ALPHARETTA, Ga. â Alpharetta is jousting with a perennial pest that has plagued it since moving into the new City Hall in 2014 â an audio-visual system that goes on the fritz at inopportune times.
Streaming service has become all the more valuable during the coronavirus pandemic when social distance guidelines limit the number of people who can attend City Council and other governmental meetings. Alpharetta City Council meetings regularly drew between two and three dozen followers when officials switched to Zoom meetings at the height of the pandemic last year.
The latest malfunction occurred March 1 when the City Council convened for a meeting that included approving almost half a million dollars for design work on the Encore Greenway connection and empowering the city to pursue eminent domain for close to a dozen parcels along McGinnis Ferry Road.