Waddle I'd like to think is around the same ball park as lumbered.. cause to me that's a man lumbering.. but in no way is that storming out... In order to storm out ya gotta have debris left in the wake of your storming out action..maybe even a tumbled over chair ..a manilla folder thrown ..
An educated human would find out who Van was to have a city named for him, it wasn't your 1980 dodge caravan, and who the Vandals were & and why they were significant before posting.
"Starving within the next 2 decades." His trouser alterations company may see what Mike Lindell's company can do. "Can you lumpy mattress covers fit this guy?"
The now-former city manager was double-dipping on the crime: fine the victim and fine the vandal. When the police chief cut off his revenue, he made it personal and fired her-corruption at its finest.
@@AlbertHess-xy7ky Actually no.... In alot of small towns the City Manager and the Mayor is a hired position, only the city council is elected. The problem with situation is the City manager and the Mayor aren't from the area, the City Manager was from Houston and the Mayor was from somewhere in the OKC area. The entire situation came about because the Police Chief organized an event to clean graffitti off of a busness's building isn;t of arrest the bored teenagers who did it.
No one is asking the right questions: WHY did employees of the City want the business owner fined for graffiti so badly? They fired the cop because she fixed the problem instead of fining the store owner...WHO wanted the store owner fined? WHY did that person want the store owner fined?
Because the city manager and mayor, who are both hired by the way not elected, wrote a city ordinance saying the only thing on the outside of buildings is the sign. They were literally fining victims of crime for being victims of crime, Dude if that was to hit a court in a lawsuit that city is paying 100's of thousands if not millions.
@@feoxorus It was the City Manager and Mayor, In most small towns the Mayor isn't "elected" they are hired like the City Manager is and the City Council and City Manager enacts the city ordinance and laws in the city, The Mayor is just a figure head.
@@ottohesslein3230 and that's why more and more small towns are going to the hired city manager and mayor system so it breaks that up the small town regimes. I know the small town I'm from in Missouri did away with elected mayor in 1990 and it's actually made things worse because all the jobs left.
@@ottohesslein3230 You jest but I bet it's something along those lines. These types of communities always have leaders and then the real leaders who pull all the strings. Sometimes they're out in front in plain sight but many times not.
Seems like their little side hustle of putting graffiti on local businesses, and then fining said businesses didn't work out as planned. Police chief should be rehired, and investigate the city that tried to fire her. This was an obvious racket, and chief was in the way.
The fact that the mayor and another council member quit confirms your post. And her attitude during the meeting when citizens applauded revealed her side. It was a scheme to fleece money from local businesses to put more money in the city coffers.
It wasn't a dispute about "graffiti." It was a dispute over the city manager trying to extort revenue by fining a business over graffiti for which it was not responsible vs. the police chief trying to get it cleaned up without fining the business. The city manager just views the community as serfs from whom revenue is to be extorted. Kudos to the police chief.
1:00 how to address graffiti? No, it was how to speak humbly to a Citty Manager with a bad case of monster ego. Punishing businesses by fining THEM for having been victims of vandalism. Sheriff says no, law enforcement’s discretion in most places and gets fired by the citty manager for disobedience.
UVALDE TEXAS. OVER 400 STATE FEDERAL AND LOCAL TEXAS POLICE OFFICERS STOOD AROUND AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR 77 MINUTES WHILE CHILDREN BEING EXECUTED. AND YOU THINK A SHERIFF'S GOING TO FIX THAT
Please look in hawk cove texas, city manager is also Chief of Police. Three people arrested recently at council meeting for d.o.c. The mayor and a councilwoman say the arrest was not necessary and are calling for the officer's arrest.
This is the way a community should behave. They elected those who appointed the city manager, and they should take action to rectify what they believe is a problem. Unelected bureaucrats are destroying our Republic, and complacent citizens are allowing it.
@@shavinmccrotch9435you really think so? After the community fought to get that tyrant removed from office? Besides, isn't that protected free so speech?
@@stuwest3653 those rules and procedures are from a bygone era, I am tired of society being overly polite and I am tired of the formality of the past. There is was no need for decorum at that point.
