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Resident challenges Broad Oaks Bridge dedication, says family name was misreported
Summary
George McQuain Jr told the council that social media and meeting materials misidentified the person associated with the Broad Oaks Bridge dedication and urged the council to name the bridge for his father, George L. McQuain Sr.; he also said no vote on the dedication was posted and asked procedural questions about who may make motions.
Mister George McQuain Jr spoke during the public-comment period to contest the proposed dedication of the Broad Oaks Bridge and to request that the bridge be named for his father, George L. McQuain Sr.
McQuain said social media and notices connected the dedication to a different person and that the posted name was incorrect. "The name is McQuain ... George L. McQuain senior was my father," he said, and he described his father's long ties to Broad Oaks: "Somebody born there, raised there, took care of Broad Oaks." He argued that the bridge should be named for someone from Broad Oaks rather than the person referenced online.
McQuain told the council he had investigated the matter after seeing posts and was upset that the name had been recorded incorrectly. He also said he did not see a recorded vote on the dedication and asked whether non-council members could make a motion; the response in the meeting clarified that only council members may make motions.
The public commenter repeatedly framed his remarks as not intended to create trouble but to protect local history and accuracy. The council timekeeper cut the comment short after the allotted time expired.
No formal action or vote to rename or correct the dedication was recorded during the meeting; McQuain's request to change the name or to seek a formal correction was not resolved on the record.
