Boston City Clerk and Assistant City Clerks offices have been lacking in compiling Minutes for proceedings and transactions of the Boston City Council. The Minutes are in too brief a format to be understood by most people. It's not enough to only meet the requirements of keeping minutes. More information about the items in the Minutes need to be more readily available. A cross index is needed for Docket Numbers.

Council stenographic machine records should be more readily available that people may quote the Councilors' debate. Budgeted for Boston City Council are the stenographic scopist services of E. Fritch Stenographic Associates. The City Stenographer keeps the scopist stenographic machine records at home instead of archiving these public records at city archives.