Clearly three aldermen and the mayor seem to think they know better than everyone else in the room.

That’s about the only conclusion we can draw from the city’s decision to do nothing to help quickly resolve the destruction of the Natchez Convention Promotion Commission — a destruction that came at the request of aldermen.

All members of the commission voluntarily resigned after being asked to do so by aldermen earlier this month.

But the problem is that what should be a simple matter of rebuilding a functioning commission has become politicized.

We cautioned aldermen not to simply rush into appointing commission members out of fear they would do so in a rash manner. But we didn’t think aldermen — three at least — would stand by and allow the commission’s vendors and potentially its employees to go unpaid because aldermen are too hardheaded to appoint a temporary board.

Legally, the city cannot spend money that’s sitting in a bank account that was opened in the commission’s name. The solution, as city attorney Hyde Carby and Alderwoman Sarah Carter Smith suggested, was as simple as appointing a temporary commission to allow the approval of payments and end what is otherwise a breakdown in government function.

Smith even had a simple solution that made logical sense to us — appoint members of the already existent Tourism Marketing Committee to fill the temporary roles needed on the Natchez Convention Promotion Commission.

Instead, sadly, the matter went to a vote Tuesday which ended in a tie and the mayor voted against the matter thus securing the business of the city’s commission remains in a quagmire that needs to be sorted out later.