Legistar council legislation and meetings
Legistar (Granicus), the legislative system behind hundreds of US city and county council portals at <client>.legistar.com, through its public Web API: search ordinances, resolutions and rezonings by title, address, type, status and date, read a file's sponsors, action history and attachments, list council, committee and planning meetings with agenda and minutes PDFs and video, read a meeting's agenda items with actions, results and each member's vote, and list bodies and office holders. modified_since and newest-first ordering poll a jurisdiction for new or changed legislation and newly posted agendas and minutes. Public municipal records: every result carries a public-record licence naming its client and the record's source_url.
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});This is a sample shape. Press Run to see live data from Legistar council legislation and meetings.
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}Municipal legislative records published by each city or county through the Legistar Web API (Granicus). Public records; each result names its client portal. (https://webapi.legistar.com/Home/Examples)