Record the meeting. Upload the audio. Get drafted minutes with motions, votes, and attendance already structured, then review, approve, and publish. Built for local government, where minutes are a statutory record with a deadline, not a memo.
A two-hour board meeting costs most clerks another two to four hours of minutes writing, against a real clock: in Michigan, proposed minutes must be available for public inspection within 8 business days of the meeting and approved minutes within 5 business days of approval (MCL 15.269(3)). The document itself has a statutory contents list (MCL 15.269(1)): date, time, place, members present and absent, every decision, closed-session purposes, and every roll-call vote, recorded by name.
That is why generic transcription and notetaking tools disappoint here. They produce summaries of conversations. A clerk needs the legal record: motions with movers and seconders, exact actions as adopted, vote counts that will be relied on for years. The format is the product.
Record on anything. A phone on the dais works. Upload the audio to the meeting in Dekree, or bring the meeting video from YouTube or Vimeo.
The draft arrives structured. Dekree transcribes the recording and drafts the minutes against your agenda: each item with a concise summary, motions formatted with mover, second, exact action, and outcome, roll-call votes by name, attendance up top. The structure follows the statute, in the format shown in our minutes template guide.
The clerk stays the author. Review and edit in a full-screen document editor, approve, and publish to your public portal in one motion. Nothing publishes without the clerk’s approval, and the 8-day and 5-day clocks are tracked on the meeting itself.
The recording becomes an asset. Meeting video gets chaptered, searchable transcripts on your portal, so a resident can jump to the item they care about instead of asking your office for a timestamp (meeting video details).
Do not take a landing page’s word for any of this. 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. If the draft does not hold up against your own record, you will know in twenty minutes, and so will we.
Pricing is published like everything else at Dekree: minutes drafting is part of the Open Meetings product, from $199/mo for organizations under 5,000 residents, a la carte, billed annually, no implementation fee, unlimited users (full price list). If you are comparing vendors, our sourced comparisons, including the former CivicClerk, are at /compare.
Record the meeting on a phone or any recorder, upload the audio, and Dekree transcribes it and drafts structured minutes: attendance, each agenda item with a summary, motions with movers and seconders, votes including roll calls. The clerk edits and approves in a full-screen editor; nothing publishes without that review.
Minutes are a statutory public record with required contents, not meeting notes. In Michigan, MCL 15.269(1) requires the date, time, and place, members present and absent, all decisions, closed-session purposes, and all roll-call votes, in a document the public can inspect on deadline. Generic notetakers summarize conversations; minutes software produces the legal record.
Minutes drafting is part of the Dekree Open Meetings product: $199/mo for organizations under 5,000 residents and $599/mo for 5,000 to 25,000, published at dekree.ai/pricing, billed annually, no implementation fee, unlimited users. Counties and larger organizations are quoted to the organization.
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. That comparison is the whole evaluation.