LSSD explores recording meetings – Yahoo

Sep. 29—Following moves taken by the Lebanon Special School District Board on Monday, the next time it formally meets in November could be recorded for viewers at home.Board members called the decision a good step for increasing transparency.”I think it is a good thing,” said Steve Jones, the LSSD board chairman.”There are a lot of things people think someone may have said at a board meeting. If we got a recording, that removes the doubt.”Jones’ fellow board member Joel Thacker added, “I have always been a proponent of having meetings online. Everyone else does.”Thacker indicated that he sees many similarities with how his church, West Haven Baptist, handled video recording at his church during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.”We use Vimeo live stream, which backs up to the cloud,” Thacker said.”If we can get things up and going, that first November meeting could be a part of it.”Expanding the boardLooking at growth trends, the school board discussed the possibility of expanding the number of seats it has.Thacker offered a total of five seats as his vision for the board.”It’s just my opinion, not me saying how it’s going to be,” Thacker said.”What I asked the board to do is…
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