Meetings · Hamlet

Meeting length

The Orinda City Council's typical meeting runs 2 h 27 min in session.

BodyTypical meeting

Orinda City Council 45 meetings measured2 h 27 min Lafayette City Council 48 meetings measured2 h 19 min Moraga Town Council 37 meetings measured2 h 11 min

How we know

Typical (median) time in session of each body's full meetings: first word to last, leaving out silences of 10 minutes or more. Bodies need 6 measured meetings. Bodies with close lengths could swap places; the ranks are 90% ranges from resampling meetings. More on how we count

Body by body

Every meeting, by date

One dot per meeting; bigger dots ran longer. Hollow dots are older school-board meetings we have only in pieces. A gap means we have no video, not that the body skipped a month. 2 meetings with a date not yet confirmed are left off.

Lafayette council50 meetings

Lafayette planning26 meetings

Lafayette design review17 meetings

Moraga council37 meetings

Moraga planning17 meetings

Moraga parks and rec2 meetings

Orinda council45 meetings

Orinda planning24 meetings

Lafayette schools18 meetings, 11 partial

Moraga schools29 meetings, 20 partial

Orinda schools18 meetings, 11 partial

Acalanes high schools29 meetings, 18 partial

Off the chart: Lafayette Design Review Commission, Sep 29, 2021.

Where the public shows up

73% of the meetings we counted had at least one public commenter.

Lafayette City Council7.0 · public commenters per meeting · 50 meetings
Moraga Town Council5.3 · public commenters per meeting · 37 meetings
Orinda City Council4.4 · public commenters per meeting · 44 meetings
Lafayette Planning Commission2.8 · public commenters per meeting · 25 meetings
Moraga Planning Commission2.4 · public commenters per meeting · 17 meetings
Orinda Planning Commission2.3 · public commenters per meeting · 24 meetings
Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board1.7 · public commenters per meeting · 11 meetings
Lafayette School District Governing Board1.6 · public commenters per meeting · 7 meetings
Lafayette Design Review Commission1.5 · public commenters per meeting · 16 meetings
Orinda Union School District Board of Trustees0.9 · public commenters per meeting · 7 meetings
Moraga School District Governing Board0.2 · public commenters per meeting · 9 meetings

How we know

We count public commenters, never their names or words. Bodies need 6 or more counted meetings to be listed; each bar is the average per meeting, with its 90% range from resampling the body's meetings. We checked the count against a full read of null meetings: null were within one speaker. More on how we count

What stood out

1Long meetings

The typical meeting runs about an hour and three quarters; 11 ran past four hours

Moraga Town Council · 5 h 25 minLafayette City Council · 4 h 40 minLafayette City Council · 4 h 39 mintypical 1 h 46 min

Each spike is the longest meeting that day · every date-checked full meeting of the twelve bodies, Oct 9, 2024 – Oct 28, 2026 · 246 meetings, typical (median) 1 h 46 min · time in session: first word to last, leaving out silences of 10 minutes or more · How we count

See the longest meetings

2Public comment

45 public commenters spoke at one Lafayette City Council meeting, on Oct 27, 2025

One dot per public commenter, counted, never named · the most at any meeting we counted · How we count

See the meeting

3When they meet

75% of the meetings were on a Tuesday or a Monday

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Date-checked full meetings by weekday and month · Oct 9, 2024 – Oct 28, 2026 · 250 meetings of 12 bodies · Tuesday and Monday are too close to say which is busier · when meetings happen, not a trend · How we count

Long meetings

The 6 longest meetings of the twelve bodies

5 h 25 minMoraga Town CouncilJan 15, 2025 · special meeting · time in session 4 h 40 minLafayette City CouncilSep 22, 2025 · time in session 4 h 39 minLafayette City CouncilMar 7, 2025 · time in session 4 h 36 minLafayette City CouncilNov 25, 2024 · time in session 4 h 25 minLafayette School District Governing BoardApr 15, 2026 · time in session 4 h 25 minLafayette City CouncilJan 12, 2026 · time in session

How we know

Time in session: first word to last, leaving out silences of 10 minutes or more. More on how we count

The record

132 of our 252 meetings are council meetings.

Each body's meetings, the dates they span, hours in session and the typical meeting. Videos we found but haven't transcribed yet are counted separately.

City of LafayetteCity

City Council1 more found, not yet transcribed50meetings23past yearOct 2024 – Oct 2026119hours2 h 19 mintypical

Planning Commission26meetings13past yearOct 2024 – Oct 202644hours1 h 34 mintypical

Design Review Commission1 more found, not yet transcribed17meetings6past yearSep 2021 – Jul 202614hours47 mintypical

Town of MoragaTown

Town Council2 more found, not yet transcribed37meetings18past yearOct 2024 – Oct 202682hours2 h 11 mintypical

Planning Commission17meetings8past yearOct 2024 – Sep 202624hours1 h 35 mintypical

Parks and Recreation Commission2meetings2past yearJun 2026 – Jul 20262hours—typical

City of OrindaCity

City Council1 more found, not yet transcribed45meetings22past yearOct 2024 – Oct 2026105hours2 h 27 mintypical

Planning Commission24meetings12past yearOct 2024 – Oct 202625hours49 mintypical

Lafayette School DistrictSchool district

Governing Board11 older meetings held only in part7meetings7past yearApr 2026 – Oct 202619hours2 h 36 mintypical

Moraga School DistrictSchool district

Governing Board20 older meetings held only in part9meetings9past yearApr 2026 – Oct 202618hours1 h 45 mintypical

Orinda Union School DistrictSchool district

Board of Trustees11 older meetings held only in part7meetings7past yearApr 2026 – Oct 202615hours2 h 27 mintypical

Acalanes Union High School DistrictSchool district

Governing Board18 older meetings held only in part11meetings10past yearAug 2025 – Oct 202624hours2 h 07 mintypical

How we know

One meeting is one body on one day; a day posted as two videos counts once. Hours are time in session. The typical meeting is the median, shown once a body has 6 measured meetings. Members come from each body's own roster page. More on how we count

Also on file

13 meetings of other boards and committees

Bodies outside the twelve above, among them the Lamorinda Tri-Cities meeting. Each opens the video at the first word.

By the numbers

252recorded meetings, from twelve bodiesThe record
490hours in sessionHow we measure length
60older school-board meetings, in piecesThe record
1 h 46 minthe typical meetingMeeting length
5 h 25 minthe longest, Moraga Town CouncilLong meetings
65officials on the bodies' own rostersThe boards

Sources

Where these numbers come from

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left out “GSD School Board Meeting 8/25/26” (Aug 25, 2026): another district's meeting filed under Orinda Union (owner, 10-29)