Kittitas County IT to rebuild public website on Umbraco with near‑term grant funding

Kittitas County IT staff told commissioners April 28 that the county’s public website needs to be rebuilt and that they have identified a vendor candidate with an established portfolio, including work for Seattle Children's Hospital.

Assistant IT Director Zane Kinney said the county’s intranet has an outdated design and cannot provide required administrative functions. Kinney and Deputy Public Health Director Erj‑n Moore said the new public website would be built on Umbraco, a multi‑site platform with an admin panel allowing authorized departmental users to manage content on their department pages.

The minutes state the project would be funded in part by a grant the Public Health Department received, which has a spending deadline of late June. The transcript also records that $f00K was budgeted in the Enterprise Technology Fund to partially assist with funding and that the total cost was described as 'five figures.' The transcript spelling of the enterprise fund amount is inconsistent; the minutes do not include a definitive contract total.

IT staff said the vendor candidate has an 'impressive portfolio.' Lumifi is not the vendor for the website rebuild; the candidate cited in the minutes has prior work for Seattle Children's Hospital, per staff comments.

Next steps recorded in the minutes include preparing procurement documents and using grant and fund resources before the Public Health grant deadline. The minutes do not record a formal motion or vote on the website item at this session.