ORANGE PARK – The Town Council green-lighted the creation of a new town website during its meeting on Tuesday night. The deadline for the new cloud-based website is Sept. 30.

Before the motion passed unanimously, Town Manager Sarah Campbell answered a few questions from council members about the website moving forward.

“There are a lot of features in the appendix listed throughout. That, to me, sounds great. I think there are things that are going to be expected by millennials who are more technically savvy than I ever will dream of being, but I’m glad we’re going to have a website that’s going to do that for the future, and hopefully, it will be able to grow with us and change with the times easily,” councilwoman Winnette Sandlin said.

Sandlin asked Campbell whether there would be additional costs if new features were implemented after the website was completed. Campbell said that additional features would each be part of the annual licensing and hosting agreement because the website would be cloud-based.

“Everyone gets everything. The only extra expense would be a redesign in a couple of years at your choice,” she said.

Sandlin seemed to like the town manager’s response.

“This pleases me because I think there are a lot of things that will let us grow this system to meet our needs as those needs fluctuate and change,” she said.

Councilman Daniel Cobreiro said Campbell already answered his question, but he just wanted to make sure that staff would be able to make minor changes and updates to the sites when needed.

“My worry with the new developer and the news website was that it was going to be one of those things where they send it off and wait for someone else to put that (information) in,” he said.

Campbell also said those in charge of migrating the current site to the new one will not be in charge of changing any content, correcting any vocabulary, or “making the pages extra fancy.”

“Our goal is to be able to train (staff) to be able to update the pages with ease. That’s the process,” she said.

Mayor Randy Anderson wants a user-friendly site.

“I have problems with our (current site). I want to look for a park and click on it and get a picture and address of that park,” he said.