Analysis: Town and Schools

Council on Aging — missing records

55 of 202 meetings this board has held are missing a recording, its official minutes, or a transcript; 2 more are not available yet, still inside the window for approving minutes. ← the Council on Aging’s page.

What this report counts

One row per meeting a board has HELD (noticed meetings still to come are not counted here -- see each board’s own page for those). video, minutes and transcript are each ‘posted’, ‘not available’, ‘missing’ or ‘n/a’. Not available means absent but still inside the Open Meeting Law’s window for approving minutes -- the later of 30 days and the board’s next three meetings (940 CMR 29.11) -- and it becomes MISSING once that window closes. Not provided means somebody has explained why the record will never exist, and the explanation is shown. n/a is for a board that has never recorded, or a date before its own first recording, and is never a stand-in for missing.

55 of 202
meetings held are missing something
2 of 202
meetings not available yet, still inside the window for approving minutes

2026: 0 of 9 meetings missing something, 2 not available yet

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, Sep 8, 2026postednot availableposted
Tue, Aug 11, 2026postednot availableposted

2024: 10 of 13 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, Oct 8, 2024MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Aug 13, 2024MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Jul 16, 2024MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Jun 11, 2024MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, May 14, 2024MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Apr 9, 2024MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Mar 12, 2024MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Feb 20, 2024MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Feb 13, 2024MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Jan 9, 2024MISSINGpostedn/a

2023: 14 of 14 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, Dec 12, 2023MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Nov 14, 2023MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Oct 10, 2023MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Sep 12, 2023MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Aug 8, 2023MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Jul 18, 2023MISSINGpostedn/a
Sun, Jun 18, 2023MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Jun 13, 2023MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, May 16, 2023MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Apr 11, 2023MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Mar 21, 2023MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Mar 14, 2023MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Feb 14, 2023MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Jan 10, 2023MISSINGpostedn/a

2022: 10 of 10 meetings missing something

2021: 8 of 9 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, Dec 14, 2021MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Nov 9, 2021MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Oct 12, 2021MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Sep 14, 2021MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Aug 10, 2021MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Jul 20, 2021MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Jun 15, 2021MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Apr 13, 2021MISSINGMISSINGn/a

2020: 2 of 6 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, Oct 13, 2020postedMISSINGposted
Tue, Sep 8, 2020MISSINGMISSINGn/a

2018: 1 of 12 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, Mar 20, 2018n/aMISSINGn/a

2014: 4 of 14 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, Dec 9, 2014n/aMISSINGn/a
Tue, Sep 9, 2014n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, May 22, 2014n/aMISSINGn/a
Tue, Apr 8, 2014n/aMISSINGn/a

2013: 5 of 17 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, Dec 3, 2013n/aMISSINGn/a
Mon, Nov 4, 2013n/aMISSINGn/a
Tue, Oct 1, 2013n/aMISSINGn/a
Tue, Jan 8, 2013n/aMISSINGn/a
Mon, Jan 7, 2013n/aMISSINGn/a

2011: 1 of 12 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, May 17, 2011n/aMISSINGn/a

What this does not show

  • Whether a board that recorded once and then stopped did so by policy or by equipment failure. `video` only asks whether the date is on or after the board’s own first dated recording, never whether it still records today.
  • Whether a missing set of minutes was ever approved and simply not posted, or never written at all -- both print the same way in the town’s own AgendaCenter.
  • Whether a board showed good cause for a delay, which the law allows. The window here is the general rule; a record past it is MISSING from what the town has posted, which is not a finding that the board broke the law.
  • Whether the town posted something later than our last check of its site. The window counts the board’s meetings as the register holds them, including ones it has noticed and not yet held.

Checked against the town’s AgendaCenter (agendas and minutes, 2026-10-07) and every upload on the Lunenburg Access YouTube channel (as of 2026-10-07).

What changed

Version 15 — updated September 20, 2026