Oconee commissioners surprised everyone on Tuesday by moving light-speed on a recent request to consider recording their meetings on video and making them available to the public.

The three-week turn-around -- from the original request at a May 6 public meeting -- surprised no one more than the four guys who asked for it in the first place.

“That’s really different from the way things have worked in the past, and I think they’re to be applauded for being responsive,” one of the residents, UGA journalism professor Lee Becker, told me on Friday.