City Council Contract Awards & Rezonings API (Agenda Data)

Turn city council and county board agendas into structured data: government contract awards (vendor, dollar amount, not-to-exceed), rezonings, variances, annexations, bond issues, RFPs and settlements, with parcel numbers / addresses and the approval status from the minutes. 109 US cities and counties in 26 states (Boston, Denver, Phoenix, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Nashville, Louisville, Sacramento, San Jose, Seattle, Broward County, Clark County NV, DuPage County, and more). Includes a weekly "who won city money" ranking of the largest city contract awards by vendor and amount. Export CSV, Excel or JSON, or call it as an API.

Who buys this: contractors and subcontractors chasing public contract awards and bid leads; homebuilders and land acquisition teams tracking rezoning and annexation; muni-bond and equity analysts following city vendor spend; journalists and government-affairs teams. Existing agenda scrapers give you a PDF link; this gives you the vendor, the dollars and the parcel.

Sample output

meetingDate	jurisdiction	signalType	amount	amountType	vendors	parcels / addresses	status	title
2026-10-20	Denver	contract_award	$11,000,000 (new total $82,200,000)	change	Securitas Security Services USA, Inc.		Approval Review	Amends a contract with Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. to add $11,000,000.00 for a new total of $82,200,000.00
2026-10-20	Sacramento	contract_award	$675,000	notToExceed	Robert Thompson (dba Legacy Ranching)		Agenda Ready	[Contract] Grazing Services - Fuel Reduction and Vegetation Management
2026-10-20	Clark County	contract_award	$600,000 (new total $1,600,000)	change	Full Circle Events, Inc.		Approved	Approve an Amendment and increase funding to the Contract with Full Circle Events, Inc.
2026-10-21	Phoenix	contract_award	$206,631	total	MCI Communications Services LLC		Agenda Ready - Fire Department	Verizon Connectivity Contract - RFA 26-0358 Request for Award
2026-10-27	San Jose	contract_award	$1,200,000	notToExceed	HomeFirst Services of Santa Clara County	901 E. Santa Clara Street, 1780 Hillsdale Avenue	Agenda Ready	Grant Agreement with HomeFirst Services of Santa Clara County for City Designated Overnight Warming Locations
2026-10-22	Fresno	annexation					Agenda Ready	HEARING to Adopt Resolutions and Ordinance to Annex Territory and Levy a Special Tax Regarding City of Fresno Community Facilities District No. 9
2026-10-20	San Jose	rezoning				525 Race Street	Agenda Ready	GP26-002 - Early Consideration for a Privately-Initiated General Plan Amendment
2026-10-19	Denver	rezoning				2246 North Federal Boulevard	Second Reading w/Public Hearing	A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2246 North Federal Boulevard

Quick start

{
  "clients": [
    "sanjose",
    "sacramento",
    "denver"
  ],
  "daysBack": 14,
  "daysAhead": 14,
  "signalTypes": [
    "contract_award",
    "rezoning"
  ],
  "minAmountUsd": 100000,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Input

Field	Description
clients	Jurisdiction ids (see README coverage table), e.g. seattle, sanjose, sacramento, denver, phoenix, bend, deschutes. Empty = the 10 largest-budget defaults.
daysBack	Meetings from this many days ago.
daysAhead	Include upcoming meetings whose agendas are already posted (proposed items).
dateFrom	YYYY-MM-DD; overrides Days back.
dateTo	YYYY-MM-DD; overrides Days ahead.
signalTypes	Only these signal types. Empty = all.
minAmountUsd	Only items whose extracted amount is at least this. Items without an amount are dropped when set.
keywords	Only items whose title or vendor contains any of these (case-insensitive).
allBodies	By default only councils, boards of supervisors/commissioners and planning commissions are read.
maxMatterTexts	Full item text (recommendation/resolution) is fetched for items whose title has no $ amount. Lower = faster.
maxPdfs	PDF fallback (only where the host's robots.txt allows).
maxItems	Maximum rows.

