Have the police ever been called to a council meeting? No. But obviously he didn't respond to why it was alright for any other citizen to wait for a police response if the officer on duty was busy, but he or council can't. Nice job mayor! The chief was absolutely correct. DOUBLE STANDARD! It's OK for everyone else to wait if necessary but not the elite few. I'm also looking forward to him ordering the police to remove somoeone from a meeting and they refuse because they determine that the law wasn't broken. I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of the chief's email. It is interesting reading and I would encourage everyone to obtain a copy and read it in its entirety. Is there any way to move the date of the next election up????

Does the mayor realize crime is on the rise in the borough? Just this past week several of my neighbors were robbed, yet the council meeting would take precedence if these events occurred during a "wild" council meeting? Suggestion to mayor and council, go take some meeting management classes and let the police protect and serve our community rather than your meetings.

Just more proof that the cry-baby, little boy "mayor" of Macungie is a BONE-HEADED MORON. You need to go away little Ricky, no one in this town likes you, except for maybe the drunken drivers you work so hard to protect with your vendetta against the police department. Just my opinion. He wants police to be available in case they have to come and rescue the fine citizens of Macungie against another of his "second-grade like" outbursts. So let me get this straight, if the officer on duty is working a minor fender-bender somewhere in the township and a robbery call or an assualt call comes in, the second call has to wait? What if the officer is working a serious crime scene and another equally serious call comes in, what decision does the officer make? I've seen plant life with more brains than the "mayor" of Macunige. I am so disgusted by this fool, but he loves and probably even craves the attention, so it pains me to say he's going to stay around for awhile yet. God help us!

I have to say the people that live within the boro of Macungie really need to do whatever they need to to remove that mayor out and appoint someone to fullfill that position till the next election comes about.I have to agree crime is up and to even think about Hoffmans wants the police dept.to do and schedule is something that is so unreal.The police chief knows more on how to run the police dept.and knows when he needs more officers on duty so let hin control that part not a guy with a positon that calls him mayor.Hoffman I am sure there are alot of resients that can,t wait for u to go so why wait resign asap.

You are freaking kidding me !!!!!!!!!!! Ok that's enough this Bufoon and his jestures need to go. tax wasting Hoffman, queen Nagle, tinkle Walker. Do they realize what a mockery they are making out of Macungie ??? I can see it now Jean slamming the gavel, the mayor asking for one of the many people that questions the royal elite to be arrested and water boarded. these people couldn't run a cub scout meeting Disgusting !!!!!!!!

@ RON. You're a great guy Ron, but don't fall for the B.S. The "mayor" won't run again, just like Wee-Boy Walker was going to resign... This council is more full of bull $**T than a barn stall.

or 6 years for a supervisors. i personally think that is a long time. If for some reason you have a bad apple 6 years is a longgggggg time. You are right Ron there should be some mechanism that allows questionable elected officials to be held accountable.

ok all of this talk, but seriously is anyone working on coming up with a viable mayor and council candidate ??? there is alot of good smart people in Macungie we can do better.

LOL myself, thats a good one. But im still partial to pee wee walker. All i can say is it either takes a lot of courage or a lot of stupidity for hoffman, nagle, walker and hutchison to sit there and embarrass themselves week after week.

Regarding the issues, it was the wrong move to push public comment to the end of the meeting. Happy to see it moved back to the front. This past monday I wanted to come and encourage council to attend last night's envision meeting (which was great by the way, residents and business owners attended, lots of great discussion about economic development) but no way I was waiting til midnight to do so. I'm a night owl thats late for me even.

With meeting decorum the president MUST maintain order. 5 minutes is plenty of time in fact it's a generous amount of time for the public to come up state their non-agenda concerns and if need be ask for it to be on a future meeting agenda for further consideration. That's the mechanism. That's the protocol. There is a reason every meeting is run under this general principle. It works. Too often things break down to back and forth's, commenters addressing individual council members instead of the president, commenters addressing folks in the crowd, folks in the crowd cat calling commenters, folks in the crowd yelling nonsense out of order, council-people addressing other council-people out of order. ect. ect.

It does get out of hand. And I do put this on the President solely for being too loose with protocol.

There ARE people who don't go to meetings because they feel it's a threatening environment. Or worse feel as though it's a joke. I know this. I've talked to people who have said this to me.

A recall system is needed in PA. Also may i add My comments about mayor hoffman and council members nagle, walker and hutchison are only my opinion on their ability to govern our town. For all i know they may be wonderful people but as public servants and leaders of our town they are terrible and need to be replaced.

