The mission of this website is to increase accessibility of reliable public information to people and businesses interested in the municipality of Monticello, the seat of Sullivan County and garden of the Catskills. You can e-mail me using the "Contact" link at right. Each page offers "Printer Friendly" button, and another allowing you to forward a link to a friend. For official, certified copies of Minutes, contact the Village Clerk at 845.794.6130.
Hear Village Board Meetings By Streaming AudioAs a Village Trustee, I am committed to openness in government. In furtherance of this public policy, recordings of recent meetings of the Village of Monticello Board of Trustees are now freely available on this website for download or as streaming audio files. This service is provided at no cost to the taxpayers. You can listen to these files on your computer, or download them to play on your iPod while you're out cycling, jogging, walking, or doing chores. |
The legislatures of New York State and of Sullivan County, as well as some towns and villages in our area, are rapidly moving toward offering live webcasts of all public sessions. While I applaud this policy, Monticello's budget does not permit us to provide such a service to our constituents at this time, much as some Trustees might like to. Minutes of Village Board of Trustees as far back as 2000 are hosted here as a public service at no cost to the taxpayers, along with current agendas. Browse minutes via the menu at left, or search the archive by key words or phrases in the upper right corner or using Advanced Search options. For recent meetings, you may click on the links below and either listen to streaming audio on your computer or download sound files to play later. To listen, double click on the file extension of your choice: mp3 (commonly used on iPods), ogg (Open Source), or wav (original).
Technical Note: To download the above linked audio files (which are quite large) to your hard disc and play, right click on the above link and select "Save Target As" from your context menu (in Internet Explorer), or "Save Link As (in Firefox). The file will then be saved to a location on your local drive that you select. However, users with adequate memory resources may be able to stream the audio "live". This has been tested on a machine with 1 GB of RAM running Windows XP.
July 21, 2008 regular Board of Trustees meeting
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Carmen Rue
Trustee, Village of Monticello
