A demonstration. This is not the city's website. It is a working proposal for the City of San Juan, built with the city's real seal, officials and departments. Every agenda item, vote, vehicle and dollar figure is invented, and each page says so. About this proposal Developed by Pragmatic Business Solutions, LLC (opens in a new tab), a Rio Grande City, TX custom software company.

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Government

Mayor and City Commission

Five members — a mayor and four commissioners, all elected at-large by numbered place. Every vote they cast in the published meeting is here, by name.

A Mayor and four Commissioners, all elected at-large by numbered place — the city's own words. Places 2 and 3 were last elected in May 2025, together with the mayor; places 4 and 5 in May 2023. The commission appoints the Mayor Pro-Tempore, who serves in the absence of the mayor.

The places above come from the campaign-finance tables on the city's own City Secretary page, which is the only place it publishes them. One conflict is recorded rather than smoothed over: the City Commission page calls Jesse Ramirez the Mayor Pro-Tempore, while the City Secretary's 2025 and 2026 tables give that title to Marco “Markie” Villegas. Two pages of one website, two answers. This site prints what the page about the commission says.

Agendas, minutes and how each member voted

The city currently publishes its agendas through CivicClerk, in an iframe with no accessible name — a screen reader announces the word “frame” and stops. The same page also embeds a YouTube playlist, so the public record arrives through two third-party systems and 3.2 MB before a resident reads a word. Published as text, a meeting becomes something a resident can read on a phone, in either language.