While some may be considering ending broadcasts of Village Board meetings on Comcast Cable, three candidates are promising greater community access.

Village of Carpentersville President Bill Sarto running for re-election, along with Trustee Candidates Ken Andresen and Debra Lowen, pledged today to make Village Board meetings available on the Internet. Teaming up with former Carpentersville resident and video marketing professional Grant Crowell of ReelSEO.com, their new promise to the Carpentersville community is, if elected, to make board meetings and other important government events all available to the public through YouTube, Google Video, the Village Website, and other video sharing sites.

Current Village President Bill Sarto believes making Village Board meetings, information and events available via web video is vital to open, honest government.  He welcomes the opportunity to open access to more of the community than only those currently served by Comcast Cable broadcasts.

“Grant has really helped the Carpentersville community with making our meetings available to the public through television,” says President Sarto. “I’ve been a strong supporter of open, honest government and the public’s right to know. Grant has helped me understand how important it is for us to move to the next level of technology, and now to provide full video of our board meetings to everyone; not just one part of our community anymore (the one that has Comcast Cable).”

President Sarto has promised his full support to work with Grant, Ken and Deb to get Village backing for improving communication and transparency with residents through web video.

Ken Andresen has spoken about how he and Deb have started using web video already.

“Deb and I are the only candidates in this race who have done anything with web video,” says Andresen. “We know how powerful it can be with getting a message across and reaching out to others. That’s why we’ve already done our own YouTube channel, and put video on our community wiki website. We promise do a lot more if we’re elected, starting with full board meetings on YouTube and Google Video, and anywhere else we can reach our residents – not only to watch, but to comment and participate as well.”

The full press release can be read here.