Last week’s Ferriday Board of Aldermen meeting left us asking a simple question: Can Ferriday’s elected officials please act like adults?

In the meeting, the mayor and an alderman repeatedly got into a verbal confrontation over a seemingly valid public matter — public safety concerns over crime in the city.

The mayor apparently chose to cut the alderman off and sought police officers to be summonsed to the meeting — a move that the alderman considered a pending threat of being arrested.

Later in the same meeting, aldermen and the town clerk fought over the timeliness of the meeting agenda.

Then aldermen and the mayor squabbled over a $2,900 bill that appears to have been generated without following the proper steps and without full board approval.

This ultimately ended with the clerk throwing up her hands and resigning from her position.

Sadly, the most impressive thing that came from the meeting was the large amount of juvenile drama and childish behavior by so-called city leaders.

Ferriday’s leadership should be ashamed of their actions.

They are elected to represent the people in government and to do so fairly and without bias.

Clearly all of the drama, backbiting and fussing indicate that they’re more focused on their own personal agendas and power trips than truly serving the good will of the people of Ferriday.

Aldermen and the mayor would be wise to simply heed the old grandmother’s advice — if you cannot say anything constructive, don’t say anything at all.