Jonathan Coffman, Pflugerville City Councilmember

11/04/2026

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11/04/2026

One year ago last night, Pflugerville elected me to Council. Last night, residents passed both charter amendments I proposed.

Prop B, the SAFE amendment, sets privacy rules for City data, facial recognition, surveillance tools, and AI, and requires public approval before the City uses them. It passed with 76.6% of the vote. At this coming Tuesday's City Council meeting, I will ask for approval to create the SAFE Commission, a resident oversight committee for technology, AI, and surveillance (if you're interested in joining, let me know!).

Prop I, the ETJ amendment, lets residents who live just outside city limits serve as advisors on City boards and commissions. They live with our decisions and have no seat at the table. It passed with 53.6%. I look forward to Council reviewing applications for folks in our ETJ who would like to participate in Pflugerville governance.

*Results are unofficial until we canvass the results in a couple of weeks.

10/28/2026

Council passed the SAFE Act unanimously! It sets standards for how the City uses technology (including AI and surveillance): secure, accountable, fair, and explainable. The vote matters because the standards now exist in writing, with a directive attached, before the next vendor contract or pilot program arrives. Residents asked for this, and it passed without a single no vote. I've been working on this for most of the year to create a framework that can grow and change as technology and risk change. Public safety has to include privacy and civil liberties protections.

Engineering Design Manual: two changes I pushed for

The Engineering Design Manual is the rulebook for how streets, utilities, and drainage get built. The update included two changes that won’t make headlines but will show up in daily life.

Microtrenching will be allowed. Instead of tearing up a street or boring long runs, crews cut a narrow, shallow slot to lay fiber. That makes it cheaper and faster to bring fiber internet to existing neighborhoods, not just new subdivisions. Pflugerville’s older neighborhoods have the fewest options, so this lowers the cost of fixing that.

The manual also now removes friction for developers who want to build safer intersections than the minimum requires. Roundabouts, neighborhood traffic circles, and better pedestrian crossing signals shouldn’t require a fight to get approved when builders offer them. Now they shouldn't.

2027 employee insurance

Council approved the City’s 2027 health benefits, effective January 1. The City is switching to Cigna for medical, dental, and vision. Coverage of employees’ existing doctors is nearly complete, so most people won’t have to change providers. Employee premium contributions stay largely flat from last year, and about 22% of employees will see their contribution drop by $100 a month.

The City competes with every other employer in the region for planners, engineers, police officers, water operators, and every other role. Benefits are part of that offer, and they affect whether the people who already know our systems stay.

Pflugerville Animal Shelter
Council approved a contract for design services for the potential new animal shelter. This is intended to develop a real plan, costs, and architecture/functionality before potentially going out for a bond next year.

10/26/2026

This Tuesday, I'm bringing the SAFE Act back to City Council to establish safeguards for how Pflugerville evaluates and uses surveillance technology and AI.

It's taken longer than I anticipated. We first considered this two months ago, and we've done more behind-the-scenes work to get the framework right. But I'm glad we're moving forward.

SAFE stands for Secure, Accountable, Fair, and Explainable. It sets expectations for transparency, oversight, and protecting residents' rights before we deploy new technologies.

And we're not stopping there.

Next up: the Pflugerville SAFE Commission. A resident-led advisory body that will help review these technologies, provide independent oversight, and give our residents a seat at the table.

When we addressed the Flock situation earlier this year, I committed to making sure we wouldn't find ourselves in that position again. This is part of following through. I am happy to have collaborated with Councilmembers Metayer and Rogers on this effort.

Read the proposed resolution here: https://pflugerville.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=8171365&GUID=3C28F8EF-3609-49A1-B867-466FF10739B3&Options=&Search=

Join us at the City Council Meeting on Tuesday, October 27, starting at 7 p.m.

10/24/2026

Election season brings plenty of frustration, heated debates, and sometimes outright vitriol (more so this cycle than any other I can remember locally). I’m not going to write a long partisan voter guide, but I do want to bring us back to some of the values that make Pflugerville special: neighbors helping neighbors, celebrating our diversity, investing in our kids, and building a community where everyone has the opportunity to prosper.

I’ve been thinking about those values a lot lately, especially in the quieter moments of public service that don’t always make the headlines or show up on a meeting agenda.

Between economic development meetings, Council prep, and policy work, I’ve had some of my favorite experiences out in our community.

Lately, that’s included Friday Night Lights, the Fire Department’s open house, helping residents with water bills and street repairs, touring and learning about our current water treatment plant before the new one comes online, and reading to first graders at Timmerman Elementary, where every student received a book to keep and take home through the Pflugerville Education Foundation.

And this afternoon? Giving a resident a ride to their granddaughter’s piano recital since they weren't able to drive themselves.

Now think about all seven of us on City Council, our school board members, and the many others serving our community through non-profits, and individual activism. There’s so much more to public service than votes, policy debates, and social media.

Local government is where decisions really hit home. We won’t always agree on every project, policy, or vote. But I hope we can agree on the importance of looking out for one another, respecting our differences, and working toward a more prosperous Pflugerville for ALL residents.

Those are the community values that brought me to public service, and they’re what keep me going.

Sometimes it’s the smallest moments that remind me why I ran in the first place.

10/23/2026

Flock has no place in Pflugerville. You may see some Facebook posts about a Flock video camera at Lake Pflugerville. Here's what I know so far:
- It was removed yesterday afternoon after being discovered
- It never had power and was never operational
- It was not in a location where the City had planned to have a camera
- Overnight, Pflugerville PD did a sweep across the city to verify that no other devices had been installed/reinstalled.
- City Staff are continuing to investigate and figure out how this happened.
- I've also reached back out to the school district who had a similar incident recently to see what they figured out

This information can and might change, but wanted to provide some context on what I'm hearing so far before people get too fired up without having any answers.

10/22/2026

Recently I was able to partner with the The Perfectly Imperfect Baking Company to sponsor and serve a team dinner for the Hendrickson High School Football team. What a pfantastic group of guys!

10/16/2026

Pflugerville has become a bit of a national example of what can happen when residents ask questions, dig into public records, and local government actually listens and responds.

This is a really well-produced video about Flock’s license plate surveillance network, with a big focus on what happened right here in Pflugerville.

It features interviews with Sammer Aly and me, walking through how Sam uncovered serious problems with access to our camera data, how we investigated those findings, and ultimately ended our contract with Flock.

I’m proud of how Pflugerville responded. We still have work to do on privacy protections and oversight, but this is a great example of residents and their elected officials working together to hold government and its vendors accountable.

Definitely worth watching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o97GzV0WX9I

We investigated what's really going on with Flock.In Texas, the c...

10/15/2026

Unhappy with my City Council performance so far? Come take your shot!

Happy with my performance but think I could use a little humbling? Come take your shot!

Either way, I'll be in the dunk tank at Deutschen Pfest tomorrow (Friday) from 5–6:30 PM, courtesy of the Pflugerville Chamber of Commerce.

Consider it a new form of public comment. 😂

10/10/2026

I went on Dennis Tardan’s show this week to help explain some of the more confusing Charter Amendments on the ballot this election. Let me know if there are others that you'd like to hear about in the comments.

Hello Pflugerville it's me Dennis. If you have looked at the ballo...