Methodology
How OpenTexas sources, transcribes, enriches, and indexes public meeting records.
What we hold for San Antonio
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
- 692
- Bodies covered
- 171
- Earliest record
- January 5, 2026
- Latest meeting
- October 29, 2026
Minutes are published on the body's own schedule, often weeks after the meeting.
1,999 published motions. A decision can only be extracted where minutes exist.
Next scheduled meeting on record: November 2, 2026.
Known source problems
- October 28, 2026 · City Hall to All — Swagit: meeting not archived (no recording available)
- October 22, 2026 · City Manager Delegation — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 22, 2026 · Arbitration Hearing — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 15, 2026 · Community Action Advisory Board Meeting — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 15, 2026 · City Manager Delegation — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 14, 2026 · City Hall to All — Swagit: meeting not archived (no recording available)
- September 24, 2026 · September Higher Education Student Advisory Board Meeting — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- September 24, 2026 · City Manager Delegation — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- September 21, 2026 · Arbitration Hearing — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- September 17, 2026 · City Manager Delegation — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
Bodies covered (171)
Affirmative Action Advisory Committee · Airport Advisory Commission · Animal Care Services Advisory Board · Animal Care Services Advisory Board Work Session · Arbitration Hearing · Audit Committee · Building Related and Fire Codes Appeals and Advisory Board Meeting · Building Standards Board · Building Standards Board Meeting · CANCELED - Affirmative Action Advisor Committee Meeting · CANCELED - Affirmative Action Advisory Committee · CANCELED - City of San Antonio Commission on Education · CANCELED - Community Health Committee · CANCELED - Educational Opportunities Committee · CANCELED - Ethics Review Board Panel Meeting · CANCELED - San Antonio LGBTQ+ Advisory Board · CANCELED Municipal Court Advisory Committee · CANCELED San Antonio Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission Meeting · CANCELED San Antonio Youth Commission - January Meeting · CANCELLED - Fire Fighters’ and Police Officers’ Civil Service Commission Meeting · CANCELLED - Head Start Policy Council Meeting · CANCELLED - Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women · CANCELLED - Park and Recreation Board Meeting · CANCELLED - Zoning Board of Adjustment Meeting · CANCELLED Governance Committee Meeting · CANCELLED: City of San Antonio Commission on Education Meeting · City Council A Session · City Council B Session · City Council Budget Goal Setting Session · City Council Budget Work Session · City Council Special Meeting · City Council Special Session · City Council Zoning and Land Use Session · City Hall to All · City Manager Delegation · City of San Antonio Commission on Education · City of San Antonio Commission on Education April Meeting · City of San Antonio Commission on Education Meeting · City of San Antonio Commission on Education - Special March Meeting · City of San Antonio Commission on Strengthening Family Well Being · City of San Antonio Commission on Strengthening Family Well-Being · City of San Antonio Higher Education Student Advisory Board April Meeting · City of San Antonio Higher Education Student Advisory Board Meeting · City of San Antonio Higher Education Student Advisory Board November Meeting · City of San Antonio Higher Education Student Advisory Board October Meeting · City/County Joint Commission on Elderly Affairs · City/County Joint Commission on Elderly Affairs Meeting · Collective Bargaining Negotiation Session - Police · Commission on Strengthening Family Well-Being · Community Action Advisory Board Meeting · Community Health Committee · Conservation Advisory Board Meeting · Disability Access Advisory Committee Meeting · Disability Access Advisory Committee Special Meeting · Disability Access Advisory Committee meeting · Economic and Workforce Development Committee · Educational Opportunities Committee · Ethics Review Board · Ethics Review Board Meeting · Ethics Review Board Panel Meeting · Fire Fighters’ and Police Officers’ Civil Service Commission · Fire Fighters’ and Police Officers’ Civil Service Commission Meeting · Governance Committee · Governance Committee Meeting · Head Start Policy Council Meeting · Historic Compliance and Technical Advisory Board (CTAB) · Historic and Design Review Commission (HDRC) · Housing Commission · Housing Commission Annual Retreat · Housing Commission Regular Meeting · Intergovernmental Relations Committee · Intergovernmental Relations Committee Meeting · Joint Meeting - City Council and City of San Antonio Texas Council Aides Corporation · LGBTQ+ Advisory Board · LGBTQ+ Sidewalk Ribbon Cutting · Linear Creekway Parks Advisory Board · Linear