Bo Whiteside
22:59 - 23:36
"I strongly prefer that anyone attending remotely needs to be on screen. Folks need to see our face, you know, look us in the eyes best we can."
“I strongly prefer that anyone attending remotely needs to be on screen. Folks need to see our face, you know, look us in the eyes best we can.”
- Speaker
- Bo Whiteside
- Timestamp
- 22:59 – 23:36
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kodiak Island Borough
- Captured at
- September 11, 2026
From the transcript
Yeah, on this one, I strongly prefer that anyone attending remotely needs to be on screen. Folks need to see our face, you know, look us in the eyes best we can. But we do live in remote areas, travel to remote areas. So if I'm thinking about Dutch Harbor— Dutch Harbor is what came to mind for me— if I'm in Dutch Harbor, I've attempted it once successfully, which was shocking that I was able to use my cell phone as a hotspot to get through the meeting, and I was actually able to see everyone, which is a miracle for if anyone has ever been to Dutch Harbor. So I was just thinking of those kind of examples where the bandwidth just simply wouldn't support it.
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