The Town of Tecumseh is installing a new, multi-camera webcast system.
The technology to make council meetings more accessible will cost just over $24,000.
The cost will come from a one-time provincial Municipal Modernization Fund grant of $620,000.
Councillor Andrew Dowie says the technology will allow people to see how decisions have been made.
"See what the discussions were, see what the councillors actually said about that issue and really track how they voted," he says. "Right now there really isn't a tracking mechanism unless there's a recorded vote. So this really keeps us accountable and lets everyone know what the facets of every discussion we had, would have been."
Tecumseh Councillor Andrew Dowie attends the regular meeting of council on September 26, 2017. (Photo by Ricardo Veneza)
The system will webcast the meetings live but will also have each meeting archived and indexed to the specific agenda items.
Dowie says that will make it make it easier to find discussions on specific issues.
"It'll divide up the time so it's not boring to watch. The single camera option was there and that would have been an improvement as well but it's just really an oversight type of function of this room. You really don't get to see who's saying what, unless you can associate a person with the voice," he says.
Dowie says there is one potential problem with having everyone on camera.
"Now that we're all going to be on the record and wanting an audience to see that we know what we're talking about, we may be more vocal and may say a bit more, just to remind residents that we're not just casting a vote but we've actually investigated these issues. So that's a potential downside, our meetings may get longer," he says.
It's expected the new cameras will be installed and the system will go live by this fall.
With files from Zander Broeckel