Meetings & OMA

Notice. Agenda. Minutes. In one flow.

Open Meetings Act compliance is a four-step pipeline. Dekree walks every meeting from agenda to minutes to publish. The 18-hour rule is never the thing that bites you again.

OMA Meeting Pipeline
Agenda
Notice
Minutes
Publish
Minutes drafted
from 42-min recording

II. Approval of April Minutes

Trustee Park moved to approve. Trustee Lewis seconded. Motion carried 5–0.

Ready for your review
Approve

FIG. 1The OMA pipeline. Agenda and notice complete; minutes drafted and waiting for approval.

The problem

One meeting. Four artifacts. Three deadlines. All in your head.

The OMA 18-hour rule. The 8-business-day minutes window. The packet your trustees need by Friday. Dekree carries every one of those clocks for you.

How it works

From agenda to published, in four steps.

01

Build the agenda.

Drag-and-drop items, auto-numbering, time estimates, attached materials. The agenda becomes the spine of every downstream artifact.

02

Post the notice. On time.

Dekree calculates the OMA 18-hour rule from the meeting time and tells you the exact deadline. One click posts to your portal, your township office, and your newspaper of record.

03

Minutes drafted from the recording.

Upload the audio. Dekree transcribes it, drafts the minutes inline, marks the motions, and gets out of your way. You read it, edit it, approve it.

04

Publish to your portal.

Approved minutes, the agenda, the notice, the packet — all published to your citizen-facing portal in one click. Residents can subscribe to .ics calendar feeds.

Agenda
5 items
I.Call to order5 min
II.Approval of April 14 minutes5 min
III.Public comment10 min
IV.New business: water main bond20 min
V.Adjournment2 min
Auto-saved · 42 min total

FIG. 1A meeting agenda in progress, with five items and time estimates.

Public Notice
Posted
OMA 18-hour ruleMCL 15.265
Meeting: Mon, May 12 · 7:00 PM
Notice posted: Sun, May 11 · 9:14 AM
33 hrs ahead — within the rule
Posted to
Township office
Posted on door
maplewoodtwp.gov/portal
Live
Daily Mining Gazette
Filed

FIG. 2OMA deadline math with confirmed posting destinations.

Minutes
42 min recording

II. Approval of April 14 Minutes

Trustee Park moved to approve the minutes as written. Trustee Lewis seconded. Motion carried 5–0.

III. Public Comment

Resident Mary Cooper asked about the timeline for the road resurfacing project. Supervisor Holt responded that work would begin in late June…

EditApprove & Save

FIG. 3Minutes drafted automatically, with motion language highlighted.

Maplewood Township Portal
Public Meetings
Mon, May 12 · 7:00 PM
Live

Board of Trustees · Regular Meeting

AgendaNoticePacket
·14 residents subscribed

FIG. 4The published meeting card on the public portal with all artifacts attached.

What you get

Every detail of an OMA-compliant meeting, handled.

18-hour rule, computed

OMA 15.265 deadline math built in. Holiday-aware. Surfaces the exact post-by time.

Agenda packet builder

Drag-and-drop items, attach supporting docs, auto-paginate, ready to print or publish.

Audio transcription built in

Drop the recording. Get a speaker-diarized transcript. Minutes draft from the transcript.

Portal calendar with .ics

Citizens subscribe once, get every meeting on their own calendar.

Approval, not just edit

Minutes lock on approval. Approver and timestamp captured. Audit-ready.

Append-only audit trail

Every notice, every approval, every publish — recorded and exportable.

Explore Dekree

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