In response to a resident’s request, Isle of Wight County may start live-streaming and recording the meetings of its Economic Development Authority.

Isle of Wight already broadcasts and records the meetings of its Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission using cameras and microphones installed in the boardroom on the second floor of the community development building at the courthouse complex on Monument Circle. Last fall, the county also began streaming and recording the meetings of the audit committee the supervisors formed in August.

But historically the county hasn’t done the same for the EDA or the other bodies that meet in the boardroom.

Lewis Edmonds, a Windsor resident, asked during the public comment period at the supervisors’ March 20 meeting that the board “mandate if possible or at least strongly encourage other public entities that use this room to record their meetings,” specifically referencing the EDA, which meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 4 p.m.

“There’s no resistance to that,” Board Chairman Don Rosie told Edmonds.

“There’s no reason why the meetings in here can’t be recorded, EDA and otherwise,” added Supervisor Joel Acree, who noted that many people who may be interested to watch the activities of the EDA may be working and unable to attend at 4 p.m.

“We should move forward on doing that,” Acree said.

The board has yet to formally act on the matter.

“There will be further discussion with both the Board of Supervisors and the EDA Board about the possibility of video recording EDA meetings before a decision is made,” Economic Development Director Kristi Sutphin told the Times.

EDA Chairman Carroll Keen did not immediately respond to a Times request for comments.

Edmonds was among several vocal critics of the recently approved Tidewater Logistics Center multi-warehouse complex, in which the EDA is involved.

The EDA remains under contract with the project’s developer, The Meridian Group, to sell an EDA-owned 83-acre parcel fronting the four-lane Route 460 on the outskirts of Windsor for $2.5 million. County supervisors voted 3-2 on March 20 to approve industrial zoning for 154 acres, which includes the EDA parcel and two non-EDA parcels owned by Hollowell Holdings LLC.

The project calls for four warehouses totaling 726,000 square feet, down from five totaling 1.2 million square feet originally proposed last year. County supervisors voted 4-1 last year to deny Meridian’s original rezoning request, prompting the company to submit a revised plan that now shows a 14.9-acre park in place of what would have been the fifth warehouse.