Remarks by Joey Hilliard
33 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“YES, SIR. So my question is, well, there's more than one, but first, when are we going to start selling our methane? Do you know when that line is going to come on and we're going to start? On the gas line?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And my other question is, you know, how many cities in Texas provide free refuge pickup? When I say the claw, basically, that comes in and picks up solid waste, trees.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Have you looked at what kind of savings that would bring if we just did that once a month?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Do the refuge on the curbs. Because I know a lot of tree services will give you two prices. Our price to haul it to the landfill or another price for us to put on your curb and let it be picked up for free. Same thing goes with remodeling. They'll say, hey, we'll bring a trailer out here or we'll just dump everything on your curb and let the city pick it up. And so I would like to see charges.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER I know. I know. But I'm just thinking outside the box. NEW SPEAKER Correct. Everything that we handle, there is no revenue for.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER Sure. So on that same note, as business owners, and I know there's a bunch of us up here that are business owners, when a department or a company is losing money, you don't just look at your administration staff. You begin to look at the efficiency of each department. and a department head may not think something needs to be cut good examples good sam that saved us three hundred thousand dollars but it wasn't asked to be cut from the budget so i would like to see an efficiency study you know uh water department drainage department how many men do we actually need on a crew how…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER SO THIS IS THE MR. MAYOR IS OKAY.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER IS THIS THE SAME GENTLEMAN THAT CAME AND SPOKE TO US AND I ASKED HIM I SAID HOW CAN WE HAVE GOOD NUMBERS WHEN WE HAVEN'T GIVEN THEM GOOD NUMBERS BECAUSE WE DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW HOW MUCH IS NOT BEING COLLECTED ON OUR AND HE ACTUALLY LAST YEAR CAME TO US AND SAID WE NEED TO DO A WATER RATE INCREASE AND THEN CAME BACK THIS TIME AND SAID MY NUMBERS WERE WRONG WE DIDN'T NEED TO. so i before we start raising rates i think that we need to make sure that we have a hundred percent collection on these i mean we we have no idea how much money we're not collecting and everybody's going to see…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And so did others. Or we can go in between those two.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER POTENTIAL. NEW SPEAKER POTEN”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, I'll I'll I kind of address that Councilwoman LaDonna. I met with the property owners on probably five or six different occasions, brought the city manager in and also the police force to try to solve the problem at the parking lot. The property owners spent $45,000 on extra security through the Beaumont PD. They have also added two or three cameras to link them in with the real-time crime center so the the property owners have have done everything they possibly can to mitigate this the issue that's going on in these parking lots and so uh that's the direction that we're going and…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So you have to keep these for 10 or 15 years based on the tax. Is it 10 or 15?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So what if we threw another 10 million in collection in there with these numbers change I?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“And that's if the meters are being read right. I mean, I hate to keep harping on this, but if we come back to you and we're like, oh, we're sorry, we missed bill, we didn't bill over $10 million, all this is going to change. Everything that you brought before us is going to change. And so we have one person billing. We're not reading meters. We had two customers that were basically half a million dollars in unread meters. It's been going on for five or six years. So it's just like giving your accountant wrong information. I mean, you don't have good numbers to be able to come to us and say…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I would like to say, again, welcome, Laura. I'm excited to have you. We've worked together in the past, and I think you're a great addition. I think we've got a great team. Molly, I've got to ask. Train horns.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“And I just want to give a big shout out to Mike. I had a chance to take my nephews from out of town to see the Cactail Marshes. And that's quite an engineering feat. So I appreciate you allowing us to look at that. And if you haven't gone out there, I highly recommend you do and see the good things that we are doing and the eco life that is all out there. And happy birthday to you, Early. And I would like to wish my wife a happy anniversary. She's put up with me for 28 years. And so I'd like to say happy anniversary to my wife. Thank you, sir.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yeah, well, thank you. And again, I'm going to ask, where are we on the RAP program for the buses, the selling the buses? Are we moving forward? Because that could be a really big offset.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So if they do, what are we looking at as far as revenue?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“And another question, have we thought about raising the bus fares?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So do we want to be the cheapest place in town?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Now, do we have a count? Like, which libraries are used the most? Would it be Miller?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Well have we have we looked at reducing the hours at the slower libraries?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I realize that change is hard, but sometimes change is necessary.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So if we've got libraries that are being used twice or three times as much as others, it would make sense to close the other ones down early rather than pay the electric and the water and the salaries or the pay at these libraries that aren't being used. And people will conform to whatever we do. It'll be hard at first, but people will conform.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Or they can drive to the libraries that are open later.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026