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What's New for Cities

Bloomz for Cities keeps shipping.
Here is what is new.

From a neighbor-to-neighbor help board to agendas that notify residents on their own, these are the city capabilities that have shipped, and what is coming next.

13capabilities below
Build Community

Give residents reasons to show up and to help each other.

Shipped
City of Fort MeadeCivic Rewards and Neighborhood Challenges · Award points
Award points
Reason
Volunteered at a City event · 50Attended a City Commission meeting · 20Neighborhood cleanup · 40Reported an issue that got fixed · 15
Note
Peace River cleanup, Sep 20
Recipients
8 residents selected: Grace O., Dev P., Linh N., and 5 more
Award 50 points to 8 residents
Daily award limit per staff member applies

Staff award points one at a time or for a whole event.

Step 1 of 6: Award points
Illustrative screens with demo data

Civic Rewards v2

Staff can award points, and offers carry a points cost, a Local badge and an optional redemption limit, and residents redeem them with a code at the counter.

Enabled per city

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Shipped
City of Fort MeadeCivic Rewards and Neighborhood Challenges · Award points
Award points
Reason
Volunteered at a City event · 50Attended a City Commission meeting · 20Neighborhood cleanup · 40Reported an issue that got fixed · 15
Note
Peace River cleanup, Sep 20
Recipients
8 residents selected: Grace O., Dev P., Linh N., and 5 more
Award 50 points to 8 residents
Daily award limit per staff member applies

Staff award points one at a time or for a whole event.

Step 1 of 6: Award points
Illustrative screens with demo data

Neighborhood Challenges

Neighborhood challenges with a standings board: residents earn for their neighborhood, and the leaderboard moves as points are awarded.

Enabled per city

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Shipped
City of Fort Meade
NeighborLift
Ask a neighbor for a hand
Yard workErrandsHome repairRideCompanionship
What do you need?
Rake leaves in the back yard
When
Sat, Oct 18, morning
Details
About an hour of work. Rake is in the shed.
Only approved volunteers can see your request. Your street address is shared after someone claims it.
Post request

A neighbor asks for a hand with a task.

Step 1 of 5: Post a request
Illustrative screens with demo data

NeighborLift v1

Staff approve neighbors and volunteers first. A resident asks for a hand with a task, an approved volunteer claims it, and points are paid through Civic Rewards when the resident confirms it is done. Staff get an admin console to oversee requests.

Feature switch off by default; enabled per city

Coming soon, not yet available
Coordinator role (a dedicated role, separate from today's admin console) · In-app messaging · Impact report
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Alerts & Maps

Reach the right neighborhood, in the right language, without re-typing.

Shipped
City of Fort MeadeNeighborhood Maps · Import boundaries
Import boundaries
fort-meade-neighborhoods.geojson
GeoJSON or KML
5 neighborhoods found
You can also draw each boundary by hand on the map.
NorthwestNortheastDowntownSouthwestSoutheast

Upload GeoJSON or KML, or draw each boundary by hand.

Step 1 of 3: Import boundaries
Illustrative screens with demo data

Neighborhood Maps

Draw neighborhood boundaries on a map or import the GeoJSON or KML your GIS already produces. Households are placed automatically, and alerts target neighborhoods from the normal recipient picker.

See full details →
Shipped
City of Fort MeadeWeather Alerts · Set the zone
National Weather Service alerts
Bloomz checks your zone and passes alerts on.
Minimum severity
AdvisoryWatchWarning
Send automatically
Off lets you set up the zone first. Alerts are logged but not sent.
WATCHfrom the National Weather Service
Flood Watch
Sent word for word as an urgent alert, translated for each resident, on every channel.

Choose the minimum severity and whether alerts send automatically.

Step 1 of 3: Set the zone
Illustrative screens with demo data

Weather Alerts

National Weather Service severe-weather alerts rebroadcast automatically on every channel, translated for residents, with no manual re-typing.

Cities only

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Run the City

The clerk's, public works' and finance's daily work in one platform.

Shipped
City of Fort MeadeAgendas and Minutes · Build the packet
City Commission, regular meeting
Tue, Oct 13 · 6:00 PM · City Hall chambers · livestream
Draft
Agenda items
1Call to order and invocation
2Approval of minutes, Sep 22 meetingminutes-sep22.pdf
3Ordinance 2026-14, first readingord-2026-14.pdf
4Peace River Park pavilion improvementspavilion-bid-summary.pdf
5Public comment
Publish agenda

Order the items and attach documents to each one.

