Remarks by James P. Hilty Sr
34 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“I motion for approval of the items on the consent agenda.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Council President, I move that Ordinance No. 2026-30 be adopted as provided by the Charter of the City of Ocala, Florida, and based on evidence presented to the City Council, accept that adoption by sections on the second reading be waived.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Council President, I move that Ordinance Number 2026-32 be adopted as provided by the Charter of the City of Ocala, Florida, and based upon evidence presented to City Council, accept that the adoption by sections on the second reading be waived.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“You talk about the forensic audit in there. Just a couple of questions. One is, who's responsible for paying that? Would that be the city responsible for paying that, or would that be the pension plan that would pay for the audit?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And obviously, you don't have any idea as to what the cost of a forensic audit would be because of the large sum in the pension plan or anything like that?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Right. But as our internal auditor, you're recommending in this report forensic audit?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And would that be your normal assumption under a report like this? Or because of some of the recent findings we've had at the city that it would be advisable for full transparency to do something like this? Sure.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“So I guess the next question is who authorizes the, I mean, since you work for us, but yet the CFO works for the city, who authorizes the union?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Again, I'm not trying to imply any impropriety, but when you look at the report and the fact that you're recommending it and then you have an employee that's no longer here, what's the reason that she's no longer here? Could be she went to another job.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm just talking from the general public when they look at something like this here. Those are the questions that they would ask.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I know he also points out that an error is very easy to happen when you're dealing with something like that.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“So one last question, and I'll let anybody else say. When Purvis and Gray, that is their audit of the city, do they do the mention plan? Yes, sir. They do. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“If they decide, that kind of helps us out in making sure we've done our due diligence.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Will those lanes be closed until the hotel opens?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I just want to say thank you to Chief Leach, Chief Welburn, my Captain Joe Talley for giving me a great place to work and not firing me yet.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Council President, I move that ordinance number 2026-27 be adopted as provided by the Charter of the City of Ocala, Florida, and based upon evidence presented to City Council, except that the adoption by sections on the second reading be waived.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I would just like to add, having spent 20 years around the aerospace industry working on the F-14 project, when I first moved to Florida, we had the Blue Angels, I think, in Gainesville. That was 35 years ago. We've never seen anything like that. They travel around the country, so this is a huge impact, and people will come from far away to see this because it's a great show.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I don't want him. I want to hear from the city as to why the citizen isn't getting responded to.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'm talking to Chris. So you think that he was sufficiently answered. That's all I'm after. Without question. Okay. Without question. All right.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Council President, I move that ordinance number 2026-23 be adopted as provided by the Charter of the City of Ocala, Florida, and based upon evidence presented to City Council, accept that adoption by sections on the second reading be waived.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Council President, I move that ordinance number 2026-26 be adopted as provided by the Charter of the City of Ocala, Florida, and based upon evidence presented to City Council, accept that adoption by second sections on the second reading be waived. Is there a second?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“You know, there was some interesting comment here tonight about different things that seem to be happening Citizens and of course we all heard this week that the city was fleeced out of Almost five hundred thousand dollars I would have thought tonight would have been the night that you would be transparent to the public Rather than us having to ask that I realized the investigation is still going on But I think that the public needs to know that we had a fraud case Dating back to May which obviously was covered up but for whatever reasons but again I think it's time for that to come public so…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“We had that conversation about not bringing it up. I think, again, I think it's our duty to keep the public informed. Our duty is to keep us informed. But at this point, nothing has been said to the public about the almost $500,000 that was taken away from us. And the fact that it happened, again, back in May. There was plenty of time.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026