County selects CivicPlus for new website as current vendor ends website service

The county's director of technologies, Eric Sorensen, told commissioners the county must replace its current website vendor after that provider said it would stop offering website services at the end of the year.

Sorensen said a vendor selection committee reviewed options and recommended CivicPlus, noting the City of Warsaw uses the vendor and staff believe CivicPlus is a good fit. He presented the projected initial cost as $36,719 and said an annual maintenance fee would follow; the transcript records that annual fee as either "$6,700.86" or "$6,796.80" (text is unclear). "Our hand was kind of forced to find a new vendor," Sorensen said, adding the county will also consider a separate ADA-conversion vendor to improve PDF-to-HTML accessibility later.

Commissioners moved and approved engaging CivicPlus for the new county website and thanked staff for the rapid work to replace the outgoing vendor.

Why it matters: a new county website affects how residents find public documents, access services and interact with county offices; the county emphasized ADA accessibility in the transition.

Next steps: staff will finalize contract terms with CivicPlus and evaluate ADA conversion vendors for document accessibility.