# Boulder Politics

> Votes, agendas, and transcripts from three elected bodies in Boulder, Colorado: the BVSD Board of Education (school board), Boulder City Council, and the Boulder County Commissioners. 179 meetings from 2025-09-23 to 2026-09-24. Rebuilt every Sunday; data last updated 2026-09-27.

Read these before citing anything from this site:

- official: true means the vote is from BoardDocs or published minutes. official: false means a language model read it from the meeting transcript; treat it as unverified.
- Transcripts are auto-generated captions: no speaker names, and names are often misspelled.
- Headlines, summaries, topic mentions, and weekly updates are drafted by a language model from agendas and transcripts.
- Every record links to its original source (BoardDocs, PrimeGov, eSCRIBE, or the meeting video). Cite the source, not this site, for anything that matters.
- Body ids: bvsd = BVSD Board of Education (school board), boulder = Boulder City Council, county = Boulder County Commissioners.

## Data

Static files, CORS open, no key. Replace {placeholders} with ids from the index files.

- [Meetings](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/meetings.json): every meeting on file, newest first, with links to each meeting's detail and transcript
- Meeting detail: `https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/meetings/{body}/{id}.json` — agenda items, every vote with each member's vote, summary, topic mentions, public comment themes, source links
- [Votes](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/votes.json): every recorded vote at all three bodies, with roll calls
- [Bodies and members](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/bodies.json): the three bodies, current and former members, roles, seats, terms
- [Topics](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/topics.json): tracked topics with recent activity and the hot flag
- Topic detail: `https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/topics/{slug}.json` — every discussion of one topic, with a video link to the moment
- [Weekly updates](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/updates.json): weekly digests, each with a link to its full Markdown
- Transcript: `https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/meetings/{body}/{id}/transcript.txt` — full meeting transcript as plain text, one timestamped paragraph per line
- [Weekly updates feed](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/rss.xml): RSS 2.0 feed of the 20 latest weekly updates, full text as HTML
- Attachment text: `https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/docs/{body}/{id}.txt` — the extracted text of one BVSD or city agenda attachment; meeting detail gives each attachment's textUrl
- Weekly update text: `https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/updates/{week}.md` — one weekly digest as Markdown; {week} is the Saturday it ends

## Latest

- [BVSD board approves school closures on a 5-2 vote](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/updates/2026-09-26.md): weekly update, September 20 to 26, 2026
- Hot topics, meaning 10 or more discussions in the last 30 days:
  - [School closures (Resilient Schools)](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/topics/resilient-schools.json): 46 discussions, latest 2026-09-24
  - [Housing and land use](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/topics/housing-and-land-use.json): 21 discussions, latest 2026-09-17
  - [Public safety](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/topics/public-safety.json): 15 discussions, latest 2026-09-24
  - [County budget and services](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/api/topics/county-budget.json): 13 discussions, latest 2026-09-15

## Current members

- BVSD Board of Education (`bvsd`): Nicole Rajpal (President, District B); Alex Medler (Vice President, District C); Jason Unger (Treasurer, District A); Lalenia Quinlan Aweida (Director, District D); Deann Bucher (Director, District E); Ana Temu Otting (Director, District F); Jorge Chávez (Director, District G)
- Boulder City Council (`boulder`): Aaron Brockett (Mayor); Tara Winer (Mayor Pro Tem); Taishya Adams (Council Member); Matt Benjamin (Council Member); Rob Kaplan (Council Member); Tina Marquis (Council Member); Ryan Schuchard (Council Member); Nicole Speer (Council Member)
- Boulder County Commissioners (`county`): Claire Levy (Commissioner, District 1); Marta Loachamin (Commissioner, District 2); Ashley Stolzmann (Commissioner, District 3)

## Optional

- [How this site works](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/about): sources, pipeline, and what the language model does
- [Sitemap](https://politics.boulderhopkins.com/sitemap-index.xml)