Beaverton City Council Meetings Soon Available Live and On-Demand

The city of Beaverton, Ore., will begin offering live and on-demand streaming video of its City Council meetings for the first time on the Internet through the city's Web site next Monday, October 1st. The new system is powered by Granicus Inc.
 
All meetings will be shown live online, and the agenda of the meeting will be posted alongside the video screen. The city also plans to link documents and staff reports to the video format, making access to a comprehensive public record quick and convenient for citizens.  

Within a few days after the meeting the video will be available online for future viewing. When viewing the achieved meeting, citizens will be able to use a dropdown menu of the meeting agenda to selectively pick the topics they would like to watch. The link to the videos will be grouped together with City Council minutes and agendas for easy navigation on the city Web site.

The system will work with PCs and Macintosh computers using standard Internet browsers. However the best viewing of the video is achieved using a high-speed broadband connection.

The software also streamlines minute-taking for the City Recorder's Office with tools that automatically record meeting action into a digital record that synchs up with the streaming video. "This is the next step in the city's continual effort to increase public involvement in the governing process," said City Recorder Sue Nelson. "I am pleased to be able to make this service available to our citizens."