Village Trustees Approve Agreement for New User-Friendly Village Website Design
Oct. 9, 2013: Easier navigation to follow village business and find timely information online is on the horizon for Bronxville residents.
The Bronxville Board of Trustees, at its October 7 meeting, approved an agreement with online services company Virtual Towns and Schools to design and implement a new website for the village.
Three Bronxville Village staff members, Karen Buccheri, secretary to the mayor and village administrator, Peggy Conway, Bronxville deputy treasurer, and Julie Cagliostro, manager of information systems for the village, set the goal to offer residents and others who do business with Bronxville a more attractive, informative, and interactive website.
They will work with Virtual Towns and Schools to realize that goal and aim to have the website fully functional by January 1, 2014.
Users of the new site can look forward to seeing information on how to find the right person to answer questions and accessing all building department, public works forms and vital records forms used by the village, as well as finding maps that clarify the village's parking areas with their various privileges, restrictions, and time limits.
"Our hope is that people will be able, first of all, to easily access information," Conway said. "We want to have every single application that anyone can think of readily available."
Connection to the village eAlert® system will facilitate real-time transmission of emergency announcements on the new website.
"The capacity to upload documents and reports within the village office, rather than relying on an outside consultant, means residents will see more timely posting of important information," Buccheri noted.
Buccheri, Conway, and Cagliostro interviewed several companies with expertise in designing and hosting websites for municipalities. They decided on Virtual Towns and Schools as the best fit because the company deals exclusively with smaller municipalities rather than with larger cities.
"Virtual Towns and Schools has experience with who we are and what we are," Buccheri added.
The three-year contract includes secure hosting in a monitored facility, 24-hour emergency support, periodic upgrades, and a free website design upgrade at the end of the three-year agreement.
"We’ll have an attractive and timely product, so everybody wins," Buccheri added.
Pictured here (L to R): Trustee Donald Gray, Mayor Mary Marvin, and trustee Guy Longobardo.
Photo by Carol P. Bartold
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Bronxville is a quaint village (one square mile) located just 16 miles north of midtown Manhattan (roughly 30 minutes on the train) and has a population of approximately 6,500. It is known as a premier community with an excellent public school (K-12) and easy access to Manhattan. Bronxville offers many amenities including an attractive business district, a hospital (Lawrence Hospital), public paddle and tennis courts, fine dining at local restaurants, two private country clubs and a community library.
While the earliest settlers of Bronxville date back to the first half of the 18th century, the history of the modern suburb of Bronxville began in 1890 when William Van Duzer Lawrence purchased a farm and commissioned the architect, William A. Bates, to design a planned community of houses for well-known artists and professionals that became a thriving art colony. This community, now called Lawrence Park, is listed on the National register of Historic Places and many of the homes still have artists’ studios. A neighborhood association within Lawrence Park called “The Hilltop Association” keeps this heritage alive with art shows and other events for neighbors.
Bronxville offers many charming neighborhoods as well as a variety of living options for residents including single family homes, town houses, cooperatives and condominiums. One of the chief benefits of living in “the village” is that your children can attend the Bronxville School.
The Bronxville postal zone (10708, known as “Bronxville PO”) includes the village of Bronxville as well as the Chester Heights section of Eastchester, parts of Tuckahoe and the Lawrence Park West, Cedar Knolls, Armour Villa and Longvale sections of Yonkers. Many of these areas have their own distinct character. For instance, the Armour Villa section has many historic homes and even has its own newsletter called “The Villa Voice” which reports on neighborhood news.
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