Thursday, August 19, 2010

Promises

A year and a half ago we promised to help improve communication in our district by video taping all board meetings and uploading them for public viewing. We are keeping good on that promise. 

We realize that many families and residents have busy schedules and are not able to attend local board meetings. However, a busy life should not preclude residents from seeing and learning what goes on at Pleasantdale School and Park board meetings. It will undoubtedly take a while to upload all the meetings we have on tape, but little by little we plan to get that done. 

We have chosen to upload the board meetings to www.youtube.com for a few reasons. First of all, it is searchable on the World Wide Web. Secondly, it has faster upload speeds than Blogger. Unfortunately, uploading video to "Youtube" does have it's drawbacks. First of all, the video quality is greatly diminished. Secondly, the tape must be broken down into 10-15 minute segments. Hence, there will be several parts to each meeting. 

We hope these videos will serve as a bridge to communication for the residents of this community. While the Pleasantdale School Board and administration like to talk the talk about communication goals in our district, we are walking the walk. 

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