[RP TownTalk] Talking to the Town

[David Hiles]

Happy Saint Walter's Day.

Re minutes or video of meetings available to the public in a modern 
fashion:

I think it would be nice to start with the simple(?) task of getting 
something transcribed and posted on the web.  The TV webcasting is a 
neat idea, but it will take longer to implement and would be useless 
for people with slow internet connections.  I can read faster than I 
can watch TV.

Whether the code enforcement officer spends some of her time doing the 
transcription from video or if the town pays for it differently by 
jobbing it out to a transcription service is a management call.  Since 
the minutes are going to be typed up anyway, the original proposal was 
about
	1)  changing the timing of public release and
	2)  enhancing the means by which to make that release

I know people can eventually get the minutes by going over to the town 
hall and picking up a copy, but it is easy to do better than that these 
days.

I know I have nothing to complain about compared to Arthur Dent.  He, 
after all, had been notified about the freeway going through his house 
because the pertinent announcement had been posted inside a locked 
filing cabinet in the basement of the local planning office.  Behind a 
sign that says, "Beware of the Leopard". I want more accessible minutes 
anyway.

WE are who we have been waiting for.
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