You are reading

Community Board 2 meetings to be streamed live and archived

community-board-2-465x3231Dec. 2, 2016 By Christian Murray

Community Board 2 meetings will be streamed live starting early next year.

The community board is working with the public media provider WNET, which will be installing cameras at the meeting venue and streaming it to its WNET site.

The board meetings are held each month at Sunnyside Community Services, located at 43-31 39th Street.

CB2 will also get a copy of the video from WNET that it will house on its own site.

“Making all levels of government more open and transparent is more important than ever,” said Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer.

Filming of the monthly meeting will start in January or February, according to Denise Keehan-Smith, chairwoman of Community Board 2. The smaller committee meetings will not be televised.

Queens Community Boards 2, 3 and 4 are all about to launch the program.

Van Bramer allocated $20,000 to pay for the service for Community Board 2.

“Filming and live streaming Community Board meetings will allow our neighbors, who may not be able to attend due to illness, disability, childcare, or work obligations, to better participate in local government,” Van Bramer said in a statement.

“Community Boards discuss and vote on many issues that are of vital importance to our neighborhoods—we must use all the tools at our disposal to keep everyone involved in these conversations.”

email the author: news@queenspost.com

5 Comments

Click for Comments 
Up up and away

He should get a ear reduction. Next time he marches over the 59st bridge a good gust of wind and hes gonna fly away

Reply
Anonymous

Very good idea. Now if only other community organizations would bring their meeting records into at least the 20th century if not the 21st. Follow our leader, JVB! The CB was too tightly held for many years.

Reply

Leave a Comment
Reply to this Comment

All comments are subject to moderation before being posted.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Recent News

Homeless men charged in deadly 7 train subway brawl in Woodside: DA

Three homeless men were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Tuesday and variously charged with felony robbery, attempted gang assault, and assault for allegedly stealing the belongings of a 69-year-old homeless man who was asleep on a Manhattan-bound 7 train in Woodside early Sunday morning.

The victim woke up and tried to regain his property. During the ensuing brawl, the victim fatally stabbed a 37-year-old assailant and slashed a second man. The victim has not been charged in the fatal stabbing. The investigation by the NYPD’s Queens Homicide Squad and members of the 108th Precinct in Long Island City remains ongoing.