Hello, Collar City! This is Issue 44, dated July 19, 2019.

In this issue: the potential developer of 1MSQ, the mayor's sanctuary city resolution veto, and a new, local circus nonprofit.This is the penultimate issue of Troy Letter. As promised in TL42 , I thought I'd let you know where I'll be next. After next week's TL is published, I'll be starting a full-time reporting job with The Bennington Banner and The Manchester Journal , two outlets owned by the same company, New England Newspapers. I've already started reporting for the Banner part-time, and I'll become a full-time employee after next week's TL is published. I'm very excited to get to work in Vermont, even though I'm sad to be ending TL.I'd like to thank TL's supporters once again (and not for the last time), especially its 160-odd Patreon supporters and its three sponsors for July:, it's where it's at;, defining modern apartment living and rehab projects in historic downtown Troy; and, Troy's first escape room.

TROY LETTER: Just wanted to ask if you could explain—I read the memo of the veto. I wanted to understand more about what those—I think the word was "differences"—were. Why the veto?



MAYOR MADDEN: There were a couple of clauses in the resolution that I was uncomfortable with, that I thought were unnecessary. They were just problematic for me to sign my name to. The council is certainly more than able to express its opinion, but you have to do it in a way that I don't need to sign off on, okay? I'm not going to—



TL: So, like, the clause that mentioned Merola and McLaughlin [the resolution can be viewed on page 88 of this agenda packet]—



MM: Those were two clauses [sic] that I was uncomfortable with. It's unnecessary. I think if you look at the meat of the resolution, you'll find that it's not significantly different than the practices that we employ right now.



And I will say I was very grateful to the sponsors of the resolution. You might recall, in December last year, I put out a memo. I asked people to have a conversation, a dialogue. See if you can find a common ground, see if you can understand each other's positions. And they really did that. More than anybody else, I think. They did that. They worked with us. We had several meetings with them, the police department, our corporation counsel. And we got real close. But they took an approach I couldn't support.