The Bristol Township School Board’s meetings are now available for the public to view via television and the internet.
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The school district recently rolled out broadcasts of their school board meetings after requests from residents and Bristol Township Council members.
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Superintendent Dr. Sam Lee said the meetings are available on BTSD.org and also during set times on the district cable channel. The meetings will air on the television channel three times a day, four times a week. Live broadcasting of the meetings will not be offered.
Officials have said the taped meetings will not be edited for content.
Residents have asked the district for years to broadcast their board meetings. District officials have cited the cost of setting up broadcasting equipment as a reason for not moving forward with the plan.
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Lee said district staff taped the September 15 board meeting but Harry S. Truman High School students would be used to help put together the broadcasts as the school year progressed.
Until recently, the district did not provide public video or audio recordings of their school board meetings. Bristol Township was the only Levittown-area district not to have video or audio recordings of their meetings.
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District officials previously said they planned to bring audio recording of the school board meetings to the district website. Audio quality was blamed for that plan not working out.
The recordings of the meeting are planned to appear on the cable channel and online in the days following each meeting, Lee said.
The Bristol Township Council made an offer last month to the school district that they would cut thousands in permit fees for the new schools if the board would begin broadcasting their meetings live for residents to view. Rebroadcasts of the meetings would have to happen at least three times within 30 days. The council offered the township board room for use. The only cost to the district would be the videographer. However, township officials made clear the meetings would have to be broadcast live for the deal to go through.
