Every Council Meeting, Searchable in Seconds
Saanich publishes its own record. It just does not make it findable. So we did.
That is 1,380 hours of recorded speech, fifty-seven days of continuous video, with every second stamped to the meeting and the moment it came from. Type in a phrase, and seconds later you can see who said it, when they said it, and what item was in front of Council at the time.
All of it is the District's own material, already published at saanich.ca and in the council video archive. We did not create any of it and we do not own it. What we did was make it findable, because searching the District's own site for something said out loud in a meeting four years ago is close to impossible.
The search box is not on this website yet. Until it is, just ask us. Name a topic, a date, an address, a councillor or a phrase, and we will send you back what the record says and the document it came from. It is free, there is nothing to sign up for, and it works just as well for trees, parking, taxes, housing or a rezoning nobody can remember the reasons for.
It also works against us. If we have got something wrong anywhere on this site, the same index will show you that in about ten seconds, and we would rather you found it than took our word for it.
Meeting and speech counts read from the archive on 25 September 2026; document counts from the index build of 4 August 2026. Document coverage runs from January 2016; recorded speech coverage begins 11 September 2017, the earliest meeting in the District's published video archive.