City weighs recording advisory boards and commissions; costs and ADA‑compliance obligations cited

City staff described the current recording and streaming workflow for City of Ellensburg council meetings and said advisory boards and commissions are not routinely recorded except for public hearings.

Nicole Klaus said IT creates the council Zoom webinar, which streams to YouTube with automatic captions available but imperfect. ECTV records meetings; the CivicClerk agenda system pulls council meeting videos from the ECTV stream, but CivicClerk does not support captions. Klaus said advisory board and commission meetings are set up individually by 13 different staff members and typically are not recorded unless the meeting is a public…