Ascension Parish Council begins to live stream meetings on YouTube – The Advocate

Ascension Parish took another step into the virtual age when the Parish Council meeting in Donaldsonville was live-streamed through YouTube on Thursday night.

Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa said the council going forward will live-stream all council and committee meetings. That will come in addition to existing cable-access broadcasts and video replays already posted on YouTube.

Matassa said the mark of open and transparent government is keeping pace with technological advancements.

As more people cut the cable cord and turn to video streaming services, we want to ensure the public continues to have access to council meetings, Matassa said in a statement.

Martin McConnell, parish government spokesman, said Friday that parish workers live-streamed the councils previous meeting in Gonzales in July as a test run, and it worked well. Thursdays meeting was no different, he said.

They did live stream, and it was successful, McConnell said.

Parish government began operating the Ascension 21 cable access channel in 2006. The channel appears on Eatel and Cox Cable.

Live-streaming can be reached at http://www.youtube.com/ascensionparish Viewers should press subscribe and will be notified when meetings are live-streaming or have been archived on YouTube.

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