RENSSELAER — Mayor John DeFrancesco has fired Richard Mooney 10 months after appointing him as Rensselaer’s director of operations.
DeFrancesco dismissed Mooney during a phone call Friday, informing him that his termination was effective that day. Reached by phone Monday, DeFrancesco refused to discuss his reasoning, calling it “personnel stuff” that he doesn’t believe “needs to be aired in public.”
“I don’t care what people know,” DeFrancesco said. “We made a move, now we’re going to go in another direction, and that’s it.”…