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[Data Source] Build St. Louis Board of Aldermen current-session scraper #183

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Goal

Add a current-session St. Louis Board of Aldermen scraper using official city pages, normalized into the shared local-government contract from #181.

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  • Discover only the active aldermanic session (currently 2026–2027); do not crawl archives.
  • Ingest full-board/committee meetings, agenda/minutes/packet URLs, Board Bills, resolutions, sponsors, titles, actions/status, and videos.
  • Preserve stable agendaViewID/session/bill identifiers and source citations.
  • Normalize into shared meeting/document/agenda-item/vote tables; serve cached data only.
  • Do not use AI/OCR when structured HTML is available.

Acceptance criteria

  • Fixtures/tests cover active-session discovery, agenda-to-bill linking, revised documents, sponsors, and session boundaries.
  • Retry/backoff, low concurrency, hashes/versioning, idempotent upserts, env contract, and docs.
  • Scraper/API/DB checks pass. No credentials required.

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    area: businessFunding, legal, partnerships, opsarea: scrapersapps/scraper (data source scrapers)enhancementNew feature or requestsourceRelated to news/information sources e.g. scrapers

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