The right hand doesn’t seem to know what the left hand is doing at City Hall.
A presentation last week on a proposed trolley system for downtown Lawton took at least one City Council member by surprise. Ward 4 Council member George Gill questioned where the idea had originated, saying it had not come up at any meeting he attended.
Before the presentation began, it was announced that the idea had been reported in the newspaper. Yes, we reported that a trolley system was being considered.
Where did we get that information? From a press release disseminated from City Hall. That press release quoted another City Council member as saying a new trolley system would be one of the new features of the indoor mass transfer center.
That was news to us, too. A trolley system had not been mentioned at any meeting we had been at either.
So far no one has taken credit for coming up with the idea except to say that the idea is in the very early stages of discussion. Apparently it is so early in the discussion that most people are still in the dark.
This is not to say that a trolley system is a good or bad idea, although Gill made it plain that the idea does not have his support. What is not clear is whether Gill does not support it because he thinks it is a bad idea or because he was not informed of the idea beforehand.
But it is an idea worth talking about, in open session, so that everyone is dealing with the same information.
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