PublicInput

05/28/2026

Accessible public engagement isn't just about meeting requirements. It's about making sure every resident can actually participate, regardless of device, channel, or how they interact with information.

Planners getting this right aren't working harder. They're building accessibility into the workflow from the start, so consistency is a natural output of the process rather than something to chase down after the fact.

Read the full post to see what that looks like in practice. https://hubs.la/Q04hZcBW0

Public engagement only works when people can actually participate in it. For planners, the challenge is not understanding accessibility requirements. It is making them consistent across every engag…

05/26/2026

Compliance in public engagement isn't something you prove at the end of a project. It's something you build into the process from the start.

That means knowing who needs to be heard, not just who's easiest to reach. It means accessible meetings, language access, and documentation that holds up. It means closing the loop between input and outcomes.

Five compliance categories. One checklist to see where your process actually stands.

Read the full checklist: https://hubs.la/Q04hZdq80

This checklist helps government practitioners evaluate where their current process stands across five compliance categories, organized around federal requirements for engagement design and executio…

05/21/2026

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day ( ) — and for government agencies, it's worth pausing on what accessible public engagement actually requires.

Not just accessible meeting rooms. Accessible project pages. Accessible email campaigns. Accessible survey forms. Content that works for everyone, before it goes live.

PublicInput is WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, actively working toward 2.2, and now includes a built-in accessibility checker directly in the content editor, so your team can catch issues in project pages, portal content, and email templates before they reach the public.

ADA Title II compliance isn't optional. The tools to get there should at least be straightforward. 🔗 https://hubs.la/Q04gBFPl0

Public engagement only works when everyone can actually participate. Here’s how PublicInput is making that easier – across your content, your meetings, and your platform. Our Commitment…

05/20/2026

The average COG or transit agency spends 10–15 FTE-hours per meeting on agenda prep, ex*****on, and post-meeting documentation. Multiply that across your full board and committee calendar, and you're looking at weeks of staff time per year.

That's not a staffing problem. It's a workflow problem.

📅 Join us Wednesday, June 3rd at 1 PM ET for a free 30-minute webinar: How COGs and Transit Agencies Are Running More Meetings In Less Time.

We'll cover:
• The real FTE cost of your meeting calendar
• How AI agenda and minutes tools are returning capacity to COG staff and member agencies
• How transportation agencies are turning Title VI, ADA, and federal compliance docs into automatic outputs
• A live demo of the full workflow — agenda upload to published minutes

Executive Directors: if you're ready to stop treating the administrative grind as inevitable, this session is for you.

Register here: https://hubs.la/Q04hldJv0

Join us for this session designed for COGs and transit agencies to eliminate the administrative grind.

05/19/2026

We’re excited to welcome Matthew Jones to the PublicInput team as our Product Manager.

Matthew brings a thoughtful, collaborative approach to building great products, and we’re thrilled to have him join us as we continue creating better ways for governments and communities to connect.

Welcome to the team, Matthew!

05/14/2026

Our team is growing! 👋 Say hello to Brett Milano, PublicInput's newest Business Development Representative. Brett is hitting the ground running to help more communities discover what better public engagement can look like. Welcome to the team Brett, we are so glad you are here!

05/06/2026

Quiet from certain communities isn't the same as agreement.

If your outreach went out in English only, your survey wasn't screen reader compatible, and your meeting didn't have real-time multilingual captioning . . . you didn't get low participation. You got filtered participation.

Built-in multilingual and accessibility tools change the default. Every project starts from inclusion, not toward it.

See how it works in practice. 🔗https://hubs.la/Q04fhtBg0

Accessibility and language access have always been part of what government engagement is supposed to do. Most agencies are committed to both. The challenge is that commitment and infrastructure are…

05/04/2026

This week we're recognizing the people who keep local government running.

Municipal Clerks are the keepers of public record, the administrators of elections, the connectors between government and the communities it serves. The work is detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and essential, often without much public recognition.

57 years of Professional Municipal Clerks Week says that's worth changing!

To every Clerk and Deputy Clerk marking this week: your work matters. Thank you for all you do!

International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC)

05/01/2026

Quick reality check for public engagement teams:

Are you rebuilding your contact list . . . every single project? Same neighborhoods. Same stakeholders.
But no record of who showed up, what they said, or how they engaged last time.

That’s not a people problem, it’s a system problem.

A resident engagement CRM keeps the full story: who engaged, where, how, and on what so every project builds on the last instead of starting from scratch.

Because engagement should compound, not reset.

📖 Read more about how agencies are turning participation into a lasting asset: https://hubs.la/Q04dz7VY0

Most agencies doing public engagement work are building relationships with their communities. The challenge is that those relationships don’t always get recorded in a way that persists. A res…

04/27/2026

For DOT project managers and public involvement leads: a quick gut check.

Is your inbox acting as your public comment system?

It’s common and it feels efficient. But under federal requirements, those emails may need to be part of a complete, defensible project record. And inboxes weren’t built for that.

Missed submissions. Staff transitions. No audit trail. That’s not just inconvenient, it’s compliance risk.

📖 Explore what a defensible process looks like: https://hubs.la/Q04dy-H60

Is Your Project Manager’s Inbox a Public Record? Picture a scene that plays out every day across state transportation agencies. A project manager finalizes a public meeting notice, scrolls to the b…