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GTM director outlines website upgrades, voter guides and plans for community calendar
Summary
Granite Town Media (GTM) staff described recent website improvements — an AI search assistant, voter guide availability, contact obfuscation for security, and plans for a community calendar and notification system — and said an active projects page will be updated in coming weeks.
Granite Town Media staff reported progress on multiple website and digital services projects during Thursday’s Media Advisory Committee meeting, including a newly activated AI assistant in the site search bar, expanded availability of the voter guide and sample ballots online, and plans for a community calendar and notification system.
The committee was told the voter guide has been mailed and is available on the town website’s 2025 voter information section, along with town and school sample ballots. Staff said the town report’s digital copy will be posted to the town administrator’s page when received.
The website now includes an AI companion in the search field that staff said can answer direct questions — for example, “When is election day?” — by searching site content. To reduce email-harvesting and spam, contact addresses on committee pages are routed through a protected mail-to mechanism rather than being listed plainly. Staff said a new notification feature that residents can opt into — to receive automated alerts for agendas, minutes and meeting notices — will be activated in about a month to six weeks.
Work is also underway to repopulate and modernize an “active projects” page with photos and project updates; staff said the update will include more visual content and be coordinated with departments such as public works and water. The committee discussed a future community calendar that would accept entries from nonprofits and civic groups via an online submission form; staff said Milford Thrives representatives have offered to help populate the calendar and that GTM is exploring pulling RSS feeds for broader aggregation into channel slides.
Committee members also noted the website’s bylaws text still reflects an older membership structure; staff said they will research and post the revised bylaws.
The committee’s economic development advisory committee (EDAC) will get a new Facebook page that will be archived for public-record purposes. Staff said a separate community development page for housing-related grants is planned as well.
