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POR 2018-39

Asked the City Manager to consult with the appropriate City personnel to determine why there continues to be significant audio and video difficulties during live internet broadcasts of City Council meetings, how these difficulties can be resolved

How it started
Feb 26, 2018 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Feb 26, 2018 · Held by charter right the city's note: “CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS AS AMENDED”
Mar 5, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.
View the roll call

Present and voting at this meeting (9)

  • Alanna Mallon
  • Craig A. Kelley
  • Dennis Carlone
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jan Devereux
  • Marc McGovern
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Timothy J. Toomey
Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2019 #8 (Jan 14, 2019).
The document two council orders
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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
February 26, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City personnel to place a contact number on the City Council’s website for the public to call when experiencing difficulties in viewing City Council meetings online; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to consult with the appropriate City personnel to determine why there continues to be significant audio and video difficulties during live internet broadcasts of City Council meetings, how these difficulties can be resolved, and to report back to the City Council in a timely manner.

IN CITY COUNCIL · March 5, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City personnel to place a contact number on the City Council’s website for the public to call when experiencing difficulties in viewing City Council meetings online; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with 22-Cityview to explore the possibility of simulcasting live streams of City Council meetings on YouTube or an equivalent free-to-use live-streaming platform with sufficiently high bandwidth; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to consult with the appropriate City personnel to determine why there continues to be significant audio and video difficulties during live internet broadcasts of City Council meetings, how these difficulties can be resolved, and to report back to the City Council in a timely manner. In City Council March 5, 2018. Adopted as amended by the affirmative vote of nine members. Attest:- Donna P. Lopez, City Clerk A true copy; ATTEST:- Donna P. Lopez, City Clerk

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Feb 26, 2018