For towns and counties under 50,000
For the clerk or manager who posts the agendas, packets and minutes, among everything else.
In their words
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“Our biggest ADA problem is scanned documents.”
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“This change is a work in progress.”
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“It’s a marathon not a sprint”
An IT project manager at a county clerk of courts, in Route Fifty, 2026
Limited staff time was the barrier local leaders named most often, 42% of them, in a 2025 survey of more than 1,000 local officials. CivicPulse
What changes
Now
- Scanned packets nobody can read aloud
- Old minutes you are unsure whether to take down
- No file to show if a resident asks
With Readable Town
- Every new file fixed and checked, monthly
- Each old file decided once, with the reason logged
- A dated record, every month
What it takes to start
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Your website address
Any platform, including one a vendor or a volunteer set up.
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One short call
We agree where your archive section is and which old files are still in use.
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Keep posting
Nothing new to learn. The monthly work starts with the next scan.
How towns buy it
$1,500 a year, the same for every town, set well below the amount that sends most small governments to a formal bid. We bring a one-page memo for your board.
- $10,000In one Colorado town’s purchasing ordinance, a department director can approve purchases up to this amount without bids. Green Mountain Falls, 2019
- October 15The day Colorado budget law asks for next year’s proposed budget. C.R.S. 29-1-105
How readable is your town?
Send us your website. A person opens the latest agenda you posted and tells you, on one page, what a screen reader finds in it. Free.