What Civic is — public meetings, notices, issues, records

Civic is the operating layer for a municipal body — town council, school board, water district, neighborhood association — that has to be public about what it does.

Tabs:
• **Meetings** — schedule meetings (regular, special, work-session, public-hearing), publish minutes when they're done.
• **Notices** — post public announcements (general, meeting-notice, emergency, project, budget, election).
• **Issues** — residents file complaints and ideas; the public can upvote; staff responds.
• **Records** — public records requests (FOIA-equivalent) tracked from submission to fulfillment.

Civic is org-context. Activate it from Marketplace for a body that has a public-trust obligation. Residents don't need accounts to read; some actions (upvoting an issue, filing a records request) ask for an identity, but only minimally.

The default is transparency: anything published in Civic is publicly readable unless explicitly marked confidential. Confidential records (personnel matters, real-estate negotiations) live elsewhere — Civic is the public face.