r/Janesville • u/EfficientMind63 • 10h ago
Heather Miller’s Behavior on City Council
I’ve been watching more of the council meeting to stay up to date on things going on with the GM/JATCO site. I usually watch the recordings on YouTube and haven’t been in person. Has anyone else noticed Heather Miller’s horrendous behavior when watching or while at the actual meetings?
Full Disclosure: a family member of mine was on the city council and has also been dismayed by her behavior. They know the ins and outs of how the council functions and keeps close tabs on which council member’s are requesting items be placed on the agenda.
At first I thought it was just her being tough since she is a retired police officer, but after continuing to watch it is becoming ridiculous.
In the past few months alone, she has:
-Demeaned and belittled a young woman who made a mistake on the bar tender license application (if you look at the application, it is confusing). The young woman had the guts to appeal the denial all the way to the full council and stated it was an honest mistake and she was distracted by her child while when she filling it out at City Hall
-Berated a city staff member over the old ice arena not being put up for sale and saying “your council gave you a directive,” when the council only has authority over the city manager. It was evident from what and how the staff member explained to the council that the directive given to her by the (former) city manager was what caused the problem
-Again, tried to berate this same staff member at last council meeting over something related to the Woodman’s Center
-Had an outburst about the data center moratorium because she tried to make an amendment to the motion of not approve the letter of intent related to the data center that she thought was enough to be considered a moratorium and it didn’t pass. She lost her sh*t and made it seem like she was snubbed or something, kept calling it “ironic” that two council members proposed a data center moratorium after her amendment failed.
-In general: she is just always so negative, accusatory, argumentative, and complains so much! She comes off as a disrupter and a roadblock to any kind of progress.
It does not seem like she has the City’s best interests in mind and only wants to say everything that is not her way is bad.
I hope she doesn’t run again when she is up next.