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City votes to livestream meetings and keep recordings on YouTube for three months
Summary
The council voted to require all governing-body meetings be recorded and live-streamed to the city's YouTube channel and to amend the retention policy so recordings remain available on YouTube for three months; the council asked staff to reconcile the change with the city's official minutes policy.
After a short discussion about retention periods and distribution, the council voted to require all governing-body meetings to be recorded and live-streamed on the city’s YouTube channel and to make recordings available on that channel for three months. Councilors debated three-, six- and longer retention options and discussed how availability interacts with the city's official minutes as the legal record.
The council also approved an amendment to the city's record-retention policy to require that electronic-media recordings be retained for three months following the recording of the meeting. Members noted that meeting minutes remain the official record and that public access through YouTube will allow residents to view recordings without filing an open-records request.
The motion to require livestreaming and the separate motion to amend the retention policy each passed on voice votes; the transcript records no roll-call tallies.
