Residents will be able to watch council meetings from the comfort of their homes when webcasting is introduced in July.

Ordinary meetings, strategy and assets meetings and development committee meetings held in Nowra will be broadcast via council’s website.

Meetings held elsewhere, such as Ulladulla and St Georges Basin will not be webcast – council estimated the cost of doing so would be $4000 per meeting.

The confidential part of meetings will not be broadcast.

General manager Russ Pigg can terminate or suspend the webcast at any point if he deems information raised at the meeting to be defamatory or inappropriate.

Council will maintain an online library of webcasts for a period of two years.

Shoalhaven Council is relatively late to the party.

Shellharbour Council has been webcasting meetings for nearly nine years, Wollongong Council has been doing so since 2012 and Kiama since 2014.

Do you plan on tuning in?

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