Moran launches campaign on homelessness, the economy and short-term rentals.

“The horses ran out of the barn. They are running around the track with reckless abandon." —Dillon Moran

Commissioner of Accounts Dillon Moran speaks at the launch of his reelection campaign, Sept. 11, 2025.

Commissioner of Accounts Dillon Moran’s reelection campaign will center around helping the homeless in the community, supporting small businesses, and regulating short-term rental properties, he told the two dozen or so who gathered to hear him at the Night Owl in downtown Saratoga Springs on Maple Avenue, Thursday evening, Sept. 11.

He was first elected to the city council in 2021 in a race that saw Democrats win three of the four council seats and the mayor’s chair. He and Commissioner of Finance Minita Sanghvi are the only two remaining from that time.

Moran, a Democrat, has been working against the city’s new “No camping” law since it was approved in July, and his speech to those gathered reflected that.

He touted the work that a Democrat-majority board did to move homeless people out of the city’s parking garages and into a low-barrier shelter on Adelphi Street.

Although the first attempt at creating the shelter at the former Saratoga Senior Center fell through, the city was able to work with RISE supportive services to create the shelter and get more people off the streets, but he said that with a new Republican-controlled board, the city has "backpedaled."

“I'm very concerned