It’s my cakeday, so here’s a plain-language Thunder Bay city council digest I built
It’s my cakeday, so I’m using my one annual fake internet legitimacy token to share something I built for Thunder Bay:
It’s an unofficial, plain-language city council agenda digest. The idea is simple: council agendas are public, but they are not always easy to understand quickly. This site tries to turn the dense civic/legal/planning language into something normal residents can actually skim.
It includes:
- plain-language summaries of agenda items
- key dates and meeting info
- “how to have a say” notes where relevant
- glossary explanations for civic jargon
- links back to original city sources
It is not run by the City. It is not partisan. It is not pretending to be journalism. It is just a local citizen project meant to make civic engagement less painful.
I built it because a lot of city decisions affect regular people long before most of us hear about them, and by then the useful window to comment has often passed.
Still rough in places, still improving, but I figured cakeday was a decent excuse to share it.
Feedback welcome, especially if something is unclear, broken, or missing important context.