Taping of school board meetings

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Kristen Miller
on December 28, 2007
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The DC School Board is researching for ways to record meetings and broadcast them for public viewing. In order for there to be a quality recording, proper equipment would have to be purchased which the cable company doesn’t provide. The board could choose to move the meetings to city hall, but this is not ideal since they would have to rotate between the two towns. Only a handful of citizens have requested this as a communication tool. I’m just wondering if there is enough interest out there for the board to do this? Would people watch it or request a tape of the board meetings?

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  1. 1 Mike
    December 28, 2007 at 8:06 pm

    When the cities of Dassel and Cokato added videod for rebroadcast meetings to their operations thirteen years ago, the same comments were made. But in reality, it was a good step for both. People–at least those who have cable–can see the meetings and hear what people are actually saying. No offense ED, but an article does not always capture the complete essence of a discussion. So in this regard, taping is a good tool.

    Another aspect is that when elected officials know they are on tape, they will sometimes be more judicious in their commentary. As a preventitive measure, that is also good.

    Finally, a taped meeting can be used as a tool for determining what previous actions an elected body took, or to verify comment(s) people made in a meeting.

    These are all positive steps towards more open, responsive goernment.

    It took a while for people to catch on to the cities being on cable access. It will be the same for the school if they decide to go this route.

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