It appears as if recent equipment failures during the council meetings have resulted in a limited audience, and the timing if not questionable, is at the very least working out in the favor of those sitting in the hot seats. The temperatures have been turned up with accusations and implications sparing mostly nobody. What better time for such a limited audience, the meetings have been being ran on Spectrum-Charter community channel for months without any audio, so unless you're a champion of lip reading you've been out of luck. But this lip reading has only been possible on the evenings when the actual video portions were not a complete blackout screen.

This most recent meeting was no different on both points. More accusations and implications with one particular member of the council being in the extra hot seat with residents promising to unseat this member of the council by bringing a new law to the senate floor that will allow a member to be removed under certain circumstances. The meeting hit a fever pitch when a resident used their 3 minutes of talk time to point out this council member and then to handout a Christmas "Naughty List" to those in attendance. The floor fell silent around the 3 minute, 3 second mark of the timer as the mayor took back the floor. This was quite a spectacle (if you would have been able to watch it).

The city clerk had made this announcement earlier the day of the council meeting.

" For tonight’s meeting, through no fault of the City, channel 993 will not be available. Please visit our website, www.granitecity.Illinois.gov to view tonight 7:00 pm City Council Meeting."

Many others and I looked high and low all over the website for a link to be able to view this meeting, not a single one of us were able to find it. This was the second highly anticipated council meeting with a very large viewing audience expected to be watching from home, involving the same group of residents that never made the airwaves, or its path to viewership. The residents are still waiting for the first video (missed due to equipment failure) to be made available of that that missed meeting involving this same council member over their statements made when participating in a local podcast.

Here is a copy of the Naughty List handed out to council members and the mayor during the meeting in question.