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Tune up on the town website
Context Management System (CMS) websites have this poll feature as a plug-in modules. CMS will be part of a purposed enhancements made to the cable-committee next week. There will be a demo of Brookline-Town site using Drupal (CMS suite) next week.
CMS has huge advantages for town governments consisting of many departments. The first advantage is that it basically a "Database" of information built on SQL, second it is very secure (banks use this technique for online banking). And finally, it has a business-to-business easy access interface for each department to publish new information (polls, online forms, town forums, reports,…9 votesThe selectmen will be soliciting bids this fall for the creation and technical support of a new town website that will use a content management system. Hopefully the new site will be up and running by town meeting in March
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Post BOS meeting videos online.
Here is a company that hosts the videos http://www.leightronix.com/streaming/pegcentral.php . The cost is reasonable and it would improve the transparency of the board. Perhaps the cable access department has sufficient funds from the fees to pay for the service (assuming they have interest in the project)? Here is another town's (Durham, NH) example of the dedicated video site for you to see an example (dedicated site is part of the service package): http://dcat.pegcentral.com/
6 votesEfforts are currently under way to research ways of recording meetings for rebroadcast. The initial focus is on recording meetings for rebroadcast on Ch. 13. Once that happens, we can look to posting meetings online after the town’s new website is up and running.
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