How to Find Washington County, MN Government Meeting Records, Votes & Agendas

Washington County government, in one place

Washington County, Minnesota is covered by a web of overlapping governments: the county board itself, more than 30 city councils, a dozen-plus school boards, and several special-purpose districts (watershed, housing and redevelopment, economic development). Each one posts its meeting records somewhere different, on a different schedule, in a different format. LocalGov Ledger pulls all of them into a single searchable ledger so you can find a record without knowing which platform it lives on.

The Washington County Board of Commissioners

The county is governed by a five-member Board of Commissioners, one elected from each district. The board meets regularly at the Government Center in Stillwater. Its agendas, packets, and minutes are published through CivicClerk, and its meetings are streamed and archived on video.

On this site you can:

• Browse every Washington County Board meeting by year — agenda, packet, minutes, video, and transcript when available.
• See each commissioner's profile with their recorded votes, salary, term, and any campaign-finance or disclosure filings.
• Search the full text of available transcripts for a topic, a department, or a project name.

Washington County cities

Every city in Washington County — from Woodbury and Cottage Grove down to the smallest townships — has its own council that sets the local levy, adopts ordinances, and approves development. The larger cities (Woodbury, Cottage Grove, Stillwater, Forest Lake, Lake Elmo, Oakdale) post agendas and minutes online; smaller ones often post only a PDF of minutes.

The ledger includes the city councils for the Washington County cities we have built out so far, with meetings, officials, tax rates, and — where the city publishes it — campaign finance for local offices. Open any city in the government ledger to see what is available and what is still missing.

Washington County school boards

School districts in Washington County — including Forest Lake Area Schools, South Washington County Schools (SoWashCo), Stillwater Area Schools, and White Bear Lake Area Schools — are governed by elected school boards. School boards set the school levy, approve the budget, and decide curriculum and policy. Their meetings are public under the Minnesota Open Meeting Law, and most now stream to YouTube or Vimeo.

One important caveat: Minnesota's economic-interest disclosure requirement does not cover school board members (a 2025 bill to extend it did not become law). So while you can find school board meeting records and votes here, you will not find the same disclosure filings that county and city officials file.

How to look up a specific commissioner's votes

If you want to know how your commissioner voted on a particular issue:

1. Open the Washington County page in the ledger.
2. Find the meeting where the vote happened (filter by year and topic if you know them).
3. Open the meeting — recorded votes are listed with each motion and how each member voted.
4. Or go straight to the commissioner's person profile to see every recorded vote attributed to them across all meetings.

Washington County campaign finance

Campaign finance reports for county and local offices in Minnesota are filed with the filing officer — the county, city, or school district itself — under Minn. Stat. 211A.02 subd. 6. County commissioners' statements of economic interest are filed with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board. On each official's profile, we link to the filings we have found and summarize the latest report period factually, with the source for every figure.

If a Washington County record is missing

The archive is volunteer-built and far from complete. If you have a Washington County meeting agenda, packet, minutes, or video that is not here yet, you can submit it for review. Every contribution is checked before it appears publicly, and contributors earn points and badges for helping build the record.