Starting Feb. 9, the city of Mountain Brook will no longer provide virtual access to public meetings.
Mayor Graham Smith said choosing not to record the meetings is not about lack of transparency and that the choice was always up to the “discretion of the council.”
“Should there be any kind of contentious, large issue, or something where the population would need to really have access, and maybe we wouldn’t have the capacity for them, that we would allow those meetings to be on YouTube again,” Smith said…