The mayor of Watervliet will be sworn in Wednesday for a third term.
Mike Manning will officially begin his term in the part-time position with a 5 p.m. ceremony at City Hall.
Watervliet’s police force was rocked by scandal in 2015 when one member was arrested on an underage sex charge and another as part of a drug investigation. But speaking with WAMC News in August, Manning said he remained optimistic about the city’s future.
“I don’t think it casts a shadow, and if it does, it’s only temporary. We have a lot of momentum going, we have a lot of different programs going that reach into all aspects of the city,” he said.
A native of the Hudson River city of about 10,000 in Albany County, Manning is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and works for GE Power and Water in Schenectady.
