A family of independent, nonpartisan sites that make local government legible: who decides what, when they meet, and how to weigh in before the vote — not after.
Each site covers one city’s council on the same template — districts, the next agenda, the comment deadline, and a plain-language guide to how decisions get made.
Most civic sites go stale the day after they’re built. These don’t — because nothing that can change is typed by hand.
Anything with a date on it — the next meeting, the comment deadline, the week’s agenda — is filled in from the latest data pull, not written into the page once and left to rot.
Sites refresh around when councils actually meet. A built-in staleness check flags any page that has fallen behind, so old information can’t quietly masquerade as current.
Agendas and minutes are pulled from each city’s official record and kept as local copies, so a link still works months later even when the city’s own URL breaks.
Static pages under 50 KB, English and Spanish, dark mode, and no ads, no accounts, no tracking. It loads instantly and asks nothing of you.
Local government decides the things closest to your life — housing, streets, police, parks, what gets built next door. It also happens in the open, on a public calendar, weeks before any vote. The problem was never secrecy. It’s that the information is scattered, jargon-heavy, and easy to miss until it’s already decided.
civicsite.org exists to close that gap — to turn a city’s own public record into something a resident can read in two minutes and act on before the meeting, in any city, using one repeatable method and modern tooling to keep it honest and current.