Methodology
How OpenUtah sources, transcribes, enriches, and indexes public meeting records.
What we hold for Bountiful City
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
- 307
- Bodies covered
- 60
- Earliest record
- January 9, 2018
- Latest meeting
- October 13, 2026
Minutes are published on the body's own schedule, often weeks after the meeting.
142 published motions. A decision can only be extracted where minutes exist.
Known source problems
- June 23, 2026 · Bountiful City Council Regular Session — Whisper returned empty transcript (silent or unprocessable audio)
- March 16, 2026 · Administrative Committee — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
Bodies covered (60)
Administrative Committee · Board of Canvassers · Bond Election Public Meeting - City of Bountiful Park and Trails Bond · Bountiful City Board of Canvassers · Bountiful City Council · Bountiful City Council & RDA · Bountiful City Council (Part 1 of 2) · Bountiful City Council (Part 2 of 2) · Bountiful City Council Meeting & RDA · Bountiful City Council Reghular Session · Bountiful City Council Regular · Bountiful City Council Regular Session · Bountiful City Council Regular Session & RDA Board · Bountiful City Council Regular Session (AUDIO ONLY) · Bountiful City Council Regular Session (Audio Only) · Bountiful City Council Regular Session and RDA · Bountiful City Council Regular Session and RDA Board · Bountiful City Council SPECIAL · Bountiful City Council Special Session - New Council-member appointed (Part 2 of 2) · Bountiful City Council Special Session - New Council-member selected (Part 1 of 2) · Bountiful City Council Special Swearing-In Ceremony · Bountiful City Council Work · Bountiful City Council Work & Regular Sessions · Bountiful City Council Work Session · Bountiful City Council Work Session (AUDIO ONLY) · Bountiful City Council Work Session (PART 1) · Bountiful City Council Work Session (PART 2) · Bountiful City Council Work Session - AUDIO ONLY · Bountiful City Council Work and Regular Session · Bountiful City Council and Work Session · Bountiful City Council special · Bountiful City RDA · Bountiful City RDA Board · Bountiful City Work Session (Part 1 of 2) · Bountiful City Work Session (Part 2 of 2) · Bountiful Fiber Project Open House · City Council · City Council & Planning Commission Joint Work Session about Bountiful General Plan · City Council Fiber Discussion (SLIDES ONLY) · City Council Meeting Work Session · City Council Regular Session · City Council Regular Session (audio only) · City Council Regular Session and RDA · City Council Regular Session and RDA Board · City Council Regular Sesssion · City Council Work Session (final hour/Audio Only) · City Council Work Session and Regular Session · City Council work session and regular session · Council Regular Session · Council Work Session · Doorbell Video from Fiber Open House Presentation · General Election Results · Planning Commission · Property Tax Presentation · RDA · Redevelopment Agency · Reserve Policy Presentation · Swearing in ceremony Bountiful City Council · Truth in Taxation City Council · work session
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.