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Domain

Council Meeting & Legislative

Full municipal legislative workflow — agenda preparation, meeting conduct, minutes publication, bylaw/resolution tracking, council member services, and committee management — per the Municipal Act 2001.

−50%

Agenda Prep Time

72+ hrs

Agenda Publishing

5 biz days

Minutes Publishing

99.9%

Portal Availability

Purpose-Built for Canadian Municipalities

Ontario Compliant
MFIPPA Ready
AODA Accessible
Bilingual Support
Canadian Hosted
SOC 2 Aligned

Purpose & Scope

What this module owns

Clear ownership boundaries prevent duplication and ensure every capability has exactly one authoritative home.

Owns

8

Delegated to

5

Report approval routing

workflow-automation

Document storage & retention

document-records

Public-facing meeting portal hosting

portal-framework

Meeting notices & deadline alerts

notification-engine

Council remuneration processing

payment-engine

These capabilities are handled by dedicated modules and consumed via stable API contracts — keeping boundaries clean and ownership unambiguous.

Core Capabilities

What it does

4 capability groups comprising 13 discrete capabilities — each with API surface, business rules, and data ownership.

Templates (recommendation/information/correspondence) with structured sections, rich text, attachments, and multi-author collaboration.

Templates

Recommendation, information, and correspondence report templates.

Structured Sections

Issue, background, analysis, financial impact, community engagement, environmental implications, recommendation.

Collaboration

Rich text editing, attachments, and multi-author collaboration.

Routing from author through reviewers, department head, CAO/senior management, to clerk with deadline tracking and late report handling.

Routing

Author → reviewer(s) → dept head → CAO/senior management → clerk.

Actions

Approve, return, reject at each stage with audit trail.

Late Reports

Late report handling via addendum or deferral.

Clerk assembles approved items into sections per procedure bylaw with auto page numbering, TOC, and accessible PDF/HTML publication.

Assembly

Sections per procedure bylaw: call to order, declarations, delegations, consent agenda, committee reports, new business, bylaws, closed session, adjournment.

Publishing

Accessible PDF and HTML to website, auto-distribution to council via email/portal.

Public Notice

72+ hours before meeting per Municipal Act requirement.

Every module owns a single bounded context, exposes stable APIs, and can be composed into any Civic product — that's the architecture that scales.

Krutik Parikh

Creator of Civic

Data Model

Entity Architecture

4 entities with 4 relationships — the authoritative schema for this bounded context.

Entities

Select an entity to explore its fields and relationships

API Surface

Integration Endpoints

8 RESTful endpoints across 7 resource groups — plus 5 domain events for async integration.

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GET

/api/v1/council/meetings

Meeting calendar

Ecosystem

Products that depend on this module

2 Civic products consume Council Meeting & Legislative — making it one of the most critical platform services in the ecosystem.

Technical Specifications

Performance, Compliance & Configuration

Agenda Preparation Time

TargetReduced by 50%

Agenda Publishing

Target72+ hours before meeting

Minutes Publishing

TargetWithin 5 business days

Bylaw Search

TargetFull-text indexed, < 1 second

Council Portal Availability

Target99.9%

AODA/WCAG Compliance

TargetFull AA

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

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