Politics & Government

Beachwood City Council Moves Forward With Plans to Live Stream Meetings

Beachwood City Council is exploring options to make council meetings available to those that can't make it to city hall.

Beachwood Mayor Merle Gorden will be requesting proposals from companies that can broadcast and/or live stream city council meetings. City Council approved legislation to move forward with exploring this on Monday reports Cleveland.com

"We're asking for someone who who can live stream the meetings so you can watch them live on your tablet or phone; videotape them so that we can archive them on our web site; or broadcast them," said Council President Martin Horwitz.

Horwitz also mentioned that Beachwood has their own television station (Time-Warner Channel 20), "A lot of people don't know that," he said. He suggested the possibility of recording the meetings and broadcasting them at a later time. Horwitz was unsure about when recording the meetings would start.

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Economic Development Director Jim Doutt told Cleveland.com that an evaluation team would review every proposal and they should have a vendor selected for council to approve by June 13th.

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