# Brussels Public Meetings Summary - 2026-03-16

## 🚨 URGENT: Meetings TODAY (March 16, 2026)

### ⭐ Bruxelles-Ville (1000)
- **TODAY: 16 March 2026** - Public session of the City Council
- **Time:** Time TBC (usually evenings)
- **Status:** MEETING TODAY!

### ⭐ Etterbeek (1040) 
- **TODAY: Lundi 16 mars 2026 à 20h00** 
- **Location:** Salle du conseil de l'hôtel communal
- **Status:** MEETING TODAY AT 8 PM!
- **Agenda PDF available:** [20260316_OJ_PUBLIC_0.pdf](https://etterbeek.brussels/sites/default/files/publications/ordre-du-jour/2026-03/20260316_OJ_PUBLIC_0.pdf)

## 📅 Upcoming Meetings This Week & Next

### Ixelles (1050)
- **19 mars 2026** (Wednesday) - Next council meeting in 3 days
- **Agenda and documents available** (PDFs: 171 Ko + 3141 Ko)
- Usually Thursdays at 19h00, Council chamber

## 📅 Upcoming Meetings - Rest of March

### Anderlecht (1070)
- **26 mars 2026** - Next meeting in 10 days
- **YouTube Live Stream:** https://youtube.com/live/RJk2Pm5tSaE
- Full transparency with live streaming

### Forest (1190)
- **24 mars 2026** - Next meeting in 8 days
- **Time:** Tuesdays at 19h30
- **YouTube Live:** [commune de forest gemeente](https://www.youtube.com/@communedeforestgemeentevor982)

## 📅 April Meetings Confirmed

### Multiple Communes with April Meetings:
- **Bruxelles-Ville:** 20 April 2026
- **Etterbeek:** 20 avril 2026 à 20h00  
- **Anderlecht:** 23 avril 2026 (YouTube live)
- **Ixelles:** 23 avril 2026
- **Forest:** 21 avril 2026 à 19h30 (YouTube live)

## 📊 Data Quality by Commune

### ✅ Excellent Information Retrieved:
1. **Bruxelles-Ville (1000)** - Full schedule with dates through June
2. **Etterbeek (1040)** - Complete meeting info + TODAY'S agenda PDF
3. **Ixelles (1050)** - Schedule + downloadable documents  
4. **Anderlecht (1070)** - Comprehensive with YouTube live streams
5. **Evere (1140)** - Council composition and citizen participation info
6. **Forest (1190)** - Full 2026 schedule + YouTube live streaming

### ⚠️ Limited Information:
1. **Parlement de Bruxelles** - Structure visible but dynamic content issues
2. **Schaerbeek (1030)** - Technical issues with JavaScript/JSON parsing
3. **Saint-Gilles (1060)** - Focus on participation rather than meeting schedules

## 🔍 Still Need to Complete

### Remaining Communes (10 still to complete):
- Molenbeek (1080) - ⚠️ Placeholder created
- Koekelberg (1081) - ⚠️ Placeholder created  
- Ganshoren (1083) - ⚠️ Placeholder created
- Jette (1090)
- Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (1150)
- Auderghem (1160)
- Watermael-Boitsfort (1170)
- Uccle (1180)
- Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (1200)
- Saint-Josse (1210)

## 📋 Key Findings

### Common Patterns:
- Most councils meet monthly (except July-August)
- Evening meetings typical (19h00-20h00)
- Monday/Thursday popular meeting days
- Many communes offer live streaming or recording
- Citizen interpellation rights widely available
- PDF agendas typically available 7+ days before meetings

### Technical Issues Encountered:
- JavaScript-heavy sites with dynamic content loading
- Some communes have robots.txt restrictions
- JSON parsing errors on newer municipal websites
- Cookie consent popups affecting scraping

### Best Practices Observed:
- **Anderlecht:** YouTube live streaming archive back to 2021
- **Etterbeek:** PDF agendas with clear file naming conventions
- **Ixelles:** Structured calendar with document downloads
- **Bruxelles-Ville:** Clear multi-month schedule publication

## 📞 Contact Information Collected

### For Meeting Information:
- **Bruxelles-Ville:** Meetings and Governance department
- **Etterbeek:** Secrétariat communal - 02 627 21 11
- **Saint-Gilles:** Service Organisation des assemblées - assemblees.1060@stgilles.brussels
- **Anderlecht:** publi.irisnet.be document portal
- **Evere:** 02/247.62.22

## 🎯 Action Items

1. **Immediate:** Alert about TODAY'S meetings (Bruxelles-Ville & Etterbeek)
2. **This Week:** Monitor Wednesday meeting in Ixelles (March 19)
3. **Complete Remaining:** Continue scraping 10+ remaining communes
4. **Follow-up:** Check technical issues with Schaerbeek and other problematic sites

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**Generated:** Monday, March 16, 2026 - Based on lightpanda scraping of Brussels commune websites