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💧 Water Districts Prop 218 · Water Code · Brown Act

For water districts.
Prop 218 ready.

Irrigation, water, and reclamation districts use CivicCA for board meetings, rate-setting hearings, capital improvement plans, and Prop 218 protest tracking — with weighted protest counting and ratepayer-friendly portal built in.

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§ 01 / Why water districts switch

Prop 218 without the spreadsheet.
Ratepayers without the runaround.

A rate-setting year means hearings, mailed notices, and protest counts — usually tracked by hand while the agenda lives in Word. Here’s what changes.

The old way

Word packets + manual protests

×The board packet is built in Word and emailed as a static PDF to directors and ratepayers.
×Prop 218 hearings mean mailed notices and protest counts tallied by hand on a spreadsheet.
×The 72-hour Brown Act clock and teleconference rules are tracked manually.
×Ratepayers can’t find the rate study, the CIP, or the agenda online.
×Minutes are retyped days later; past rate decisions are buried in a file share.
With CivicCA

One ratepayer-ready platform

✓Build the agenda once — it publishes to a live, searchable ratepayer portal. No PDF to email.
✓Prop 218 hearing templates with weighted protest counting and the right statutory notices built in.
✓The 72-hour clock plus Brown Act / AB 2449 teleconference checks run automatically.
✓Ratepayers find the rate study, CIP, and every past vote in seconds — in 21 languages.
✓AI minutes from the live transcript, published next morning into a searchable archive.
Easy to run: import last meeting’s agenda and you’re live in a day — no IT department, no migration project, no consultants.
§ 02 / The water district year

Built for the rate cycle.
And the protests.

Annual rate-setting, capital plans, and public hearings — with all the statutory templates built in.

01

Operations

Monthly board meetings with operations reports, equipment purchases, contract awards — auto-cited PCC sections.

Monthly
02

Prop 218 cycle

Annual rate-setting public hearing with statutory notice generation, weighted protest counting, and rate-study deliberation templates.

Annual
03

Capital plans

Multi-year capital improvement plan deliberations, project tracking, fiscal-source validation, ratepayer impact analysis.

Multi-year
§ 03 / Capabilities

Built for the work.

Specifically calibrated for water districts — not a city council product retrofitted.

I

Prop 218 Hearings

Statutory 45-day notice generation, weighted protest counting, hearing minutes templates, GC citations applied.

Prop 218
II

Rate-Setting

Rate-study deliberations, ratepayer-impact analysis, three-tier proposed rates, public hearing minutes.

Rate study
III

CIP Tracking

Multi-year capital improvement plan with project budgets, completion tracking, and fiscal-source validation.

CIP / FY
IV

Ratepayer Portal

Public-facing portal with searchable archive, eComment intake, ADA compliant, 21 languages.

Ratepayer-friendly
V

Contract Awards

Bid documents, public contract code citations, award resolutions, attachment routing for engineering certs.

PCC compliant
VI

Compliance Engine

Brown Act, Prop 218, Water Code, AB 2449, SB 707 — all frameworks pre-loaded.

51 frameworks

Modernize the district. Defend the rate.

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