We overwhelmed the city site...

You remember after last weeks heated City Council meeting me telling you about and linking you to the city website to view the historic meeting yourself. You also remember me telling you all week how difficult it was to view.

We were not alone.

Word of what transpired at the meeting must have spread quickly, because the problem, according to the city's information services director, is that too many people had been trying to access it.

"I think the usage or the viewing of that video is what was making it unavailable for a number of people," Information Services Director Joe Clos said. "It got a very high number of hits, and to preserve our bandwidth here at the city, we had to restrict it to a certain number of viewers at a time."

The city issued a news release around 11 a.m. Thursday addressing the issues. "Every effort is made to ensure that the ability of the public to view these meetings meets the demand," the statement read. "However, the extremely high demand for the 06/04 Council Meeting video greatly exceeded the number of concurrent viewers possible by the system. The City Information Systems Department is now making changes to the system to allow more concurrent access to all videos."