Search the record
Search every recorded comment and item by topic, place, district, and date range. Searches comments and roll-call votes, including each issue's recorded evidence. Example: type school to see everything on schools. Every result names its source minutes (full provenance in the Sources file).
| Date | Type | Topic (issue) | Who / where | What was said / done | Source |
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Public comments per meeting
September’s surge: speaking time was cut to fit everyone. June 11, 2026 minutes are not yet posted — first live update.
Recorded roll-call votes on tracked issues
Per-commissioner votes transcribed from the roll-call appendices of the official minutes (which label them “unofficial until approved by the full commission”). All roll-call lines below have been verified against the source scans (see the Sources file, Verification log, for full provenance of every meeting).
Representative vote record
Pick a representative to see how they voted on every tracked roll-call motion — the verified record, by office. A unanimous tally doesn't mean everyone agreed; their comments before the vote appear here as the meeting transcripts are verified. Issues are tracked, not people: no party is recorded, nothing is scored.
| Date | Motion | Vote (per the record) | Outcome | Source |
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Office accountability
The public record attached to each office — what it did, and what is before it — drawn only from cited minutes. This is the record, not a score: nothing here grades, ranks, or rates anyone; “—” or “none found” means no record was located, not a judgment.
Recorded actions by this office
| Date | Motion | Vote | Outcome | Source |
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Before the County Commission (the body this office serves on)
These issues are before the Commission as a body — this office is one of 21 votes and voices on them, not solely responsible.
| ID | Issue | Status (per the record) | Days open |
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Commitments on the record
Forward commitments this body made — deferrals to return, promises to report back — and whether the record shows them kept. Status only, drawn from cited minutes; no score, no judgment.
| Made | Commitment | Status | Age / fulfilled | Source |
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Browse by meeting —
Every meeting on file, newest first — the items that came before the board, the action taken, the final disposition, and the roll-call vote. A responsibility log: what was asked, and what your representatives did about it. Items still being itemized from the minutes are marked as such (nothing is guessed).
The ledger —
For anyone tracking constituent concerns — residents, reporters, or candidates for any office. Needs follow-up first surfaces the longest-waiting issues with no recorded response; filter by topic to focus.
| ID | Issue | First raised | Times raised | Status (per the record) | Days open |
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How this record is kept — our method
Rules written first, applied the same way to everyone — the neutrality standard the whole project runs on. You can hold us to it.
What this site is
A permanent public record of problems and concerns raised before Rutherford County’s governing bodies — what was raised, when, how many times, whose office is responsible, and what has (or has not) happened since. We do not take positions. We keep the record, and we cite every source.
What counts — and what never does
An issue is about a problem and a place — never about a person. People appear only as officeholders performing recorded public acts (a vote, a motion, an on-record statement). We publish no accusations, opinions, or personal information about anyone. No party affiliation is recorded anywhere. We never grade, rank, or score anyone — we show the record; readers judge.
The evidence standard — every published line passes all eight
| Rule | What it means |
|---|---|
| Cited | Links a specific public source — minutes page, recording timestamp, article, or filing. No citation, it does not publish. |
| Verbatim or flagged | Quotes are word-for-word. Text a computer read from a scan is marked “unverified” until a person checks it against the original. |
| Offices, not persons | Accountability attaches to the office and its recorded public acts — nothing else about a person exists here. |
| Status = record | A status changes only on a documented public record, each change timestamped and permanent. Unknowns say “to verify” — never guessed. |
| Symmetric | The same rules harvest every meeting, every office, every officeholder — regardless of who holds it. |
| Both columns | Resolved and acted-upon concerns are shown as prominently as ignored ones. Commendations are recorded too. |
| Correctable | Anyone can ask for a correction; we check it against the sources, and the change history stays visible. |
| No scores | The system never grades, ranks, or rates anyone. |
What the statuses mean
| Status | Plain meaning |
|---|---|
| REPORTED | Raised in public; no official response found yet. |
| ACKNOWLEDGED | An official or body has responded on the record. |
| ON AGENDA | Scheduled for discussion at a public meeting. |
| IN PROGRESS | Work or a formal process is underway, per public record. |
| RESOLVED | Fixed or formally settled, per public record. |
Every status change is timestamped and permanent — nothing is silently edited or deleted, and every open issue shows its age in days.
Independent — and walled off
This is a nonpartisan civic project — not affiliated with, funded by, or coordinated with any campaign, party, or government body. It is kept completely separate from any campaign work and from any private legal matter; overlapping topics (sinkholes, drainage, school construction) enter only from public sources, under the same rules as anything else.
Who runs this, and corrections
Published openly by a resident of Rutherford County under BlackmanCommunity.com. The full record is public and every line cites its source (see Sources). If a record is wrong, tell us and we will check it against the public sources — corrections are made openly and the change history stays visible: info@blackmancommunity.com.
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