Televised Council Meetings?

A reader today proposed that Woodstock City Council meetings ought to be televised on a public access channel. Now there is a really interesting idea!!!

Just think... bring the City Council right into every home in Woodstock. With VCRs and whatever all these other fancy recording methods are, residents (Voters) could watch proceedings at their leisure, and they wouldn't have to give up a Tuesday night twice a month to keep up with the goings-on at 121 West Calhoun Street.

And it would reduce the need for preserving audiotapes of City Council meetings, because many people around town might just keep their copies of videotapes. This would definitely insure that the City would keep its own copy.

If a resident wondered whether a pattern in voting existed, how easy it would be to check. Not too much to worry about on that score. Isn't it interesting how almost all votes are 7-0? Somebody ought to object, at least some of the time, just to keep votes from behing unanimous all the time.

Which reminds me of a cult movie I saw several years ago, Putney Swope. The story is about a man who was elected Chairman of the Board, to succeed a chairman who had died in office. Nobody wanted him to be chairman, but many of the Board members thought he ought to get at least one vote, and so they voted for him. Result? He got enough of the "only one" votes to win.

Someone advised him not to rock the boat. He said he wasn't going to rock the boat; he was going to SINK the boat!

So, how about it? Public Access TV for Woodstock City Council meetings? What do YOU think?