In our December blog called Fairweather Frisco Friends, we told you about how the city went on a full-frontal attack, with Bobblehead Bill leading the charge against our firefighters in the May 2024 elections.  Why would they do this?  The Frisco Fire Fighters Association felt their relationship with the city deteriorated or went up in smoke to the point that they had no other choice than to bring propositions for Civil Service and Collective Bargaining.  After the election, Angelia Pelham and John Keating promised on their election roads to make things better with the Fire Department and to work on solutions.  Ever wonder how that turned out?

In our blog, 13^th Storke of the Clock, we told you about the aftermath following the May 2024 election and how the city and city management held “HEALING SESSIONS,” aka mandatory in-service meetings.  The point was for the Fire Department staff the opportunity to express their complaints and fears.  The result was a 50+ page report that was no different than the 2011 Climate Report, which talked about how Mack Borchardt and Lee Glover were the direct cause of the problems. 

That 2024 report was given to the city management for their review, and we are guessing Weasel Wes didn’t like the remarks about him in the report.  The 2024 report noted that when it comes to the City Manager, Wes Pierson the FD doesn’t trust him or his judgement. The report went on to say since taking over in this city he has been dismissive, divisive, flat out ignored them, refuses to meet with them, and has been condescending to members of the FD fracturing a future relationship. 

After wasting the departments time in the “in-service healing session meetings” the members of the Fire Department waited, and waited, and waited for possible change.  One notable change was that Fire Chief Lee Glover was given a “counselor” to help him do his job better.  The other notable change was staff started leaving like hot cakes.  That’s right the “EXPERIENCE” in our fire department is dropping like flies but they don’t want the citizens to know that. 

Sometime in December or early January, we were told the Fire Fighters Association again raised some member motions for a “VOTE OF NO-CONFIDENCE!”   Bet you have not heard about that!  We are told it passed but we are still working sources to find out the final vote outcome. 

It was the February 2025 response from Weasel Wes that caught our attention.  It reads that he received their letter dated 12/27/2024 regarding the results of the vote of no confidence in Fire Chief Lee Glover and how he appreciated meeting with two of the board’s directors to discuss the letter’s contents.  Sounds good right?  Not so fast!

Paragraph two states while Weasel Wes respects their prerogative to voice concerns, he is DISAPPOINTED that this vote was the chosen method to do so – especially since work is currently underway to address issues that have been raised.  He continues “It’s equally disappointing that as far as I (Wes) know, there was no attempt to communicate about these matters before the vote.”

HEY WEASEL WES – WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?  DID YOU READ THE 50+ PAGE HEALING SESSION REPORT, OR WAS YOUR HEAD STUCK IN A HOLE SOMEWHERE?

Next Weasel Wes acknowledges some changes have been made by Chief Glover that are viewed as unpopular but if those changes result in better service or value for the citizens he is inclined to support them.  That must mean that Weasel Wes supports taking away Squad after they just asked for that money in the 2019 and 2023 bond for more Squad ambo’s.  Funny thing is more and more cities are implementing Squad Units as Frisco takes it away.  Weasel Wes must also supports Glover’s decision to go back to the big bulkier fire trucks that are hard to navigate the narrow Frisco streets lined with cars because no one knows how to use their garage or driveway.  He supports the reduction of staff.  After Assistant Fire Chief, Kyle Mills announced his retirement after 21 years with the department, Chief Lee Glover decided to redistribute rolls instead replacing that position.  In 2024 they had Firefighter Stewart and Captain Graham retire.  Then in October 2023, Deputy Chief Porter retired.  Years of experience out of the door.  The truth is many of them utilized their retirement options to leave Frisco and have jobs elsewhere.  Porter is at Little Elm today and Mills took a job with the Texas A&M Forest Service.   

We reached out to other local Fire Departments and asked if they would ever eliminate positions in their ranks, and we were told “not a chance” repeatedly.  One commented off the record that eliminating positions is equal to department suicide because cities will never give you the money back in budgets in the future to reinstate those positions.  Yet Fire Chief Glover thinks we don’t need more front-line staff, and he is willing to reduce his management staff.  How does that benefit the citizens, Weasel Wes?

Weasel Wes then goes on in the letter to say he recognizes there are still opportunities for growth and improvement in the FFD and he will continue to encourage Chief Glover and his team to pursue efforts to improve our service delivery in a responsible way.  He notes that Chief Glover has opportunities to grow as a leader, just as we all do…. Wait Weasel Wes, Glover has been with Frisco FD for over 20 years and held positions such as lieutenant, captain, deputy chief, assistant chief and more so don’t you think he should have GROWN THOSE LEADERSHIP QUALITIES DURING THAT TIME?  Now, after all this time he should be ready to step in and not need a counselor or more opportunities to grow.  

Ready for the hard facts and truth?  The bulk of his email was written in a way like it is the first time he is hearing about these issues and that he is shocked to hear of the issues at hand.  Weasel Wes writes it as if the rank and file and the association have never shared their concerns prior to this December 2024/January 2025 vote.  The hard truth is they shared their concerns with Weasel Wes before they even hired Chief Glover which we documented in our blog, Turn Back Time.  Then they continued to share their concerns after they hired Chief Glover with a survey in 2023, also at citizen input and in the May 2024 election.  Lastly, let’s not forget about the cities own survey that resulted in a 56-page report (during the aka Healing Sessions) where it was mentioned over 100 times with the issues directly being related to culture, morale, leadership, vindictiveness, racism and retaliation like behavior.  He closes the letter by saying everyone he talks to says the department is great – well Weasel Wes who are you talking to? 

Weasel Wes couldn’t have been more disrespectful and very intentional with how he wrote the letter.  Angelia Pelham and John Keating have not followed up on their promises “TO MAKE IT ALL BETTER!” We documented some of those in our blog, Wasted Time. Remember that next time they run!  We can’t wait to see what Tammy Meinershagen promise on her campaign this year when it comes to fire fighters as she was on the front lines against them in May 2024.  Our City Manager is not stupid, in fact he is quite calculating and is known for being arrogant from all the emails we receive from inside the city.  His letter is an example of just that!

Next, Weasel Wes is going to act like he never knew the city was being sued by Former Assistant Fire Chief Cameron Kraemer for wrongful termination. We wrote about the case in our blog Kraemer vs City of Frisco. If he wins, the city will pay big time, which we wrote about in our blog, Big Time Casino Payout.