Draft agendas and bylaws for town or city council; record minutes of council meetings; answer official correspondence; keep fiscal records and accounts; and prepare reports on civic needs.
U.S. Workers
170,010
Median Salary
$47,700
10-Year Growth
+3.0%
Annual Openings
18,500
Typical entry: High school diploma or equivalent
22 of 23 tasks have some AI capability
Exposure Trend
This score reflects estimated AI technical capability for tasks in this occupation. It does not predict employment changes, and it does not account for company-specific constraints, regulation, or adoption barriers.
Record and edit the minutes of meetings and distribute to appropriate officials or staff members.
AI: Fully automatable - Automated transcription, summarization, editing, formatting, and distribution workflows are mature enough in 2025 to fully handle meeting minutes with minimal human editing.
Issue public notification of all official activities or meetings.
AI: Fully automatable - AI systems can automatically generate, schedule, and post legally required public notices across mandated channels and manage proof of publication when properly integrated.
Prepare meeting agendas or packets of related information.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can assemble agendas and packets from templates, past agendas, and document repositories and distribute them in the required formats and channels automatically.
Perform general office duties, such as taking or transcribing dictation, typing or proofreading correspondence, distributing or filing official forms, or scheduling appointments.
AI: Fully automatable - By 2025 AI systems can reliably transcribe, proofread, generate correspondence, and fully automate digital scheduling and distribution workflows for routine office duties.
Process claims against the municipality, maintaining files and log of claims, and coordinate claim response and handling with municipal claims administrators.
AI: Fully automatable - Document intake, classification, logging, workflow routing, and drafting/coordination messages can be fully automated by AI systems integrated with municipal workflows and case management tools.
Coordinate or maintain office tracking systems for correspondence or follow-up actions.
AI: Fully automatable - AI and workflow automation tools can fully maintain correspondence tracking systems, route follow-ups, and generate reminders and status reports without human intervention for routine cases.
Prepare reports on civic needs.
AI: Fully automatable - Collecting data, analyzing civic indicators, and drafting reports are well within current AI capabilities and can be fully automated given access to the necessary data.
Record and maintain all vital and fiscal records and accounts.
AI: Partial - AI can automate data entry, indexing, versioning, and anomaly detection for vital and fiscal records, but legal custody, auditability, and final validation still require human oversight and controls.
Participate in the administration of municipal elections, such as preparation or distribution of ballots, appointment or training of election officers, or tabulation or certification of results.
AI: Partial - AI can support ballot production logistics, voter communications, vote tabulation assistance, and training materials, but the integrity, legal certification, and many in-person election administration tasks require human control and trusted processes.
Prepare ordinances, resolutions, or proclamations so that they can be executed, recorded, archived, or distributed.
AI: Partial - AI can draft, format, and prepare ordinances/resolutions for execution and distribution, but ensuring legal correctness and final approval generally requires human review.
Maintain and update documents, such as municipal codes or city charters.
AI: Partial - AI can track amendments, update digital versions, and assist with maintaining municipal codes, but substantive legal interpretation and formal ratification steps remain human responsibilities.
Plan and direct the maintenance, filing, safekeeping, and computerization of all municipal documents.
AI: Partial - AI can design plans, recommend and automate indexing and digital-preservation workflows, and monitor systems, but cannot fully replace human leadership, physical safekeeping responsibilities, or final decisions in computerization projects.
Perform budgeting duties, such as assisting in budget preparation, expenditure review, or budget administration.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare budget drafts, perform forecasting, anomaly detection, and expenditure analysis, but budget decisions and political/strategic trade-offs still require human judgment and accountability.
Provide assistance to persons with disabilities in reaching less accessible areas of municipal facilities.
AI: Partial - AI cannot physically assist persons but can partially support through guidance, scheduling, and control of assistive devices or robots, so it can only partially automate this task.
Respond to requests for information from the public, other municipalities, state officials, or state and federal legislative offices.
AI: Partial - AI can rapidly retrieve records and draft standardized responses to public and intergovernmental queries, but handling sensitive, precedent-setting, or legally nuanced communications requires human oversight.
Develop or conduct orientation programs for candidates for political office.
AI: Partial - AI can develop comprehensive orientation materials and run virtual sessions, but in-person facilitation, political judgment, and relationship-building mean it can only partially automate the task.
Issue various permits and licenses, such as marriage, fishing, hunting, or dog licenses, and collect appropriate fees.
AI: Partial - E‑permit and payment processing can be largely automated, but identity verification, in-person attestations, fraud prevention, and legal authorization still often need human involvement.
Research information in the municipal archives upon request of public officials or private citizens.
AI: Partial - AI can search, OCR, and synthesize digital archives and assist in research, but inaccessible physical records or context-sensitive archival interpretation require human work.
Perform contract administration duties, assisting with bid openings or the awarding of contracts.
AI: Partial - AI can assist with bid document processing, compliance checks, scoring, and record-keeping, but public procurement decisions, bid openings, and legally accountable contract awards need human oversight.
Collaborate with other staff to assist in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, or priorities.
AI: Partial - AI can provide analysis, draft goals and policy options, and facilitate coordination, but collaborative negotiation, stakeholder management, and final policy choices remain human-led.
Provide assistance with events, such as police department auctions of abandoned automobiles.
AI: Partial - AI can automate event planning, registration, promotion, and record-keeping for auctions, but physical onsite tasks and hands-on event management require humans.
Represent municipalities at community events or serve as liaisons on community committees.
AI: Partial - AI can support community engagement with information, scheduling, and virtual participation, but representing a municipality in-person and managing nuanced community relations still requires humans.
Serve as a notary of the public.
AI: Not automatable - Notarial acts require a commissioned human notary and legally mandated witnessing of signatures, which AI cannot perform or legally replace.