For Saskatchewan towns, villages and rural municipalities
A website for the whole community.
We build it first, from what the office already publishes. Council sees the finished site, then decides, and nothing is charged until it says yes. Meets the section 117 rule in Bill 43.
$600 a year for any town, village or RM on a three-year term. No build fee. Prices as of September 2026.
Willow Bend is a sample town, not a real place, with stock photographs standing in for the town's own. See the whole sample site ↗
What you get
A community website, not a council site.
Residents come for garbage day and the rink schedule. Visitors come for the museum and the campground. Council's records are one section, done properly, not the whole site.
The office, done right
Hours, the next meeting, the council, minutes as a dated table, bylaws as a searchable list, financial statements by year, public notices, and how to pay. Published under section 117, free to download, kept five years.
The page isBoth pages are from the Willow Bend sample site, a town we made up so no real council is shown without asking. Open the office page ↗
- What's on. The next meeting, the fall supper, garbage day and the fire ban.
- Visit. The museum, the park, the campground, with the community's own photographs.
- Business. Every business in the community with hours and a phone number, and a place to add yours.
- Designed for the place. The community's own colours, motto and photographs.
Bill 43, in one minute
Every council in Saskatchewan now has to put its records online. Here is exactly what, and when.
Section 117 of The Municipalities Act has been law since May 14th, 2026. It asks council for three things, in this order: a public-access policy now, the minutes and financial statements on a public website by September 2027, and every bylaw by September 2028. Free to download, kept at least five years. It says nothing about who hosts the site or what it looks like. That part is up to council.
Now
Adopt a public-access policy
Required since May 14th, 2026: how to ask for a record, an answer within 30 days, printed copies at cost. Section 117(6).
September 2027
Minutes and financial statements online
Council and committee minutes, the financial statements and auditor's report, downloadable and kept five years. Section 117(2).
September 2028
Every bylaw in force online
One document per bylaw; a consolidated copy stands in for its amendments. Section 117(3).
Where councils stand
The province counted 267 municipalities without a working website in March 2024. Our own visit to every address in the provincial directory in September 2026 found 162 of 761 still without one: 89 with only a Facebook page, 61 with nothing we could find, 12 with a site that was dead or unfinished.
Read the full explainer →An independent explainer from LocalFound, not a government publication and not legal advice. The Act itself: Bill 43, chapter 25 of the Statutes of Saskatchewan 2026.
How it works
Council sees the finished site before it votes on anything.
No RFP, no demo day, no page builder to learn. The site arrives built, and the first decision council makes is whether it likes it.
Step 1
We build it from what is already public
The provincial directory, the office's own posts, the last minutes and statements the office published, the photographs it already uses. The administrator confirms hours and the garbage day in a fifteen-minute call. That is the whole ask.
Step 2
Council looks at it, on the agenda
The link, the price in writing, and a one-page summary for the agenda package. Change anything by asking, in plain words. If the answer is no, the preview comes down and nobody is charged.
Step 3
Yes means it goes on the municipality's own domain
We point the domain the municipality already holds at the site, or register a new one in its name, and agree the go-live date with the office. From then on the office posts each document from the site when council approves it, and makes any other change the same way. One annual invoice.
One office, several municipalities
Many administrators answer for two, three or six municipalities. One login and one invoice for every municipality the office runs, and half price, $300 a year, for each municipality after the first, on one quote. A regional site can also be put to the province's Targeted Sector Support grant, which pays 75 per cent of eligible costs for a project between two or more communities.
Pricing
One price, in writing, before council votes.
The same price for a village, a town or a rural municipality, and it includes the build, hosting, the domain, and posting records and making changes yourself, from the site. No build fee, no add-on list, no per-module pricing. Tax extra. Prices as of September 2026 and held for the term on the quote.
The community website
$600 a year
on a three-year term, or $750 a year on a one-year term
The whole community website with the office section, the bulletin, the directory and the records. Three years carries the site through the 2027 minutes, the 2028 bylaws and the year after at one price. One year is for a council that would rather decide again at the next budget. Either way, the price on the quote holds for the term.
