12-20-2011 -TO: Andrew G. Pasmant, City Manager
and City Council
FROM: Chris Freeland, Deputy City Manager
City of West Covina
Memorandum
AGENDA
ITEM NO. ;Z
DATE December 20, 2011
SUBJECT: REQUEST FROM MAYOR MICHAEL TOUHEY REQUESTING THE CITY
COUNCIL TO INSTRUCT CITY STAFF TO PREPARE A REPORT ON THE
COSTS TO PROVIDE VIDEO WEBCASTS OF CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the City Council direct staff accordingly.
DISCUSSION:
Per the City Council Standing Rules, Mayor Michael Touhey is seeking the City Council's
consensus to instruct City staff to prepare a report on the costs to provide video webcasts of City
Council meetings.
Since October 2010, the City of West Covina has provide the audio of the City Council meetings as
part of the hardware and software upgradeto the City's Sire Agenda system. This system allows for
City Council agendas with staff reports and supplemental documents to be organized for the publics
review. Part of the upgrades of the system was to provide the audio of the meetings to be aired live
on the City's website. Mayor Touhey is asking to see what the costs would be to upgrade the
system to add video of the City Council meetings to be aired on the webcasts.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The costs to upgrade the Sire Agenda system to provide video of the City Council meetings has not
been determined.
Prepared by:
Chris Freeland
Deputy City Manager