PEPPER PIKE, Ohio -- City Council is discussing ways to make its meetings more accessible by incorporating communications technology.
On Sept. 9, council discussed upgrading its online presentation of meetings, as well as the possibility of allowing council members, or those speaking at council and committee meetings, to do so, if necessary, remotely.
Councilman Scott Newell told of results from a Communications Committee meeting held Sept. 8 in which several communications professionals took part and lent their ideas and opinions on how to improve what Pepper Pike now provides.
Currently, council meetings are seen online on You Tube through the lens of one stationary camera and are heard via an audio mixer that Newell said is no longer state-of-the-art, as it was when installed.
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