Shared office or region
$300 a year, each after the first
half price for every municipality after the first, on one quote
One login and one invoice for every municipality the office runs. Each municipality gets its own site: $600 a year for the first and $300 a year for each of the others, on a three-year term. Unusual situation? Get in touch and we will sort it out.
For comparison, from councils' own minutes
$3,759.99 a year on a three-year term with Loop, chosen from three quotes in 2024.
$2,995 a year on a four-year term with All-Net, now Catalis, in 2019.
$999 a year plus tax on a two-year term with OurSask in 2025.
$5,479 plus tax for a new site and its first year with M.R. Website Development Studio in 2021, then $492.01 a year to renew in 2026, with posting and other work billed by the job.
Guides
The homework, done.
Written from the Act, the Gazette and the minutes of councils who have already decided. Every source named. Free to read, share and put in an agenda package.
4 min read
Saskatchewan municipal website cost analysis
What Saskatchewan councils pay for a website, company by company, from their own minutes: yearly fees, builds and the first three years.
7 min read
The two deadlines and the five-year rule
Two dates in section 117, September 1st, 2027 and September 1st, 2028, and the five-year rule that decides how long a posted document stays on the website.
8 min read
What section 117 actually requires, clause by clause
The new online-publication rule in The Municipalities Act, read line by line: which documents, by which date, for how long, and what the Act leaves alone.
7 min read
A checklist for administrators, twelve months out
A month-by-month plan for a municipal office to have its minutes and statements online by September 1st, 2027, and its bylaws ready for 2028.
Good to know
What councils ask us.
It publishes the four document classes section 117(2) names, in downloadable form on a public website with no login and no fee, keeps them for the five years the Act requires, and lists every bylaw in force for the 2028 date. The public-access policy council has to adopt is council’s own; we give you a template. Nothing here is legal advice.
Then nothing happens. The preview comes down after the budget season and no one is charged. If council wants to see it again in a later year, we build it again.
LocalFound is a product of DevPro Software Consulting (dev-pro.ca), a software company in Regina. It builds websites for local businesses and, since 2026, for Saskatchewan towns, villages and rural municipalities. We are independent of the Government of Saskatchewan, SARM and SUMA, and nothing on these pages is a government publication.
$600 a year on a three-year term, or $750 a year on a one-year term, the same for a village, a town or a rural municipality, tax extra, with no build fee. That includes hosting, the domain, the design, and posting documents and making changes yourself, from the site. The price is written on the quote before council votes, and it holds for the term. Prices as of September 2026.
Keep the Facebook page; many residents live there. But a Facebook post is not a website available to the public in the sense the Act uses, and a file in a post is not reliably downloadable. The bulletin on the community website is the record; a notice posted there can be pasted to Facebook in the same minute, and it stays findable long after the feed has moved on.
OurSask is a microsite on SARM’s shared platform, oursask.info/rm193 for the RM of Eyebrow, at $999 a year plus tax on a two-year term as of 2025. It does the records well: minutes, bylaws and statements in one viewer. It is the office section without the community. A LocalFound site is the whole place on the municipality’s own domain, with the office section done to the same standard, at $600 a year.
The administrator posts the file from the site after council approves it, and it goes up under the right meeting date, body and year, with a link from the office page. No page builder and no training day. Anything else on the site changes the same way, in plain words, any time.
Yes. If the municipality still holds its old domain we point it at the new site. If it lapsed, we register a new one in the municipality’s name and it stays the municipality’s. Either way the domain is included in the price.
Yes. One office, several municipalities, one login, one invoice, and half price, $300 a year, for each municipality after the first. The office gets one quote with every municipality on it, before any of the councils votes. A regional website can also be put to the province’s Targeted Sector Support grant, which pays 75 per cent of eligible costs to $100,000 for a project between two or more communities; whether a given project qualifies is the program’s call. The application needs a formal, detailed quote from an independent supplier; we write that quote for the partnership, one line per municipality.
Built first · no obligation
Request a free preview.
Name the municipality and where to send the link. We build the site from the provincial directory and what the office already publishes, and you put it in front of council whenever the agenda allows. Ask now and council can see it before budget deliberations.
No cost to look. If council says no, the preview comes down and nobody is charged. We only email you about this.