Methodology
How OpenNewYork sources, transcribes, enriches, and indexes public meeting records.
What we hold for New Rochelle
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
- 126
- Bodies covered
- 74
- Earliest record
- January 6, 2026
- Latest meeting
- October 28, 2026
Minutes are published on the body's own schedule, often weeks after the meeting.
452 published motions. A decision can only be extracted where minutes exist.
Bodies covered (74)
9/11 Remembrance Ceremony · Academy Tennis Innovators Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · Affogato House Ribbon Cutting · Arbor Day Tree Planting Ceremony · Black History Month Recognition Ceremony · Boat Dedication in Honor of Det. Mark Gado · CCRB Meeting · CSC Meeting · Champions of Change Ceremony · City Council Meeting · City Council Meeting - COW · City Council Meeting - RLM · Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) Meeting · CoCo Bubble Tea Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · District 1 & 2 Community Meeting · District 3 Community Meeting · District 4 Community Meeting · District 5 & 6 Community Meeting · FASTSIGNS Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · FSW Head Start Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · Flag Day Ceremony · French Heritage Recognition Ceremony · Gentlemen's Lab Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · Goatsfest · HLRB Meeting · Haitian Heritage Month Recognition · Herstory Celebration · Hispanic Heritage Month Recognition · IDA Meeting · IDA Meeting (No CLD this month) · IDA and CLD Meetings · Irish American Heritage Month Recognition · Italian American Heritage Month Recognition Ceremony · Jewish American Heritage Month Recognition · Juneteenth Recognition Ceremony · Lilians Playground Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · Lincoln Park Conservancy (TLPC) History & Culture Center Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · Lunar New Year Celebration · MAC · MAC Meeting · MONA Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · Maplewood Park Ribbon Cutting · Master Barber Lounge Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · Memorial Day Ceremonies · NRFD Awards & Promotions Ceremony · NRFD Change of Command Ceremony · NRPD Memorial and Awards Ceremony · NRPD Promotional Ceremony · National Night Out · New Rochelle Police Department Memorial Monument Ceremony · New Rochelle Racquet Club 50th Anniversary · New Rochelle Street Fair · New York Eye Center Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · PBSC Meeting · Participatory Budget Steering Committee · Participatory Budget Steering Committee Meeting · Planning · Planning Meeting · Pride Festival · Rocco's Italian Sausage & Cheese Steaks Ribbon Cutting · Space Beauty Spa Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · State of the City · Sutton Park Center for Nursing & Development Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · TERIYAKI MADNESS Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · THRIVE Grant Award Ceremony · Taichi Bubble Tea Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · The End Tavern Ribbon Cutting · Traditional Bagel Cafe Ribbon Cutting · Voices of We the People · WALLSMARK Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · WING STOP Ribbon Cutting Ceremony · Ward Acres Park Comfort Station Groundbreaking · Zoning · Zoning 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.