Public comments come in all shapes and sizes. Whether an agency receives 10 responses or 10,000, the challenge is the same: turning individual comments into clear themes, meaningful insights, and...
Most agencies already own a survey tool. It came in for a staff satisfaction survey or a quick program poll, it worked, and it became the default for public engagement too. SurveyMonkey collects...
MPOs are navigating more policy, more communication channels, and more expectations than ever, but for most teams, the tools haven't caught up. PublicInput's Public Involvement Blog Series digs into...
A business video tool can carry the audio and video of a public meeting. It cannot carry the obligations that come with one. Most agencies running hybrid board and council meetings on Zoom or...
Local government agencies collect resident contact information across dozens of projects every year. Outreach lists exist. Email campaigns go out. Public comment is recorded. The question is not...
Every new engagement effort starts the same way: a brief lands on someone's desk, a deadline is attached to it, and a blank project page is waiting to be filled in. Before a single survey question...
Walk into any public hearing on a corridor study or a capital project, and you can usually predict who is in the room. It is the same residents who came to the last one, and the one before that...
Ask most people in local government what a clerk does, and they will describe meetings. The reality is that meetings are just the most visible layer of a much larger compliance calendar, one that runs...
Many clerks reach a point where they know exactly what they need. They have watched the same bottleneck slow them down week after week. They have done the math on how much time a specific part of the...