2011-03-23 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. O’HARA: That’s what I said. But it’s a nominal fee. MS. PROVALENKO: But they already had the cable. MS. O’HARA: The council could choose to charge for it or not charge for it. I think it would depend on how many DVD requests they get or how much it cost them to stream it. There is going to be some cost to them to do all that. MR. MATSUDA: It is still going to be cheaper I think. MS. O’HARA: But it’s probably still going to be a whole heck of a lot cheaper. MS. NICHOLSON: So let me try to summarize. I’ve got something like: investigate county employee videotaping of council and committee meetings that would be available online through streaming or via ordering a DVD. Is that right? MS. O’HARA: That’s about right. MR. ARMOUR: I think to continue, in lieu of the current videotaping program. MS. NICHOLSON: That’s good. MS. O’HARA: Just to clarify because they will probably have the same reaction,well it’s not closed captioned,I think we need to include that transcripts are already available to the public. And that’s verbatim transmission of all the meetings you can go into the county council and order those for any meeting at any time. MS. NICHOLSON: So we need to add that in here somehow. MS. O’HARA: So that way we’re not really taking anything away in terms of the disabled or anything. MS. NICHOLSON: How about this would require timely posting of transcripts from meetings. MR. TAKABA: It’s one hundred and five thousand and sometimes they get a grant from Na Leo but they didn’t get any yet this year. MS. O’HARA: That’s all they pay one hundred and five thousand? MR. TAKABA: Yeah. MS. NICHOLSON: I think we have come up with something here. Can you tell us what we came up with? MS. CARVALHO: I have your beginning to investigate county employee videotaping of council and committee meetings that would be available online through streaming or via ordering a DVD and then you were starting to say about the transcript before he came in. 15