Two years worth of Whatcom County Council regular meeting minutes (2021 and 2022) and one year of Bellingham City Council regular meeting minutes (2022), along with one year of the City Council’s meeting summaries (2021) have been posted here on Noisy Waters Northwest. Work in progress posts for 2023 Whatcom County Council and Bellingham City Council meeting minutes that have been approved, so far, are also available. In addition, there is one year (2022) of meeting minutes posted for Bellingham City Council’s Committee of the Whole.

My goal is to continue to build on a project of assembling local government meeting minutes into year-long batches that can be searched for material like a topic, presentation, person in attendance, or actions of the members of the body that is meeting.

I recently was made aware that both the City of Bellingham and Whatcom County websites offer a function that will search the content for all meetings, including documents attached to the meetings. When I tried those options out, I found that there were advantages (the links to documents and other meeting materials that you might not have thought to look for) and drawbacks (slower result response times and maybe more info/distractions than you want, or the opposite: missed info that searches on my posts might manage to catch.) So if you can’t find what you’re looking for here, go there, and vice versa.

Here are the links for those options on government websites:

City of Bellingham: https://meetings.cob.org/meetings?fbclid=IwAR1pKVHTcjG9s6U-qaomvivQJxu74i3PVa8fYNbsLMxHlPypWhC82Sz70lA

Whatcom County: https://whatcom.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2vtIEDKYL9p9u45RXEMEG8bY6cBcyNfbMeO6MvzQ99JblsKv2Clr_hLNo

Here are links to the different years of minutes I have put together so far: