Municipal Intelligence at National Scale

See the local decisions shaping markets, projects, and public policy.

Source-available municipal meetings, agenda items, motions, vote records, and documents spanning 10,000+ cities, counties, school districts, and special districts in the U.S. and Canada, normalized into one queryable corpus. Coverage varies by source, and some archives extend more than two decades.

OPEN RECORD ↗ 2026.02.18 Chicago, IL Foundry Park: $3B planned mixed-use redevelopment Up to 3,737 housing units ZONING PASSED 48-1
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Built on three decades of domain expertise.
GovData Consulting is led by Darius Tajanko, the original architect of Legistar, who worked on the platform from 1996 through 2014. He now applies that municipal systems experience to the national decision layer.

See the Evidence

One decision, from public source to usable signal

This is a live example, not a mockup. Follow the official vote, inspect the normalized record, and see exactly where the supported conclusion stops.

01 Official source

Chicago roll-call report

The Chicago City Clerk's February 18, 2026 report records the zoning decision and person-level vote.

Result
Passed, 48 to 1
Record
Official vote report
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02 Normalized record

Foundry Park zoning

LocalGovIndex brings the jurisdiction, date, matter, project context, and decision into one searchable record.

Place
Chicago, Illinois
Date
February 18, 2026
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03 Decision context

Planned mixed-use redevelopment

Chicago's Department of Planning and Development describes the proposal's planned investment and housing scale.

Investment
$3 billion planned
Housing
Up to 3,737 units
Open city project context
Core Markets

Five markets, one decision infrastructure layer

Explore the core markets, each with its own buyer, workflow, and evidence standard.

Investors

Signals for Investors

Documented zoning, development, infrastructure, and regulatory activity across 10,000+ jurisdictions.

  • Hedge funds and PropTech
  • Infrastructure and energy investors
  • Research and alternative data teams

Open Signals page →

 Public Affairs

Government Affairs & Lobbying

Track local policy emergence, committee movement, staff packets, amendments, and vote timing across jurisdictions.

  • Lobbying firms and trade groups
  • Issue advocacy teams
  • In-house public affairs

Open Government Affairs page →

 AI / ML

AI Datasets for Civic Intelligence

A normalized, relational municipal corpus for retrieval, grounding, and evaluation, with model-training rights reviewed separately for each proposed use.

  • Retrieval, grounding, and RAG
  • Evaluation and benchmarks
  • Separately reviewed training-rights inquiries

Open AI page →

 GovCon

Government Sales & Procurement Intelligence

Research budget discussions, pilot approvals, departmental priorities, contract renewals, and other upstream public records connected to procurement activity.

  • Capture teams and GovTech vendors
  • Procurement intelligence workflows
  • Budget and contract monitoring

Open Procurement page →

 Public Finance

Municipal Finance & Credit

Source-linked issuer chronology for budget amendments, reserve decisions, pension discussions, workforce actions, and other public fiscal events.

  • Muni bond desks and credit analysts
  • Public-finance advisors and diligence
  • Issuer-level fiscal-event chronology

Open Muni Finance page →
Additional Markets

More markets, built on the same foundation

The same underlying data also powers distinct commercial and public-sector uses across operations, media, research, accounting advisory, government intelligence, infrastructure, and municipal services.

Site Selection

Site Selection & Expansion

Track source-available land-use, entitlement, and infrastructure-related public actions for use alongside site, engineering, utility, and market research.

  • Site selectors and developers
  • Corporate real estate teams
  • Utilities and hyperscalers

Open Site Selection page →

 Compliance

Multi-Location Compliance

Monitor local rule changes that affect permitting, signage, parking, delivery, operating hours, and enforcement.

  • Retail, restaurant, logistics, telecom
  • Energy, waste, and EV operators
  • Regional compliance teams

Open Compliance page →

 Media

Newsrooms & Watchdogs

Search source-available local records now, then scope newsroom monitoring, source-pack, and delivery workflows around the coverage a team needs.

