By Ewen McRae
Brimbank council will begin streaming its monthly meetings from this week.
Following the approval of a council policy on streaming in October 2018, the first meeting of the new year on February 19 will mark the first steps into the new era.
However, while the meetings will be filmed each month, they will not be live streamed, and will instead be uploaded to council’s YouTube and Facebook pages within five business days.
Council’s advocacy partnerships and community director Dan Hogan said this would be done to ensure confidential or inappropriate items were not aired live.
“During the actual meeting, recording may be terminated or interrupted if there are concerns about airing inappropriate or confidential information,” Mr Hogan said.
“If this occurs, the streamed content will include advice to the community that an interruption to the recording has occurred.
“Editing will not generally take place for streaming purposes unless in exceptional circumstances, for example if there are concerns about inappropriate information in filmed content, or if there have been technical difficulties in the filming process.
“At all times council will advise if editing has taken place.”
Council meetings will be available at www.youtube.com/c/BrimbankCityCouncil