@@shavinmccrotch9435 no it wasn't, it sounds like he was an out of control small town tyrant. He should be publicly shamed by knowing how much the citizens of the town despise him.
This is the way change takes place. From the bottom up. The folks that remain around that table are painfully aware that the citizens of this town do not f#@k around. Good work people. That's what I call plain old good work.
This isn't the military and the city manager answers to the police chief in matters of law not the other way around, never mind the clear case of fines for profit.
For a time I was the chief elected official in a rural town the size of Van. We had no police force and no city manager (we did have an administrator, who didn't have a city manager's powers). We got along fine. I guess New England isn't Texas.
No really, we have no politics - none - no manager, mayor, police chief, council member. None. Bring back the Chief. Only the Chief is in her right mind.
most small towns hire locals and friends that don't even know what they are doing, and some get the job and quit soon after because they can't handle it.
He's the size of Fetterman. "Stormed out"? What are you? ByeDone? We can see that he WADDLED out and it wasn't all that fast either. Stop being so fking dramatic.
Yeah. When I first saw this story, I had no idea it happened, here, in texas. Knowing that, it all makes much more sense. This place is an illogical, unkind place. I am shocked, that he was pushed out. Shocked.
He did it to himself firing the police chief for refusing to fine businesses for graffiti. He can go get a job in Commifornia where victims get in trouble.
This illustrates a problem in microcosm. The city manager was pushing for individual business to bare the burden of cleaning graffiti from private property members of the Council would prefer the taxpayers pay for it. Sadly, it appears the council wants someone to run the day to day operations of the city but dont pizz off any of their friends or supporters.
Typically, they are the ones that actually run the day to day business aspect of running a city. They don't make law, or policy, they take care of the business of actually seeing that policies get acted upon.
"In this model, the Mayor and City Council are responsible for all legislative functions of the City. They appoint a professional City Manager who operates much like a CEO in private-sector businesses and who is tasked with carrying out City Council's legislative and policy objectives." That's how the city of Austin, Texas describes the role.
@@vidpie Thank you so much for the info. If done properly it leaves the council with time to address issues of legislation and not run around enforcing it. Could work for sure.
@@hendrikdebruin4012 The City Manager of Dallas, Texas was pressured to resign, slowly building to a majority of council members. His contract specified he could receive his annual salary as severance if he was asked to resign directly or indirectly at the suggestion of a majority of council members. Months later he accepted a job as Austin's City Manager. Consequently, Dallas owes him $423,246 or more in severance pay and Austin is paying him $470,000 annually and another $30K in relocation expenses. Their former City Manager was making $388,000. An article about him to give you some idea of the scope of the City Manager position: "In Dallas, Broadnax manage(d) a $4.6 billion budget and more than 13,000 employees. Broadnax’s tenure ha(d) been marked by high tensions with (Mayor) Johnson and some members of the city council. Johnson pushed for Broadnax’s resignation in 2022 amid vacancies in the city’s 911 call center and considerable delays in the city’s building permitting office - and after the city unintentionally deleted millions of Dallas Police Department data files that included evidence and investigations."
The entire city government is fired or quit because of graffiti. You address graffiti one of two ways. Paint over it. Powerwash it off. For good measure, find who did it. I live in Dallas. Van has got more people on the city council than residents.
While I wholeheartedly support that decision, who does that lady think she is to say "no, no" to those people clapping? She works for them. How arrogant do you have to be to speak to them as if they are children? If they want to clap they have every right in their townhall to do so.
"Stormed?" That was an angry waddle, at best
Yes, even at 2X speed it was still a waddle.
Your comment made me chuckle.
At that 2x speed, he looks like one of those walking swimming-pools during an earthquake... all that sloshing around.
He may have been doing his best.; but hardly "Storming out" .. What a clown..
Waddle I'd like to think is around the same ball park as lumbered.. cause to me that's a man lumbering.. but in no way is that storming out... In order to storm out ya gotta have debris left in the wake of your storming out action..maybe even a tumbled over chair ..a manilla folder thrown ..
Now they need to rehire that community oriented police chief.
The community hired the the people who fired the police chief.
I may have a distorted view of what "storming out of a room" looks like.
