Today’s day-long Town Council retreat at the Pitts Center is not being live-streamed, as we earlier reported it would be. We regret making an erroneous assumption. (See The Beacon, 3/1/25.)
We attended part of the retreat this afternoon and were told that the business discussed would only be reported through official minutes. No videotape was recorded.
The Town Manager should be updating residents and property owners soon about the conclusion of the SSVFD study that the Town should incorporate the fire department into the municipal government. Cliff Ogburn told us that the change could occur as soon as July 1.
We also heard considerable enthusiasm by the Town Council for the creation of a Public Information Officer position.
Last night’s Town Council meeting was live-streamed.
THE BEACON, 3/5/25
The Southern Shores Beacon 
Thank you for this notification.. We should all let this apathetic movement affect our decisiveness for the officials future on the board..
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Thank you, June. When I brought up the matter yesterday at the retreat, Mayor Elizabeth Morey pointed out that the Town Council has never live-streamed its retreats, which previously have been held at the SSVFD building on S. Dogwood Trail. I replied that by listing the retreat among the upcoming meetings, which are previewed on a Town website page that clearly says at the top, “Watch Live Meetings,” with the You Tube link provided, the implication was that it would be live-streamed. Holding the retreat in the Pitts Center, rather than at a remote location, also lent weight to that conclusion. In any case, I think the Council should have live-streamed and videotaped this session. Written minutes by the Town Clerk cannot begin to capture the exchange among our elected officials, and live-streams have become standard at Town meetings.
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