A town site the clerk runs.
Minutes, calendar, notices, office hours. Posted by the person who has them.
No WordPress to update, no plugin to break, no webmaster to wait on. The clerk adds a meeting, drops the PDF, saves. It’s live. Built in Parishville, New York, where we did the town’s own site.
Free .gov address, nightly backups, and a person in Potsdam who picks up the phone.
Two minutes, no login. Then we come to your next meeting.
Minutes go up the morning after.
One page, one PDF, no one to email.
Office hours change, the site changes.
The clerk edits the line and saves.
Nothing to update, nothing to break.
No WordPress, no plugins, no 2am hack.
Everything a town has to post, and nothing it doesn’t.
Watch the three most common ones, no login.
Meetings and minutes
Add a meeting, drop the PDF, it's listed by date with the agenda and minutes to download.
Calendar
Board meetings, hearings, cleanup days. On the calendar page and the homepage, in date order.
Notices
Legal notices, road closures, burn bans. Post it, date it, it archives itself.
Edit any page
Hours, fees, who to call. It reads like a document, edit it like one.
Forms and permits
PDFs to download, or a form residents fill in that lands in the clerk's inbox.
Officials and departments
Supervisor, board, clerk, assessor, highway, court. One page each, easy to keep current.
The parts a town shouldn’t have to think about.
- Free .gov address. Towns qualify for a .gov domain at no cost. We handle the application and the switch.
- Hosting and backups. Hosted on our server in upstate New York, backed up nightly, kept off site for seven days.
- Training, on site. An hour with the clerk at Town Hall. Most people need twenty minutes.
- Your content, always. The site is plain files. If you ever leave, you take every page and PDF with you.
Because a town site should be boring.
WordPress needs updates every week, plugins that break each other, and someone watching for the day it gets hacked. Most small town sites get none of that, and it shows.
This runs on a plain open-source system with no database to corrupt and nothing to patch on a schedule. Pages are files. Backups are a copy of a folder. The clerk gets an editor, not a control panel.
Two numbers, both small enough for a resolution.
$2,500 setup
Every current page, PDF and notice moved over, the .gov address, training at Town Hall.
$600 a year
Hosting, backups, updates, and a person in Potsdam who answers the phone.
Two content changes a month
Send it, we post it. Or post it yourself, it's built for that.
We’ll bring the laptop and show the board on the screen.
Chris Brody, Groundworks Development, Potsdam
groundworksdevelopment@gmail.com
(518) 806-1278