The Student Government Association (SGA) will no longer be livestreaming the majority of its weekly meetings. Instead, they will record and post them to YouTube the following day.
Some of the meetings will still be livestreamed, including next week on Sept. 11, when the Student Senate will vote on funding for student organizations.
Gabriel Fonseca, SGA adviser, said the change is due to increasing costs to caption the livestreams. He said the company contracted with the university to run livestreams raised their prices. Continuing to livestream meetings all year would cost SGA an additional $20,000, according to Fonseca.
“There’s not a policy in SGA that we have to livestream our meeting,” Fonseca said. “If we do livestream, we have to caption them.”
Fonseca said the decision is not necessarily permanent.
“(SGA is) open to student feedback on whether this is a thing they want to invest resources on,” he said.
SGA has been livestreaming its meetings since 2019.
