The recovered record, 2002–2015

Before the city's current meeting portals, Cambridge kept its council record in a clerk's database that has since gone offline. The city's own links to it now lead nowhere. This archive rebuilds what the Internet Archive captured of it, and is honest about the rest.

5,795items known to exist 2,316recovered with text 3,479not yet recovered 17dissents & recusals preserved

How we know what's missing. Policy orders were numbered per meeting: when a surviving search result shows an O-70 on September 12, 2005, it proves O-1 through O-69 existed that night. Every missing item gets a visible stub instead of silence. An export of the decommissioned database, requested from the city under the Public Records Law on July 17, 2026, would fill them in.

200272 known · 9 recovered
2003429 known · 145 recovered
2004364 known · 81 recovered
2005494 known · 118 recovered
2006429 known · 65 recovered
2007434 known · 100 recovered
2008401 known · 99 recovered
2009376 known · 100 recovered
2010324 known · 153 recovered
2011441 known · 233 recovered
2012506 known · 325 recovered
2013424 known · 267 recovered
2014365 known · 214 recovered
2015574 known · 291 recovered

Every recovered page links its Internet Archive capture, so you can verify it against the archived original. Dates and order numbers are read from the documents themselves; the dead database served unreliable ids in its final years.