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Council narrowly approves recording select committee meetings after debate on bandwidth and equity
Summary
The council approved Resolution 25-7-60 to require recording of certain committee meetings by a 4-3 vote after council members debated costs, staff bandwidth and whether picking individual committees is equitable.
The Independence City Council voted 4-3 to approve Resolution 25-7-60, directing that recordings be made available for certain committee meetings to increase transparency ahead of potential bond-related public outreach.
Councilmember McCandless spoke in opposition, saying the city lacks the staffing capacity to record all committee meetings and that selectively recording some committees would be unfair. “I just don't think that we have the bandwidth to address all of these,” McCandless…
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