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Troy officials shut down city employees' gambling pool As the Troy Record reported last month, 58 city employees including Deputy Mayor James Conroy, Comptroller Joe Mazarello, Treasurer Joe Buchanan and others started placing bets on the outcome of professional football games at the beginning of the 1999-2000 season. According to the Record and other sources, city computers were used to produce weekly spreadsheets indicating the balance of each bettor's account and other pertinent information. Sources including Mayor Mark Pattison who was not involved in the pool declined to identify the individual who operated the pool, but a reliable source intimated that the individual is a city employee with a reputation as a bookmaker. And though the source suggested that the individual gleaned a profit from operating the pool, Pattison said that was not the case. "It was an office pool - it's not like somebody was taking a house cut," Pattison said, adding that he does not believe city resources were used by participants. Nonetheless, he said that employees involved in the pool were reminded that neither city time nor city equipment should be used for activities such as a betting pool. (Subsection 3 of the city's ethics law reads, in part: "No officer or employee shall use city owned property for personal convenience or profit.") Mayor Pattison said that the pool issue will be "under review" in the future, but indicated that he didn't expect any disciplinary action to be taken against Conroy, Mazzarello or any of the other individuals involved. "It was not interfering with work," the mayor said. "It was not a major deal. In cooperation with Troy United Ink Corp., a not-for-profit corporation 
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