Anaheim Launches Live Access to City Council Meetings via Streaming Video

Beginning tomorrow, Anaheim residents can view City Council meetings from the comfort of their own home or anywhere they have access to the internet. Working with San Francisco-based Granicus, streaming video of Anaheim City Council meetings now will be available from the city's Web site.

"As I proposed at my State of the City speech earlier this year," said Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle, "at every opportunity we are moving closer to creating 21st Century City Hall, where City Hall is open for business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whether you come downtown, or sit in a city park accessing the citywide wireless network on your laptop. With Granicus and our new EarthLink wireless network, Anaheim residents can now watch decisions being made that affect their daily lives from anywhere in the city."

Regularly-scheduled Anaheim City Council meetings will be aired live on Tuesday evenings at approximately 5 p.m. Each meeting then will be posted online along with an accompanying Council agenda about two hours after the conclusion of each meeting. Past meetings will be archived and searchable so that people can locate a specific item of interest and watch that item being addressed by the City Council.

The city's cable channel, ACTV-3, will continue to air the most recent City Council meetings for those who prefer a more traditional viewing format.
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