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Council warned of new statute requiring interactive, ADA-compliant website; staff to investigate upgrade costs
Summary
Members discussed a new statute requiring interactive, ADA-compliant municipal websites; staff said compliance could take time, the current vendor is engaged, and smaller cities under 50,000 have an extra two years to comply.
Council members discussed a new statutory requirement for municipal websites to provide interactive access to salary and position data and to meet ADA standards. Speaker 4 said 'the bigger cities have already done it' and urged staff to begin work early because implementation 'isn't like an overnight fix' and could be 'fairly extensive.'
Staff said the current outside website designer (Horton) has been notified and is working on compliance tasks; Speaker 2 noted that for cities under 50,000 the statute grants an extra two years to come into compliance. Staff said she will verify costs and whether the city should engage a new vendor or continue with the current contractor.
