Beginning in April, all Macon County Board of Commissioner meetings will be broadcast live online and the meetings will be recorded and available for later viewing on the county website. 

“Government always functions best when it operates in the open,” said Commission Chairman Kevin Corbin. “After talking with county leaders across the country at the National Association of County Officials last month, we wanted to make sure the citizens of Macon County have full access to everything we do as elected officials.”

Sunshine Week, which was held March 13-19 this year, is a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. 

“We understand that it isn’t always easy for people to attend our monthly meetings and oftentimes get calls from citizens wanting to know about things that happened,” said County Manager Derek Roland. “By installing cameras in the board room and having the county’s excellent IT staff manage the recordings, we will be able to record and store county meetings not just in the interest of transparency, but to have those records on file for the county as vital resources for the future.”

Macon County commissioners hold their regularly scheduled meetings at 6 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month in the third-floor boardroom of the Macon County Courthouse. 

www.maconnc.org.