I recently received a request for a feature to my Tulsa City Council Database; a complete record of every vote of the council. This would be an amazing feature. I can imagine a ton of different queries that I would run if I had that data in my database. It would be pretty sweet.
However, the amount of work it would take to compile, normalize, and enter that data into my DB would be immense. Joseph Bojang suggested that I had a lot of time on my hands, but I don't have that much. Fortunately access to this data does not require a freedom of information act request...It just requires that you have a lot of time on your hands.
Go to the Tulsa City Council Meeting Search page, and look up past meetings. All the data you need/want is contained in the meeting minutes. It's all there...unless you want to go further back than 2007, then perhaps it would require not only a ton of time but also a freedom of information act request.
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That's quitter talk
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