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civicdigest-smollm2-1.7b

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CivicDigest 🏛️

A fine-tuned language model that reads city council meeting minutes and produces plain English summaries of what was decided.

Your city makes decisions every month — about roads, zoning, budgets, public safety — that directly affect your life. The minutes are public record. Most people never read them.

CivicDigest reads them for you.

What it does

Input raw city council or government committee meeting minutes. Get a 2-paragraph plain English summary covering:

What was voted on and how
What was proposed or discussed
What directly affects residents

Example

Input:

AGENDA ITEM: Transportation Infrastructure Amendment
ACTION: Council approved 9-2 a $4.7 million amendment to the Colfax Avenue
repaving contract. Councilmembers Gilmore and Sawyer dissented, citing concerns
about cost overruns. Work is expected to begin in May and complete by September.
Residents along the corridor may experience lane closures during construction.

Output:

The council approved a $4.7 million addition to the Colfax Avenue repaving 
contract, with most members in favor. Two councilmembers voted against it, 
worried the project is already going over budget.

Residents near Colfax Avenue should expect lane closures from May through 
September while construction is underway.

Model details

Property	Value
Base model	SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
Fine-tuning method	LoRA (8 layers)
Training iterations	500
Training examples	919 (80/10/10 split)
Data sources	Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Phoenix, Detroit, Oakland (Legistar API) + NYC and SF PDFs
Synthetic pairs generated by	Claude Haiku (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001)
Hardware	Apple M1, 16GB unified memory
Peak training memory	8.228 GB
Final val loss	1.106
Final train loss	0.641
Inference memory	~3.6 GB

Run locally (Apple Silicon only)

python

from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("Brandi-Kinard/civicdigest-smollm2-1.7b")

minutes = """
AGENDA ITEM: Mandatory Housing Affordability Amendment
ACTION: The Land Use Committee voted 5-0 to recommend expanding MHA requirements
to 12 additional urban village zones. Developers will be required to include 7%
affordable units or pay an in-lieu fee of $32.75 per square foot.
Public comment period closes May 15th.
"""

prompt = f"### Meeting Minutes:\n{minutes}\n\n### Summary:"
response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, max_tokens=300)
print(response)

Known limitations

May occasionally misstate specific dollar amounts or vote counts — verify against official records
Performs best on full meeting transcripts; sparse agenda-only text produces shorter summaries
Optimized for US city council meetings; other government body formats may vary
Requires Apple Silicon Mac for local MLX inference

GitHub

github.com/Brandi-Kinard/civicdigest

Built by Brandi Kinard — part of the Sovereign Brain initiative.