City staff recommended on Jan. 5 that Decatur hire Revise to redesign the municipal website and also contract with Castus for meeting streaming and archival services. Staff said Revise has municipal experience and emphasized accessibility, ease of use for non‑technical staff, content migration, and predictable hosting costs.

For streaming and archiving, staff described Castus as a purpose‑built system for public meetings that provides live streaming to the city website, automatic archiving, and built‑in real‑time closed captioning to support ADA and WCAG requirements. Staff argued the system preserves city control of archives (instead of relying solely on YouTube or Facebook) and reduces long‑term risk of losing records if third‑party platforms remove content.

Council members asked whether the city would continue streaming to social platforms; staff said it was possible but emphasized that Castus would create a city‑controlled archive and immediate accessibility features. No detailed contract pricing was read into the transcript excerpt. The resolutions to authorize contracts for website redesign (resolution 26003) and Castus streaming (resolution 26013) were presented for council approval.