2010-02-08 Regular City Council Agenda

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MINUTES OF UNIVERSITY CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION January 25, 2010 The Council Study Session, held on the Fifth Floor of the City Hall, on Monday, January 25, 2010, was called to order by Mayor Joseph Adams at 5:30 p.m. The following members of the Council were present: Mr. Terry Crow Mr. Michael Glickert Mr. Arthur Sharpe, Jr. Mr. RobertWagner Ms. Lynn Ricci Mr. Byron Price Mayor Joseph Adams Also present were the City Manager Julie Feier, IT Director Leisha Meine, Deputy Director/Finance Director Janet Watson and City Attorney John Mulligan. The study session was to give a presentation on the draft of the new Web Design present by IT Director Leisha Meine. Ms. Meine provided a print out of the proposed new web page by the City’s provider, CivicPlus. The new design culminated in the following goals: Simplify the homepage while maintaining aesthetics suitable as a major marketing presence for the City Simplify navigation on the homepage to facilitate ease in finding information deeper in the site Eliminate scrolling as much as possible on the homepage Give homepage status for the most visited information based on website statistics Simplify the calendar tool – eliminate separate departmental calendars Make the search tool more prominent on the home page Simplify and consolidate department menus and pages to assist the website user in finding their information quicker Add social networking tools to attract and interest a more diverse group of residents to what is occurring in the City The new website design will occupy more of the screen. The goal to use more e- commerce remains. Through web-track, parking ticket violations and CenCom can be paid. Next to be added is the payment of refuse bills. The new web-site will go live in March. IT is working with LaserFishe, who publishes all of the City’s documents on the web-site, trying to make it more user friendly. Ms. Meine welcomes all photos with permission for possible use on the web-site. Mr. Glickert thought it would be nice to have pictures of the Directors and Chiefs with a mission statement for each department. Ms. Meine state that none of the content has been changed with this new design but can be worked on later. QUESTIONS ON THE UPCOMING AGENDA Mr. Glickert asked if number 9 on the City Manager’s Report belong there. It dealt with the Legislative budget.