Methodology
How OpenNevada sources, transcribes, enriches, and indexes public meeting records.
What we hold for Douglas County
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
- 180
- Bodies covered
- 47
- Earliest record
- January 5, 2026
- Latest meeting
- November 3, 2026
Minutes are published on the body's own schedule, often weeks after the meeting.
337 published motions. A decision can only be extracted where minutes exist.
Next scheduled meeting on record: November 5, 2026.
Known source problems
- November 2, 2026 · Parks and Recreation Advisory Board — Source video returned 404 (clip removed by city): https://douglascountynv.granicus.com/DownloadFile.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1928
- November 2, 2026 · Senior Services and Public Transit Advisory Board — Source video returned 404 (clip removed by city): https://douglascountynv.granicus.com/DownloadFile.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1963
- November 2, 2026 · Parks and Recreation Advisory Board - Special Tour — Source video returned 404 (clip removed by city): https://douglascountynv.granicus.com/DownloadFile.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1930
- October 27, 2026 · Library Board of Trustees — Source video returned 404 (clip removed by city): https://douglascountynv.granicus.com/DownloadFile.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1927
- October 27, 2026 · Library Board of Trustees - Supplemental — Source video returned 404 (clip removed by city): https://douglascountynv.granicus.com/DownloadFile.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1926
- October 22, 2026 · Stormwater Task Force - Supplemental — Source video returned 404 (clip removed by city): https://douglascountynv.granicus.com/DownloadFile.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1920
- October 15, 2026 · Board of County Commissioners - Supplemental — Source video returned 404 (clip removed by city): https://douglascountynv.granicus.com/DownloadFile.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1916
- October 14, 2026 · Board of Equalization — Source video returned 404 (clip removed by city): https://douglascountynv.granicus.com/DownloadFile.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1905
- October 14, 2026 · Board of Equalization-Supplemental — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- October 14, 2026 · Stormwater Task Force - Supplemental — Source video returned 404 (clip removed by city): https://douglascountynv.granicus.com/DownloadFile.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1910
Bodies covered (47)
9-1-1 Surcharge Advisory Committee · Advisory Board to Manage Wildlife · Airport Advisory Committee · Airport Advisory Committee - Supplemental · Airport Advisory Committee - Workshop · Airport Advisory Committee - Workshop - Supplemental · Audit Committee · Board of County Commissioners · Board of County Commissioners - Special Meeting - Budget · Board of County Commissioners - Special Meeting - Budget - Supplemental · Board of County Commissioners - Special Meeting - Supplemental · Board of County Commissioners - Special Meeting Canvas the Vote · Board of County Commissioners - Special Meeting Supplemental · Board of County Commissioners - Special Meeting- Budget- Supplemental · Board of County Commissioners - Supplemental · Board of County Commissioners Special Meeting - Supplemental · Board of County Commissioners and Joint Meeting with the Regional Transportation Commission · Board of County Commissioners and Joint Meeting with the Regional Transportation Commission - Supplemental · Board of Equalization · Board of Equalization-Supplemental · Board of Health · Board of Health - Supplemental · Cancellation of Genoa Historic District Commission · China Spring Youth Camp Advisory Board · Debt Management Commission · Genoa Historic District Commission · Genoa Historic District Commission - Supplemental · Law Library Board · Library Board of Trustees · Library Board of Trustees - Supplemental · Local Emergency Planning Committee · Local Emergency Planning Committee Subcommittee · Nevada Association of County Human Services Administrators · Parks and Recreation Advisory Board · Parks and Recreation Advisory Board - Special Tour · Planning Commission · Planning Commission-Supplemental · Regional Transportation Commission - Supplemental · Senior Services and Public Transit Advisory Board · Senior Services and Public Transit Advisory Board - SPECIAL TOUR · Stormwater Task Force · Stormwater Task Force - Supplemental · Vacation Home Rental Advisory Board · Vacation Home Rental Advisory Board - Supplemental · Vacation Rental Home Advisory Board · Water Conveyance Advisory Committee · Water Conveyance Advisory Committee-Supplemental
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.