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Highlands approves CivicPlus website; board to pursue a town alert app for faster emergency notices
Summary
The board approved a CivicPlus premium design for a new municipal website and instructed staff to pursue a phone app for push notifications. Board members emphasized faster, clearer outage and emergency communications after recent winter power interruptions.
At its Jan. 16 workshop the Highlands Town Board approved moving forward with a CivicPlus premium website design and asked staff to continue work on a phone app that would allow the town to push urgent notifications directly to residents’ mobile devices.
Town Manager Josh Ward summarized the online platform work: the town is transitioning from Granicus to GovOS for short‑term rental and permitting tools, but historic data tracked by Granicus will need migration. Ward said GovOS began collecting data after the town’s contract with that vendor and staff…
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