Hillsdale City Hall – Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Tonight’s Hillsdale City Council meeting matters more than most people realize. Not because of politics. Not because of personalities. Because of one simple question:

Will City Council hold its own leadership to the rule of law or will it protect power at the expense of the public?

Two documents will be presented today for the record and for the public to read, share, and bring to City Hall.

Document 1: Exhibit A Cover Letter

This is a formal notice to City Council that serious allegations exist involving the Mayor’s conduct and the City’s governance. It identifies two publicly available links as exhibits and explains why Council must respond in a way that protects the City from liability.

• Receive the submission into the public record
• Preserve relevant records
• Seek independent legal review
• Act transparently

When a city ignores credible allegations involving its top executive, that’s not “staying neutral.” That’s walking the City into preventable risk.

Document 2: Proposed Resolution (Council Action Request)

The resolution asks Council to take the only responsible path when allegations involve the chief executive:

• Log the submission
• Preserve records
• Direct independent legal review
• Schedule the matter for Council action
• And, because the allegations implicate serious liability and loss of trust, it includes a formal request for the Mayor’s resignation

This is what public accountability looks like in real life. Not slogans. Not gossip. Paper. Process. Record. Action.

Why these documents are necessary

Because when government becomes hostile, the normal channels suddenly “don’t work.”

Agenda requests get buried. Emails vanish into the void. Citizens are told to “take it up later.” Questions get ignored. And the public is expected to accept it, quietly.

But Hillsdale doesn’t belong to any one official. It belongs to the people who live here, raise families here, and build their lives here.

If the allegations are false, a neutral process clears them.
If the allegations are true, a neutral process protects the public.

Either way, a neutral process is the City’s duty.

What this is about

At minimum, this is about whether the Mayor is using the position in ways that:

• target and intimidate other officials or residents, and/or
• manipulate City boards by pushing out respected community members and installing outsiders and activists aligned with his agenda

The exhibits speak for themselves. The question is what Council will do after being put on notice.

Tonight is the moment: show up

If you care about:

• clean local government
• accountable leadership
• boards and commissions that serve Hillsdale, not insiders
• and a City Council that acts like a governing body, not a protection racket

Then be in the room tonight.

Hillsdale City Hall
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
7:00 PM

Bring your questions. Bring your calm. Bring your neighbors.

Most importantly: bring your presence. Because the easiest way corruption survives is when good people assume someone else will handle it.

Tonight, we’ll see whether City Council handles it.


in liberty,
the Hillsdale Conservatives