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Commissioner disputes KPTS letter, flags budget cuts and communications savings
Summary
A commissioner criticized a letter from KPTS alleging the county lacks transparency because it does not broadcast on that station, said the county broadcasts meetings on Facebook and YouTube, and noted $2.5 million in decision-package items that were omitted from the budget and a proposed $80,000 communications savings.
One commissioner used the "Other" portion of the agenda to respond to a letter from KPTS and to raise budget and transparency concerns. The commissioner said the station's claim that broadcast TV is the only path to transparency is "absolutely not true," noted that the county streams meetings on Facebook and YouTube and posts recordings to the county website, and said the building cannot receive KPTS over the air.
He also said the budget process left roughly $2,500,000 in decision-package requests out of the adopted budget and criticized a plan to save $80,000 annually on communications spending that he opposed. The commissioner said he was disappointed by the station's letter and invited colleagues to see the correspondence.
