Charter group to host event

‘Meet the Manager’ night at library

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. » The Saratoga Springs Charter Review Commission is holding the final one of its three “Meet the Manager” nights on Thursday, Nov. 2, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the H. Dutcher Community Room at the Saratoga Springs Public Library.

The event will feature a short presentation by the city manager, Bryan White, and mayor, Frederick May, of Fairport, New York.

In a news release, Commission Chair Bob Turner said, “The Charter Review Commission is very committed to educating the public about how the proposed council manager system would work. I think this is a great opportunity for voters to hear for themselves what a city manager does and ask the hard questions.

Under the council manager

form of government, the city council approves the budget, determines the tax rate and focuses on the community’s goals, major projects, and such longterm considerations as community growth, land use development, capital improvement plans, capital financing, and strategic planning, the release said. The council hires a highly trained, non-partisan, professional city manager to carry out these policies with an emphasis on effective, efficient, and equitable service delivery. Managers serve at the pleasure of the governing body and can be fired by a majority of the council.

Under the proposed charter, the city council would hire the city manager. The city manager would replace the deputy commissioners as the dayto-day operations manager of the city.