Pasadena City Council to live stream meetings

The South Pasadena City Council will be going digital, broadcasting meetings online, Pasadena Sun reveals.

The move is part of a larger effort to upgrade audiovisual and broadcasting operations for the city, officials said.

“This adds another avenue for the public to access city government deliberations, adding to the transparency and openness of South Pasadena's participative government," mayor Michael Cacciottti said in a statement.

South Pasadena Patch says City Council meetings are currently available live on two cable channels - Time Warner Channel 19 and AT&T Channel 99.

Web streaming will provide another point of access for those without cable service, for media representatives and others who do not live in the City, for interested parties who are out of the City or country at the time of meetings, and for those who simply cannot access cable television at the time of the meetings.

The City's audiovisual contract vendor, Studio Spectrum of Burbank, a company providing services to such cities as Alhambra, Arcadia and Burbank, is providing Web-streaming services.