On Wednesday night, council broadcast the majority of its meeting live on the internet, the footage accumulating 180 views by 9am the following morning.

The move to webcast the meeting was not a choice of this council, but rather an instruction from the NSW Government.

As of December 14, 2019 all local councils have been required to webcast their meetings on their websites under the Model Code of Meeting Practice for Local Councils.

Bathurst council trialled the equipment on several occasions last year and waiting until the first meeting of 2020 to go live.

General manager David Sherley said the system worked well and there didn't appear to be any glitches.

"In terms of the operation of the webcast, it all went well. There were no hiccups and there were members of the public who appeared to be using it," he said.

There were some quality issues with the system when it was trialled last year, the main issues being picking up the sound clearly, the placement of the camera to capture everyone and getting the webcast to work online.

After reviewing the live footage, Mr Sherley said those issues had been resolved.

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The footage captured will remain on council's YouTube channel, which is linked on its website, for a period of 12 months.

Mr Sherley said webcasting the meeting was beneficial for the broader community.

"The benefits are that the community can have greater transparency in the decision-making processes of council and it allows people who can't get to the meeting to be able to look at specific decisions that may be of relevance to them," he said.

The next council meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 19.

As it is an ordinary meeting, webcasting will start from the discussion of items of business, so anything said by people in public forum will not be part of the stream.