Agenda items

What the City Council has taken up, 1942 to today, or search the whole record.

Since 2016, by type

The portal era, where every item has a page of its own.

• Resolutions3,765 itemsCongratulations, condolences, and commemorations.
• City Manager's Agenda3,290 itemsWhat the administration sends to the council: appointments, appropriations, reports.
• Policy Orders2,870 itemsWhat councillors propose: the council's own initiatives.
• Awaiting Reports1,089 itemsQuestions the council asked the administration, and their answers.
• Communications from City Officers860 itemsFormal transmittals from city officials.
• Applications & Petitions664 itemsCurb cuts, banners, zoning petitions, and other asks.
• Ordinances78 itemsChanges to the Municipal Code, from first reading to passage.
• Hearing Schedules4 itemsWhat's coming up for public hearing.

Before the portals

An item's form changes with the era that filed it. These two hold the rest of the record.

• The recovered record5,795 items2002–2015, from the city's first database: the recovered ones carry their full text, the rest a stub saying what is known to have existed.
• The clerk's docket99,576 actions1942–2003, from the annual index volumes: one line per paper as the clerk wrote it, most linking to the city's scan of the document.