Town of Bedford

Well, we talked a little bit before we started recording just about being able to kind of inform our residents about what's going on behind the scenes.

And there are several things that, you know, you guys do to try and keep the community informed.

So for anybody that may not know, will you just walk through the options of, you know, the things that you guys do to let people know about council meetings and what's going on, your podcast, things like that?

Well, we try to be as proactive as possible to get the word out.

We have a social media presence.

Sometimes we lag a little bit far behind in learning how to respond.

We put our agendas out ahead of time, put our agenda packets.

We live stream the meetings if people can't make it.

We also keep those recordings on YouTube.

keep a written record of the minutes and post those um our website we're constantly finding ways to improve that frankly and expand it but still be user friendly um i host a podcast the day after council meetings which pretty much all i do is just kind of go through the agenda and provide maybe a little bit more explanation as to what the issues are that council's addressing but uh No, we're open to any suggestions or ideas that people come up with.

One of the frustrations that we have is that sometimes it feels like we have 11 billion ways to communicate and people still don't know what's going on.

And my least favorite question is why didn't I know? we'd love to get into the answers to that.

So when we're aware of things, we try to do that in a way that's not reactive, but it's hard sometimes.

We want to make sure we correct those things.

And if people are not getting the information they need, we want to hear that and want to hear the suggestions as to how to improve that.

The good old days, you know, we could talk to the weekly newspaper, which everybody subscribes to, or we could put it on WBLT radio, which everybody listens to.

Exactly

right.

But even then, I suspect, you know, if you didn't get the paper or listen to the radio, you still didn't know.

And I don't want to glorify the good old days too much.

It's always been a challenge.

We want people to have the information.

And,

you know, I'm remembering the 23, the candidate forum.

Mm-hmm.

Well, we talked a little bit before we started recording just about being able to kind of inform our residents about what's going on behind the scenes.

And there are several things that, you know, you guys do to try and keep the community informed.

So for anybody that may not know, will you just walk through the options of, you know, the things that you guys do to let people know about council meetings and what's going on, your podcast, things like that?

Well, we try to be as proactive as possible to get the word out.

We have a social media presence.

Sometimes we lag a little bit far behind in learning how to respond.

We put our agendas out ahead of time, put our agenda packets.

We live stream the meetings if people can't make it.

We also keep those recordings on YouTube.

keep a written record of the minutes and post those um our website we're constantly finding ways to improve that frankly and expand it but still be user friendly um i host a podcast the day after council meetings which pretty much all i do is just kind of go through the agenda and provide maybe a little bit more explanation as to what the issues are that council's addressing but uh No, we're open to any suggestions or ideas that people come up with.

One of the frustrations that we have is that sometimes it feels like we have 11 billion ways to communicate and people still don't know what's going on.

And my least favorite question is why didn't I know? we'd love to get into the answers to that.

So when we're aware of things, we try to do that in a way that's not reactive, but it's hard sometimes.

We want to make sure we correct those things.

And if people are not getting the information they need, we want to hear that and want to hear the suggestions as to how to improve that.

The good old days, you know, we could talk to the weekly newspaper, which everybody subscribes to, or we could put it on WBLT radio, which everybody listens to.

Exactly

right.

But even then, I suspect, you know, if you didn't get the paper or listen to the radio, you still didn't know.

And I don't want to glorify the good old days too much.

It's always been a challenge.

We want people to have the information.

And,

you know, I'm remembering the 23, the candidate forum.

Mm-hmm.