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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, April 14, 2014 Page 13 taken the initiative to go the additional mile to incorporate a civic engagement module or some other way to contact departments, with only approximately 10% of any great difference. Mr. Bowman opined that this would be where the CEC came in, beyond the basic website design, to addressing that small percentage al- lowing for feedback from the CEC to take the site in the desired direction. Mr. Bowman referenced and displayed other CivicPlus websites (Attachment C) and the amount of depth and broad design abilities provided in those examples, none of which looked like the current Roseville website with its existing restraints. Mr. Bowman noted that the back end of the website restrained adding those additional elements, and the counterparts used by other organizations due to the older nature of the Roseville site. Mr. Bowman advised that the CivicPlus proposal would provide for updating the front end and back end interface dynamics; thus his rec- ommendation to retain the current vendor based on his dollar for dollar analysis, opining that it provided the best chance to move forward and take the site to the next level, without committing the City's future to CivicPlus beyond that one- time upgrade fee. Mr. Bowman clarified that, if the City found it wanted to go through the RFP process in the future, it could do so and not be tied in long-term with CivicPlus; however, from his analysis and research, he found little difference in design elements. Mr. Bowman opined that he found the greatest difference in what communities chose to do with those available design elements. At the request of Member Gardella, Mr. Bowman clarified that menu items, in- cluding photos and sidebars, on the website were under in-house capacity control by staff, with the basic architecture and upgrades controlled by CivicPlus, or any other vendor of choice. Mr. Bowman advised that the only thing staff would not have access to was the basic template, but once the basic website design was done, changing and moving photos, text, and sidebar items would be under the complete control of staff. Member Grefenberg questioned if the CivicPlus software and basic template would allow and facilitate two-way communication between residents, and allow, as with some website, making that information available to the public to track their requests and which staff member was addressing it or if it was receiving at- tention or not. Mr. Bowman advised that this involved the third-party aspect, and he didn't find that aspect built in without adding a third party vendor, several of whom he'd listed in the RCA, used to integrate seamlessly with the website; and available as an add on at anytime in the future. Member Grefenberg questioned if the basic website from CivicPlus would allow non-staff people to make suggestions or change incorrect information from their home sites, with staff approval.