Park · library · water · sanitary · cemetery & more
Special districts run the everyday. Your website should keep up.
Agendas and minutes that meet your open-meetings law, transparency pages, board and service information, and forms that route themselves — engineered to the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard from the first line of code. The DOJ's ADA Title II deadline names special districts by name. 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 district features — you approve it before you pay.
- WCAG 2.1 AA by construction
- Live in days, not months
- No contract, no discount hoops
- Under the bid threshold — no RFP
Built for how you serve
The statutory must-haves, plus the everyday your residents actually need.
Whether you run parks, a library, or the water system, the same two jobs matter: post what the law requires, and tell residents what you offer. This does both — and your board secretary can run it.
Agendas, minutes & transparency
Upload a PDF and it's listed, dated, and searchable — the open-meetings posting that is the whole reason special districts buy a real website. Your counsel confirms your obligations.
Service & closure alerts
Boil orders and water shutoffs, park and pool closures, library hours changes, brush pickup — posted site-wide in seconds and taken down just as fast.
Board & meetings
Who serves on the board, when it meets, and how to reach them — the trust page every district should have and most bury three clicks deep.
Programs & services
Rec programs and registration, library events and card sign-up, rate schedules and service areas — whatever your district does, laid out so residents find it fast.
Forms & requests
FOIA and records requests, program registration, service requests, and general questions — typed forms that route straight to the right inbox.
Budget & levy transparency
Post budgets, audits, and levy information where residents and your state's transparency requirements expect them — clear, dated, and easy to keep current.
ADA Title II · The clock is running
The 2028 deadline names special districts. Specifically.
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 special districts are explicitly in the April 26, 2028 group. Overlay widgets don't get you there; courts and accessibility experts consider them insufficient. We build conformance into the markup itself.
Governments serving 50,000 or more residents.
Governments under 50,000 — and special districts: park, library, water, sanitary, fire protection, cemetery, and more.
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.
Most districts run on a part-time office and a volunteer board. You shouldn't have to become a webmaster. Send us a few photos and the basics — we do the rest, and nothing goes live until the board has seen it and said yes.
- We build the first draft. A complete site — pages, words, and images — from a short brief about your district.
- We move your old site for you. Public-sector onboarding includes migrating your existing content — free.
- The board 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.
- A real person answers. You talk to the engineers who built the platform — not a call center.
The honest price
What districts actually pay — and what you'd pay us.
The special-district vendors either lock you into a five-year term, gate a fair price behind an association membership, or charge enterprise money. We do none of that — one flat price, month to month.
| Vendor | Typical cost | Contract | AI / accessibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Streamline | $120–$2,000 / mo + setup (demo-gated tiers) | No long-term contract; best price needs an association membership | AA out of the box · no AI |
| revize | ~$5,900 / yr (+ setup) | 5-year term; cancel early = full balance due | Overlay widget · no AI |
| CivicPlus | $8,000–$25,000 / yr | Multi-year, ~5–7% escalator | ~$4,200/yr accessibility add-on |
| CE Sites — Civic | $149 / mo (~$1,490–1,788 / yr) | Month-to-month · cancel anytime · export anytime · no membership needed | AI-native · WCAG 2.1 AA included |
Figures from vendors' published pricing and public procurement records, 2024–2026. Re-verify at contract time; pricing churns. Streamline does accessibility well — our edge is a transparent flat price, AI-native content, and no membership gate.
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 board approves it on the consent agenda.
★ Founders' rate: first 250 public entities get $250 off year one of Civic + free migration — code AMERICA250, ends Sept 7, 2026See it live
A live special-district site
Prairie Creek Fire Protection District is a special district built on CE Sites — alert banner, board and services, and an accessibility-first build. Open it, run it through a screen reader, check the contrast. That's the standard your district would ship.
Be the first in your association
District managers talk. Be the one with the site everyone asks about.
The first district in your association to launch a fast, accessible, no-contract site becomes the reference the others chase at the next conference. Start free today — and be that district.
Straight answers
The questions boards 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 board's consent agenda — no formal RFP.
Is it really accessible?
Yes — WCAG 2.1 AA built into the HTML. Special districts are explicitly in the DOJ's April 26, 2028 Title II group, and overlay widgets don't satisfy it. We build to the standard itself.
Do we need an association membership for a fair price?
No. $149/mo is the price — no membership, no discount hoops, no demo-gated tiers.
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 district a website that holds up.
Accessible by construction. Live in days. No contract, no RFP, no membership gate. Start free — the board approves it before you pay a dollar.