Icking wants to push the modernization of its own homepage

Icking wants a more modern website.

The community makes money for it.

One step is not enough for everyone.

Icking - The municipality of Icking, like many municipalities, wants to bring its website up to date.

For this, 2800 euros were loosened in the last municipal council with two votes against.

Icking wants to push the modernization of its own homepage

Georg Linsinger from the UBI did not vote against the decision because he thinks that nothing should be done on the homepage.

On the contrary: He wanted to get a little more information and ask other providers to make design suggestions.

Because the package that the administration submitted to the vote comes from exactly the provider digiPublica, with whom Icking is already cooperating, it is practically a special offer to modernize the pages - and only valid until the end of the month.

Linsinger: "I generally find it difficult to make a decision under pressure."

Icking's homepage should become more modern

In future, the “NEOS” content management system will be used to download forms online, so official visits can at least be prepared from the desk at home, if not done completely.

But the new appearance is also more appealing than the current one, said Mayor Verena Reithmann (UBI): The menu is limited to a bar that runs across the page, so that the entire screen is available for content.

“It's clearer than now.” Municipalities like Teisnach and Putzbrunn have already implemented the new version.

A short discussion arose about whether the municipality should not order the premium version of the system on offer right away - then citizen participation would also have been possible within a certain framework.

Green calls for a bigger step in Icking's relaunch

Laura von Beckerath-Leismüller from the Greens - anyway in favor of upgrading the website now ("this is a step in the right direction") - had spoken out in favor of exactly that. The premium version stands, she said, for “closeness to the citizen and transparency. These are important things, we should give it a try. ”With that she was ultimately left alone. Citizen participation on a public website was, not only the town hall chief Reithmann said, extremely difficult. “You have to maintain the posts and not censor them.” Her deputy and parliamentary group colleague Claudia Roederstein added: “I want to warn against including a comment function now. That overwhelms our possibilities by far ”, the whole thing has to be moderated.It became clear that the community can expand the standard program to the premium version at any time.

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Reithmann had also pointed out that other providers would have been almost three times more expensive.

For them, comparable programs would have cost 8,000 to 9,000 euros.