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.
II. Approval of April Minutes
Trustee Park moved to approve. Trustee Lewis seconded. Motion carried 5–0.
FIG. 1The OMA pipeline. Agenda and notice complete; minutes drafted and waiting for approval.
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.
Drag-and-drop items, auto-numbering, time estimates, attached materials. The agenda becomes the spine of every downstream artifact.
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.
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.
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.
FIG. 1A meeting agenda in progress, with five items and time estimates.
FIG. 2OMA deadline math with confirmed posting destinations.
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…
FIG. 3Minutes drafted automatically, with motion language highlighted.
FIG. 4The published meeting card on the public portal with all artifacts attached.
OMA 15.265 deadline math built in. Holiday-aware. Surfaces the exact post-by time.
Drag-and-drop items, attach supporting docs, auto-paginate, ready to print or publish.
Drop the recording. Get a speaker-diarized transcript. Minutes draft from the transcript.
Citizens subscribe once, get every meeting on their own calendar.
Minutes lock on approval. Approver and timestamp captured. Audit-ready.
Every notice, every approval, every publish — recorded and exportable.