Colorado House Speaker Julie McCluskie endorsed a plan to provide a basic level of video streaming of legislative committee meetings that would cost $70,000 in the first year of operation.
Leaders of the Colorado General Assembly briefly discussed whether legislative committee meetings should be video livestreamed — with two of them expressing doubts about the idea.
Citizens, media representatives and nonprofit organizations asked legislative leaders to repeal Colorado Open Meetings Law changes affecting the legislature that were adopted earlier this year.
Members of the appointed board that oversees the broadcasting of Colorado House and Senate floor proceedings say it’s time the General Assembly joins the long list of state legislatures that provide the public with video webcasts of committee meetings.
The searchable video technology on Platteville’s “Meetings on Demand” page is similar to what you’ll find on many other local government websites in Colorado. But the town of 2,600 paid nothing for it.
