Orem Council RecordOrem City Council, in the open
Search meetings…/
Data & methods

Data and methods

Everything on this site is downloadable. Every record carries sources: links to the exact video second, minutes PDF page or public notice it came from.

Download

absences.jsonagenda_load.jsoncontext.jsoncontinue_table.jsonctx_big_votes.jsonctx_coalitions.jsonctx_intensity_by_year.jsonctx_monthly.jsonctx_monthly_by_year.jsonctx_term_year.jsonctx_term_year_summary.jsondecisions_by_year.jsonefficacy_absences.jsonefficacy_consensus_by_year.jsonefficacy_decisions_per_hour.jsonefficacy_decisions_per_meeting.jsonefficacy_matter_speed_by_year.jsonefficacy_minutes_lag.jsonefficacy_no_consensus.jsonefficacy_pc_by_year.jsonefficacy_pc_overrides.jsonefficacy_ws_overrun.jsonefficacy_ws_overrun_by_year.jsonfloor_time_by_meeting.jsonfloor_time_by_year.jsonfriction.jsonindex.jsonlongest_turns.jsonmatters.jsonmeetings.jsonmember_votes_by_year.jsonmembers_heard_by_year.jsonmotions.jsonpair_agreement.jsonsegments.jsontakeovers.jsontidbits.jsontopics_by_year.json

Data dictionary, methods and limits (README)

How it was built

  • Minutes (2015 on): PDFs from the utah.gov Public Notice Website and the City of Orem's public Google Drive archive; scanned pages read with OCR. Motions and votes are parsed from the minutes' fixed wording; the parser finds 83–99% of motions in every year.
  • Video (2019 on): every council recording on the city's YouTube channel and Drive archive, transcribed by AssemblyAI. Speakers are identified by voice fingerprints, enrolled from moments where members are called on by name, and named only when the match is confident. Held-out accuracy is 96–99% for 2020–2025 and 94% for 2026; a listening spot check of every term was done by hand. 2019 is low-reliability (one member has no voice reference).
  • Agenda items and outcomes: extracted from each agenda and set of minutes by Claude (Anthropic), with the minutes page cited for every item.
  • What these numbers can't tell you: why something happened. Fewer decisions can mean less brought to the council, more debate, or a different chair; the site shows the context (councils, mayors, city managers, agenda load) so you can weigh it.