the […]
TROY, N.Y. Causing a tense atmosphere and accusations of partisanship, three resolutions from this week’s Troy City Council finance committee meeting were not motioned or seconded for discussion. “We saw politics at its worst tonight,” City Council President Sue Steele said after the meeting. “I think it’s a really crummy way to run a […]
TROY, N.Y. The Collar City recently applied to New York State’s Pro-Housing Communities Program, Mayor Carmella Mantello announced. This program will offer the city certification because it actively supports housing growth, and will benefit communities by giving them preferential scoring for certain discretionary funding grants, a news release from the mayor’s office said. The […]
TROY, N.Y. The year’s first City Council meeting took off Thursday with a couple of hiccups. The new council has two returning members Irene Sorriento, who is a Republican now representing District 5 (she previously represented District 6 before redistricting, and City Council President, Sue Steele, a Democrat, who is new in her position. […]
TROY, N.Y. The Troy City Council is officially sworn in and ready to serve the community. On Thursday and Friday, both parties’ members were sworn in; four Republican representatives, two Democratic representatives and the City Council president, also a Democrat. This historic line-up, alongside the city’s first female mayor, begins its term on Monday, […]