Schenectady Mayor Karen B. Johnson has won the right to have the state's highest court decide whether she acted properly in firing embattled former city purchasing agent James M. Segrue.
The Court of Appeals decided this week to hear the case that the city has repeatedly lost in the lower courts over the last two years. Although previous court decisions have ordered Johnson to reinstate Segrue on grounds that his firing was too harsh a penalty, he has yet to return to his City Hall position.
Court of Appeals spokesman Walter Mordant said that under normal procedures the case would not be heard until next year.
"It may not be heard before the spring," he said.
Meanwhile, the mayor has eliminated the $30,479 position of purchasing agent from her proposed 1990 city operating budget, which is before the City Council tonight
for a vote.
Segrue was fired by the mayor in August 1986 after a city hearing officer found him guilty of certain improprieties involving altering a bid so the city could recover more money in an unclaimed property auction of items confiscated by police.
Both state Supreme …
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