Comment on Watervliet general manager moves to Albany County job

When Mark Gleason was in college, mornings were spent studying economics at the University at Albany and afternoons working as a laborer at the Albany County sewer plant. The stench from the sewer plant work would pour out of his body as he sweated playing basketball games, Gleason recalled. Monday, after taking the weekend off, Gleason starts a new job as the director of fiscal operations at the Albany County Nursing Home. Not only did Gleason serve as general manager, he also was public safety commissioner and public works commissioner. A devout Catholic, who is married with two children, Gleason taught religious instruction at the parish. "St.