Livy Documentation

Reference and task-driven walkthroughs for managing legislative meetings, agendas, and items.

What Is Livy?

A modern agenda management system for government bodies — city councils, planning commissions, and other legislative groups. It handles the full lifecycle from drafting items through publishing official agendas and recording outcomes.

Where to Start

• New to Livy? Read the Quick Start: Publish your first agenda.
• Looking for an answer? The FAQ & Workflows section in the sidebar covers the workflows that trip up most new users.
• Want the model? Core Concepts and Workflow & Compliance describe how meetings, agendas, items, and approvals fit together.

Key Concepts

• Meetings — scheduled events where a body convenes. Lifecycle from draft through completion.
• Agendas — versioned, published snapshots of the items to be discussed. Publishing is a formal, compliance-tracked action.
• Agenda Items — individual topics, actions, or hearings. Have their own approval lifecycle and can be reused across meetings.
• Noticing — the legal requirement to publicly announce meetings a set time before they happen. Livy calls this Announce in the app; settings use "noticing" to match the wording in open-meetings law.
• Permissions — role-based; every action checks against a central matrix. See Permissions & Roles.

How This Documentation Works

The tables on these pages are pulled straight from Livy itself, so they always match what the app actually does. When the roles, permissions, or compliance rules change in the product, these tables change with them.