Practical guides on agenda management, ADA compliance, open meetings law, and the day-to-day work of running public meetings.
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Illinois gives an ordinary citizen something almost no other state does: a way to get a binding legal ruling against your board without hiring a lawyer. Between the Section 2.02 agenda rule, the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor, and the disaster-declaration remote-meeting framework, Illinois is the most enforced open-meetings regime in the country.
Read the postFor fifty years Washington's OPMA required no agenda. Then ESHB 1329 added one in 2022 — RCW 42.30.077, a 24-hour online agenda rule — and deliberately made it nearly unenforceable. Why the legislature did both, and what it means for regular versus special meetings.
Read the postNew York requires no agenda — and that surprises clerks from other states. The obligations that actually bind are the Section 104 notice rule, the Section 103(e) 24-hour document-posting requirement added in 2021, and the Section 103-a videoconferencing framework.
Read the postEvery California clerk can recite the 72-hour rule and the no-action-on-non-agenda-items rule. Far fewer can walk through AB 2449's teleconferencing framework, the Sec. 54957.5 packet-disclosure standard, or the cure-and-correct demand under Sec. 54960.1.
Read the postEvery Texas clerk can recite the 72-hour rule. Far fewer can name the case law that defines "sufficiently apprises," the population thresholds that trigger Sec. 551.056 website posting, or the 2019 amendments that rewrote how walking-quorum prosecutions work.
Read the post"Reasonable notice" is the statutory phrase. Forty years of AG opinions and appellate decisions have given it a much more specific meaning than the words alone — and the digital posting era added a layer the original drafters never anticipated.
Read the postThe HB 21-1110 grace period ended in July 2025. Here's what Colorado's digital accessibility law actually requires of your agenda packets, where most clerks are still exposed, and how to close the gap before a complaint forces the issue.
Read the postAcquisitions and consolidation are part of the software landscape. Here's how to read a contract for renewal, bundling, and auto-renewal terms — and the questions worth asking any vendor before you commit to a multi-year deal.
Read the postA fair look at what each platform is built for, how they fit different sizes of government, and how Govably's AI minutes work alongside the tools you already use. Yes, we make one of them — we will say so when it matters.
Read the postPosting the agenda PDF the day before is the bare legal minimum. A live portal — votes updating in real time, packet documents accessible without a login, public comment sign-up from any phone — changes how citizens experience their own government.
Read the postTitle II covers your meetings. Most clerks know that, but few know what it actually requires for agendas, minutes, public comment, and digital documents. Here is what compliance looks like in practice.
Read the postA practical, week-by-week plan for clerks ready to retire the Word-and-email agenda workflow. What to migrate first, what to leave behind, and how to bring council members along without a revolt.
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