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City Council Minutes Search
This search page allows you to search by keywords or by
meeting date. For information on City Council Meeting Minutes prior to
2000, or other matters
related to this web site, contact the Office of the City Clerk at (210) 207-7253.
These pages contain only City Council Meeting Minutes which have been
approved by City Council. Therefore, the most recent City Council Meeting
Minutes may not appear for several weeks until officially approved.
Use the form below to search for City Council Meeting Minutes
containing specific words or combinations of words. The search engine will display a list
of documents containing the specific words or combinations of words which you enter. Each
item on the list is a link to a document containing the specific words or combinations of
words.
An explanation of the query language,
along with examples, is available below.
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Query Language
The following is an excerpt from the Microsoft Index Server
Guide.
This list gives the rules for formulating queries:
- Multiple consecutive words are treated as a phrase; they must appear in the same
order within a matching document.
- Queries are case-insensitive, so you can type your query in uppercase or lowercase.
- You can search for any word except for those in the exception list (for English,
this includes a, an, and, as, and other common words),
which are ignored during a search.
- Words in the exception list are treated as placeholders in phrase and proximity
queries. For example, if you searched for “Word for Windows”, the results could
give you “Word for Windows” and “Word and Windows”, because for is
a noise word and appears in the exception list.
- Punctuation marks such as the period (.), colon (:), semicolon (;), and comma (,)
are ignored during a search.
- To use specially treated characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, (, ), in a query,
enclose your query in quotation marks (“).
- To search for a word or phrase containing quotation marks, enclose the entire
phrase in quotation marks and then double the quotation marks around the word or words you
want to surround with quotes. For example, “World-Wide Web or
““Web””” searches for World-Wide Web or “Web”.
- You can use Boolean Operators (AND, OR,
and NOT) and the Proximity Operator (NEAR)
to specify additional search information.
- The Wildcard Character (*) can match words with a given
prefix. The query esc* matches the terms “ESC,” “escape,” and
so on.
Boolean and Proximity Operators
Boolean and proximity operators can create a more precise query.
| To Search For |
Example |
Results |
| Both terms in the same page |
access and basic
—Or—
access & basic |
Pages with both the words “access” and
“basic” |
| Either term in a page |
cgi or isapi
—Or—
cgi | isapi |
Pages with the words “cgi” or “isapi” |
| The first term without the second term |
access and not basic
—Or—
access & ! basic |
Pages with the word “access” but not
“basic” |
| Both terms in the same page, close together |
excel near project
—Or—
excel ~ project |
Pages with the word “excel” near the word
“project” |
Wildcards
Wildcard operators help you find pages containing words similar to a
given word.
| To Search For |
Example |
Results |
| Words with the same prefix |
comput* |
Pages with words that have the prefix “comput,”
such as “computer,” “computing,” and so on |
| Words based on the same stem word |
fly** |
Pages with words based on the same stem as “fly,”
such as “flying,” “flown,” “flew,” and so on |
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