  • Investigative and local newsrooms
  • Watchdogs and civic oversight
  • Data journalism teams

Open News page →

 Risk & Insurance

Insurers, Risk Pools & Diligence

Build source-linked chronologies of findings, fiscal actions, litigation, emergencies, oversight, leadership, contracts, and remediation for further diligence.

  • Public entity insurers and reinsurers
  • Municipal risk pools
  • Public-finance diligence teams

Open Diligence page →

 Legal

Legal & Records Defensibility

Research legislative history, chronology, migration exports, archive continuity, and source gaps while leaving legal conclusions to counsel and official custodians.

  • City attorneys and clerks
  • CIOs and city managers
  • Outside counsel on migration and records

Open Legal Risk page →

 Accountability

Accountability & Voting Records

A source-linked public-record graph spanning 189,000+ elected officials and 21M+ vote records, with person-level roll-call, sponsorship, identity, and historical coverage varying by source.

  • Newsrooms and watchdogs
  • Researchers and policy labs
  • Campaigns and civic-tech products

Open Accountability page →

 Research

Academic Research & Policy Labs

Use structured municipal decision history for longitudinal studies, policy diffusion work, and local governance research.

  • Universities and think tanks
  • Comparative policy analysis
  • Time-aware public-record research

Open Research page →

 Advisory

Consulting & Advisory Firms

Power client work in public affairs, infrastructure, market entry, regulatory mapping, and local government strategy.

  • Management and regulatory consultants
  • Infrastructure and market advisors
  • White-label research support

Open Advisory page →

 Accounting Advisory

CPA Firms & Business Advisory

Help advisors surface source-linked local actions tied to selected clients' properties, costs, expansion plans, markets, and transactions.

  • Client Advisory Services and outsourced CFO
  • Transaction, real-estate, and tax advisory
  • White-label client intelligence

Open CPA Advisory page →

 Government Intelligence

State Government Intelligence

See what local public bodies across a state are discussing and deciding without waiting for those actions to surface through statewide reporting workflows.

  • Governor and executive offices
  • State agencies, legislatures, and regulators
  • Program, funding, and statewide issue monitoring

Open State Government page →

 Government Intelligence

Federal Government Intelligence

Observe local implementation and distributed patterns across America's covered local-government record.

  • Federal departments and agencies
  • Congress, inspectors general, and oversight
  • Program implementation and national early warning

Open Federal Government page →

 B2B Media

Trade Publishers & B2B Intelligence Products

Build source-backed newsletters, vertical research, and B2B intelligence products around housing, energy, EVs, data centers, and regulation.

  • Repeatable municipal story discovery
  • Source packs and licensed data inputs
  • Editorial control in your own product

Open Publishing page →

 Philanthropy

Philanthropy & Nonprofits

Identify source-available public activity in housing, climate, public safety, digital equity, homelessness, and infrastructure for further funding and implementation research.

  • Foundations and policy nonprofits
  • Implementation and outreach planning
  • Issue-specific city targeting

Open Philanthropy page →

 Utilities

Utilities & Grid Planning Stakeholders

Track public actions around large-load land use, utility plans, substations, corridors, EV infrastructure, storage, rates, and capital approvals.

  • Utilities and grid consultants
  • Large-load developers and planners
  • Source-linked public approval context

Open Utilities page →

 Municipal Services

Municipal Portals & Consulting

Assess public access, data exports, archive continuity, portal strategy, and migration planning against a municipality's systems and records requirements.

  • Plain-language public portals
  • High-fidelity data exports
  • Migrations and archive modernization

Open Municipal Services page →

Project-based and embedded engagements

These buyers usually engage through custom pilots, diligence projects, or embedded research workflows, where the value is tied to a specific mandate, client engagement, or transaction.

  • Litigation support and expert-witness research for reconstructing legislative history, documented record chronology, attachment trails, and vote chronology in disputed municipal matters
  • Economic development groups and chambers comparing documented entitlement actions, project timelines, conditions, and public infrastructure commitments across target regions
  • Title, land-use, and entitlement diligence for tracing rezonings, annexations, development agreements, easements, and hearing history tied to specific projects or parcels
  • GovTech competitive intelligence and vendor benchmarking based on documented procurement and migration activity, stated portal requirements, and published accessibility remediation plans
Company and product

LocalGovIndex is GovData Consulting's live public-search product. GovData Consulting separately provides paid API access and scopes licensed extracts, custom intelligence, and consulting services for defined buyer workflows.