Creekway Parks Advisory Board Meeting · May City of San Antonio Commission on Education Meeting · May Higher Education Student Advisory Board Meeting · May San Antonio Youth Commission Meeting · Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women · Multimodal Transportation Commission · Multimodal Transportation Commission Meeting · Municipal Civil Service Commission Meeting · Municipal Court Advisory Committee · Office of Urban Redevelopment - OUR-SA · Parks and Recreation Board Meeting · Performing Arts, Film, & Music Committee Meeting · Planning Commission · Planning Commission Meeting · Planning Commission Special Meeting · Planning and Community Development Committee · Public Comment Session · Public Hearing-CAAB Meeting · Public Hearing-Community Action Advisory Board Meeting · Public Meeting for Capital Fundraising Campaign to support the Carver Branch Library · Public Safety Committee · Quorum of the San Antonio Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission · Regular CAAB Meeting · Regular-Community Action Advisory Board Meeting · River Walk Capital Improvements Advisory Board Meeting · SA Climate Ready Advisory Committee · SA Ready to Work Advisory Board · SA Ready to Work Advisory Board Meeting · SA Ready to Work Advisory Board Subcommittee · SA Ready to Work Subcommittee · SA Ready to Work Subcommittee Meeting · SA to DC · SBEDA Committee Meeting · San Antonio - Bexar County Soccer Public Facility Corporation Board Meeting · San Antonio Affordable Housing · San Antonio Affordable Housing Meeting · San Antonio Arts Commission · San Antonio Arts Commission: Arts Funding Committee · San Antonio Arts Commission: Centro de Artes Committee · San Antonio Arts Commission: Performing Arts, Film and Music Committee · San Antonio Arts Commission: Performing Arts, Film, and Music Committee · San Antonio Arts Commission: Public Art Committee · San Antonio Diez y Seis Commission · San Antonio Diez y Seis Commission Meeting · San Antonio Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commission Meeting · San Antonio Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission · San Antonio Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission Executive Committee Meeting · San Antonio Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission Meeting · San Antonio Early Childhood Education Municipal Development Corporation · San Antonio Early Childhood Education Municipal Development Corporation Board Meeting · San Antonio Early Childhood Education Municipal Development Corporation Board of Directors Retreat and Meeting · San Antonio Early Childhood Education Municipal Development Corporation Board of Directors' Meeting · San Antonio Housing Commission · San Antonio LGBTQ+ Advisory Board · San Antonio LGBTQ+ Advisory Board Monthly Meeting · San Antonio LGBTQ+ Advisory Board Pride Flag Raising · San Antonio LGBTQ+ Advisory Board Pride River Parade · San Antonio Public Library Board of Trustees · San Antonio Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting · San Antonio Youth Commission - February Meeting · San Antonio Youth Commission - October Meeting · San Antonio Youth Commission - February Special Meeting · San Antonio Youth Commission - March Meeting · San Pedro Creek Development Authority · September Higher Education Student Advisory Board Meeting · September San Antonio Youth Commission Meeting · Small Business Advisory Commission · Small Business Advisory Commission Meeting · Small Business Economic Development Advocacy (SBEDA) Committee · Small Business Economic Development Advocacy (SBEDA) Committee Meeting · Southern Edwards Plateau Habitat Conservation Plan Coordinating Committee · Southern Edwards Plateau Habitat Conservation Plan Coordinating Committee Meeting · Special Community Action Advisory Board Meeting · Special Meeting Head Start Policy Council · Storm Water Management Advisory Board · Streets, Bridges & Sidewalks Advisory Board · Streets, Bridges and Sidewalks Advisory Board · Streets, Bridges, and Sidewalks Advisory Board · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Inner City Meeting · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 11 - Inner City · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 28 - Verano · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 30 Westside · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 31 - Midtown · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 31 - Midtown Meeting · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 32 - Mission Drive-In Meeting · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 33 - Northeast Corridor · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 38 - Somerset Grove · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone TIRZ No. 32 Mission Drive-In Meeting · Transportation Advisory Board · Transportation Advisory Board Meeting · Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Veterans Advisory Commission · Zoning Board of Adjustment Meeting · Zoning Commission · Zoning Commission Meeting
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.