After having measurably improved its posting online of meeting agendas and minutes the past few years, the city of Norwalk hired a Web developer to overhaul its overall web site.
The city has retained ICON Enterprises, which does business as CivicPlus.com, to design a new web site under a contract valued up to $75,000, plus $8,000 annually for ongoing maintenance services.
According to Karen DelVecchio, head of information technology services for Norwalk, the city”™s site had become stale both in the front-end appearance greeting visitors and in the back-end plumbing to serve up information.
Among other goals, DelVecchio hopes to be able to webcast City Council meetings and to create a database for some 10,000 web pages of information that are currently static.
Manhattan, Kan.-based CivicPlus.com beat out 14 initial bidders and three other finalists, and DelVecchio said the company bid aggressively in part because Norwalk could give it a foot in the door to other contracts in Connecticut, where it currently has three customers.
CivicPlus.com specializes in updating government web sites, and its clients include Westchester County and Dutchess County in New York.