Step 1 of 5: Build the packet
Illustrative screens with demo data

Agendas & Minutes

Publish an agenda or approved minutes once. Bloomz creates the calendar entry, lists the documents and notifies subscribed residents, translated, with recurring meeting schedules and a livestream link.

Enabled per city

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Shipped
City of Fort Meade
Public records request
No account needed
Your name
Tanya B.
What records are you asking for?
Building permits issued on W Broadway St in 2026.
From
Jan 1
To
Sep 30
Submit request

Anyone can ask for records without making an account.

Step 1 of 5: Request, no login
Illustrative screens with demo data

Public Records

A no-login intake form, a business-day due clock, assignment to a department by staff, an overdue sweep and a private status lookup for the requester.

Enabled per city

See full details →
Shipped
City of Fort Meade
Report an issue (311)
What needs attention?
Pothole
Streetlight out
Water or drainage
Illegal dumping
Graffiti
Something else
If it is an emergency, call 911.
Continue

A resident chooses what needs attention.

Step 1 of 5: Pick the issue
Illustrative screens with demo data

BeHeard 311

Residents report a problem with a map pin and a description, staff triage it and assign the department, and residents get status updates in a thread.

See full details →
Shipped
City of Fort Meade
Recreation
Fall programs
Youth soccer
Sat mornings · Oct to Dec
8 of 12 spots left
$45.00
Senior water walking
Tue and Thu · Community Center
2 of 2 spots left
Free
Adult pickleball
Mon evenings
Full, join the waitlist
$30.00
Home
Programs
Facilities
Me

Paid and free programs show how many spots are left.

Step 1 of 5: Browse programs
Illustrative screens with demo data

Recreation

Paid programs with atomic capacity and waitlists, rosters for staff, and facility booking with an approve or decline flow.

Enabled per city

See full details →
Shipped
City of Fort Meade
Pay
Fees and statements
Fence permit fee
Due Oct 20
$60.00
Pay
Community Center rental
Sat, Oct 25 · 4 hours
$120.00
Pay
Youth soccer registration
Fall season
$45.00
Pay
Water and sewer
Service address statement
$48.20
Pay
Home
Alerts
Pay
Me

Permit fees, facility rentals, registrations and service statements in one list, each payable from the same place.

Step 1 of 5: Fees and statements
Illustrative screens with demo data

City Payments

Residents can pay on their own accounts, and utility service accounts and statements sit on the household. One ledger for permits, licenses and fees, with no per-resident charges.

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Rolling out this year
Pulse · City of Riverton
Payments
Messages
Reach
Volunteers
Collections by department
DepartmentCollectedOutstandingPast due
Utilities$18,420$6,150$2,980
Public Works$4,060$1,210$980
Regional Planning$2,300$700$0
Code Enforcement$640$300$300
City total$25,420$8,360$4,260

Sample data. One Pulse for the whole city, rolled up across every department, including ones nested under another department or a neighborhood. Pick a department to drill in. Try it.

Pulse for Cities: Every Department in One View

Rolling out this year with Bloomz Pulse for Cities: a city's Pulse rolls up every department, including departments nested under another department or under a neighborhood, with collections by department (collected, outstanding and past due) matching the city's own Payments summary. A department admin sees their own department only. Not available yet.

Rolling out this year · For Bloomz for Cities with Pulse (Premium)

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Launch

Getting a city live from the records it already keeps.

Shipped
City of Fort MeadeHousehold Import · Upload the register
fort-meade-utility-register.csv8 rows
How the columns are read
Your columnBecomes
Parcel #Household reference
AddressHousehold address
Water Meter, Electric MeterMeter details on the household
OwnerOwner of record
Primary Contact, Phone, EmailThe resident
Reads the file as the city already keeps it. No reformatting.

Use the utility or parcel register the city already has.

Step 1 of 3: Upload the register
Illustrative screens with demo data

Household roster import

Your parcel or utility register becomes households, residents and neighborhood placements, with a dry-run preview first. Checked live with the City of Fort Meade, FL.

See full details →
Shipped
City of Fort Meade
Official city app
Welcome to Fort Meade
News, meetings and city services in one place.
City website
Latest news
Meetings
Documents
All of this works without an account. Sign in for alerts, payments and your neighborhood.
Website
News
Meetings
Docs

The website, news, meetings, calendar and documents work without an account.

Step 1 of 5: Open, no login
Illustrative screens with demo data

Branded city app

Your city's own app in the App Store and Google Play, with a no-login public mode for the website, news, meetings, calendar and documents. Live with the City of Fort Meade, FL.

See full details →

See it on your city's own data.

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