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Board votes to designate YouTube as the official electronic meeting record
Summary
After debate about whether video can substitute for written minutes, the board moved and passed a motion to adopt an official electronic video record (YouTube) to capture meetings and speakers; written minutes will continue as summaries of the official recording.
Board members debated whether to designate a single official video as the authoritative electronic record and discussed including both speakers and questions in the recording. "So a motion to adopt the idea of having an official video of board meeting, where it captures not only the board members, but the speakers proposing questions and so forth to document the actual minutes," the chair said when offering the motion; the motion was seconded and passed by a show of hands.
Supporters said a single endorsed video avoids competing unofficial recordings and helps produce more detailed meeting records; critics urged maintaining written minutes as a summary of official recordings. The board resolved that the official electronic record will be the endorsed video (YouTube) and that published minutes will summarize that official record.