A city called Van... with a local school mascot called the Vandals... in a story about vandalism...
Lol
And the city chief has been vanquished and has vanished into the distance. 😂
An educated human would find out who Van was to have a city named for him, it wasn't your 1980 dodge caravan, and who the Vandals were & and why they were significant before posting.
People from Van call themselves the Vanuminati. True story.
There's a word for this story. Texas.
Good! Idiotic, power hungry politicians need to be shown the door.
Re-hire that police chief STAT!!!
Who voted them in?
@@AlbertHess-xy7ky idiots...
The pig should be in jail
@@AlbertHess-xy7ky They were able to get the votes of enough "useful idiots" so they could collude with the corrupt city manager.
Bureaucrat, not politician.
That poor city manager. Without a job, he might be in danger of starving.
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Or having to actually compete and produce results for his paycheck
"Starving within the next 2 decades." His trouser alterations company may see what Mike Lindell's company can do. "Can you lumpy mattress covers fit this guy?"
The now-former city manager was double-dipping on the crime: fine the victim and fine the vandal. When the police chief cut off his revenue, he made it personal and fired her-corruption at its finest.
He was probably the one painting the town and didn’t want his art taken down lol
That manager walked out at a normal pace, it is a stretch to call it "storming out."
It's about time the people rise up and stop this BS
The people hired the Mayor.
@@AlbertHess-xy7ky troll
@@AlbertHess-xy7ky Actually no.... In alot of small towns the City Manager and the Mayor is a hired position, only the city council is elected. The problem with situation is the City manager and the Mayor aren't from the area, the City Manager was from Houston and the Mayor was from somewhere in the OKC area. The entire situation came about because the Police Chief organized an event to clean graffitti off of a busness's building isn;t of arrest the bored teenagers who did it.
@@AlbertHess-xy7ky Very true. Ultimately the ones to blame ARE the voters.
@@theinc1776 Who hired the mayor?
He left the room because he was fired for being so poor in character as to stir the entire town against him...
That and the double cheese pizza he had for lunch start bubblin up.
Bring her BACK!!🫡🇺🇸🤠
No one is asking the right questions: WHY did employees of the City want the business owner fined for graffiti so badly? They fired the cop because she fixed the problem instead of fining the store owner...WHO wanted the store owner fined? WHY did that person want the store owner fined?
Because the city manager and mayor, who are both hired by the way not elected, wrote a city ordinance saying the only thing on the outside of buildings is the sign. They were literally fining victims of crime for being victims of crime, Dude if that was to hit a court in a lawsuit that city is paying 100's of thousands if not millions.
It's often somebody with an axe to grind and a score to settle. In small towns the connections are easier to find.
@@feoxorus It was the City Manager and Mayor, In most small towns the Mayor isn't "elected" they are hired like the City Manager is and the City Council and City Manager enacts the city ordinance and laws in the city, The Mayor is just a figure head.
@@ottohesslein3230 and that's why more and more small towns are going to the hired city manager and mayor system so it breaks that up the small town regimes. I know the small town I'm from in Missouri did away with elected mayor in 1990 and it's actually made things worse because all the jobs left.
@@ottohesslein3230 You jest but I bet it's something along those lines. These types of communities always have leaders and then the real leaders who pull all the strings. Sometimes they're out in front in plain sight but many times not.
“Stormed out”
I was expecting someone to follow him playing a tuba as he waddled out.
Seems like their little side hustle of putting graffiti on local businesses, and then fining said businesses didn't work out as planned. Police chief should be rehired, and investigate the city that tried to fire her. This was an obvious racket, and chief was in the way.
The fact that the mayor and another council member quit confirms your post. And her attitude during the meeting when citizens applauded revealed her side. It was a scheme to fleece money from local businesses to put more money in the city coffers.
@@lordraven2264 Common sense tells us this is very likely.
It wasn't a dispute about "graffiti." It was a dispute over the city manager trying to extort revenue by fining a business over graffiti for which it was not responsible vs. the police chief trying to get it cleaned up without fining the business. The city manager just views the community as serfs from whom revenue is to be extorted. Kudos to the police chief.
