CivicBand Week Ahead, Week 14 of 2026
Published on March 31, 2026 by Philip James

Hello! Here's what we're planning on working on for the upcoming week. Comments are definitely welcome, either here or on our Github, and we always welcome new ideas for localities to add or ways to make CivicBand better.

Dead Letter Queue

The goal is to have every site update every 24 hours. Right now, around 50 sites are in a "stuck" state, and I'm paying down the technical debt to bring everything back to current.

There's three document hosts I'm going to focus on this week for "stuck" state:
- OnBase: https://github.com/civicband/clerk/issues/111
- PrimeGov: https://github.com/civicband/clerk/issues/120
- AgendaCenter: https://github.com/civicband/clerk/issues/113

Shhh...

There's one document host that I think is too noisy with network requests, so I'm going to try and be more efficient with fetching:
- https://github.com/civicband/clerk/issues/122

Provinces, eh?

On the CivicBand website itself, three issues I'm going to fix this week:
- "States" should be "States / Provinces": https://github.com/civicband/corkboard/issues/75
- A disclaimer indicating we don't work with the locality directly, or any of the hosts: https://github.com/civicband/corkboard/issues/76
- Anti-abuse processes documented, with a form for reporting: https://github.com/civicband/corkboard/issues/7

Three Sheets to the Wind

For the core pipeline:
- We use Google Sheets for researching and tracking municipalities we might want to add. We have enough municipalities now that we need some syncing in place to not double our research load: https://github.com/civicband/clerk/issues/123

Are you there, local journalism? It's me, Philip

On the outreach side, there's a couple outlets I've discovered that I'm going to email and see how CivicBand can be helpful. If you know any of these folks, or know outlets that could benefit from our work, please let me know.
- https://github.com/civicband/CityHall/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22Outlet%20Outreach%22

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See you next week! 🙇‍♂️