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Konrad Hildebrandt
Reference Notes
TAB 6
Words or phrases used to describe Konrad Hildebrandt:
Prepared,
Happy,
Congenial,
Honest,
Physically strong, and
Prioritizes.
Strengths:
Thoroughly researches the issues, provides Council with all the information it
needs to make good decisions, takes his job seriously, and willingly does what
Council asks him to do.
Weaknesses: He is occasionally difficult to reach phone but does return his calls quickly.
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Jim Perry - Former City Councilmember, Cedar Hills, UT 801-358-0442
Mr. Perry worked with Mr. Hildebrandt from 2004 to 2012. Mr. Perry has worked with some of
the neighboring communities. He knows that City Managers in those cities tend to have their
own agendas and try to convince their Councils to follow their ideas. Mr. Hildebrandt provided
his Council with all the information it needed to make good decisions, offered his opinion, but
then allowed elected officials to do their job, which is to make the final decisions. If the Council
chose to proceed in a different direction than the one he had recommended, he never fought
back, but rather accepted their guidance and followed through on their directions.
Mr. Hildebrandt is an inclusive manager. His staff always had the feeling they were members of
a team. He was a fair manager who allowed them the freedom to complete their jobs the way
they saw fit. He constantly stressed to his department heads the importance of efficiency and
innovation. Each month department heads were required to come up with a list of ways their
department could improve their operations. That list would then be forwarded to Council in his
monthly report. He took it upon himself to develop and improve the work of those who reported
to him.
Whenever Mr. Hildebrandt was involved, projects were completed on time. On the rare occasion
assignments could not be completed by a set timeline, he sent out an email identifying why his
efforts were delayed. Each time a project was delayed he was waiting on the results of actions
which were beyond his control. He advocates for transparency. By being forthright he was able
to gain the confidence of the majority of residents.
Over the ten years Mr. Hildebrandt was City Manager the City more than doubled in population.
Some neighboring cities could not keep up with their growth and began cutting corners, a
process that later came back to haunt them. Mr. Hildebrandt believed in avoiding short cuts and
always doing taking the right steps the first time. He was a strategic thinker; so, when
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