Analysis: Town and Schools

Finance Committee — missing records

183 of 439 meetings this board has held are missing a recording, its official minutes, or a transcript; 3 more are not available yet, still inside the window for approving minutes. ← the Finance Committee’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.

183 of 439
meetings held are missing something
3 of 439
meetings not available yet, still inside the window for approving minutes

2026: 6 of 23 meetings missing something, 3 not available yet

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Thu, Sep 24, 2026postednot availableposted
Thu, Sep 10, 2026not availablenot availablen/a
Thu, Aug 27, 2026postednot availableposted
Thu, Aug 13, 2026postedMISSINGposted
Tue, Jul 14, 2026MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Mar 24, 2026postedMISSINGMISSING
Tue, Mar 10, 2026postedpostedMISSING
Tue, Jan 27, 2026postedpostedMISSING
Mon, Jan 12, 2026postedpostedMISSING

2025: 4 of 24 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Mon, Nov 24, 2025postedMISSINGMISSING
Tue, Sep 30, 2025postedMISSINGMISSING
Tue, Aug 26, 2025postedpostedMISSING
Tue, Jul 8, 2025postedpostedMISSING

2024: 1 of 28 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, Feb 20, 2024MISSINGpostedn/a

2023: 4 of 22 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Thu, Oct 12, 2023postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Oct 5, 2023postedMISSINGposted
Tue, Mar 7, 2023MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Jan 12, 2023postedMISSINGposted

2022: 2 of 24 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Thu, Oct 27, 2022postedpostedMISSING
Tue, Sep 20, 2022MISSINGpostedn/a

2021: 11 of 29 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Tue, Nov 16, 2021MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Jul 8, 2021postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Jun 24, 2021MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Jun 17, 2021postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Jun 10, 2021MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, May 13, 2021postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Apr 8, 2021postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Mar 25, 2021postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Mar 11, 2021postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Mar 4, 2021postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Feb 11, 2021MISSINGpostedn/a

2020: 13 of 32 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Thu, Jul 23, 2020postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Jul 9, 2020postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Jun 25, 2020postedMISSINGposted
Tue, Jun 9, 2020MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Sun, May 10, 2020MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, May 7, 2020postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Apr 30, 2020postedMISSINGposted
Tue, Apr 28, 2020MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Apr 23, 2020postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Mar 5, 2020postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Feb 20, 2020postedMISSINGposted
Tue, Feb 11, 2020postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Jan 9, 2020MISSINGpostedn/a

2019: 15 of 28 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Thu, Dec 19, 2019MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Dec 12, 2019MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Nov 7, 2019MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Oct 29, 2019MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Oct 3, 2019MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Jul 11, 2019MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Jun 13, 2019MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, May 23, 2019postedMISSINGposted
Thu, May 9, 2019MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Apr 25, 2019MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Mar 28, 2019postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Mar 21, 2019postedMISSINGposted
Tue, Mar 19, 2019MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Feb 21, 2019postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Jan 10, 2019MISSINGpostedn/a

2018: 15 of 23 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Thu, Oct 11, 2018postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Jul 26, 2018MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Jun 28, 2018MISSINGpostedn/a
Tue, Jun 5, 2018MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, May 24, 2018MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Apr 26, 2018MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Mar 29, 2018postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Mar 15, 2018MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Mar 8, 2018MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Mar 1, 2018postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Feb 22, 2018postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Feb 15, 2018postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Feb 8, 2018postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Jan 25, 2018postedMISSINGMISSING
Thu, Jan 11, 2018MISSINGMISSINGn/a

2017: 26 of 26 meetings missing something

2016: 25 of 30 meetings missing something

2015: 20 of 27 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Thu, Dec 10, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Dec 3, 2015postedpostedMISSING
Mon, Nov 16, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Oct 22, 2015MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Oct 8, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Sep 24, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Sep 10, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Aug 27, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Aug 13, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Jul 23, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Jun 11, 2015postedpostedMISSING
Thu, May 14, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Sat, May 2, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Apr 23, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Mar 12, 2015postedpostedMISSING
Tue, Feb 24, 2015postedMISSINGposted
Thu, Feb 19, 2015MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Tue, Feb 17, 2015MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Feb 12, 2015MISSINGMISSINGn/a
Thu, Jan 8, 2015MISSINGpostedn/a

2014: 17 of 23 meetings missing something

2013: 4 of 25 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Thu, Nov 14, 2013MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Oct 24, 2013MISSINGpostedn/a
Thu, Apr 25, 2013n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Mar 7, 2013n/aMISSINGn/a

2012: 4 of 27 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Thu, Nov 29, 2012n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Nov 8, 2012n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Mar 8, 2012n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Mar 1, 2012n/aMISSINGn/a

2010: 16 of 24 meetings missing something

meetingYouTube recordingofficial minutestranscript
Thu, Dec 9, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Tue, Nov 9, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Oct 28, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Tue, Aug 3, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, May 27, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Sat, May 1, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Apr 8, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Tue, Apr 6, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Mon, Apr 5, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Mar 25, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Mar 11, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Feb 25, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Feb 11, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Jan 28, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Thu, Jan 14, 2010n/aMISSINGn/a
Wed, Jan 13, 2010n/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