I am guessing that was the mayor telling people not to clap. I would have clapped harder.
1:00 how to address graffiti? No, it was how to speak humbly to a Citty Manager with a bad case of monster ego. Punishing businesses by fining THEM for having been victims of vandalism. Sheriff says no, law enforcement’s discretion in most places and gets fired by the citty manager for disobedience.
Finely a Texas town does the right thing !!!
UVALDE TEXAS. OVER 400 STATE FEDERAL AND LOCAL TEXAS POLICE OFFICERS STOOD AROUND AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR 77 MINUTES WHILE CHILDREN BEING EXECUTED. AND YOU THINK A SHERIFF'S GOING TO FIX THAT
Excellent, now re hire the police officer.
That woman saying "No" when they started clapping is a Karen.
Please look in hawk cove texas, city manager is also Chief of Police. Three people arrested recently at council meeting for d.o.c. The mayor and a councilwoman say the arrest was not necessary and are calling for the officer's arrest.
Good luck with that, if there was a warrant for their arrest or a probation/parole violation they are bought and paid for.
He has enough lard reserve to survive without a gov job.
You call that stormed
Look like he did his best penguin impression while deciding what to eat while sad.
This is the way a community should behave. They elected those who appointed the city manager, and they should take action to rectify what they believe is a problem. Unelected bureaucrats are destroying our Republic, and complacent citizens are allowing it.
Good for this town. That City Manager was out of line. Hopefully the Police Chief gets their job back.
He didn't storm out. He no longer had a reason to be there since he wasn't going to be paid.
I hope he didn't let the door hit him on the way out.
Her stopping the crowd from clapping was a little much.
No, it wasn't. They can go outside and voice their opinion. AS civilized society has rules and procedure for a reason.
Applauding as a man is getting fired is in extremely poor taste. Stopping them shows she was raised properly.
@@shavinmccrotch9435you really think so? After the community fought to get that tyrant removed from office? Besides, isn't that protected free so speech?
@@stuwest3653 those rules and procedures are from a bygone era, I am tired of society being overly polite and I am tired of the formality of the past. There is was no need for decorum at that point.
@@shavinmccrotch9435 no it wasn't, it sounds like he was an out of control small town tyrant. He should be publicly shamed by knowing how much the citizens of the town despise him.
It's always about the money
The City Manager did not "storm out.". He walked out quietly.
I've lived in apartment complexes with more people than that "town," and we didn't need a mayor, police chief, city manager, or any of that nonsense.
Police chief for mayor
This is the way change takes place. From the bottom up. The folks that remain around that table are painfully aware that the citizens of this town do not f#@k around. Good work people. That's what I call plain old good work.
A nothing town
Weird to see a penguin waddling in Texas.
"That's no moon!" -Obi Wan Kenobi
He was fired. His only choice was to leave right then.
This isn't the military and the city manager answers to the police chief in matters of law not the other way around, never mind the clear case of fines for profit.
Spent my freshman HS summer (mid '80s) in Van, working at Sky Ranch. Kind of surprised to see the town here in the news.
Gee, WFAA finally managed to mention a a name. That's some fine reporting.
For a time I was the chief elected official in a rural town the size of Van. We had no police force and no city manager (we did have an administrator, who didn't have a city manager's powers). We got along fine. I guess New England isn't Texas.
"Stormed" - more like waddled.
City manager was too big for his britches..... classic case of FAAFO
Maybe they make the X Police Chief the NEW Mayor. I think that seat is open now.
It gets expensive for taxpayers when everyone subsequently files lawsuits and the city pays attorney fees for years then hefty settlements.
Children at work.
She was "sacrificed" to make way for a Good Ol Boys club in the making.
This type of effort by the people can be utilized on all levels of Government
No really, we have no politics - none - no manager, mayor, police chief, council member. None.
Bring back the Chief. Only the Chief is in her right mind.
Man. Slow moving storm.
GOOD DEAL! 💯
Someone needs to replace that council too.
Population of Van, TX is less than 3,000 .... why have a city manager?
The Van city manager looks like he frequents too many food vans.
most small towns hire locals and friends that don't even know what they are doing, and some get the job and quit soon after because they can't handle it.
