What the council directed, actually done.
Rostra Directives closes the council follow-up loop: it reads the minutes, finds every directive and referral, queues each for the clerk to confirm, then assigns and tracks it through to completion with a manager's dashboard.
Month-to-month. No contracts.
Council direction scatters. The manager takes the heat.
A city manager is hired to carry out what the council decides, but that direction is buried across meetings, lives in a manual follow-up spreadsheet, and slips through the cracks. When something the council asked for doesn't happen, the manager owns it. Rostra Directives makes every directive visible and accountable.
- Directives buried across months of minutes
- Follow-up tracked in a fragile spreadsheet
- No clear owner, due date, or status on what was directed
Everything Rostra Directives does for you
Directive detection
Classifies passages in the minutes as a directive, a referral or a motion-with-action, distinguishing binding direction from ordinary discussion, the hard part done conservatively.
Clerk confirmation queue
Nothing is auto-published. Each detected directive lands in a queue for the clerk to confirm the owner, department and return date before it goes live.
Assignable & tracked
Every confirmed directive becomes an action item with an owner, a department, a return/due date and a status, tracked through to completion, including “report back due.”
Linked to the record
Each item carries the verbatim span from the minutes it came from, so the direction is always backed by exactly what the council said.
Manager dashboard
See open, overdue and returning-soon directives at a glance, the executive view of whether council intent is actually getting executed.
Reminders that close the loop
Owners and the manager are nudged ahead of each return date, so directions land on the agenda when the council expects them back.
Live in three steps
We read the minutes
Directives, referrals and motions-with-action are detected from the meeting record, building on the suite's minutes and action ingestion.
The clerk confirms
Each item is confirmed and assigned an owner, department and return date, never auto-published, always backed by a verbatim span.
Track to done
Work the tracker, watch the manager dashboard, and let reminders bring each directive back when the council expects it.
Close the loop between what the council directs and what actually gets done.
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