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0 development cases, 514 upcoming public meetings and 1 open comment windows across 53 covered cities - all from official records. Enter your address to see what’s near you.
City scores weighted by the records behind each, from the 1 of 53 covered cities with a full record base. How it’s measured
Share of scored cities in each band - a distribution, not a ranking.
514 public meetings are on Minnesota calendars right now, across 53 covered cities - 1,123 were held or scheduled in the last 90 days.
10+ are coming up this week, 1 with a public hearing.
0 land-use and permit cases are on record across Minnesota's covered cities.
Each case names the government record it came from.
1 comment windows are open right now - projects and proposals still taking public input.
Every agenda and project page shows how to take part when the record says so.
53 cities are covered; 53 have enough records for a number - 0 Good, 53 Limited.
A city appears as soon as its meeting portal or permit records can be read.
City government finances summed across the 1 covered city with Census finance data - not every government in the area, and county/state/school spending is not included. Read from the Census Bureau government-finance file.
Reported by 1 city police agencies to the FBI (NIBRS) and read from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Offenses reported to the FBI by the covered cities' own police agencies, summed - not sheriff or state patrol activity, and not every city reports every year; reporting practices differ between agencies.
The next one on the calendars is Senior Commission - Cancelled (Robbinsdale) on Monday, September 7 - one of 514 meetings currently scheduled across Minnesota's covered cities. Each meeting page links to the city's own agenda.
Cities set their own rules - sign-up forms, comment periods and time limits differ - so every agenda page here shows that city's own participation instructions when the record includes them, and 1 written-comment windows are open right now.
Community safety varies across Minnesota's covered cities: 1 Low of 1 scored cities, by reported crime against similar-size communities. In 2025, police agencies across Minnesota's covered cities reported 1,510 violent offenses (about 1 for every 204 residents) and 8,692 property offenses (about 1 for every 35 residents) to the FBI. Counts are what agencies reported; practices differ between agencies and years.
Violent offenses are down 37% since 2021 and property offenses are down 31% since 2021, by the rates the covered cities' police agencies reported to the FBI (population-adjusted, complete reporting years only).
In FY2022, Minnesota's covered cities spent $2,770 per resident. The biggest shares went to sewer, water & waste (18%), police (17%), general government & administration (16%). Figures are the Census Bureau's own survey of local government finances, summed across the covered cities.
In FY2022, Minnesota's covered cities raised $2,757 per resident, mostly from state & federal aid (27%), charges & fees (24%), property tax (23%).
41 (Limited) - city scores weighted by the records behind each, from the 1 cities with a full record base. It describes what official records show about responsiveness, safety and spending; it never ranks governments or predicts anything.
53 of 53 covered cities have enough official records for a number: 0 Good and 53 Limited. A Limited band means the records show gaps or there are not yet enough records to say - never a judgement.
From the governments themselves: city meeting portals and agenda documents, city and statewide land-use records, reported crime and government finance files. Every item names its official source, and pages refresh every 12 hours.
Bands describe what the records show; nothing here ranks a government. Computed Sep 4, 2026, 8:09 PM, refreshed every 12 hours. How it’s measured