Board Member and Legislative Body Scrapers
- Located in
lametro/people.py - Creates the board and its committees (or, bodies of type “Committee” or “Independent Taxpayer Oversight Committee”)
- Creates members of the above bodies and membership objects for each of their terms
- Further reading: https://open-civic-data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/proposals/0005.html
Tip
The following terms all refer to the same thing:
Board of Directors, Committee
- Body (Legistar API)
- Meeting body (Legistar UI)
- Organization (Open Civic Data universe, Councilmatic models)
- Committee (Legistar UI, Councilmatic UI)
Board member
- Member (Legistar UI)
- Person/s (Legistar API, Open Civic Data universe, Councilmatic models)
- Board member (Councilmatic UI)
Membership
- Office record (Legistar API)
- Membership (Open Civic Data models, Councilmatic models)
- Term (pupa)
Key issues
- Memberships are tricky! Sometimes, they are updated in ways that don’t resolve correctly, introducing duplicates. Other times, they are deleted from Legistar, which is a challenge for us to detect.