Cities, villages & townships
One website for the whole town — and one you can actually keep current.
A services directory residents can navigate, agendas and minutes and public notices that meet your open-meetings and public-records laws, service alerts you post in seconds, and forms that route themselves — engineered to the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard from the first line of code. We build it, you approve it live, then you pay. Live in days — no five-year contract, no RFP.
Free plan, no credit card. Or go Civic for the government features — you approve it before you pay.
- WCAG 2.1 AA by construction
- Live in days, not months
- No contract, cancel anytime
- Under the bid threshold — no RFP
Built for how you serve
Everything a resident needs to find — and everything the clerk needs to post.
Residents shouldn't have to call the office to learn when the council meets or where to pull a permit. Put it on a site they can actually use — and that your staff can update without a webmaster.
Service & emergency alerts
Water-main breaks, boil orders, snow routes, leaf and brush pickup, road closures — posted site-wide in seconds and taken down just as fast.
Agendas, minutes & notices
Your clerk uploads a PDF and it's listed, dated, and searchable — the transparency your open-meetings and public-records laws call for. Your counsel confirms your obligations.
Departments & services
Public works, water and sewer, building and permits, the clerk, the treasurer, parks and rec — a directory that gets residents to the right desk on the first click.
Elected officials & staff
Who represents the town, when the council or board meets, and how to reach them — the trust page every municipal site should have and most bury.
Forms & requests
Permit questions, utility issues, FOIA and records requests, and service requests — typed forms that route straight to the right department's inbox.
Jobs, bids & RFPs
Post openings and solicitations where residents and vendors can actually find them — dated, searchable, and easy to keep current.
ADA Title II · The clock is running
Accessibility isn't a feature. For a city or village, it's the law.
The U.S. Department of Justice's ADA Title II rule requires state and local government websites to meet WCAG 2.1 AA, on federal deadlines — and most municipal sites aren't close. Overlay widgets don't get you there; courts and accessibility experts consider them insufficient. We build conformance into the markup itself — not a $4,200-a-year add-on.
Governments serving 50,000 or more residents.
Governments under 50,000 — and special districts. Your population sets the date.
We engineer every CE Sites page to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard and ship an accessibility-statement page with it. We engineer to the standard; your counsel advises on your entity's specific obligations. If we ever ship something that misses the standard, we fix it — that's on us.
The easy part is us
We build it. You approve it. Then you pay.
Your staff is running a town, not a web project. Send us a few photos and the basics — we do the rest, and nothing goes live until the council has seen it and said yes.
- We build the first draft. A complete site — pages, words, and images — from a short brief about your town.
- We move your old site for you. Public-sector onboarding includes migrating your existing content — free.
- The council approves it live before you pay. See the real site on your own web address first. No surprises.
- No contract. Month-to-month, cancel anytime. No five-year term, no cancel-early penalty.
- You own it. Export your entire site and content whenever you want. No lock-in — the one honest exit in this market.
- A real person answers. You talk to the engineers who built the platform — not a call center.
The honest price
What towns actually pay — and what you'd pay us.
The government-website industry runs on five-year contracts, five-figure invoices, and accessibility sold as an add-on. We don't.
| Vendor | Typical cost | Contract | Accessibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| CivicPlus | $8,000–$25,000 / yr | Multi-year, ~5–7% annual escalator | ~$4,200 / yr add-on (AudioEye) |
| Granicus | ~$12,000+ / yr | Enterprise term, ~7% escalator | Maintained AA |
| revize | ~$5,900 / yr (+ setup) | 5-year term; cancel early = full balance due | Overlay widget |
| CE Sites — Civic | $149 / mo (~$1,490–1,788 / yr) | Month-to-month · cancel anytime · export anytime | Built to WCAG 2.1 AA — included |
Figures from vendors' published pricing and municipal procurement records, 2024–2026. Re-verify at contract time; pricing churns. We're not the $500/yr hobbyist tier — we're the one with AI, engineering, and compliance in the base price.
Everything above, plus hosting, security, updates, and get-found-by-Google-and-AI optimization. About $1,500–$1,800 a year — under every state's competitive-bid threshold, so no RFP: your council or board approves it on the consent agenda.
★ Founders' rate: first 250 governments get $250 off year one of Civic + free migration — code AMERICA250, ends Sept 7, 2026See it live
Village of Prairie Creek
A complete municipal site built on CE Sites — services directory, agendas and notices, service alerts, and an accessibility-first build. Open it, run it through a screen reader, check the contrast. That's the standard your town would ship.
Be the first in your county
The town with the best website is the one people notice.
Be the first municipality in your area with a fast, accessible, transparent site — the one residents actually use and the one the neighboring village asks you about. Start free today.
Straight answers
The questions councils actually ask.
Do we have to put it out for bid?
Almost never. At roughly $1,500–$1,800 a year, Civic sits under every state's competitive-bid threshold and the federal micro-purchase limit. The usual path is a vendor proposal on your council or board's consent agenda — no formal RFP.
Is it really accessible?
Yes — WCAG 2.1 AA built into the HTML: semantic markup, keyboard navigation, real contrast. Not an overlay widget, which the courts don't accept.
Can we post agendas and notices ourselves?
Yes. Your clerk uploads a PDF and it's listed, dated, and searchable. No webmaster, no plugins, no HTML.
We already have a site. Can you move it?
Yes. Public-sector onboarding includes moving your existing content for you, and you approve the new site before you pay.
Are we locked in?
No. Month-to-month, cancel anytime, and export everything whenever you like. No five-year term, no cancel-early penalty.
Who's behind it?
Champlin Enterprises, an AI-native software company in Gurnee, Illinois. You deal with the engineers who built the platform.
Give your town a website worth using.
Accessible by construction. Live in days. No contract, no RFP. Start free — the council approves it before you pay a dollar.