1. GOALS/PRIORITIES: In the packet are the goals/priorities established by elected officials on the 9th. Bob Kreamer’s will be added next week.
2. TRUSTEE MEETINGS: The trustees are considering televising their second meeting (4th Monday) of each month instead of their first meeting (2nd Monday). Also, their first meeting may then be moved into the conference room upstairs in the east hallway.
If that occurs, mayor and council could consider moving the committee meeting (2nd Monday) to 6:00 pm.
3. DART: There are 8 Ride-Share vans serving 75 riders in Indianola and surrounding area.
4. WELLNESS/COMMUNITY CENTER: The Planning Committee would like to discuss Tax Increment Finance revenues at the September 13 council study meeting.
5. WEB PAGE: Several employee staff members have been reviewing our web page and are suggesting updates including:
• Combining all current sites into one main location. (Library, P&R, City, IMU) IMU will continue to have a second site that is dedicated to the more technical aspects of their business, but that site will also be designed to complement the City's (we're designing them at the same time)
• City wide calendar. Searchable depending on what information you would like. (meeting times, Library programs, Park & Rec. activities, etc.)
• Secure login" function. Can be used to deliver council packets and such. Also would allow in the future secure electronic employment application delivery.
• Ability for users to opt in and out of electronic delivery of City publications.
• Allows multiple users to update specific areas instead of funneling everything back to one person. (Police can update their pages whenever they need to, Library manages their own pages, etc.)
• Web based administration eliminates the need for software purchase. Also allows for many levels of users.
• Overall facelift and change of focus from department based navigation to needs based navigation. Allows easier navigation for the end user that is not familiar with the overall structure of City Government. For example, on the current site in order to view Building and Zoning Ordinances you would have to know that you need to navigate to the "departments" tab, and then to "Community Development" and then to the "Building and Zoning Ordinances". The new site would allow a user to select a drop down that begins with "I would like to..." and then select "view Building and Zoning Ordinances"
The city page has not been updated for approximately the last 7 years and the estimated cost is about $5,000. The schedule is to have the new site up and running by the end of January 2011.
