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Staunton unveils interactive "Progressing the Stanton Plan" dashboard; staff promises ongoing updates
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City staff and an intern demonstrated an online dashboard that centralizes Stanton Plan priorities, links to CIP pages, and displays metrics such as a record 122 business licenses in Q1 2026; staff said departments will maintain data and the permitting portal launches May 5.
City staff on April 23 demonstrated a new interactive dashboard designed to track progress on the city’s strategic priorities, saying the tool will centralize project links, performance measures and public-facing resources.
Lehi Beauregard, the city manager, introduced the demonstration and credited intern Alex Eford with building the dashboard. Alex Eford walked council through sections for the Stanton Plan’s strategic areas — "Economically Vibrant," “Resilient and Sustainable,” “Healthy Community,” and “Informed and Engaged" — and showed embedded links to the capital improvements plan, project presentations and an enterprise zone scorecard.
"The Stanton Business website is complete," Eford said, and the dashboard displays charts such as business licenses issued by quarter; staff highlighted that 122 business licenses were issued in Q1 2026, which they described as a record. Beauregard said the dashboard is a living tool and that departments will be able to update a Google Sheet backend so metrics refresh automatically.
Staff demonstrated features the public can use: a recycling lookup widget built with artificial-intelligence assistance that tells users whether an item (for example, a pizza box) is accepted and which bin to use; image links to the CIP and project story maps; and a planned civic-access permitting portal scheduled to launch May 5. Beauregard also noted future additions such as an enterprise-zone application scorecard and a site-tracking metric for the Stanton Business website.
Council members asked about mobile compatibility and data upkeep. Beauregard said the site can be viewed full-screen on phones and that the dashboard’s Google Sheet back end makes ongoing updates straightforward: "Once I'm gone, that can easily be inputted, and then it'll automatically update," she said.
The presentation closed with staff inviting council feedback; Beauregard and Eford said they would incorporate additional metrics and build new charts over time.
