December 22, 2011 by Barrington Hills Observer
By a tie vote, the Barrington Hills village board this week narrowly rejected upgrading its meetings’ audio webcasts to video.
While the board did vote in favor of a $5,000 equipment upgrade for the quality of the audio itself, the 3-3 vote on a $36,000 video component failed to make any changes on that front.
Read more: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20111222/news/712229804/
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What was not included in this article is the fact that two committees had surplus/unspent monies for the year – Roads and Bridges and Beautification/Buildings. This surplus amounted to enough monies to cover the purchase of the necessary equipment as well as web hosting for one year. Therefore the ‘lack of financing’ arguement does not compute. The discourse about using excerpts from these videos as negative fodder in future political campaigns as a reason not to video the meetings certainly does not outweigh the benefits to the taxpaying residents.
Just wondering what other committees had surplus monies left – and what will be done with the already noted surplus? Or any other surplus for that matter.