A PROPOSAL by Harlow Labour to see all meetings filled and transmitted has been passed unanimously.

Over the past year, full council, cabinet and planning meetings have been webcast.

However, Harlow Labour leader, cllr James Griggs called for all other meetings such as Scrutiny and Licensing to be also filmed.

The proposal and film of the item are below.

Audiovisual Recordings of Meetings

Proposed by Councillor James Griggs and seconded by Councillor Jodi Dunne:

“This council recognises the value of accurately and appropriately recording its publicly accessible meetings.

Administrative support and minute taking provides an essential service. It is recognised that the approved minutes of a meeting are its legal record, but minutes cannot be expected to accurately record every detail of a meeting in the same way that modern recording technology can. 

This Council already makes audiovisual recordings of its main, publicly accessible meetings which it webcasts and makes available on its website for future reference. This Council now commits to making audiovisual recordings of all of its publicly accessible meetings, where reasonably practicable, although it acknowledges that it will not be possible to webcast all of the publicly accessible meetings that it records. 

Recognising that there are matters of operational logistics to resolve in order to move to a position of recording as many of its publicly accessible meetings as is reasonably practicable, this Council asks the Managing Director to take the necessary steps to implement a policy of recording as many of the Council’s publicly accessible meetings as is reasonably practicable, and that he does so in consultation with the Leader of the Council and the Leader of the Opposition.”