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After Election Day: Canvass, Certification, and Election Records Retention
Canvass and certification are familiar ground. What's different this year is the attention on election records retention: a federal executive [...]
Common Election Day Problems — And How to Handle Them
Most clerks running this November's midterms know election procedure cold. [...]
How East Lyme, Connecticut Manages 75 Boards and Committees with OnBoardGOV
East Lyme-web East Lyme, Connecticut wasn't always one [...]
What Is a Municipal Charter, and Why Does It Matter?
The Municipal Charter as the Ceiling on Authority Every clerk [...]
Introducing ClerkMate: A New Meeting Management Solution Designed with Clerks, for Clerks
Municipal clerks keep local government moving: turning complex meetings into [...]
Client Spotlight: City of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
This month's client spotlight has a bit of a Wisconsin [...]
Are AI Meeting Transcripts Public Records? What Clerks Need to Know
AI note-taking tools have made it easy to generate a [...]
The Municipal Clerk Shortage Is Here
Back in 2021, we wrote about what researchers were calling [...]
Why Your Municipality Should Consider AI Guidelines—and How to Create Them
Updated August 26, 2026: For a closer look at [...]
The Oxford Comma: Grammar Tips for Municipal Clerks
Punctuation might seem like a small detail next to everything [...]