{"id":7095,"date":"2024-04-10T16:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2024-04-10T16:27:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:27:31","slug":"region-of-queens-to-begin-livestreaming-council-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/04\/10\/region-of-queens-to-begin-livestreaming-council-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Region of Queens to begin livestreaming council meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7096\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7096\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/livestreamscreenshot-1024x584.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/livestreamscreenshot-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/livestreamscreenshot-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/livestreamscreenshot-1536x877.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/livestreamscreenshot-2048x1169.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Region of Queens was testing its livestream on Wednesday on its YouTube channel. (YOUTUBE)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Region of Queens will begin livestreaming its council meetings on April 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Councillors voted unanimously on Tuesday to begin the new service, which will be broadcast simultaneously on the municipality\u2019s Facebook page and YouTube channel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comments will be disabled on the livestream. Staff said that it would take tax staff resources to moderate the comments in real time. The meetings would be available for replays on the region\u2019s YouTube channel, and possibly its Facebook page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All public meetings in council chambers are currently recorded and uploaded to the region\u2019s YouTube channel, usually the day after the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In February 2023, councillors asked about the possibility of livestreaming their meetings once a new audio-video system was installed. That new system was installed last April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Councillors asked staff to investigate the possibility of livestreaming. Staff consulted with 17 other municipalities who currently livestream their meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Livestreaming on Facebook and YouTube is free. But the region may have to spend some money on a mixing board so that pauses in the meeting for breaks or in camera sessions would not interrupt the live broadcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Staff have estimated it would cost about $3,000 for that equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Councillors are currently in budget discussions. If they went for that option, they would have to add that to next year\u2019s budget.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The April 11 meeting which is scheduled to be livestreamed will be one of the budget meetings. Councillors are set to discuss the preliminary draft of the budget from 6 to 9 p.m. this Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Region of Queens will begin livestreaming its council meetings on April 11. Councillors voted unanimously on Tuesday to begin the new service, which will be broadcast simultaneously on the municipality\u2019s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Comments will be disabled on the livestream. Staff said that it would take tax staff resources to moderate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[1935,1933,39,1934,2022,24,1932],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-council-meetings","tag-facebook","tag-liverpool","tag-livestream","tag-municipality","tag-region-of-queens","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7097,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions\/7097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}