Re: [Mpls] city web site

[Tim Bonham]

About the City Ordinances on the Minneapolis website, I agree with all the 
other comments that the current system where it is farmed out to some group 
(no doubt for a high price) is extremely hard to use -- almost 
worthless.  (And that outside website actually uses the antiquated frames 
technology!  Most smart web developers stopped using frames about 
1996.)  At least the city web site could have a link to a downloadable text 
version of the entire city ordinances.  Then I could download that and 
search it myself.  But I expect their contract with this outside vendor 
prohibits that.

Also, the State White Pages site is refreshed daily from the state payroll 
files.  Easy to do automatically once that is set up, and works fine 
regardless of high or low turnover.  And it's pretty accurate -- employees 
are generally pretty careful to maintain their info accurately in the 
payroll file!

Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson

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