In
last Friday's blog post, I noted that the Shorewood Village website has missed its target launch date of March 2007. Following that post, I received the letter shown below, with withering criticism for both the Village Manager, and the process of getting the website up and running. The letter was sent to be from a reader describing him/herself as an employee of the Village of Shorewood. While I cannot vouch for the author of this message, the details described do suggest that the writer is familiar with the inner workings of Village Hall.
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Steve:
You have made some good points about Shorewood not having its new website up and running. Just to give you some inside information...
I am a village employee.
The truth is that as far back as the fall of 2005, the new website was in "preparation." It was expected to be launched sometime in early 2006 but the Village Manager's assistant who was working on the website (and without whom it seems he cannot do anything) was out for 12 weeks on family leave with a new baby. So the target date for the new website has been pushed back and back and back. From sometime in 2006 to February, then March of 2007. Now it is April and still no word on when the new website will be up
and running.
I think the Village Manager should be asked exactly how long he thinks it should take for a website to be operational. Please, we are not trying to pass a new ordinance or dig a tunnel to China, it's a damn website for crying out loud.
If the Village of Shorewood was a business, it would have long since locked its doors with a big "out of business" sign on it, the way it is currently managed.
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