Allentown City Council
Bethlehem City Council
Easton City Council
Lower Macungie Commissioners
Lehigh County Commissioners
Northampton County Council
Allen Tp (audio only)
Emmaus Borough
Lower Saucon Tp (audio only)
West Easton Borough
Whitehall Township
Williams Township
I can and do criticize local governments all the time. But when they are willing to post video or audio recordings of their meetings, they are at least making some effort to be transparent.
If I have missed any local government, please let me know in the comments section.
Speaking of transparency, Northampton County's Chapman and Glendon still have no websites, which is completely inexcusable. In addition, East Bangor, Freemansburg, Roseto, Stockertown and Washington Tp still fail to upload meeting minutes.
Local governments that fail to post meeting minutes in Lehigh County are Coopersburg, Lower Milford Township, Slatington, S. Whitehall Tp., Washington Tp
Interestingly, Roseto Borough Council member Dan Engle and S Whitehall Tp Comm'r Mark Pinsley are running for county offices. They are both very ambitious, and in Pinsley's case, this is is second attempt to advance himself with only two years under his belt in South Whitehall. Perhaps these two should strive for a bit more accountability to the people they were already elected to represent.
Updated 10:12 am: In my original report, I neglected to include Lower Macungie, which actually is aired on cable TV.
Please keep emphasizing the communities that continue to refuse to broadcast their government meetings. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteNever happen I n Nazareth. Dirty little town
ReplyDeletewell I'm a gonna run to the fridge, crawl in my easy chair, prop up me feet and sip my pop through a good stiff plastic straw while tuned in to view some idiots fighting over where to locate a divinci building somewhere in the burbs. Gotta love norsampton cunty.
ReplyDeleteChapman Boro has a population of approximately 225 people. Surely you joke don't call eh Shirley that they need a web site.
ReplyDeleteBethlehem Township (PA) should be negatively highlighted. Minutes aren’t uploaded until several weeks after a meeting (the most recent upload is for 4/1 meeting). Minutes? There is a meeting tonight, but minutes aren’t posted.
ReplyDeleteThe latter part of the post should have referenced agenda, not minutes.
DeleteThe reason minutes anywhere are not uploaded immediately is bc they must first be approved at an open meeting. If they are not uploaded after that, it means either the staff is overwhelmed or lazy. I would bet on the former. And if the admin asked for more staff you would’ve the first to complain.
ReplyDeleteActually, no, I wouldn’t complain, Bernie, but thanks for the ignorant assumption. It takes seconds to upload something, so once minutes are approved at a meeting, they can and should be uploaded. Overwhelmed is s lame excuse.
DeleteChapman needs to dissolve
ReplyDeleteSo does West Easton- merge with Easton.
DeleteLMT
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcQ5TI7OzkM
Board of Commissioners Meetings are held the 1st and 3rd Thurs. of the month at 7:00PM. All meetings are held at the Township Building, 3400 Brookside Rd., Macungie.
RCN Subscribers - Live broadcasts of all Board of Commissioners meetings can be viewed on Channel 66. The Board meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at 7 p.m.
Service Electric Subscribers - A recorded version of all Board of Commissioners meetings is aired on Channel 50. LMT is allotted a maximum of 2 hours for each showing. SECTV considers the first week to be the week starting with a Monday. The airing schedule is as follows:
10 am on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month and,
6 pm on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month
Oh, I am certain you would be moaning. I've seen a few of you at meetings, and you make me sick, to be honest. No assumption onmy part. I know exactly what you are like. You are also incorrect about the agenda for tonight's meeting. It is available online. As for the meeting minutes that are not published, you have failed to point out that Comm'rs have only met three times since 4/1. As I previously explained, staff is unable to post minutes until approved by Comm'rs at an open meeting. Thus, there are really only two meetings at most that have not been posted, and there almost certainly is a reasonable explanation. But you are not reasonable and will groan because meeting minutes from two meetings are still not up there.
ReplyDeleteBernie when at these meeting the ones sitting behind the diASSed seem to be in the twilight zone.
ReplyDeleteIF I watch Easton council meetings on TV then I can watch Mayor Panto tell another lie.
ReplyDeleteDoes your fat ass cover a seat in Bethlehem Twp meetings anymore?
ReplyDeleteBern dont feed into it as a brain is a terrible thing to waste on those that really dont even count as one human?
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