By Bonny Burrows
Council meetings will now be available online for all to see.
Cardinia Shire Council has announced it will trial live webcasting of its council meetings to its YouTube channel from Monday 19 March.
It means residents interested in the council’s latest developments, will no longer need to attend evening meetings at the council’s headquarters to stay up-to-date.
Cardinia Shire Mayor Collin Ross said the three-month trial would help inform the council’s approach to sharing information with the community and promoting the council’s work going forward.
“We currently produce audio recordings of our council meetings in addition to the meeting minutes, which are uploaded to council’s website each month. Trialling the live webcasting of our meetings will be an extension on this,” councillor Ross said.
“Providing our community with the content of our meetings in a variety of formats is important to us, as it forms part of our commitment to open and transparent decision making.”
Councillor Michael Schilling said community feedback from a survey of residents 12 months ago showed residents were interested in the live streaming of meetings.
“The results were an overwhelmingly yes,” Cr Schilling said.
The council is following in the steps of neighbouring Dandenong council, which has been lived streaming for many years now, and the City of Casey, which is also streaming meetings as of late.
The community can tune in live to follow the council meetings via council’s YouTube channel at www.YouTube.com/CardiniaTV.
Residents can also access all council meeting webcasts at www.cardinia.vic.gov.au/webcast.
