City of Dover ordinances and resolutions tracker
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Each numbered City ordinance and resolution found in Council and committee agendas and minutes, with every step recorded for it (readings, public hearings, committee recommendations, referrals, amendments, adoption or defeat), the vote count when a motion was taken, and a link to the agenda or minutes PDF. Status is its latest step.

Published by: OpenDover, from City of Dover agendas and minutes
Source: https://www.cityofdover.gov/meetings
License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Credit line: OpenDover, from City of Dover agendas and minutes.
Updated: Daily, as minutes are published
Covers: Meetings whose agendas and minutes have been read, from November 2025
Area: Dover, Delaware

OpenDover builds this data from the City's public agendas and minutes and shares it under CC BY 4.0. Each step links the PDF it comes from.

Files
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- city_legislation.csv and city_legislation.json: id, kind, number, label, agenda_title, status, status_date, status_meeting_id, first_seen_date, last_seen_date, action_count, source_url, built_at
- city_legislation_actions.csv and city_legislation_actions.json: id, legislation_id, seq, meeting_id, meeting_date, meeting_title, action, derived_from, record_text, agenda_item_id, motion_id, motion_result, yea_count, nay_count, abstain_count, absent_count, mover_speaker_id, seconder_speaker_id, source_document_id, source_doc_type, source_url, built_at, mover_name, seconder_name

Each file is built from OpenDover's database when you download it. In the CSV files, text that a spreadsheet would
treat as a formula (starting with =, +, @ or -) begins with an apostrophe so it opens as plain text. The JSON files
hold the values exactly.

This copy: 2026-11-08

More: https://opendover.org/data/dover-ordinances-resolutions/
API: https://api.opendover.org/v1/datasets/dover-ordinances-resolutions