Coverage

109 US cities and counties in 26 states on the public Legistar Web API (verified 2026-10-20). Counts: signals / contract awards with a $ amount, 30-day test run (2026-09-20 to 2026-10-20).

State	Jurisdictions (id: signals / priced awards)
AR	Jonesboro (jonesboro: 15/7)
AZ	Mesa (mesa: 17/10), Phoenix (phoenix: 64/48), Pima County (pima: 61/33)
CA	Alameda (alameda: 18/15), Chino (chino: 12/5), Costa Mesa (costamesa: 10/5), Cupertino (cupertino: 8/3), Dublin (dublin: 2/2), Fontana (fontana: 17/7), Fresno (fresno: 16/7), Fullerton (fullerton: 15/6), Goleta (goleta: 3/1), Hayward (hayward: 9/5), Hesperia (hesperia: 8/4), Huntington Beach (huntingtonbeach: 17/2), Manhattan Beach (manhattanbeach: 4/3), Monterey County (monterey: 84/54), Mountain View (mountainview: 9/4), Murrieta (murrieta: 395/3), Napa (napa: 37/27), Newport Beach (newportbeach: 17/0), Oakland (oakland: 34/13), Pomona (pomona: 30/7), Redondo Beach (redondo: 29/18), Rialto (rialto: 16/9), Sacramento (sacramento: 50/45), Salinas (salinas: 4/4), San Bernardino (sanbernardino: 118/59), San Jose (sanjose: 16/7), San Mateo County (sanmateocounty: 38/32), Santa Barbara County (santabarbara: 61/32), Santa Clara County (santaclara: 22/13), Solano County (solano: 28/11), Stockton (stockton: 17/14), Sunnyvale (sunnyvaleca: 11/6), Visalia (visalia: 24/14), Westminster (westminsterca: 6/0)
CO	Arapahoe County (arapahoe: 6/0), Colorado Springs (coloradosprings: 21/0), Denver (denver: 253/170), Douglas County (douglascounty: 40/22)
FL	Brevard County (brevardfl: 17/0), Broward County (broward: 88/49), Clearwater (clearwater: 55/36), Coconut Creek (coconutcreek: 9/5), Coral Gables (coralgables: 25/5), Doral (doral: 13/3), Fort Lauderdale (fortlauderdale: 41/9), Hillsborough County (hillsboroughcounty: 0/0), Martin County (martin: 9/6), Miramar (miramar: 8/3), Ocala (ocala: 52/23), Pinellas County (pinellas: 47/27), Venice (venice: 28/2), Wellington (wellington: 19/12)
GA	Fulton County (fulton: 49/25)
IL	DuPage County (dupage: 81/60), Joliet (joliet: 45/30), Naperville (naperville: 21/18), Rockford (rockfordil: 58/27)
KS	Olathe (olatheks: 38/0)
KY	Louisville Metro (louisville: 33/5)
MA	Boston (boston: 60/43)
MD	Baltimore (baltimore: 29/3)
MI	Ann Arbor (a2gov: 41/24)
MN	St. Paul (stpaul: 44/2)
MO	Kansas City (kansascity: 131/34)
NC	Durham County (durhamcounty: 24/5), Guilford County (guilford: 20/13), Mecklenburg County (mecklenburg: 7/0), Wake County (wake: 9/1)
NH	Concord (concordnh: 11/0)
NJ	Newark (newark: 86/7)
NV	Clark County (clark: 99/43)
NY	Albany County (albanycounty: 12/11), Yonkers (yonkersny: 7/0)
OH	Cincinnati (cincinnatioh: 74/16), Columbus (columbus: 281/154), Hudson (hudson: 44/0), Toledo (toledo: 101/64)
PA	Pittsburgh (pittsburgh: 152/79)
TN	Nashville (nashville: 72/1)
TX	Corpus Christi (corpuschristi: 35/13), Killeen (killeen: 29/15), League City (leaguecity: 24/18), McKinney (mckinney: 25/18), Mesquite (mesquite: 42/26), New Braunfels (newbraunfels: 36/0), Pflugerville (pflugerville: 19/8), Plano (plano: 21/14), Round Rock (roundrock: 7/0), San Marcos (sanmarcos: 8/1)
VA	Alexandria (alexandria: 11/0), Hampton (hampton: 8/0), Richmond (richmondva: 125/2)
WA	Bellevue (bellevue: 7/0), King County (kingcounty: 8/2), Olympia (olympia: 8/0), Redmond (redmond: 6/2), Seattle (seattle: 3/0), Snohomish County (snohomish: 0/0), Tacoma (cityoftacoma: 25/9), Whatcom County (whatcom: 30/13)
WI	Dane County (dane: 33/0), Madison (madison: 190/12), Milwaukee (milwaukee: 34/2), Milwaukee County (milwaukeecounty: 20/1), Waukesha (waukesha: 8/1)

