Blackout: City manager cuts off live feed of Nanaimo council meeting
NANAIMO — A “substantial loss of decorum” was behind the city manager’s decision to pull the plug on the live feed of a recent Nanaimo council meeting.
During the Jan. 8 committee of the whole meeting, city manager Tracy Samra ordered the online live stream of the meeting cut off. The archive version of the meeting showed the screen fade to black for a little less than three minutes before video and then audio returned.
In his opening remark to a delegation, coun. Gord Fuller said “I love it when people come up to the podium and threaten me.”
After roughly a minute of speaking, mayor Bill McKay asked Fuller if he had a question for the delegation.