The Windcrest City Council meetings are recorded and available for live streaming, however, if you missed the live meeting, actually viewing the official video may be delayed for days. The process of posting council meeting videos to the city web page appears to vary depending on the content of the video.
Posting a video to the city web page for public viewing is a straight forward process requiring a few minutes at the computer to accomplish. In fact, some council meeting videos have been posted as early as the following morning so you know it's possible.
It appears, if the content of the meeting is anything controversial, posting the video is delayed for several days. Why is that? Maybe because Mayor Alan E. Baxter and councilman John Gretz are running for re election. Running for office saying "we are Open and Transparent" while delaying the release of public information, amounts to nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Controlling what is released and when is not being open and transparent.
Windcrest has ordinances such as the number of animals allowed per household, speed limits, signs, and weeds etc. Windcrest should enact an ordinance dictating council meeting videos be posted to the city web page within 48 hours. This idea would not allow city officials to use the current smoke and mirror delay tactics.
Sadly, the faster process is to submit an Open Records request for the video. Even that process is allowed 10 working days, but at least you will receive the video.
Mark Perry is running for Mayor to replace Mayor Baxter and Dennis Allen is running for City Council place 5 to replace John Gretz. These two individuals will end the delay tactics and provide Windcrest with real transparency, not smoke and mirrors.
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