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the week in the record

The week of September 14, 2026

Ten meetings, twenty-four hours and fifty-eight minutes of tape, in Boston and Brookline.

The meetings

each opens its tape and its page
Boston · City CouncilBoston City Council Meeting on September 16, 2026Four hours and thirty-six minutes of the City Council, and community was the frameSeptember 16, 2026 · 4 h 36 minBrookline · Select BoardSelect Board Work Session Pt. 2 - September 16, 2026Two hours and forty-nine minutes of the Select Board, and money was the frameSeptember 16, 2026 · 2 h 49 minBoston · School CommitteeBoston School Committee Meeting 9/16/26 - with ASL InterpretationThree hours and thirty-two minutes of the School Committee, and community was the frameSeptember 16, 2026 · 3 h 32 minBrookline · School CommitteeBrookline Select Board Meeting Meeting - September 22, 2026Three hours of the School Committee, and community was the frameSeptember 16, 2026 · 3 hBrookline · Select BoardSelect Board Work Session Pt. 1 - September 16, 2026One hour and fifteen minutes of the Select Board, and money was the frameSeptember 16, 2026 · 1 h 15 minBoston · Zoning Board of AppealBoston Zoning Board of Appeal September 17, 2026 Subcommittee HearingThirty-three minutes of the Zoning Board of Appeal, and community was the frameSeptember 17, 2026 · 33 minBoston · BPDABPDA Board of Directors Meeting 9/17/26One hour and thirty-seven minutes of the BPDA, and community was the frameSeptember 17, 2026 · 1 h 37 minBoston · City Council CommitteeEducation on September 17, 2026Three hours and one minute of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameSeptember 17, 2026 · 3 h 1 minBoston · City Council CommitteeGovernment Operations on September 17, 2026Two hours and fifty-six minutes of the City Council Committee, and safety was the frameSeptember 17, 2026 · 2 h 56 minBoston · City Council CommitteeCity Services on September 18, 2026One hour and thirty-five minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameSeptember 18, 2026 · 1 h 35 min

What was decided

the roll calls read from the tapes, and the loudest decisions and pushback

and 141 moments more, on the meetings’ own pages

The sums named

the dollar figures each room said most, the most said first

and 45 sums more, on the meetings’ own pages

The threads that moved

the issues the record follows, the most moments this week first
and 49 threads more

and 49 threads more, every one on this week’s page: publicrecord.studio/app/week/2026-09-14/

How the week talked

the eight lenses, this week against the whole record
the lenses, explained →

Of 4,261 words this week’s tapes file under a lens, 27% were about money — 25% across the whole record. It leaned furthest from the record’s habit toward community: 27% of the week’s words, against 23%.

counted by the press from the record’s own planes — the meetings’ roll calls, moments, sums and lenses, and the threads’ timelines; no model counted any of it; a thread a model named says so; every line opens the tape

Every week on the record