Staunton's IT wizard followed up on their website project -- fast!
Like the concept and implementation, which took under 12 months. On their own server, so no additional monthly maintenance costs. For just $5000, an external consulting firm provided the template, or skin, of the revamped website.
Kurt Plowman, Chief Technology Officer, indicated hosting the site means no out of pocket expenses going forward. They used an open source tool, so there's no software purchase or maintenance fees either, with free upgrades and updates. Access by whoever the administrator grants it to, from anywhere.
Once the revamped site goes live, there will be a bit of internal support with more active departments updating content each week. Other departments may only have to spend an hour or two a month.
"Our philosophy has been that each department knows what its constituents need better than a centralized web master (aka "bottleneck"). And they'll have the ability to post as needed - so if something needs to be published overnight (snow closings, emergency situation, etc) there is nothing preventing it," he said.
Wow! And a FOIA request wasn't required....