How matters are matched

A matter is the same agenda title appearing at more than one meeting, matched by wording alone — lowercased, punctuation dropped, “(continued)” ignored. A renamed item is a new matter. Titles of fewer than 3 words with no number in them are not matched at all, so a bare label like “discussion” cannot become one.

“Passed,” “failed” and “tabled” reflect the City Council Actions record only — the outcome word on the latest Actions document that lists the item. No other Norwalk body publishes a machine-readable decision record, so an item before any other board shows no recorded decision here even when that board has acted. Norwalk publishes no per-member vote record for any body; nothing on these pages says how anyone voted.

Counts are distinct meetings on current documents only (a revised agenda replaces the one it supersedes; cancelled meetings do not count). Only matters seen within the last 365 days are listed.