Remarks by Bill Hoffman Jr.
47 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“Out of the hundreds of investigations I've done, most secrets or confidentiality that is broken is by accident and not maliciously, but that doesn't make it less broken. That's a good point. So I'm coming at it from a point of the staff member and the protection of their privacy.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“When it comes to discipline, dumb question, do we record?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, I don't know. I stand on that opinion. I just think it would open up the city and the staff member up to.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Actually, that's good advice now. Always speak to anybody like you're being recorded. That's the way it was. It's like my former employer won't call them out. I always walked in the door just assumed I was being recorded. That's the way I shop. That's the way I go in everywhere now. I just assume it.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Do you mean rewrite it and resubmit it to us?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 1:03:41
“I'm okay with that. So it would have to happen anyway, right, with these changes, because we made changes?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I mean, I don't want to slow things down because we've already discussed everything.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So could you just send it out if we did it that way? Just send everything out when you're done.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“you know because yeah we've done a lot of work i mean we had a lot of discussion on it and i was actually right my comment was going to be is i know to the people watching we've spent some time on this but i was actually glad we did spend time on it instead of just rushing through it like sure i will include all of the changes in the minutes so it is well defined and then barb could just provide the new document tomorrow and then that's what we would actually sign and put into the packet”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And that was my point. We've already had lengthy conversation. I'm not sure there would be any different conversation if we tabled it or talked about it.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Just to be transparent to my team here, I do intend to support the stop signs because it is a safety measure. And just to Councilman Kavanagh's point, the flashing red lights or the red lights are on the stop signs. I do have a lot of experience with those where I work. We use those. And even in the brightest day, they draw attention. They really do. You can see them from a long ways away. However, I do want to point out, even though I will vote to support it there's been some studies and some things that's been presented but phil's not wrong i mean when he brought up these statistics that it…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And Phil will keep an eye on it too, like as we go, somebody will, I mean, say we're four months in, somebody will still kind of be paying attention. Is this working? The school system, they'll be logging, making sure we're okay and it's working, correct?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'm actually okay with them having both. I mean, I'm just going to lay it out there. It's the fire department. I think there's a need. I think that, I mean, I understand if they're using them to send out of town to trainings and different things and, you know, there's trainings coming up and they can use it to haul personnel and equipment. I mean, I do want to be a good steward of taxpayers' money and I kind of wrestle with this in my mind because it is $86,000, but... The ones they do have, 2013, and even though they do have, we talk about miles, there is wear and tear from emergency use as…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“But the thing, I don't know, maybe I think differently than everybody else, but I mean, he did say one thing in there about if there was an emergency, and we can only haul one piece of equipment at a time when we need both of those pieces of equipment. I mean, I know the money seems large now until you have that need and it's one of your loved ones that's in a pond or that needs something. So, I mean, I understand the fiscal part of it,”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Not only that, most first responder accidents, whether it be police or fire, are traffic-related scenes due to vehicles on the scene. And it's the highest number of fatalities.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Well, I was the one that kind of brought that up again, and I did talk to Phil about it, so I just want to be transparent about that. And I don't think anything was wrong. I think, I don't know, maybe I presented it wrong last time. Maybe it looked. When I say I want Phil to have half-hour meetings with department heads, and I understand Phil's easy to hold up. You made that clear that you could go talk to him. On a city administrator's eval, you want to put some positive points too. And one of those is, is work with, you know, working with department heads and we've set goals and past years.…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Well, like we got Michael coming, so maybe it might be twice a month. Right. But not a I'm training you kind of thing just to sit down and, hey, let's work on these leadership traits. Let's work on these leaders. Sure. Because Bill's got a lot to share. So that's the way I envision it. Not a, hey, I need to communicate this because this happened. That can happen other times. This is just strictly... under the communication, under the training. And I would hope that that would kind of prompt the department heads to maybe, and maybe some of you do it. I think some of you do do it actually is…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“But I think it would help. It would help everybody's growth because every department head has a specialty. All our department heads are smart. They're all great, but they have different specialties. If somehow some of those can be shared, different traits, best practices, or the department heads may have best practices that would help fill. Because I'll share a story. You know, when I worked at Walmart, I mean, in asset protection, I had lots of people that worked for me and I learned a lot from them. When I would meet with them, I would, you would sit down and for a half hour a month and…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Well, and originally, I did. But when, when I come back and rethink it, I don't want it to be something scary, like a formal, you know what I mean? I think there should be a record. Oh yeah. I met with whoever on this date, but you know, the, the, the growth, I don't know, Phil could probably keep a notebook over who he's talking to, went over this leadership tactic, went over this leadership tactic, but that would just be for him personally for, uh, um, um, evaluation and everything.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And, you know, another thing to add on to what she says there, you know, when I was salaried and I met with my boss once a month, it opened it up more for me to admit to him, hey, I think I'm struggling in this area. Can you help me? You know, like you open up a little bit, but it's for everybody's benefit. And I don't want to, you know, that's why I said maybe I presented wrong last time. I want it to happen, but I don't want it to be so formal that it scares people and it just turns into something bad. This is totally for growth and benefit of everybody.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“You could even do Zoom. You could do 25-minute Zoom meeting. I mean, because I don't want people to have to drive in, you know, if they live a long ways away. But like she said, when they're here, so.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“It has. I meet with Phil every Monday at nine and I always cut into Dan's time. Dan comes at 9.30, I'm always like 9.35.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026