Hello...City Council? Are You There?

Monday, January 18, 2010 08:03 PM

Prince George, B.C.- It has been nearly a year since a Councilor for the City of Prince George requested to be allowed to attend a Council meeting "electronically". Tonight, Council dealt with two more such requests.

One is from Councilor Cameron Stolz who will not be able to attend the February 1st meeting in person as he has to be in Toronto on a buying trip for his business. The other request is from Councilor Garth Frizzell who would like to attend the February 10th budget meeting electronically because he has to be out of town attending a Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting.

Both requests have been approved.

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Posted on Monday, January 18, 2010 08:03 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: He spoke on January 18 2010 8:25 PM

Surely, we can do this.

Maybe our city council should look at skype.

Posted by: gus on January 18 2010 10:06 PM

Speaking of which, was I hearing wrong when about a year ago I thought I had heard that council will have live streaming on the internet?

Here is NOLA's streaming City Council's page

http://www.nolacitycouncil.com/video/video_legislative.asp?id=59

Posted by: Pylot Project on January 19 2010 8:08 AM

The technology for this has been around for years now. It's called Skype and computer-to-computer it's a free service. It wouldn't be simply over the phone, they could actually see the Council meeting and the Councilor's in turn could see them via webcams.

The quality is likely even better than what Shaw broadcasts to the city residents.

That said, I do believe that there would need to be a low limit of how many meetings one can miss per year. If you are too busy in your place of business then you are too busy to be a proper city Councilor.

Posted by: Municca on January 19 2010 8:36 AM

Just like our Federal government. I want to get paid but not show up to actually work. All this while the rest of us poor working stiff goes to work 5 days a week, 8 hours a day or more.

Posted by: commoner on January 19 2010 9:16 AM

Telecommuting is a perfectly acceptable means of attending a meeting. Many employers are adopting this method where it is logistically reasonable. Some employers are unable to take advantage of this technology because of the nature of their business. I am glad that the requests were approved.

Posted by: Davmaster on January 19 2010 1:25 PM

Seriously? This hardly even worth mentioning. Teleconferencing is standard practice.