Petition: The Orange County Water District Should Livestream its Public Meetings

Note: The Surf City Voice website was destroyed by hackers in December, 2019 and is under reconstruction. This story was first posted August 25, 2016.

By John Earl

Surf City Voice

The purpose of this petition is to request that the Orange County Water District Board of Directors provide live Internet broadcasting and video archiving of all of the District’s public meetings.

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A clip from a video that shows OCWD directors Steven Sheldon (holding phone on left) and Roman Reyna (grinning on the right) clowning around while others concentrate on the meeting.

To promote open government and citizen participation in the governing process, all but two cities in Orange County have for years provided “livestreaming” of their public meetings. The South Coast Water District in Dana Point also provides livestreaming of its meetings.

The OCWD manages the Santa Ana River groundwater basin and operates the largest waste-water purification system in the world. It supplies 75 percent of…