Joseph Back

Good things are due to come in Boyd soon, with details being given in a presentation by Deputy Village Clerk Jayne Geist.

“Well, as you know, people have been asking about a website,” Geist told the Village Board acting as a Committee of the Whole this past Monday, February 10th at 705 Murray Street. Noting that Boyd was one of the last local communities NOT to have its own website, the deputy village clerk said that she had looked into the matter, and that one company stood out.

“So I did some research, and I came up with a company that they strictly do websites just for villages and municipalities,” Geist said of Town Web Design. “They service and support us the whole time. We have the capability of uploading what we want,” she said, adding that support from Town Web Design was “part of the cost.” The site address for Town Web is https://townweb.com, with the website for the City of Stanley as one example of what can be done by the company.

Deputy Clerk Geist further said that Town Web would work with the Village of Boyd to see what it wanted for a period of two weeks, and that after the two weeks necessary to design the personalized website it would go live, if the village approved it. President Randy Setzer asked Geist if she would want to be in charge of the website, and also if it would be possible to welcome new families to the neighborhood, to list just one possibility. “It was one of my projects when I signed on,” Geist said in reply to Setzer’s first question, adding that “We can pretty much do what we want,” in regard to the website’s projected capabilities. Listed in a 21 page copy of the proposal are the additional details that the website when designed will be run with a SSL or “Secure Socket Layer,” meaning an ‘https’ start to the address, and that it would also be ADA 508 compliant, referring to the Americans with Disabilities Act. As such, the website would give content access to people of all abilities.

“They call it an ‘all you can eat service and support’,” Geist said of the service later approved by the board at a cost of $1218 for the first

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