Know what cities will decide,
72 hours before they decide it
California law makes every council agenda public at least 72 hours before the vote. We read all of them — every covered Orange County council and planning commission, every week, without fail — and flag the items that affect your business while there's still time to act.
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Weekly alerts on upcoming bid authorizations, contract awards, sealed-bid waivers, and capital improvement plans across covered OC cities — the work pipeline cities telegraph months ahead. This week alone: Orange authorized a traffic-signal bid, Fountain Valley queued street-rehab design ahead of construction bidding, and Anaheim voted on a five-year utility undergrounding plan.
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Everything in Contractor Radar plus rezonings, development applications, entitlements, leases, and fee/ordinance changes across all covered cities — the items that move property values and pro formas, tracked hearing by hearing. This week: Newport Beach's inclusionary-housing override near the airport, a 606-home final map in Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa's citywide commercial-use reclassification.
The math
Comparable intelligence runs $200/user/month (GovWin) to $300/user/month (Dodge) — built for national contractors, thin on Orange County's 34 cities. Doing it yourself means hours every week across a dozen city portals. One contract you'd otherwise miss — one rezoning you hear about first — pays for years of Council Brief.
How it works
- Our automated pipeline reads every agenda as it's posted — before the meeting, not after — and a human reviews what goes out. Every alert links to the official agenda item and staff report.
- Alerts are filtered to your trade and geography. Quiet weeks are reported honestly — no filler.
- Coverage today: all 34 Orange County cities — including Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Orange, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach — plus OCTA, OC Sanitation District, and the OC Board of Supervisors; full county coverage, plus OC Board of Supervisors, OCTA, and OC Sanitation District. Expanding to neighboring counties next.
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