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Resident urges return to podium presentations for Vienna budget hearings, cites unstable livestream
Summary
A Vienna resident urged the council to restore department-head podium presentations during the budget process for transparency and criticized intermittent livestream reliability; the agenda notes department heads will be available for budget questions at the next meeting.
Ken Williams, a Vienna resident, used the public forum to urge the City Council to restore in-person department-head budget presentations at the podium, saying the previous approach provided more transparency than the current practice of having department heads sit at a table without microphones.
"For years ... the budget process always allowed for budget hearings where…
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