Sounds right. The City manager was acting as the Mayor. Mayor was just a place holder.
Keep it going Texans
Bye bye!!
You should be ashamed of yourself
Contrast this towns story with that of Dolton Illinois.
He's the size of Fetterman. "Stormed out"? What are you? ByeDone? We can see that he WADDLED out and it wasn't all that fast either. Stop being so fking dramatic.
Ah, yes. Remind me gain why I was born in Texas but ended up in Ohio. . . . Oh, yeah. Now I remember: Texas politics. Right.
Yeah. When I first saw this story, I had no idea it happened, here, in texas. Knowing that, it all makes much more sense. This place is an illogical, unkind place. I am shocked, that he was pushed out. Shocked.
He did it to himself firing the police chief for refusing to fine businesses for graffiti. He can go get a job in Commifornia where victims get in trouble.
Ah karma is a great thing..
and are things better yet?
This illustrates a problem in microcosm. The city manager was pushing for individual business to bare the burden of cleaning graffiti from private property members of the Council would prefer the taxpayers pay for it. Sadly, it appears the council wants someone to run the day to day operations of the city but dont pizz off any of their friends or supporters.
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Sounds like a bunch of children running this show.
If this is a city government, I’m the Queen of Romania…..
small town.. its how it is.
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What exactly is a city manager? We do not have any here in Africa. Is that like the mayor of the town?
Typically, they are the ones that actually run the day to day business aspect of running a city. They don't make law, or policy, they take care of the business of actually seeing that policies get acted upon.
"In this model, the Mayor and City Council are responsible for all legislative functions of the City. They appoint a professional City Manager who operates much like a CEO in private-sector businesses and who is tasked with carrying out City Council's legislative and policy objectives."
That's how the city of Austin, Texas describes the role.
@@vidpie Thank you so much for the info. If done properly it leaves the council with time to address issues of legislation and not run around enforcing it. Could work for sure.
@@hendrikdebruin4012 The City Manager of Dallas, Texas was pressured to resign, slowly building to a majority of council members. His contract specified he could receive his annual salary as severance if he was asked to resign directly or indirectly at the suggestion of a majority of council members. Months later he accepted a job as Austin's City Manager. Consequently, Dallas owes him $423,246 or more in severance pay and Austin is paying him $470,000 annually and another $30K in relocation expenses. Their former City Manager was making $388,000.
An article about him to give you some idea of the scope of the City Manager position:
"In Dallas, Broadnax manage(d) a $4.6 billion budget and more than 13,000 employees.
Broadnax’s tenure ha(d) been marked by high tensions with (Mayor) Johnson and some members of the city council. Johnson pushed for Broadnax’s resignation in 2022 amid vacancies in the city’s 911 call center and considerable delays in the city’s building permitting office - and after the city unintentionally deleted millions of Dallas Police Department data files that included evidence and investigations."
I know how to address graffiti but TH-cam supports acts of criminals.
The entire city government is fired or quit because of graffiti. You address graffiti one of two ways. Paint over it. Powerwash it off. For good measure, find who did it. I live in Dallas. Van has got more people on the city council than residents.
Why does a town of 2300 people have these issues in the first place? The mayor and council should not need a city manager. Stop hiring DEI people.
You think the white guy that the white city council fired was a DEI hire?
Let me just take a guess ? A democrat, ?
While I wholeheartedly support that decision, who does that lady think she is to say "no, no" to those people clapping?
She works for them. How arrogant do you have to be to speak to them as if they are children?
If they want to clap they have every right in their townhall to do so.
Good Job now They can both hit the Local Gym !!! Good for the city of VAN. I think they both came from CA .
Lol
Too many ⚫️’s
when trump gets in office, he's going to add stupid to DEI than me and my maga friends will be able to get good jobs.
Drugs are bad. Stay off of them.
@@andyleo8418 That's why it steals from working people.
Seek professional help.
You're an M as in Marxist.
Seek the Lord and he will set your troubled mind at ease
That Police Chief should be in jail.
No , he shouldn't be .
Looks like the mayor and city manager had a little thing goin' on. 😂