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
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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

Organize Every Meeting in 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?
GoLocal is a board management and compliance workspace made for local government. It replaces the patchwork of email threads, paper packets, spreadsheets, and personal cloud drives with one secure home for your operations. It connects clerks and staff liaisons with their appointed commissioners, speeding up daily work and protecting public records.
What types of boards and committees does it support?
GoLocal manages any appointed advisory, regulatory, or oversight body across a jurisdiction, including planning commissions, housing authorities, zoning boards, and ethics committees. It works whether you are running a single board or overseeing dozens of committees across a city or county.
How does GoLocal handle Open Meetings Law and FOIA compliance?
Compliance is built into how GoLocal works. Because staff send announcements and members reply privately, no reply-all thread forms on the platform, and giving members a sanctioned channel reduces the pull toward the group texts and email chains that create accidental serial meetings. The result is an organized, auditable record of official communication that cuts the time it takes to search for and produce records under a FOIA request.
What makes the appointee onboarding module different?
GoLocal includes a customizable onboarding builder. Staff can build structured orientation paths using eight built-in content types, including documents, training videos, acknowledgments, and custom quizzes. That lets you handle city-wide ethics compliance alongside board-specific training, and track completion in real time so members arrive at their first meeting prepared.
What happens when a new board member joins?
When a member is appointed, the staff liaison invites them using their preferred email address, and GoLocal handles the welcome from there. It walks the new member through a short tour and opens your custom onboarding module, and the liaison or board chair can add a personal welcome message right in the app. The new member arrives ready to serve, without a chain of manual setup emails.
Do board members have to log in from a computer every time?
No. GoLocal is mobile first, so members are not tied to a desktop. Most board members are working professionals serving on evenings and weekends, so they can review meeting packets, track their tasks, and pull up the bylaws right from a phone or tablet. The board's business stays organized and separate from their personal email and files.
What are GoLocal's security and data hosting standards?
Records are kept on US-based hosting with row-level data isolation, so one jurisdiction's data stays separate from every other's. Your jurisdiction owns its data and can export all of it at any time, so the institutional knowledge a board builds stays with the jurisdiction even after members leave.
How does implementation work for our jurisdiction?
Implementation takes no technical heavy lifting from your team. We handle the initial setup, importing your active rosters, boards, and historical reference documents into the platform. We train your staff liaisons and clerks directly, so your administration starts saving hours on meeting prep right away.

See it in action on your own boards.

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