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For clerks responsible for public meetings, software decisions carry more weight than efficiency alone.

They directly impact compliance, meeting integrity, and how defensible your public record is if questions arise later.

This new guide breaks down what to look for in meeting software designed specifically for government workflows, from hybrid participation to minutes and records.

👇Explore some of the key questions to ask before you choose a platform.
https://hubs.la/Q04lsf1t0

What Every Clerk Should Know Before Choosing Meetings Software Most software decisions are about efficiency. A clerk’s decision about meetings software is about something more consequential: legal compliance.

For many government agencies, public engagement happens across a mix of meetings, surveys, outreach, and digital tools that all play a role in reaching residents and collecting input.

The challenge is that when those systems are not connected, it can take extra effort to bring the full story of engagement together when it matters most.

This article explores where those gaps tend to show up and how teams are thinking about more connected approaches that make engagement easier to manage and understand over time.

Read more to see how agencies are strengthening the way engagement is captured and maintained across their work. https://hubs.la/Q04lt14m0

Why Disjointed Public Engagement Tools Create Compliance Risk Most agencies aren’t struggling to do engagement, they’re struggling to manage it across too many disconnected tools. They’re holding meetings, launching surveys, sending outreach, and collec…

The average COG or transit agency spends 10–15 FTE-hours per meeting on agenda prep, ex*****on, and post-meeting documentation. Multiply that across your full board and committee calendar, and you're looking at weeks of staff time per year.

That's not a staffing problem. It's a workflow problem.

📅 Join us Wednesday, June 3rd at 1 PM ET for a free 30-minute webinar: How COGs and Transit Agencies Are Running More Meetings In Less Time.

We'll cover:
• The real FTE cost of your meeting calendar
• How AI agenda and minutes tools are returning capacity to COG staff and member agencies
• How transportation agencies are turning Title VI, ADA, and federal compliance docs into automatic outputs
• A live demo of the full workflow — agenda upload to published minutes

Executive Directors: if you're ready to stop treating the administrative grind as inevitable, this session is for you.

Register here: https://hubs.la/Q04hldJv0

How COGs and Transit Agencies Are Running More Meetings In Less Time Join us for this session designed for COGs and transit agencies to eliminate the administrative grind.

Our team is growing! 👋 Say hello to Brett Milano, PublicInput's newest Business Development Representative. Brett is hitting the ground running to help more communities discover what better public engagement can look like. Welcome to the team Brett, we are so glad you are here!