Council legislation since 2014, read three ways. The Fiscal Impacts Tracker follows what each bill costs the city, from the Finance Division's own estimates. The Obligations Tracker lists the duties each local law places on city agencies, with deadlines. The Powers Tracker lists the authority each law hands those agencies. Each tracker has its own charts, tables, and member alerts.
The trackers are built with AI assistance: a language model reads each law and fiscal impact statement and drafts the records. Every duty and power carries a verbatim quote from the law, and every quoted passage is mechanically string-checked against the law text; the few that don't match exactly are flagged on the record. Fiscal figures are checked by blind audits against the original statements. Details are in each tracker's methodology (duties and powers, fiscal impacts).
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Each tracker answers a different question about the same laws
The Finance Division's pre-vote estimate of what each bill adds to the city budget (a lower bound), by agency, sponsor, and year.
Every duty a local law places on a city agency: reports, rules, programs, and the deadline for each.
The authority local laws hand city agencies, from inspections to fees, kept out of the duty counts.
Every council member since 2014, with the bills they sponsored across all three trackers, how they voted, and a district map.
Every agency, office, and board the three trackers touch, with the duties and powers Council laws give it, the fiscal estimates for bills that affect it, and its budget, staff, payroll, and capital projects.
Member tools
Members can ask the trackers a question and get an answer that cites every record it uses; they also get a monthly email when a new law, fiscal estimate, deadline or overdue report touches what they follow; a printable brief for each of the 51 council districts, with its 311 trends and its council member's late duties; and a watchlist of what changed for the agencies, council members and laws they pin.
