The Los Angeles Office of the City Clerk launched a legislative management system on Oct. 26 that provides searchable access to more than 50 years of city records. The platform is designed to help users track legislative items and follow City Council meetings and agendas from a single website.
According to the City Clerk’s Office, residents can subscribe to email alerts and submit public comments through the site. The system contains more than half a million documents, including 172,000 City Council files.
The transition was completed in less than six months after work began in May. City Clerk Patrice Lattimore said her office had previously relied on as many as five separate systems for tasks such as processing council items, streaming meetings and tracking votes.
Lattimore said the project aimed to create a single, integrated and user-friendly service. She identified the migration of the city’s large volume of existing files, alongside the continued arrival of new documents, as one of the main challenges.
The new system is hosted on a platform supplied by Concourse, a public-sector software company. Lattimore said the company’s pre-developed platform matched requirements set out by the City Clerk’s Office in its request for proposals.
The platform is intended to act as a central hub for legislative management, providing city staff, council constituents and the media with a more intuitive way to access and manage legislative information. Concourse CEO Thomas Smyth said the speed of the rollout reflected the work and leadership of the City Clerk’s Office.
Sources: Smart Cities Dive.