City of Meadow Lake launches new website and app

Sep 15, 2017 | 12:43 PM

Meadow Lake is looking a little different these days – in the form of its newly redesigned website.

The newest version of meadowlake.ca officially launched yesterday, Sept. 14. The last time the city’s website received an overhaul was in 2008.

City clerk Jessica Walters said the project was added to the city’s budget last fall, and the upgrade process started this past spring.

The city chose to work with All-net Muncipal Solutions, a Canadian company based out of Winnipeg which builds websites for cities and towns the size of Meadow Lake and smaller. All-in-all the cost was around $11,000 for the website and a new City of Meadow Lake smartphone app.

“We thought it was a nice balance between giving us a nice product and being economical,” she said.

Walters said the new website is more user-friendly, both for staff to update and the public to use. There is an updated search bar, a user-submitted community calendar, and an alert system that places public notices on a red banner on top of the website, for water main breaks or emergencies. There is also a community directory that is much easier to update, and more city forms available.

“We’ve also put way more contact information on there,” she said. “Council really wanted this year a focus to making us and themselves more available and this is one of the tools we’re using to try and do that. Hopefully people take advantages of those features.”

The website upgrade also included the development of smartphone app, which will feature important notices, the community calendar, upcoming events, community directory and any alerts.

Walters noted there are still some pages that are populating, and if anyone has feedback for the website, to contact the city.

 

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