HAWARDEN—The city of Hawarden will take into consideration other possibilities for a web page redesign right after the Hawarden Town Council failed to locate a greater part on a vote for a person proposal at its April 27 meeting.
Hawarden Group and Financial Improvement director Carol Hoogestraat offered 3 organization proposals for a redesign and update of the city’s web site, with an emphasis on safety and access to the enterprise.
The proposals came from Agency 212, which is owned by town council member Travis Olson, Municipal Just one primarily based in Kansas City, MO, and CivicPlus, which is primarily based in Manhattan, KS.
According to data in the agenda packet, Agency 212 supplied a very first-yr total charge of $7,940, MunicipalOne had a very first-yr complete value of $5,996 and CivicPlus, $4,200 for a a few-year determination.
One particular of the reasons for pursuing a new web page design and style is the need for the town site to be compliant with the People with Disabilities Act.
Hoogestraat advisable the town go with Company 212, arguing it the regional corporation could offer you far better tech guidance and communication.
She explained it was critical the metropolis devote in its internet site and get it to match the criteria of today’s world-wide-web consumers.
“I just consider it’s a better way for our town to existing by itself,” Hoogestraat explained. “If we could get it to wherever the citizens knew this was the resource of facts and the details was present-day and accurate, I really feel like we’d get a large amount a lot more people today who would leap on there and get solutions to thoughts and not experience like they’re remaining remaining out.”
She mentioned in a different job interview that it’s critical to make the metropolis internet site the go-to position for the community to look for local community data and updates, regardless of whether for regional firms or during emergencies.
“We want it to be a lot far more person friendly, we want it to be a good deal more instructive. We want to have a chat link so that if men and women do have a query for the metropolis or a remark, like there’s a streetlight out on this street, they can ship that by chat connection and know that we’ve heard it, found it,” Hoogestraat stated. “This is how the earth communicates. Youthful folks are additional apt to and snug jumping on something and hitting a chat connection.”
The vote to enter into a agreement with Agency 212 unsuccessful, however, 2-2, with Olson abstaining. Monte Harvey and Patty Anderson voted towards it.
The matter will be introduced just before the metropolis council at its up coming conference May possibly 11, with Hoogestraat presenting supplemental info from the other corporations.
“I do have all the self confidence in the environment that I can get a fantastic web site place together,” Hoogestraat said subsequent the vote.
