City Council Meetings Go Online

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Mar 15, 2010 9:40PM

The City has officially begun archiving City Council meetings for later viewing online. While meetings have been streamed live for almost two years, the City is finally archiving them for later viewing, meaning if you don't have a chance to watch at the office but want to know what your alderman said about a particular issue at the meeting, you can track it down later. The site is through the City Clerk's office and went live earlier today with meetings dating back to October 2009. (Or so they claim because we couldn't get any of the videos to show in either Firefox or Internet Explorer.) Andy Shaw, executive director of the Better Government Association, is pushing City Clerk Miguel del Valle to broadcast the meetings on cable TV to reach a wider audience that doesn't necessarily have access to the Internet. The next meeting of the City Council is April 14, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.