CivicClerk no longer exists as a standalone product: it is now the Select tier of CivicPlus Agenda & Meeting Management. If you were shortlisting CivicClerk, or you run it and your renewal now says CivicPlus, this page covers what changed, what the public record shows about price, and how Dekree's Open Meetings product compares.
Brand retirements are not just logo swaps. When CivicClerk became the Select tier of CivicPlus Agenda & Meeting Management[1], the product you evaluated joined a portfolio whose pricing, packaging, and roadmap decisions are made at suite level. Public contract records for the category show why that deserves attention at renewal time: documented agenda-product deals run $10,000–$21,000+ per year for cities in the 16,000–30,000 range[2] [4], and Granicus/CivicPlus agreements have carried 5–10% annual uplifts[3]. One fairness note on those numbers: public contracts rarely itemize what is inside, so a figure may include streaming, website integration, or other modules. The itemized Banning order form is the cleanest comparable (agenda product $10,200/yr, with live streaming as a separate ~$5,136/yr add-on[4]). Whatever you evaluate, ask for the itemized five-year total.
None of that makes it a bad product. It makes it an enterprise-suite product, and if you are a township or small city buying agenda software for one or two boards, you are paying suite prices for a fraction of the suite.
| Dekree | CivicPlus AMM (former CivicClerk) | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing published on the website | ||
| Documented price point (agenda product, itemized order form) | Open Meetings from $199/mo ($2,388/yr), published Starter tier | $10,200/yr for a comparable Granicus agenda product at a ~30,000-resident city; a CivicClerk deal at a 16,000-resident city ran ~$16,904/yr, configuration not itemized in the public record[4] [2] |
| Minutes drafted from your meeting audio | Yes: transcribed, drafted, clerk reviews and approves | |
| Notice compliance (Michigan OMA, 18-hour rule) | Built in, statute-aware by meeting type | General-purpose workflows |
| FOIA available from the same vendor | Yes: sold a la carte on the same platform; full suite capped at $499/mo (Starter) | Separate product (NextRequest), separate price |
| Meeting video with chaptered, searchable transcripts | Included with Open Meetings; bring your own YouTube or Vimeo | Streaming/video sold separately in the category[4] |
| Contractual annual escalator | No escalator written into the agreement | 5–10% uplifts documented on Granicus/CivicPlus contracts[3] |
| Implementation fee | None | Varies by deal |
Competitor figures are deal-specific contract prices from public records, not a vendor price list. Configurations differ: a public contract number may include streaming, website integration, or other modules the Dekree number does not cover. Ask every vendor for an itemized, five-year quote.
Dekree’s Open Meetings product treats the meeting as one flow: the notice goes up (with the statute doing the math on timing), the agenda builds into a packet, the clerk records the meeting on a phone or uploads the audio afterward, and Dekree drafts the minutes, with motions, votes, and actions formatted as a proper public record. The clerk reviews, approves, and publishes to the portal. Nothing publishes without that review. It is priced like the rest of Dekree: published tiers at dekree.ai/pricing, from $199/mo, no implementation fee, and FOIA available a la carte on the same platform, with the full suite capped at $499/mo at the Starter tier.
And do not take the minutes claim on faith. Send us a real meeting recording before your demo. We run it through Dekree, and on the call you put the drafted minutes next to the minutes your clerk actually wrote for that meeting. That comparison is the whole evaluation, and it fits in twenty minutes.
An honest read. Different tools fit different organizations, and the right answer depends on your size, budget, and how much of the work you want the software to do.
The product is public. Watch it run, do the math on your own numbers, and click through the same screens a clerk uses, before you ever book a call.
CivicPlus retired the CivicClerk brand. The product now sells as CivicPlus Agenda & Meeting Management, in Essential and Select tiers; Select is the former CivicClerk. Existing customers were folded into the CivicPlus product family.
CivicPlus does not publish pricing. In public records, the City of La Palma, California (~16,000 residents) pays roughly $16,904 per year at steady state for CivicClerk agenda management, and comparable agenda products in the category run $10,000–$21,000+ per year. Contract analyses show 5–10% annual uplifts on Granicus/CivicPlus agreements.
Yes, as one product. Dekree Open Meetings covers the notice (including Michigan’s 18-hour rule for special meetings), the agenda, the packet, minutes drafted from your meeting audio, and publishing to your public portal, from $199/mo published.
Test it on your own meeting. Send us a real recording before your demo: we run it through Dekree, and on the call you compare the drafted minutes against the minutes your clerk actually wrote for that meeting. No claim survives contact with a real recording unless the product works.
Yes. Past meetings, minutes archives, and your meeting calendar are imported during onboarding at no implementation fee. See dekree.ai/switch for the migration plan.
Competitor pricing reflects publicly available procurement documents and published materials as of the date above. Contract pricing varies by configuration; confirm current figures with each vendor. Dekree pricing is published in full at dekree.ai/pricing.