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Victorian Holiday organizers tell council Facebook critics lacked full information
Summary
AJ Dotting, speaking for the Victorian Holiday committee, told the Lebanon City Council that organizers prioritized staff safety during carriage loading and had arranged handicap parking; Dotting asked council to discount social-media complaints and noted organizers had contingency plans.
AJ Dotting, identifying themself as representing the Victorian Holiday committee, asked the Lebanon City Council to disregard social-media criticism of the event’s carriage loading and parking arrangements. "I am here tonight on behalf of Victorian Holiday," Dotting said, adding organizers had spoken with the mayor and "we had it under control."
Dotting told the council the committee manages carriage bookings and event logistics, and said safety concerns prompted a shift in carriage loading that should not be viewed as mismanagement. Dotting said the committee made handicap parking available in the back row of the Pearl Street lot and used temporary cones and markers to reserve spaces when needed. "As far as the handicap parking goes... I always make handicap parking available when it's needed," Dotting said.
Dotting also said many Facebook critics were not part of the organizing committee and lacked full information about planning decisions. "Most of those people are just there to complain, and not the people that are privy to all the details," Dotting said, and asked the council to take those online comments "with a grain of salt."
The public-comment exchange included a separate resident who praised the decorations and thanked organizers: "The town looked good... You guys did a great job." The council did not take formal action on the matter during the meeting.
