Chronicle editors discuss "predictable" HEC problems
Today the Chronicle editors decided to give us their wisdom regarding the Houston Emergency Center mess. I suppose they decided that since they already tackled the pressing issue of Swaziland's King Mswati III, a looming local disaster deserved some attention.
The editorial is basically a rehashing of facts that have been in the local media for several weeks now, but this paragraph is interesting:
The problems with HEC were predictable and predicted. Oversight of the project lacked continuity. Initiated by Mayor Lee Brown's director of public safety, Don Hollingsworth, the project was passed off to Brown's chief of staff, Oliver Spellman, then to Al Haines, chief administrative officer, and finally to John Bales, who succeeded Hollingsworth as director of public safety. The people who negotiated the deal left it to others to make the facility work.
I would love to see the Chronicle post all its editorials, from the time the dispatch center was being proposed and debated, that predicted problems. Maybe the editors did sound the warning bells back then, but I would still like to see those editorials, because the editors have a habit of pontificating in hindsight.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 12/22/04 11:58 AM | Print |
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