As in most things, sometimes you’re successful and sometimes you run into road blocks that force you to go to Plan B.

Last week I talked about setting up a town hall meeting to discuss a local issue that has been in the news.

I’m currently trying to set up a town hall meeting or forum in Troy to discuss the controversial library issue. Voters turned down four millage proposal in November and so now the library is scheduled to close April 30.

In some respects, the issue may seem over but there’s a pending new citizen-initiated petition to force the city to keep its doors open reportedly in the works. Also, groups who supported the library proposals and who want to see the city keep open such a facility could always start drives for new election or elections.

Originally, I had hoped everything would came together and we’d have the forum this week — Dec. 14.

Obviously, it didn’t happen. The holidays, some personal schedule conflicts and just reluctance in participating by some people have forced us to reschedule for Jan. 13.

However, nothing is set in stone. Contact needs to be made with a number of individuals and plans finalized. Details include figuring out how to attract an audience and what is the fairest way to allow people to sit in if the number of people who want to attend is more than the studio capacity.

If all things come together, the topic will be discussed live in an informative session in the CMNtv studios in Troy. The program will be live-streamed to The Oakland Press website and also rebroadcast on cable TV.

On the other hand, if things again fall through, there’s always Plan C. Obviously, we don’t want to delay this too long because interest from all participants will eventually wane and the project halted.

However, we won’t give up. At least not yet. We’ll go through a couple more “plans” if we have too. Of course, we’d prefer not to have to go through the whole alphabet!