Leelanau County Government, Simplified
This site aggregates local government meeting minutes and documents from across Leelanau County, using artificial intelligence to create concise summaries and searchable tags, all in one convenient location. To stay updated without having to check back regularly, use our signup form. We will email you weekly or monthly updates as new documents are summarized.
To browse existing summaries, visit our Summaries page. You can filter by County, Village, and Township as well as search in content.

Details and limitations of how this site works
This site uses AI to summarize publicly available government documents in Leelanau County, as well as associated villages and townships. The AI used for summarizing documents is selected at random to avoid AI bias. We currently work with agents from OpenAi, Anthropic, Google, and X.
Most of this site is automated including the post generation. We intend on publishing a series of posts describing some of the technology and methods used, as well as the challenges faced while developing this site.
Summaries Page
The summaries page enables you to view and search through documents. When showing the document list, you will find an excerpt along with a read more link. Clicking on the link will take you to the complete summary, typically 3-4 paragraphs long. Recent posts are displayed in the left sidebar as well as Categories. You may need to scroll down to see the categories list. Categories are a quick way to filter by a specific township, village, or county. There is also a search bar that enables searching by key words.
Summary Details
When you view the summary details, two important items appear at the top.
- Summarized with ai model will tell you the exact model used in summarizing the document.
- Source Document link will link you directly to the source document on the entities site. Use this link to get additional details from the source document that the summary was generated from.
At the end of the summary you may find some links that were in the source document.
Limitations
This site is summarized by A.I. and it is possible that A.I. can make mistakes and/or hallucinate. This is why you are provided the source document link. Please review the source document if you have any questions or concerns. We have retrieved summaries as of Jan 1, 2024 and forward. It is possible some entities or documents have been missed, or the source document was changed after being analyzed. If you have comments or suggestions feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]