Well Mr. Sentner reading your comments made me laugh out loud and I had to let everyone in the office know what I was laughing at. I agree 100%! Jean has been on that council as long as I can remember, when I was a girl growing up in this town she was on council and I’m in my 40’s now. It is time for her to move along, not quite sure how she got the president position either! As far as the "mayor" what an idiot. If I had any respect left for that idiot it just went out the door when he basically said he was more important than the rest of us here in town. I was under the impression that we can get him thrown out of his position if he is jeopardizing the safety of the town. Would this not be jeopardizing our safety now? Can’t the chief help us to make it clear that he is putting the well being of Macungie residents in jeopardy now. I would like to know who is in charge of the decision making process of what calls the police consider priority. If I was an officer I would not want that liability of making the wrong choice and for that matter can Macungie Borough really afford the liability when someone sues because they felt their emergency was a higher priority than another?

So now the good mayor wants the police department to be his personal "goon squad". This is the same person that ranted about how the police are out of control and violate peoples civil rights. Now he wants a second officer on duty so he doesn't have to wait for a response in the event he wants them to do exactly that. Amazing! In case you haven't heard Rickie, people are allowed to express themselves at public council meetings and are allowed to become irate if necessary. I've been at many of those meetings and have yet to see anyone act in a manner that would necessitate them being removed from a meeting or arrested. Fortunately I have enough faith in the Macungie Police Dept. to feel safe in saying that I don't believe that they will allow you, Queen Jean or any of the other "old guard" members of council to allow them to be used in that fashion. They are far too professional and well trained to fall for that nonsense.

This is now boardering the RIDICULOUS!! To think that Hoffman, Nagle and their cronies on council have harrassed our MPD and police chief as well as continuous scrutiny as to their value, professionalism and expertise...dragging through the media as well as the courts through litigation is nothing more than HARASSMENT!! Yet suddenly.....they are professional, expertise and valuable enough to GUARD our council and imposter of a mayor from the VIOLENT citizens of Macungie is RIDICULOUS as well as hilarious!! Police Chief Harry is absolutely correct...DOUBLE STANDARD!! It's about time Hoffman, Nagle and the regime make up their minds!! If the police are good enough to protect their sorry a---s then they are good enough to protect the citizens of Macungie 24/7!!!! If there are any residents left who are in support of these clowns, they truly require an analysis of their cognitive abilities!!! Enough said!!

One more question. Are these the same meetings that the Mayor says he doesn't have to attend if he so chooses? And the same meetings where he wasn't present for weeks?

I can"t believe that our Mayor has ordered the Police Chief to assign a Officer in case 1of maybe 10-12 people that show up at the meetings might " get out of hand " to which the President can"t maintain order over the 10-12 people which maybe 5 of them are reporters from differant News Agencys. What a waste of Money being spent when we are not even close to a balance Budget but the Man who is in charge Our Great Mayor who maintains the Boro only needs ( 1 ) Officer on duty Because of all the Mutual Aid that we have all of a sudden we need a " Tack " Officer on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month . WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY SPENT ,Mr.Mayor but that is something you are good at wasting money. I have asked you twice now and now I am ASKING YOU AGAIN PLEASE STEP DOWN , RESIGN FOR THE BETTER-MENT OF THE COMMUNITY.

What you have here is the same person who accussed the police department of intimidating and harassing the public now attempting to use them to do exactly the same thing!!!! Ole Rickie had not been attending council meetings, saying that he wasn't required. Now all of a sudden, the big sheriff in town is riding into the meetings on his white horse (or Yamaha) to save council from the big, bad public. Mr. Law and Order is going to bring civility to the meetings by threatening to call the police. First of all Rickie, I doubt very highly that the police are going to succumb to your will, particularly if it is beyond the scope of your authority in ordering people arrested or taken from meetings. Secondly, it is my guess that the public who attends the meetings knows this and will not let you intimidate them either with your chest thumping.

What difference does it make if there is lengthy public comment at the beginning or the end of the meeting? The meeting will still be very long as evidenced on Monday night. As the chief stated...nothing he has seen or heard at these meetings has come remotely close to being any criminal act. But the "old school marm" and the "principle" think they can expel the unruly students from the building anyway. The loud,passionate attitude of the residents is the result of several years worth of Councils ruling against the will of the people. Can you say police dog? At about 12:45 AM Tuesday morning when the meeting ended, the chief was seen in the parking lot on duty. He apparently was the additional tac shift officer on duty. He had been on duty since 6 AM Monday morning! That shift ended at 3 AM Tuesday morning! Another free shift donated by the Chief? Oh, i forgot, Mr. Hoffman ordered him to stop working for the citizens of Macungie for free!!

I cannot believe all the comments coming in about our Mayor who said at ( 1 ) Time I do not have to attend any meetings if I don't want to , to now saying I don't care how much we are over or under Budget I want a Tech Officer on Duty the nights there are Council Meetings just in case Madam President cannot control the Crowd of maybe
"5-10 " Residents there the rest are usually from the differant News Agencys .

I would like to Challenge the Fine Citizens of our Boro to come out on Oct.15th and
show the Mayor and Council that we can make a Differance in this Town.

Stupid is as stupid does !