We doubt there is one member of the Jamestown City Council who disagrees with the purpose of the Rally to Recover proposed by Chanda Germain and Adrian Smith-Madden.

The Rally, as was reported last weekend by The Post-Journal, is designed to attract people who need help ending their battle with addiction. In addition to music, speakers from across the country will be featured along with food vendors and tables of information on recovery and other topics. The organizers have the community’s best interests at heart, and it is refreshing to see a grassroots effort that might reach a new group of people who need help.

The questions raised by member of the council’s Public Safety Committee, however, have nothing to do with the rally’s purpose and everything to do with the job the council was elected to do. There are a good number of homes in the Allen Park area. Many of those homeowners have children who do not need to be exposed to a loud event that stretches into the late hours of the evening. Where to park vehicles for those attending a rally in the cozy confines of the Goranson Bandshell is a good question, as is who pays for the police officers who will likely spend at least a few hours handling traffic issues in such a congested area.

Such questions are the reason why there is an approval process in the first place. Council members are put in an impossible position of either upsetting a couple hundred taxpaying residents or upsetting well-meaning community members who are trying to do something good for the community. It’s good to see a solution came quickly after Monday’s council meeting after Vincent R. Liuzzo came forward and offered to host the rally at his Sherwood Arts Complex located at the former Dahlstrom building, 1060 E. Second St.

It is good cooler heads prevailed, thanks to Liuzzo’s kind gesture.