Board governance for public school districts

Run the meeting.
The record writes itself.

BoardMeets builds the agenda, runs roll call and votes from the room, and generates minutes that satisfy your state's open meetings law the moment you adjourn — then publishes a district-branded site your community can actually use.

A product of ESP-EDU · Built for K-12 school boards, not adapted from corporate boards

Northgate School District Published
Regular Meeting of the Board of Education
June 11, 2026 · 6:00 PM · District Office Board Room
1.0Call to Order6:02 PM
2.0Roll Call6 of 7 present
3.0Approval of Minutes
4.0Executive SessionClosed
Stated purpose: personnel — appointment and employment
5.0Action: FY27 Tentative BudgetCarried 5–1
6.0Adjournment7:41 PM
NoticeAgenda posted ahead of the meeting and timestamped in the audit log
Exec. sessionStated purpose printed on the public agenda before the vote to close
MinutesEvery vote recorded by member name; open and closed minutes kept separate
Built for
K-12 boards of education nationwide
Replaces
BoardDocs, BoardBook, and the shared-drive workaround
Includes
Your public transparency site, at no extra cost
AI policy
Drafts only — a person approves before anything publishes

The platform

Everything the board secretary does, in one place

Agenda to packet to vote to minutes to the public record — one system, one login, no re-keying the same information into four different tools.

Agenda builder

Drag to reorder, nest sub-items, save a template and reuse it every month. Locations come from a managed district list, so nobody retypes the address wrong.

Board packets

Attach the budget spreadsheet, the bid tab, the policy redline. Members open one packet on a tablet instead of hunting through an email thread.

Live meeting mode

Take roll, capture the motion and second, record each vote by name, and stamp the time you adjourned — all from the room, as it happens.

Compliant minutes

Minutes generate from what actually happened — deterministically, not from a model. Open and executive session come out as two separate documents.

AI packet summaries

A plain-language summary of a 200-page packet, drafted in seconds. Nothing reaches the public until an administrator reads it and approves it.

Policy library

Your full policy manual, numbered the way your board already numbers it, searchable by the public and linkable straight from an agenda item.

Public calendar

Upcoming meetings on a real calendar with add-to-calendar links, so parents and staff can plan around board night without calling the office.

Roles & permissions

Eight roles out of the box, with per-permission grants and explicit denials — so the treasurer sees the budget and the recording secretary doesn't publish by accident.

Audit log

Sign-ins, permission changes, publishes, approvals, deletions — recorded with user, timestamp, and IP. When someone asks what happened, you have an answer.

Go deeper

Three ways to look at it

Each one is its own page, with the product screens and the detail behind the claim.

Switching

Coming from another board portal?

You already have years of agendas, minutes, and policies in someone else's system. Moving shouldn't mean leaving them behind.

 BoardMeetsTypical board portal
Built forK-12 boards of educationNonprofits, hospitals, corporate boards
Open meetings workflowNative — stated purpose, separate minutes, roll-call votesConfigured by the customer
Public transparency siteIncluded, district-branded, publishes automaticallyOften a separate product or add-on
AI summariesHuman approval required before anything publishesVaries by vendor
AI billingBring your own key — you see and control the spendBundled into the license fee
Bringing your historyImport agendas and policies from your existing portalManual re-entry or a paid migration

"Typical board portal" describes the general market category, not any single named vendor. Compare against your own contract before deciding.

See it against your own agenda

We'll set up a walkthrough using one of your district's real meetings, not a canned demo dataset.