Where do you actually go to see what your city council just voted on? In Brockville, Ontario, the answer used to shift depending on which term of council you meant. As of Friday, November 13, 2026, there’s a single answer again. The city has launched a new Brockville council portal, called Qualigraf, built to carry council and committee agendas, minutes, and meeting videos in one place, starting with the term that takes office this week.
The city announced the launch in a news release the same day, and the independent outlet Brockvilleist covered it hours later. Both agree on the basics: residents can already view upcoming agendas for the 2026-2030 council term, and the system is set to cover meetings starting with council’s inaugural session on Tuesday, November 17, 2026.
What’s Actually Live on the Brockville Council Portal Right Now
Qualigraf lives at its own address, brockville.qualigraf.ca, and the city is also linking to it from brockville.com. Right now, anyone can browse it to see Council and Committee agendas as they’re published, without creating an account or paying anything. The city’s announcement puts it plainly: residents can “conveniently access Council and Committee agendas, minutes, and meeting videos in one place.”
That matters more than it sounds like it should. Brockville, a city of roughly 23,700 people on the St. Lawrence River, is heading into a new four-year council term. A resident who wants to know when a zoning change is coming up for a vote, or what staff recommended on a budget line, no longer has to guess which system has the current answer.
The Features That Aren’t Switched On Yet
Not everything the city described is working today. Account creation and email notifications, the feature that would tell a resident when a new agenda posts or a meeting changes, are not yet available. The city’s own announcement tells residents to “check back soon to create an account and subscribe to receive notifications when new agendas are published or amendments are made.”
So for now, following council means checking the portal yourself rather than being alerted. That’s a real gap for anyone who doesn’t have the habit of visiting a city website on a schedule, and the city hasn’t said when the notification piece will be ready.
Why a City This Size Bothered to Switch Systems
Brockville didn’t lack an online meeting system before. It has run on CivicWeb for years, and that older portal still holds agendas, minutes, and video from previous council terms. The city’s own pages describe CivicWeb as the place residents could already attend meetings “in person or via livestream.” What Qualigraf changes is where the current term’s records live, not whether records existed at all.
Small municipalities switching agenda and meeting-management software isn’t unique to Brockville. Governments of a similar size have been doing the same thing this year, for the same basic reason: a resident shouldn’t need to know which software vendor a city uses in order to find out what its council decided. Sexsmith, Alberta, is one recent example, modernizing its own meeting management around the same period. Whether Qualigraf turns out to be a meaningful upgrade over CivicWeb, rather than a lateral move, will depend on things the city hasn’t published yet, like search quality and whether video loads reliably.
What We Don’t Know Yet
The city’s announcement and Brockvilleist’s coverage leave real gaps. Neither source states what the new system cost the city or who built it beyond the product name. Neither says whether Qualigraf will host livestreams of future meetings itself, or whether the city will keep routing live video through CivicWeb the way it has. There’s no timeline for account creation and notifications beyond “soon.” And nothing says whether agendas, minutes, and video from past council terms will eventually move over to Qualigraf, or stay permanently split across two systems.
That last point is worth watching. A resident researching a multi-year issue, say, a rezoning application that’s been before three different councils, may still need to check both Qualigraf and the legacy CivicWeb portal to see the full record.
Why It Matters to You
If you live in Brockville, this is available to you today, for free, at brockville.qualigraf.ca, with no account needed to browse what’s coming up at council or committee. The practical benefit is modest but real: one less place to search when you want to know if a decision affecting your street, your taxes, or your neighborhood is on an upcoming agenda. Once notifications go live, you’ll be able to get a message instead of remembering to check. Until then, bookmarking the portal is the only way to stay current on the new council term, and anyone researching an older issue still needs to check the city’s separate CivicWeb portal too.
Worth watching over the next few weeks: whether the account and notification features actually arrive, and whether the city says anything about folding older meeting records into the new system. For now, Tuesday’s inaugural meeting is the first real test of whether Qualigraf holds up under normal use.
Sources
- City of Brockville: “New Council and Committee Meeting Portal Now Available” (Nov. 13, 2026)
- Brockvilleist: “Brockville Launches New Online Portal for Council Agendas and Meeting Videos” (Nov. 13, 2026)
- City Population: Brockville, Ontario population estimate (Statistics Canada data, 2025)