CdA To Decide On PR Specialist

Item : Coeur d’Alene City Council to decide on communications position: General Services Committee did not recommend new post /Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d’Alene Press.

More Info: As the city was pitching the communication position during the budget process, City Council members Mike Kennedy, Woody McEvers and Deanna Goodlander pointed to the McEuen Field project as an example of how a communications coordinator could have helped the city. They said so much incorrect information was spreading online regarding the project that the city had a difficult time catching up and correcting it all. A communications coordinator dedicated to info sharing could have prevented much of those headaches, they said. But City Council members Steve Adams, Ron Edinger and Dan Gookin didn’t favor the idea. They said city projects and the council should speak for themselves, and Gookin said it wasn’t up to the city to “spin” the topics.

Question: Does the city of Coeur d’Alene need a communications specialist?