The Foundation

Deep domain expertise meets modern AI

GovData Consulting builds a normalized municipal decision data layer that turns meetings, agenda items, motions, and votes into comparable, queryable objects across jurisdictions.

General-purpose AI can summarize individual records. Reliable cross-jurisdiction analysis still depends on consistent entities, action types, dates, and source links. GovData Consulting combines that municipal structure with modern AI so related actions can be compared without losing the underlying record.

  • Longitudinal: source history ranges from recent records to archives extending more than two decades
  • Event context: municipal actions can be compared with later permits, news, disclosures, and other datasets
  • Source-linked public-record graph: people, bodies, matters, motions, votes, and sponsors linked where source records support them
  • Normalized entities and relationships with explicit source and coverage limits
  • Event and observation timestamps where maintained, with later backfills and corrections identified
  • Free public search; paid API access with an issued key; extracts and recurring updates scoped separately
Point of view

Municipal records are not just documents. They are workflows connecting bodies, meetings, matters, attachments, sponsors, motions, votes, and later actions. Preserving those distinctions is the core modeling problem.

Darius TajankoFounder and Principal, GovData Consulting

Dataset

What the dataset actually contains

The value is not just that the records are public. The value is a normalized structure that preserves available legislative relationships and makes source and coverage limits visible.

Meetings

Source-available council, board, committee, planning, and other public meetings with normalized metadata, dates, bodies, and jurisdictions.

Agenda items

Agenda items, matter records, topics, and related legislative objects linked to meetings where source records support the relationship.

Attachments

Available staff reports, ordinances, packet documents, exhibits, and supporting files, with text extraction and source-link coverage varying by document.

Outcomes

Motions, vote records, sponsors, timestamps, and outcomes where published, with person-level linkage and procedural detail varying by source.

Coverage

Current dataset scale

The pipeline is already operating at meaningful scale across multiple legislative platforms and custom public portals. Counts below are conservative rounded floors. View live public statistics.

10,000+jurisdictions aggregated across the U.S. and Canada
4.5M+meetings and events indexed, plus 5.7M+ agenda items
189,000+elected officials indexed, with identity, term, sponsorship, and roll-call depth varying
23M+documents indexed, with 21M+ vote records across multiple record forms
Source Environments

Municipal records do not arrive in one shape

GovData Consulting scopes the sources, history, and record relationships required for each engagement, including uneven archives and systems that changed over time.

Work can span six broad source environments. Exact compatibility depends on public access, archive depth, available fields, and the jurisdictions and record types in scope.

Source environment Typical public material What must be confirmed
Agenda and meeting systems Agendas, packets, minutes, recordings, and item files Public access, archive depth, item structure, and vote detail
Legislative information portals Matters, sponsors, actions, votes, and attachments Identifiers, relationships, history, and completeness
Board and committee records Rosters, meetings, decisions, and supporting files Body structure, member terms, and record consistency
Document and archive systems Ordinances, resolutions, contracts, reports, and scans Searchability, file formats, linking, and retention
Municipal websites and custom portals Notices, department pages, hosted files, and custom databases Stable access, change patterns, and metadata quality
Hybrid and legacy collections Platform migrations, PDFs, scans, and partial exports Continuity, duplication, gaps, and feasible normalization
Compatibility review: Detailed source compatibility is available for qualified projects after the geography, record types, history, and delivery needs are defined.
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Search LocalGovIndex now. Contact GovData Consulting for paid API access, a source-linked sector sample, a scoped intelligence pilot, or a municipal consulting engagement.

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Principal: Darius Tajanko, the original architect of Legistar
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Start with one concrete question: which places, records, and dates matter, and what decision will the result support? GovData Consulting will recommend public search, paid API access, a source-linked sample, or a separately scoped engagement.