Methodology
How OpenNorthCarolina sources, transcribes, enriches, and indexes public meeting records.
What we hold for Raleigh
These are coverage figures — how much of the public record we have published. They are not an accuracy measure, and we do not currently publish one.
- Meetings
- 283
- Bodies covered
- 41
- Earliest record
- January 6, 2026
- Latest meeting
- October 28, 2026
Minutes are published on the body's own schedule, often weeks after the meeting.
389 published motions. A decision can only be extracted where minutes exist.
Next scheduled meeting on record: November 3, 2026.
Known source problems
- October 22, 2026 · Raleigh Historic Development Commission - Certificate of Appropriateness Committee — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 21, 2026 · Planning Commission - Text Change Committee — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 21, 2026 · Dix Park Stewardship Committee — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- October 21, 2026 · Fair Housing Advisory Board — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 20, 2026 · City Council Meeting - Third Tuesday - Work Session (11:30am) & Afternoon Session (1:00pm) — No recording — source media is a 27.0s stub (under 30s)
- October 20, 2026 · Arts Commission — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 19, 2026 · Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- April 21, 2026 · City Council Meeting - Third Tuesday - Work Session (11:30am) & Afternoon Session (1:00pm) — Source video returned 404 (clip removed by city): https://video.isilive.ca/raleightv/181-City-Council-Meeting---Third-Tuesday----Work-Session-(11-30am)---Aftern
Bodies covered (41)
Arts Commission · Arts Commission - Arts Executive Committee · Arts Commission - Arts, Education and Collections Committee · Arts Commission - Public Art and Design Board · Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission · Board of Adjustment · City Council · City Council Committee - Housing and Environment · City Council Committee - Transportation and Transit · City Council Meeting - 2026 Annual Retreat - Jaycee Park, 2405 Wade Avenue · City Council Meeting - 2026 Mid-Year Retreat · City Council Meeting - Budget Work Session · City Council Meeting - First Tuesday - Afternoon & Evening Sessions · City Council Meeting - Second Tuesday - Evening Public Comment Session · City Council Meeting - Second Tuesday - Work Session · City Council Meeting - Third Tuesday - Work Session (11:30am) & Afternoon Session (1:00pm) · Design Review Commission · Dix Park Commission · Dix Park Stewardship Committee · Environmental Advisory Board · Fair Housing Advisory Board · Historic Resources & Museums Advisory Board · Human Relations Commission · Parks, Recreation, and Greenways Advisory Board · Planning Commission · Planning Commission - Committee of the Whole · Planning Commission - Text Change Committee · Police Advisory Board · Raleigh Commission for Persons with Disabilities · Raleigh Convention and Performing Arts Centers Authority · Raleigh Historic Development Commission - Certificate of Appropriateness Committee · Raleigh Historic Development Commission - Community Awareness Committee · Raleigh Historic Development Commission - Research Committee · Raleigh Historic Development Commission Meeting · Raleigh Transit Authority · Raleigh Transit Authority Finance & Policy Committee · Raleigh Transit Authority Marketing Committee · Raleigh Transit Authority Route Committee · Special Planning Commission Meeting · Stormwater Management Advisory Commission · Substance Use Advisory Commission
Where the records come from
We pull official meeting videos from city platforms — Granicus, CivicPlus, PrimeGov, Swagit, and YouTube — once per city per day. Agendas come from the city's public agenda system. Nothing is republished without an official source.
How transcription works
Every meeting is transcribed with word-level timestamps, then enriched with AI to extract decisions, agenda items, public comments, and civic issues. Transcripts may contain errors; video and original audio remain the authoritative source.
How search works
Search is hybrid — keyword matching plus vector similarity — inside Meilisearch. Results are real records (meetings, agenda items, dev applications). The summaries on each result card were produced during enrichment and are reviewed periodically. Written answers come only from the assistant, described next.
How the assistant answers questions
The “Ask about” assistant answers plain-English questions from the same records search uses: agendas, minutes, transcripts, recorded decisions and development applications. It does not answer from general knowledge about your city. It is free with a sign-in.
Every statement in an answer links to the meeting it came from, so you can open the agenda, minutes or the moment in the video and check it yourself. When the records do not cover a question, it says so instead of guessing.
It keeps a recommendation separate from a decision. A planning commission that votes to recommend denial has not denied anything; the council decides next, and the answer says which body acted and which body acts next.
Known limits. Until a body approves its minutes, a vote may be known only from the recording; answers label those votes as recording-based. Not every meeting has a transcript or minutes yet, and coverage differs by city (see the coverage figures at the top of this page). Like the summaries, answers can contain errors.
Before a change to the assistant ships, we rerun a fixed set of real residents' questions with checked answers and compare the results. Passing that set does not guarantee every answer is right, which is why every answer shows its sources.
AI limitations
AI summaries can contain errors. Always verify legal actions, vote counts, and named-person attributions against the official video, transcript, and minutes. Where records are incomplete, we mark the gap rather than guess.
Corrections
Spotted a problem? Email corrections@opencityrecord.org with a link to the page and a description of the issue. We review every correction and update the affected record.