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the week in the record

The week of September 28, 2026

Six meetings, thirteen hours and thirty-two minutes of tape, in Boston and Brookline.

The meetings

each opens its tape and its page
Boston · City Council CommitteeWays and Means on September 28, 2026One hour and nine minutes of the City Council Committee, and money was the frameSeptember 28, 2026 · 1 h 9 minBrookline · Select BoardBrookline Select Board Meeting Meeting - September 29, 2026Under a minute of the Select Board, September 29, 2026September 29, 2026 · 0 minBoston · City Council CommitteeHousing and Community Development on September 29, 2026Three hours and thirty-nine minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameSeptember 29, 2026 · 3 h 39 minBoston · City CouncilBoston City Council Meeting on September 30, 2026Three hours and twenty-five minutes of the City Council, and community was the frameSeptember 30, 2026 · 3 h 25 minBrookline · School CommitteeBrookline School Committee Meeting - September 30, 2026Two hours and thirty minutes of the School Committee, and safety was the frameSeptember 30, 2026 · 2 h 30 minBoston · City Council CommitteeCensus, Redistricting, and Elections on October 2, 2026Two hours and forty-six minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameOctober 2, 2026 · 2 h 46 min

What was decided

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

and 72 moments more, on the meetings’ own pages

The sums named

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

and 17 sums more, on the meetings’ own pages

The threads that moved

the issues the record follows, the most moments this week first
and 8 threads more

and 8 threads more, every one on this week’s page: publicrecord.studio/app/week/2026-09-28/

How the week talked

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

Of 2,252 words this week’s tapes file under a lens, 22% were about community — 23% across the whole record. It leaned furthest from the record’s habit toward safety: 16% of the week’s words, against 10%.

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