One place to run your boards and commissions.

Streamline member onboarding, centralize your board records, and provide a secure, compliant environment for official communication.

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Housing Commission workspace
Housing CommissionCounty
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Onboarding
New member setup4 of 6
Next meeting
Jun
18
Regular Session
2 documents attached
Agenda - June 18.pdf
Staff memo - rezoning.pdf
8 of 9 opened
Announcement read
What we do

Tools to manage and support local boards and commissions.

Onboarding

Standardize Training with Custom Onboarding Modules

Build structured orientation paths tailored to your jurisdiction. GoLocal provides ready-to-use templates for city-wide compliance (like open meeting laws and codes of conduct), alongside a module builder to track board-specific knowledge. Staff can monitor completion progress in real time, ensuring every appointee is trained and prepared to serve.

My Onboarding
ROLES QUIZ
What is a quorum?
A majority
Everyone
Welcome and oath of officeCompleted
Bylaws and code of conductAcknowledged
Robert's Rules of OrderWatched
4Roles and procedures quizIn progress
Meetings

Run Every Meeting from One Place

Your board's meetings live in their own space, separate from your work and personal calendars. Members get the agenda and packet in their dashboard, see what to review beforehand, and confirm whether they will attend. Staff track quorum ahead of time and keep a clean attendance record afterward.

Regular SessionJune 18, 7:00 PM
Meeting packet
Agenda - June 18.pdf
Staff memo - rezoning.pdf
Attendance
Confirmed for this meeting7 of 9
YOUR TASKDue Jun 17
Review the May 21 minutes
Documents

One Secure Home for Every Board Document

Share every board document in one secure place where the whole board can find it. Bylaws, past minutes, reports, and reference material stay organized and accessible, not scattered across inboxes and personal drives. And because it lives with the board, the knowledge survives both member and staff turnover.

Board library
Secure
Meetings Policies Reports
Agenda - June 18PDF
Staff memo - rezoningPDF
May 21 minutesPDF
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Shared with all 9 members
Compliance

Protect Your Jurisdiction with Built-In Open Meeting Guardrails

Eliminate the legal anxieties of accidental reply-all deliberations. GoLocal's structured communication framework ensures your announcements reach every board member, but their replies stay strictly private. You get an organized, auditable record of official communication while keeping your jurisdiction safe from quorum violations.

Messages
Liaison Maria Reyes
Reminder, the rezoning memo is now in your June packet. Please review before Tuesday.
James Carter (private reply)
Got it, thank you. One question on the parking section.
No accidental quorum. No reply-all deliberation.
Surveys

Capture Member Input with Structured Surveys

Read the room between meetings without a tangle of reply-all email, from a quick engagement pulse to an exit survey when a member's term ends. Send to the whole board or to specific members and collect every response in one place. Responses can be anonymous when candor matters.

Engagement pulseAnonymous
Survey question
How valued does your input feel this quarter?
Very valued4
Somewhat valued1
Not really1
6 of 9 members responded
Oversight

Gain Real Visibility Across Every Board

GoLocal turns board activity into analytics leadership can actually use. See attendance, tenure, quorum, and task completion across every board, compare boards side by side, or focus on a single member. Then export what you need as a CSV, a detailed PDF, or a chart.

AnalyticsAll boards
Avg attendance
87%
Quorum
96%
Open seats
3
Attendance over time, all boards
83%86%85%89%88%91% JanFebMarAprMayJun
ExportCSVPDFPNG
Who it serves

Built for everyone who keeps a board running.

Commissioners
  • Everything for your board in one searchable place
  • Agendas, staff reports, and minutes by meeting date
  • A personal workspace for your notes and research
  • Mobile first, so you can serve from anywhere
Clerks and liaisons
  • Distribute packets once, not member by member
  • See who has read, responded, and will attend
  • Build onboarding once and reuse it for every member
  • Gather member input with a survey, not reply-all
Government leadership
  • Modernize processes for a new generation of members
  • Increase accessibility and compliance
  • Standardize without forcing rigid uniformity
  • Knowledge that stays after staff and members leave
Why GoLocal

All your boards in one workspace.

Designed for governments to get more from their boards, and for the people who serve to get more from their time.

GoLocal comes out of direct experience with local boards and close work with the clerks, commissioners, and city staff who run them. It brings onboarding, board materials, and communication into one place.

Boards and commissions do real work for their communities, on housing, planning, the environment, and more, yet they have always run on tools made for something else. GoLocal is made for them, so a new appointee can find their footing quickly, a clerk can run a meeting without chasing documents, and the knowledge a board builds stays with the board.

Common questions

What governments ask first.

What is GoLocal?
A single workspace for running local government boards and commissions. It brings onboarding, meetings, documents, and communication into one place, replacing the scatter of email, paper packets, and personal drives.
What kinds of boards is it for?
Any appointed board or commission, advisory, regulatory, or oversight, from planning and housing to parks, ethics, and beyond. It works for a single board or for many across a jurisdiction.
Do our members have to learn another system?
No. Members still receive email and can reply from it. Only the staff liaison composes inside the app. There is no new inbox for members to check and nothing for them to learn.
Can members use it on their phones?
Yes. GoLocal is built mobile first, so commissioners can read packets, mark tasks done, and keep up from a phone, which is how most volunteer service actually happens, in the evenings and between everything else.
How do we get started?
It begins with a short conversation about how your boards work today. If it is a fit, we handle the setup, bringing your board, roster, and existing documents in before anyone on your side touches it. The lift is ours, not yours. Your staff liaison works in the app, and your members keep using email the way they already do.
What does it cost?
Pricing depends on your jurisdiction and how many boards you run. The honest next step is a conversation, so any number reflects what you actually need rather than a guess.

See it in action on your own boards.

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