Methodology
How OpenTexas sources, transcribes, enriches, and indexes public meeting records.
What we hold for Temple
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
- 207
- Bodies covered
- 52
- Earliest record
- January 5, 2026
- Latest meeting
- October 28, 2026
Minutes are published on the body's own schedule, often weeks after the meeting.
846 published motions. A decision can only be extracted where minutes exist.
Next scheduled meeting on record: November 2, 2026.
Known source problems
- October 20, 2026 · Library Advisory Board Regular Meeting — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 19, 2026 · Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 19, 2026 · Animal Services Advisory Board Meeting — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 19, 2026 · Planning and Zoning Commission Workshop — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 15, 2026 · City Council Workshop — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
Bodies covered (52)
Airport Advisory Board Regular Meeting · Animal Services Advisory Board Meeting · Building and Standards Commission Regular Meeting · CANCELED - Temple Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund Board of Trustees Meeting · CANCELED - Zoning Board of Adjustment Sitting as the Building Board of Appeals Meeting · CANCELLED - Meet and Confer Promotional Process Sub-Committee Meeting · CANCELLED - Temple Police Association Meet and Confer Meeting · Cancelled - Meet and Confer Promotional Process Sub-Committee Meeting · Central Texas Housing Consortium Board of Commissioners · Central Texas Housing Consortium Board of Commissioners Meeting · Central Texas Housing Consortium Board of Directors Annual Meeting · Central Texas Housing Consortium Meeting · Citizen's Police Advisory Commission Regular Meeting · City Council Regular Meeting · City Council Workshop · Civil Service Commission Meeting · Emergency Services Advisory Board Regular Meeting · Employee Benefits Trust Meeting · Historic Preservation Board Regular Meeting · Kyle/THA Inc Board of Directors Annual Meeting · Library Advisory Board Regular Meeting · Neighborhood Revitalization Advisory Board Regular Meeting · Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Regular Meeting · Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Planning and Zoning Commission Workshop · Possible Quorum - Planning and Zoning Commission and Zoning Board of Adjustment · Special Called City Council Meeting · Special Called City Council Meeting - Board / Commission Interviews · Special Called City Council Meeting - Board and Commmission Interviews · Tax Increment Financing Reinvestment Zone No. 1 Board of Directors Meeting · Tax Increment Financing Reinvestment Zone No. 1 Board of Directors Regular Meeting · Temple Fire Fighters' and Police Officers' Civil Service Commission Meeting · Temple Firefighters' Relief & Retirement Fund Annual Meeting · Temple Firefighters' Relief & Retirement Fund Board of Trustees Meeting · Temple Firefighters' Relief and Retirement Fund · Temple Firefighters' Relief and Retirement Fund Board of Trustees Meeting · Temple Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund · Temple Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund Board of Trustees Meeting · Temple Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund Meeting · Temple Health & Bioscience District Board Meeting · Temple Health & Bioscience District Board of Directors Meeting · Temple Health & Bioscience District Meeting CANCELLED · Temple Health & Bioscience Economic Development District Board of Directors Meeting · Temple Housing Residential Corporation Board of Directors Annual Meeting · Temple Housing Residential Corporation Board of Directors Meeting · Temple Medical District Corporation Board of Directors · Temple Police Association Meet and Confer Meeting · Temple Police Association Meet and Confer Promotional Process Sub Committee Meeting · Temple Professional Fire Fighters Association Meet and Confer Meeting · Temple Professional Fire Fighters Association Meeting · Temple Revitalization Corporation Meeting · Zoning Board of Adjustment Regular 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.