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Board members debate recreation center decision to remove news channels from in-house TVs
Summary
Staff said news channels were removed from in-house TVs to avoid staff confrontations; several board members criticized the choice as limiting civic information and deplored members berating young staff, while others defended it as a staff-protection and customer-service measure.
Recreation staff reported an executive decision to remove all in-house news channels from facility TVs to avoid confrontations between members and young staff over partisan content. The staff rationale was operational: many front-line employees are 17–20 years old and had received abusive comments when…
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