The week before last the city shared a post on social media declaring that the August 5th council meeting had been rescheduled to August 6th due to the August special election. From there it was dutifully shared to a couple variants of the town gossip page. The only problem is there is no special August election this year, a fact quickly verified with the Hamilton County Board of Elections. In fact in recent years lawmakers have spent considerable time and effort telling us that special elections are bad, a fact I 100% agree with even if those same lawmakers develop selective memory and persist in their reliance on special elections.
After a quick review I could find no mention of the need to move the date of the council meeting in the most recent meeting. This afternoon they published a correction setting it back to the correct date and time and council will indeed meet tomorrow at 7:30
This has me wondering where this announcement came from. Was this an errant post by a city employee? Or was this a swing and a miss by the communications firm the city uses for this stuff? More importantly, how does this misinformation remain posted on an official source for nearly 2 weeks when citizens began questioning the correctness of the info within hours of it being posted? This is hardly watergate level stuff but it’s certainly not a good look for a city government that needs and wants to get better about communicating with constituents.
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