Public Meeting Live Stream Technology

Brigantine has started live streaming the City's Council Meetings over the internet.  The plan is to create an archive of recordings for residents to peruse.

Brigantine police Lt. Jim Bennett, who helped set up the streaming video, said it cost the town only $199 for an encoder that sends the live video to the internet.

US Stream TV, the third party website that hosts the video, doesn't charge the city for its services although it does broadcast advertisements to viewers.

Anne Phillips, of the Brigantine Taxpayers Association, said residents have been asking for this for a long time.
"The more transparency, the better,"she said, "The more access people have to public information, the better they can evaluate the way their government's working."

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