Legistar
Legistar is a comprehensive, integrated workflow and document management and information retrieval system designed specifically to support the legislative process in cities, towns, and counties.
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Supported Technologies
Windows 95/98/ME,
Windows XP/2000/NT
Web-Based (Browser)
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Pricing
System
15,000 to 150,000
johnc@daystarnet.com
(312) 559-0900
Legistar is site licensed and available directly from Daystar Computer Systems, Inc.
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Legistar is a comprehensive, integrated document management and information retrieval system designed specifically to support the legislative process in cities, towns, and counties.
From the drafting and introduction of ordinances, resolutions, and other legislative matters through assignment to various committees, commissions, and offices and Council Meetings, to final disposition, Legistar parallels and supports the customary flow of legislative operations, tracking every action taken on each matter, along with dates, free-form notation, and individual votes where appropriate.
Legistar was designed from the ground up to completely automate all the information management functions of the city clerks office and of the city council in one smooth and coherent system.
Legistars design team was made up of city clerks, county administrators and senior staff members with many years of experience in city council work, along with creative software engineers who used the most sophisticated technical tools available to build a system that is based on a solid core of universally accepted legislative procedures with a mechanism for easily adapting it to almost any set of local requirements.
The system eliminates all data entry redundancy. Text and data are entered only once and then organized and stored by the system so that it can be retrieved and formatted for display or for any of Legistar?s standard or custom reports. Meeting agendas, public hearing notices, referral notices, overdue notices, minutes of meetings, journals of proceedings, subject matter indexes, and other reports are automatically generated directly from the tracking data.
The text of the legislative documents can be composed using almost any popular word-processor or text editor and then imported into Legistar using the systems dynamic text linking functions. Legislative records may also include scanned images such as diagrams, maps, plans, and correspondence, which can be retrieved and printed or displayed along with legislative text and tracking data.
Numerous typing shortcuts make data entry procedures fast enough to record minutes on-line during a meeting, and have them printed and ready for distribution within an hour after adjournment. All reports are automatically formatted with the Windows font set before being directed to a standard desktop laser printer for camera-ready copy. Customized reports can include the City logo, official signatures, and other graphics. Help text is available on each field, screen, and menu in the system. Pop-up windows display lists of valid commands and data entry codes for all applicable fields, eliminating the need to memorize lists of codes. All data access is protected by password security.