# PROVENANCE

Origin and Wayback citation for every source. Generated by capture.py.

## `pgh-board-minutes-portal`
- Title: Pittsburgh Water board minutes and agendas (24 meetings, Oct 2023 - Sep 2025)
- Origin: <https://www.pgh2o.com/about-us/board-board-meetings/board-minutes-agendas>
- Wayback: PENDING (no snapshot yet; re-run capture.py)
- Note: The source of record for every meeting-level figure. The 24 individual meeting-minute PDFs are the next archiving step; the master coding of them lives in 02-data/ and reproduces via build.py.

## `nfwb-2025-04-28`
- Title: Niagara Falls Water Board business meeting minutes, April 28, 2025
- Origin: <https://nfwb.org/app/uploads/2025/06/Draft-April-28-2025-NFWB-Business-Meeting-Minutes.pdf>
- Wayback: <https://web.archive.org/web/20260714222835/https://nfwb.org/app/uploads/2025/06/Draft-April-28-2025-NFWB-Business-Meeting-Minutes.pdf>
- Note: Peer exemplar: employee-evaluation resolution failed 2-2, was revised in public, passed 3-2; 161-minute meeting.

## `nhcrwa-2024-10-07`
- Title: North Harris County Regional Water Authority executed minutes, October 7, 2024
- Origin: <https://www.nhcrwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Executed-Minutes-10-7-24.pdf>
- Wayback: PENDING (no snapshot yet; re-run capture.py)
- Note: Peer exemplar: motion failed 2-2 with two abstentions; 3-2 to postpone; 179-minute meeting, 9 speakers, 35-minute executive session. The authority restructured its uploads path and the original PDF URL now 404s with no Wayback snapshot; relocating the executed minutes is an open archiving item. Niagara Falls, the peer the story leads with, is captured and hashed.

## `occ-board-effectiveness`
- Title: OCC Comptroller's Handbook - Bank Supervision Process (board effectiveness guidance)
- Origin: <https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-resources/publications/comptrollers-handbook/files/bank-supervision-process/pub-ch-bank-supervision-process.pdf>
- Wayback: <https://web.archive.org/web/20260617103947/https://www2.occ.gov/publications-and-resources/publications/comptrollers-handbook/files/bank-supervision-process/pub-ch-bank-supervision-process.pdf>
- Note: Approval rates approaching 99-100% may indicate a board has ceased providing active oversight and independent judgment.

## `kennesaw-enron-2024`
- Title: Kennesaw State analysis of 848 Enron board votes, 1997-2001
- Origin: <https://www.kennesaw.edu/coles/research/docs/spring-2024/spring-2024-02.pdf>
- Wayback: <https://web.archive.org/web/20260308011155/https://www.kennesaw.edu/coles/research/docs/spring-2024/spring-2024-02.pdf>
- Note: Enron board approved 99.5% of resolutions unanimously; a questioning board can still be a rubber stamp.

## `rand-pe247-2017`
- Title: RAND perspective on Pittsburgh Water lead remediation options (2017)
- Origin: <https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE200/PE247/RAND_PE247.pdf>
- Wayback: <https://web.archive.org/web/20240930023215/https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE200/PE247/RAND_PE247.pdf>
- Note: Prior work by interviewed source Linnea Warren Mears.

## `pa-sunshine-act`
- Title: Pennsylvania Sunshine Act, 65 Pa.C.S. Chapter 7
- Origin: <https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=65&div=0&chpt=7>
- Wayback: <https://web.archive.org/web/20250223222647/https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=65&div=0&chpt=7>
- Note: Sections 706 and 708(c) cited for the public-deliberation requirement and the executive-session subterfuge prohibition.

## `pa-newsmedia-sunshine-guide`
- Title: Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association guide to the Sunshine Act
- Origin: <https://panewsmedia.org/legal/guide-to-the-pennsylvania-sunshine-act/>
- Wayback: <https://web.archive.org/web/20260519122053/https://panewsmedia.org/legal/guide-to-the-pennsylvania-sunshine-act/>
- Note: Source for the enforcement-weakness quotes.

## `puc-rate-case-2025`
- Title: PA PUC press release on the Pittsburgh Water rate case (July 10, 2025)
- Origin: <https://www.puc.pa.gov/press-release/2025/puc-to-investigate-water-wastewater-and-stormwater-rate-changes-proposed-by-the-pittsburgh-water-and-sewer-authority-07102025>
- Wayback: <https://web.archive.org/web/20260714222917/https://www.puc.pa.gov/press-release/2025/puc-to-investigate-water-wastewater-and-stormwater-rate-changes-proposed-by-the-pittsburgh-water-and-sewer-authority-07102025>
- Note: Rate case filed June 4, 2025; decision due March 8, 2026.

## `story-baseline`
- Title: Two years, zero 'no' votes on Pittsburgh Water board as rate hike looms (Public Source)
- Origin: <https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-water-board-unanimous-votes-oversight/>
- Wayback: <https://web.archive.org/web/20251207135355/https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-water-board-unanimous-votes-oversight/>
- Note: The published baseline story. Byline Brian Nuckols.

## `story-followup`
- Title: Pittsburgh Water board asks questions after transparency investigation (Public Source)
- Origin: <https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-water-board-transparency-rate-hike/>
- Wayback: <https://web.archive.org/web/20260112184248/https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-water-board-transparency-rate-hike/>
- Note: The observer-effect follow-up. Byline Brian Nuckols.