Most municipalities post their agendas and minutes and stop there. A PDF goes up. The website gets updated. Nobody shows up and nobody calls until the vote is over and someone is furious they didn't know about it.
ClerkMinutes Subscribers & Notifications lets residents opt in to updates directly from your meeting calendar. When you publish, they know.
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Posting information isn't the same as communicating it.
A PDF on a webpage reaches the people who already know to look. That's not most residents.
Residents who miss an agenda can't prepare comments. Residents who don't know a vote happened call after the fact. The record was public. Nobody saw it.
That's not a transparency problem you can fix by posting more.
What Subscribers & Notifications does
Subscribers & Notifications is the resident alert layer inside ClerkMinutes. Residents subscribe to your meeting calendar directly from the embedded portal on your website. When you publish an agenda or finalize minutes, subscribers get notified automatically.
Residents get notified the moment you publish automatically.
Residents subscribe once. ClerkMinutes handles the rest.
Residents sign up directly from the embedded Meetings Portal on your website. No separate forms or messages needed.
When you finalize and publish an agenda or minutes in ClerkMinutes, subscribed residents are notified automatically. You don't touch it.
Publishing the record is the notification.
Subscribed residents know when agendas are published before meetings and when minutes are approved after. They stop calling to ask what happened because they already know.
Subscriber notifications are part of the ClerkMinutes Growth plan, alongside the full Meetings Portal feature set.
What Clerks Are Saying About Subscribers & Notifications
"I was shocked that it could take a recording and transcribe it so quickly and be so accurate. And I didn't have to sit and listen to a recording again."
"I've been a clerk for 20 some years and this is the first time I felt like I can accomplish things in regular time like a normal job instead of this heavy weight that was always weighing on me. This has got to get done and I got to just plunge through it."
Frequently Asked Questions
What triggers a notification to subscribers?
Notifications go out when you publish an agenda or finalize minutes in ClerkMinutes. You control what gets published and when. The notification follows your action automatically.
Do residents have to create an account to subscribe?
Can residents unsubscribe?
Do I need a separate email tool to use this?
Is this available on all plans?
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