Six months ago I went to Anderson County Fiscal Court, in person, to ask that they livestream their meetings, as numerous other Kentucky counties have been doing for years.
Over the next few months, I returned to the Court multiple times to provide information they requested, including minimal cost and a petition of 133 citizens requesting that these meetings be viewable online.
On Dec. 10, I wrote a letter to the Court requesting that livestreaming, relaxing the 2 minute speaking limit for citizens, and decreasing the cost for Court minutes be added to the official agenda for the Dec. 20 meeting.
On Dec. 20, the Judge-Exe-
cutive informed me that the reason these items were not on that day’s agenda was because the meeting was “special called.”
I had assumed the meeting would be “special called” — it was the holiday season — which is why I made the request in writing, 10 days in advance.
The Court has since held 4 regular meetings. Livestreaming has never appeared on the agenda.
Why?
Video access to Fiscal Court meetings is what Anderson County citizens want, and the cost is miniscule. If the Court does not want you to have video access to their public meetings in the year 2023, when everything is online, they owe you — the people who elected them and pay their salaries — the courtesy of taking a public vote and explaining why.