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College Place to switch agenda software to CivicPlus AMM; ADA accessibility noted as implementation issue
Summary
Staff demonstrated CivicPlus AMM as College Place’s replacement for BoardDocs, highlighting public-portal features, board-portal annotation tools and search capabilities; Council member Stecklein raised ADA accessibility and staff said additional features will be required for full compliance.
City staff demonstrated a transition from BoardDocs to CivicPlus AMM for agenda and meetings management, describing a public portal with searchable agenda packets, embedded videos, and a board portal that allows logged-in members to annotate packet documents. Presenter showed features including thumbnails, video links to YouTube, annotation tools and search functions for archived packets "from January 2020 forward."
Council member Stecklein asked whether the public-facing portal would be accessible to screen readers; the presenter replied that CivicPlus has an accessibility program (referred to in the meeting as "DACA Access") and that full ADA compliance will require purchasing additional features and website updates. "Yes. We will have to be fully ADA compliant here soon," the presenter said, noting added cost for the accessibility module.
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