City Commission meetings will be broadcast live beginning Tuesday, November 16th.

City Commissioner Phyllis Fitzgerald made the announcement stating that it was a technical issue that held up the live broadcasts at previous meetings. “Even though they were able to record, there was just so much feedback that [you] weren’t able to hear anything.”

Jim Germann, technician for the City said the issue was resolved last Friday.

“When they rebuilt the Municipal Court building we put new CC TV cameras in there and they were not working with the box that pushes out our channel 3 broadcast, so last Friday we took all of that new stuff down and put the old stuff back in there,” said Germann.

As of the last test, Germann said the old equipment was broadcasting clearly.

The new equipment came from a Salina based company that in previous attempts has ignored City officials in their request for assistance.

“We never heard back from them, and that’s kind of what the hold up was” said Germann. “For a couple of months we were waiting on them to come and troubleshoot the system and see if it could be repaired; but since we didn’t hear anything from them we just went ahead and put the old equipment back in place to get it operating so people could watch it on channel 3.”

The City Commission meets on Tuesday evenings, the next meeting is 7:00 pm Tuesday, November 16th (today).

During tonight’s meeting there will be three special presentations featuring Pawnee Mental Health, Early Childhood Education, and Shop Small Week.