Council on the web!

Despite resistance from Town Hall, and little advocacy from the Town Council, Cheshire's blogosphere has demonstrated that we've entered a new world with new media.

Hats off to the Cheshire Town Post's Craig Houghton!

While Town Hall has been dragging its feet on the addition of video to the town website (I first requested it in May, perhaps April)... ostensibly because of the difficulty of making it happen... Craig Houghton has begun posting Council meetings to Google Video (similar to YouTube). Go check it out. He started with the June 26 meeting. (You may recall that was the "Shenanigate" meeting.)

Furthermore, the meeting (near the end) included the discussion on the Council's newly created Public Information Officer position. Do I even need to point out the irony of this?

Again... props to Craig Houghton at Cheshire Town Post! (Btw, if you're interested, you can do your own front page posts over there from your own computer... unlike here, where only I post to the front page.)

On a related note, I'm hoping to get the Council's Pool Consultant discussion (Nov 28, 2006) up on the web soon. I watched it last night... I'm sure you too will appreciate the stroll down Memory Lane as much as I did.

Tim White
Town Council, 4th District