County Meetings Data
Chesterfield County's public meeting agendas as free JSON: every agenda item,
the staff report behind it, and every dollar amount, percentage and development size in
those reports, quoted word for word with the page it came from. Rebuilt every few hours from the county's
CivicClerk portal.
Endpoints
| URL | What it returns |
|---|
/data/v1/meetings.json |
Every upcoming and recent Board of Supervisors, Planning Commission and School Board
meeting, with a link to its detail file once the county publishes the agenda. |
/data/v1/meetings/<id>.json |
One meeting's agenda, item by item. Example: Planning Commission. |
What an agenda item contains
| Field | Meaning |
|---|
number, title, section | Where the item sits on the agenda. |
action_requested | What the Board is being asked to do, from the staff report. |
summary | The staff report's "Summary of Information", in full. |
budget_comments | The "Budget and Management Comments" section, when the report has one. |
figures | Every $ amount, percentage, and count of homes, lots, acres or square
feet in the item's staff report and report attachments. Each has the exact text, a kind
(dollars, percent or size), its page, the sentence it appears in
(context) and the document it came from (source). |
reports, attachments | Links to the county's own documents for the item. |
first_seen, changed | When we first saw the item, and when it last changed. Agendas
get revised before the meeting; removed_items on the meeting lists items that were pulled. |
How to rely on it
- The figures are quotes, not estimates. No AI writes a number into the item data. Each figure is
copied from the text of the county's staff report and cites its page, so you can check it in seconds.
- The
ai_summary on each meeting is AI-written from the official agenda, and is
labelled that way. Check it against the source before you quote it.
- Links go to the county's public portal. The county's document is always the authority.
- Free, no key, no sign-up. Please credit: Agenda data: The Chesterfield Report (chesterfieldreport.com).
- Questions or a use you'd like supported: info@chesterfieldreport.com.
Example
curl -s https://chesterfieldreport.com/data/v1/meetings.json
