Methodology
How OpenTexas sources, transcribes, enriches, and indexes public meeting records.
What we hold for McKinney
These are coverage figures — how much of the public record we have published. They are not an accuracy measure, and we do not currently publish one.
- Meetings
- 186
- Bodies covered
- 50
- Earliest record
- November 20, 2015
- Latest meeting
- October 27, 2026
Minutes are published on the body's own schedule, often weeks after the meeting.
456 published motions. A decision can only be extracted where minutes exist.
Next scheduled meeting on record: November 3, 2026.
Known source problems
- October 27, 2026 · City Council Work Session — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- October 27, 2026 · Joint Meeting of the McKinney City Council and McKinney Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- October 14, 2026 · McKinney Armed Services Memorial Board — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
- October 5, 2026 · City Council Work Session — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- September 22, 2026 · City Council Work Session — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- April 21, 2026 · McKinney Economic Development Corporation — no-media: Swagit video 388389 broken — HLS path has empty filename (mp4:mckinneytx//playlist.m3u8), /download 404. No media at source.
- April 26, 2022 · Planning & Zoning Commission — Retired: pre-2025-01-01 archive, out of scope (see scripts/retire-pre-2025-meetings.ts)
- April 12, 2022 · Planning & Zoning Commission — Retired: pre-2025-01-01 archive, out of scope (see scripts/retire-pre-2025-meetings.ts)
- March 22, 2022 · Planning & Zoning Commission — Retired: pre-2025-01-01 archive, out of scope (see scripts/retire-pre-2025-meetings.ts)
- March 11, 2022 · City Council Work Session - City Council Strategic Goals Prioritization — Retired: pre-2025-01-01 archive, out of scope (see scripts/retire-pre-2025-meetings.ts)
Bodies covered (50)
Airport Master Plan, Planning Advisory Committee · Airport Master Plan, Technical Advisory Committee · April 2016 McKinney Community News - Emergency Sirens, Volunteer Heroes, and Golf Cart Safety · Board of Adjustment · Building and Standards Commission · Capital Improvements Advisory Committee · City Council · City Council Budget Work Session · City Council Regular Meeting · City Council Special Meeting · City Council Special Meeting - Special MeetingCanvassing Results of theJanuary 15, 2022 Special Election&City Council Work Session · City Council Strategic Goals Work Session · City Council Work Session · City Council Work Session - City Council Strategic Goals Prioritization · Community Grants Advisory Commission · Downtown Parking Committee · February 2016 McKinney Community News - One-Stop Development, Downtown Development, and Working Together · Historic Preservation Advisory Board · Homelessness Task Force · Joint Meeting · Joint Meeting Of The Mckinney City Council & Mckinney Community Development Corporation · Joint Meeting Of The Mckinney City Council & Mckinney Economic Development Corporation · Joint Meeting Of The Mckinney City Council & Mckinney Economic Development Corporation (Medc) · Joint Meeting Of The Mckinney City Council & Mckinney Independent School District Board Of Trustees · Joint Meeting of the McKinney City Council and McKinney Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) · June 2016 McKinney Community News - Environmental Award, Trash-Off, and From Clouds to Faucets · Legacy Neighborhood Event · Library Advisory Board · March 2016 McKinney Community News - Home Inspections, Dam Safety, and Downtown Events · May 2016 McKinney Community News - A New Career, From Student to Teacher, and Aviation Intern · Mayor's Minute · McKinney Armed Services Memorial Board · McKinney Arts Commission · McKinney Community Development Corporation · McKinney Community Development Corporation (MCDC) · McKinney Economic Development Corporation · McKinney Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) · McKinney Housing Finance Corporation · McKinney Main Street Board · Mckinney Community Development Corporation · Mckinney Economic Development Corporation · Mckinney Urban Transit District Board · Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Advisory Board · Planning & Zoning Commission · Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) · Reinvestment Zone Number One · Reinvestment Zone Number Two · State of the City · Visit McKinney · Visit Mckinney
Where the records come from
We pull official meeting videos from city platforms — Granicus, CivicPlus, PrimeGov, Swagit, and YouTube — once per city per day. Agendas come from the city's public agenda system. Nothing is republished without an official source.
How transcription works
Every meeting is transcribed with word-level timestamps, then enriched with AI to extract decisions, agenda items, public comments, and civic issues. Transcripts may contain errors; video and original audio remain the authoritative source.
How search works
Search is hybrid — keyword matching plus vector similarity — inside Meilisearch. Results are real records (meetings, agenda items, dev applications). The summaries on each result card were produced during enrichment and are reviewed periodically. Written answers come only from the assistant, described next.
How the assistant answers questions
The “Ask about” assistant answers plain-English questions from the same records search uses: agendas, minutes, transcripts, recorded decisions and development applications. It does not answer from general knowledge about your city. It is free with a sign-in.
Every statement in an answer links to the meeting it came from, so you can open the agenda, minutes or the moment in the video and check it yourself. When the records do not cover a question, it says so instead of guessing.
It keeps a recommendation separate from a decision. A planning commission that votes to recommend denial has not denied anything; the council decides next, and the answer says which body acted and which body acts next.
Known limits. Until a body approves its minutes, a vote may be known only from the recording; answers label those votes as recording-based. Not every meeting has a transcript or minutes yet, and coverage differs by city (see the coverage figures at the top of this page). Like the summaries, answers can contain errors.
Before a change to the assistant ships, we rerun a fixed set of real residents' questions with checked answers and compare the results. Passing that set does not guarantee every answer is right, which is why every answer shows its sources.
AI limitations
AI summaries can contain errors. Always verify legal actions, vote counts, and named-person attributions against the official video, transcript, and minutes. Where records are incomplete, we mark the gap rather than guess.
Corrections
Spotted a problem? Email corrections@opencityrecord.org with a link to the page and a description of the issue. We review every correction and update the affected record.