A question we have asked for a very long time. It didn’t happen in the last administration, and it isn’t happening in the current one.
First off, there is ZERO cost to post meetings on Youtube. The only cost would be converting and uploading the video, which essentially would take an IT developer a couple of minutes to start the process.
While the city does post a handful of produced videos from CityLink to Youtube, most important meetings like the official ones (City Council, boards, press conferences) are not.
In fact the city has gotten into the habit of doing live videos on FB. While this works great for live feeds, it does nothing for people who are not on FB. Those videos should be converted so they can not only post on the city’s official website (not just FB) but in Youtube also (you can also live feed in Youtube).
Many local governments across the state and region post Youtube videos of their meetings, including Brandon, Mitchell, Minnehaha County, SFSDÂ and Omaha. In fact there is very few local governments that don’t use Youtube to post official meetings.
So with all this innovation, why can’t the city of Sioux Falls do something so simple that other governments have figured out? Beats me.
Scott, you bring up a great point. Of course Mayor Paul Tenhaken is doing many facebook videos, but not all citizens are hooked unto that venue. Perhaps it will take a City Council generated resolution to get that youtube ball rolling. I have requested a
Video recording of Event Center meetings.
i would think that rather than producing fluff, the city’s video department’s main job would be to record and post all city meetings.