A message about video recordings of Hurley public meetings

For the last two years Hurley Up and many others had requested the town of Hurley Supervisor and board to record and post town board meetings for the public to view. For two years we were consistently denied without explanation. All those unedited recordings you may have seen over the last 2 years were provided and funded as a public service by non-governmental people out of frustration at the lack of transparency. Those unedited videos were posted and shared on Hurley Up as a public service because the town leadership did not want to share those videos on its social media or put on the town website.

We now we know that all the equipment and expertise to have recorded those meetings over the last 2 years were always available to Hurley, and that there are no 'regulatory reasons' or logistical reasons to have precluded video recordings. And the very same Hurley employees who could have set up and provided this videotaping all along are now the very same people who are now doing so at the direction of Supervisor Boms.

Thank you Supervisor Boms for starting this public service that should have been done long ago. You championed transparency in your campaign, and hopefully this is just the beginning. Hurley citizens deserve transparency in its government.

To view the town's press release on new video recordings >>>