Public Meetings, Translated and Accessible

Public meetings, in your language.

Search Nantucket's meeting minutes, agendas, and packets in plain English — or get them translated to Spanish, Portuguese, and 100+ other languages. A weekly newsletter brings what changed in your town straight to your inbox. Every answer cited back to the source. Free for everyone.

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The records are public. Reading them shouldn't require a law degree.

Town minutes are public — but nobody reads them

Hundreds of pages of agendas, minutes, and meeting packets get posted every month. Most of them never get opened. The decisions that affect your block, your school, your taxes are sitting in those PDFs.

The answer exists. It's just buried.

Zoning votes, budget debates, planning approvals — all of it lives in some PDF or recording somewhere. CivicIndex makes it searchable in plain English, with citations back to the original source.

Your town doesn't always speak your language

Ask in Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, or Mandarin and get an answer in the same language. Subscribe to the weekly digest in English, Spanish, or Portuguese — sourced from the same public record everyone else has access to.

How CivicIndex Works

From scattered public records to searchable, multilingual answers in three steps

Public records get ingested

Minutes, agendas, meeting packets, and recordings from Select Board, Planning Board, Zoning, Finance, Conservation, and more.

Indexed, summarized, and translated

Searchable in plain English, available on demand in 100+ languages, tied back to the exact page or timestamp it came from.

Ask, browse, or subscribe

Search the archive, read what changed in this week's digest, or get a weekly newsletter in English, Spanish, or Portuguese — every answer cited back to the source.

What CivicIndex does

Natural Language Search

Ask anything the way you'd actually say it. You get a direct answer, not a list of PDFs to dig through.

100+ Languages

Ask in any language and get an answer in the same one — sourced from the same English public records everyone else has access to.

Verified Citations

Every answer links back to the exact source — a paragraph in a packet, a line in the minutes, or a section in the agenda. No black box.

Multi-Source Ingestion

Meeting minutes, agendas, packets, and recordings — pulled in automatically from CivicClerk, town websites, and email. All in one searchable archive.

Plain-Language Summaries

Bureaucratic packets and 3-hour meetings get distilled into readable summaries. Catch up in two minutes instead of two hours.

Weekly Newsletter

A weekly digest of what changed in your town — votes, hearings, decisions — delivered in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Subscribe with just your email.

Common Questions

Everything you need to know about getting started

Yes. CivicIndex is free for residents to search and free to subscribe to the weekly newsletter. No paywall, no premium tier.

Every answer comes from official public records — meeting minutes, agendas, packets, and recordings from Select Board, Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Finance Committee, Conservation Commission, and more. We pull them in automatically from CivicClerk, town websites, and direct email submissions. Nothing is made up.

Every answer includes a citation linking to the exact source — a paragraph in a packet, a line in the minutes, or a section in the agenda. You can verify anything yourself. If we don't have enough information to answer, we'll say so instead of guessing.

Yes. Ask in Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Mandarin, or any of 100+ languages and get your answer in the same language — sourced from the same English public records everyone else has access to.

Subscribe with your email and pick a language: English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Each week you'll get a plain-language digest of what changed in your town — major votes, hearings, and decisions. Unsubscribe anytime with one click.

We're currently indexing Nantucket public meetings — Select Board, Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Finance Committee, Conservation Commission, and others — including their minutes, agendas, and packets. New material is added as the town publishes it.

CivicIndex is an independent civic technology project. We're not affiliated with the Town of Nantucket or any municipal government. We use publicly available records to make local government more accessible.

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