| 113th Year, 25th Issue | Thursday, January 31, 2002 | Sparta, North Carolina |
Next week will mark Alleghany County's first live telecast of a government board meeting.
The Alleghany County Board of Education has agreed to hold its next regular monthly meeting, Feb. 6, in the "cybertorium," which is part of the A. Anderson Huber Cyber Campus at Alleghany High School. That will allow the cyber campus to show the meeting live on cable channel 50.
The meeting will even be somewhat interactive. Cyber Campus Director George Matuck and Manager Travis Sturgill said viewers will be invited to call during the telecast with questions for the board. Those questions will be passed on to Schools Superintendent Duane Davis so that the board may respond to them during the "open forum" portion of the meeting. Each regular monthly meeting includes in its agenda the open forum item, during which citizens can address questions or comments to the board.
Sturgill said that cyber campus interns, who are AHS students, will operate the cameras and work behind the scenes during the board meeting telecast. "That will give them a chance to get used to that kind of environment, do some live production," he said.
Sturgill and Matuck have said they would like to do live telecasts of meetings of the Alleghany County Board of Commissioners and the Sparta Town Council, as well as the school board.
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