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Town Meeting TV seeks $53,800 from South Burlington for FY27 operating and hybrid support
Summary
Jordan Mitchell, co-director of Town Meeting TV, requested $25,525 for general operations and $28,002.75 for production/hybrid meeting support in FY27, explained archival backups and digitization plans, and described declining cable-subscriber revenue.
Jordan Mitchell, co-director of operations for Town Meeting TV, presented the organization's annual report and FY27 municipal funding request. He asked the council to include $25,525 for Town Meeting TV operations (a 5% increase from the prior year) and $28,002.75 for CCTV Productions hybrid support, totaling $53,800. Mitchell said the organization produced 1,657 programs last year across member communities and archived meetings back to the 1980s.
On records and resilience, Mitchell described a multilayer backup system: meetings are "born digital" into MP4 files stored on a shared server with another access center, backed up to a second server and to cold storage (Amazon Glacier). He asked councilors to flag archival materials they want prioritized for digitization. Councilors thanked Town Meeting TV for staff work and noted the request will be considered as part of the FY27 budget process.