Default (empty clients): seattle, kingcounty, sanjose, oakland, sacramento, denver, phoenix, mesa, fresno, clark. Bend and Deschutes County, OR are not included: their agenda portals' robots.txt disallow automated access.

Fields

recordId, jurisdiction, state, platform, legistarClient, meetingDate, body, agendaNumber, fileNumber, matterType, signalType (primary), signalTypes (all), title, amount (the amount of this action: for amendments the added/removed amount, else the contract / not-to-exceed / award value), amountType (change / notToExceed / total / stated / bondAmount), contractTotal (new or revised contract total when stated), amounts (every $ figure with its text, a notToExceed flag and its kind: change / total / budget / stated), vendors (private or nonprofit counterparties; empty when the item names none; public agencies, grantors, applicants and settlement parties are never listed as vendors), parcels (APN/parcel ids), addresses, acres, consent, status (action and pass/fail from minutes, or the agenda status), statusNormalized (approved / failed / continued / withdrawn / pending), passed, tally, textSource (title or matterText), documentUrl, agendaUrl, minutesUrl, meetingUrl, sourceUrl, extractionMethod, source.

Re-run on a schedule: when the minutes post, the same recordId comes back with statusNormalized moving from pending to approved/failed.

How it works

1. Meetings and agenda items come from the public Legistar Web API (only jurisdictions that publish it without a token).
2. When an item title has no dollar figure, the item's full legislative text (recommendation/resolution) is read from the same API.
3. Signals, amounts, vendors, parcels, addresses and acres are extracted with deterministic rules (no AI guessing), so the same input always gives the same output. Every row links to its source.
4. PDF attachments are read only from hosts whose robots.txt allows it (Legistar's attachment host does not, so most rows use the API text).

Limitations

• Extraction is rule-based. On a 2026-10-20 ten-city feed test (243 contract-award rows, checked against the Legistar source text), a 124-row held-out half scored: vendor 84%, amount 71%, award type 75%, is-a-contract-award 81%. Common misses: the amount picked up is a budget transfer or an old contract total; items that are grants received or intergovernmental deals flagged as awards. Two earlier 50-row blind holdouts of all agenda signals scored vendor 86–90%, amount 98–100%, item type 96%. Always check amounts and the source link before acting.
• Coverage is what each jurisdiction posts in Legistar; committee items are skipped unless allBodies is on.

Pricing

Pay per result: $8 per 1,000 extracted agenda signals ($0.008 per result), plus a $0.00005 Apify start fee per run. You pay only for rows written to your dataset; Apify platform usage (compute) is included in that price, not billed separately. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify Console or the API and the run stops at that limit. Users on the Apify free plan can try it within their free monthly credit.

Attribution

Public meeting records published by each jurisdiction through Granicus Legistar. Independent tool by Ledger; not affiliated with or endorsed by Granicus or any jurisdiction.