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Supervisors weigh website options after ADA compliance deadline resurfaces
Summary
County IT and communications staff briefed the Board of Supervisors on the county website’s performance, ADA compliance work and options for either improving the current CivicPlus site or issuing an RFP for a new vendor and consolidated sites.
Black Hawk County officials told the Board of Supervisors on Sept. 9 that the county’s public website needs work to meet upcoming accessibility requirements and to improve back‑end performance, and presented two options: continue with the current host (CivicPlus) while addressing accessibility and functionality, or issue a request for proposals to build a new, consolidated site.
IT Director Al U and Communications Director Gabby (last name not specified in the transcript) summarized a year of committee work and public and staff surveys used to develop an RFP draft. Al said the county pays roughly $15,000–$16,000 annually to CivicPlus for hosting but that…
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