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Cathedral City rolls out redesigned cathedralcity.gov with consolidated services and service‑finder
Summary
City staff unveiled a redesigned cathedralcity.gov to consolidate department content, improve accessibility and add a service‑finder mini‑app; IT staff warned of temporary broken links during a 2–3 week Google reindexing period and scheduled staff training in February.
Cathedral City officials on Wednesday unveiled a redesigned municipal website, cathedralcity.gov, consolidating multiple department sites under a single platform with improved mobile responsiveness, ADA/WCAG considerations and a new service‑finder tool.
City IT lead Matthew Levy and project lead Ryan told the council the redesign aims to reduce duplicate content and broken links, speed residents’ access to common services (report an issue, find permits, locate city services) and centralize police, fire and human resources content under the cathedralcity.gov domain. "We're running too many websites around the city," Levy said. "It was just not professional looking, and we all feel like we're very professional, and we really wanted it to be that good."
Staff described a temporary period while Google re‑crawls and re‑indexes the new site, during which some search results and links may be broken; they advised users and council to report broken links while the site stabilizes and committed to department liaisons and quarterly content updates. The team also described plans to route news items to an external tourism/marketing site (discovercathedralcity.com) per city attorney advice and to use cathedralcity.gov to link directly to full articles.
Council members praised the effort and asked staff to collect feedback; IT staff said deeper training for departmental content editors will take place in February and that redirects will be implemented so that legacy domains (police, fire) point to the new site after the crawl completes.
A public commenter recommended verifying elected officials’ and business bios on the new site. Staff said the site remains a "living document" and invited ongoing feedback as they finalize content and search functionality.
