Most agenda software is built for cities. Whether your county is governed by a commissioners court, a board of supervisors, a county council, or a commission — you have distinct statutory requirements and open-meetings obligations that generic software doesn't handle. Govably does.
No add-on modules, no per-feature pricing, no enterprise upsell required.
Automatic posting with timestamp, required notice language, accessibility statement, and a posted-agenda archive — configured for your state's open-meetings statute, whether Texas TOMA, the California Brown Act, the Florida Sunshine Law, or another state equivalent.
Items flagged with the right statutory citation for your state (Texas 551.071, 551.072, or your state's equivalent), excluded from the public packet automatically, and tracked through entry and reconvene with proper minutes language.
Tag items by district, precinct, ward, or beat — whatever your county uses. Tags flow through the packet, the public posting, and the official minutes so each board member can prep their items efficiently.
Built-in public-hearing flow: posted notice, sign-up sheet, speaker queue, time tracking per speaker, and motion to enter/close the hearing recorded in the minutes.
The clerk records motions and votes during the meeting; Govably's AI drafts the official minutes — including attendance, vote tallies, and minute order numbers — same day.
Constituents follow the meeting in real time without a login — see motions, watch votes update live, and access the agenda packet without downloading a 200-page PDF.
TOMA in Texas. The Brown Act in California. Florida's Sunshine Law. Every state has its own posting deadlines, required notice language, and executive-session citation rules. Govably is the only agenda system small enough to actually configure for your specific statute on day one. The 72-hour posting, the timestamped public archive, the executive session statutory citations, and the recordkeeping required after the fact — all default behavior, not a premium tier.
Board members are not in the office at 7:45 a.m. They're driving in from across the county. The agenda packet has to open on a phone, on an iPad in the meeting room, on a personal laptop at home. Govably is browser-based — no app to download, no install, no IT ticket. Your board members get a single link the day before each meeting that pulls up the agenda, the packet attachments, the executive session items they can see, and the items their district cares about.
In most counties, the minutes-writing process owns the day after the meeting. Hand-written notes get retyped into Word, vote tallies get cross-referenced from a separate sheet, and the County Clerk loses four hours that should have been spent on actual records work. Govably's AI Minutes Builder takes the motions and votes the clerk recorded during the meeting and produces a draft of the official minutes — with vote tallies, motion language, attendance, and sequential minute order numbers — before the courthouse parking lot is empty.
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