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          Joel Radtke   Joel Radtke 
Manager of Web-based Communication
1 Descombes Drive
Broomfield, CO 80020
303-438-6327
jradtke@broomfield.org
 
  www.broomfield.org        
The City and County of Broomfield website has been serving residents of Broomfield, and the Internet community, since 1998. The website is a service of the City and County Manager’s Office. The site provides information from departments and divisions at the city and county that will help expedite finding what you need from your local government.

The website has more than 12,000 pages, images and other downloadable documents on it. The information is updated directly from members of each department or division to ensure that the most accurate information is always on the website. When an emergency occurs, our home page has the urgent information that comes directly from our Emergency Operations Center to keep residents up-to-date.

We are always adding more interactive programs on the Web. Among the programs we have now are, paying your Broomfield utility bill or property taxes online, searching the library card catalog and renewing library books, applying for a posted job online, searching Broomfield property records including seeing aerial views of the property and signing up for recreation classes. There is also an interactive parks map that shows location, amenities, photographs and information on how to reserve park shelters.

On demand video pageSince 2006 we have been expanding our video presence on the website including a 24/7 live stream of our KCCB Cable Channel 8 broadcast. Along with that we began archiving our council meetings and offering them on demand on the Web. We now have more than 170 council meeting and concept review meeting videos on the Web site. Since 2009 we have released more than 250 on demand videos of locally produced shows dating back to 2003. We also offer embedded videos on site-specific pages, e.g., we have a police canine video on our police K-9 Unit page. In 2009 we also added a Broomfield YouTube Government Channel. We are now in the process of making our videos available on mobile devices.

Through the years we have been always looking for more ways to reach our audience. In 2003 we began offering subscriber email for our viewers who wanted to receive council meeting summaries. Since then we have 44 different subscriber email topics. They range from a monthly recreation newsletter, auditorium event schedule and three library newsletters geared for different patron age groups. In 2009 we are creating RSS feeds for our What's News in Broomfield news briefs, recreation and auditorium events and library news.

As our audience changes how they get their information, we have gone outside of the website to add additional outlets for them. Today we have pages on the social networks of Facebook and Twitter. In 2011 and 2012 we are working on making more of our Web pages "mobile friendly" for our viewers on the go.

In 2011 we began creating QR Code tags for trail head markers, public art pieces and election information. Each of the tags sends the viewer to a "mobile friendly" page on the website.

We continue to strive to make the website faster and easier to navigate. After our most recent website redesign and new navigation system, Broomfield's website was awarded the top national Meritorious Award from the National Association of County Information Officers (NACIO) in 2007 for design, navigation and strong content.

NACIO Photography AwardOur photographs on the website are also award winners as a photojournalist’s piece by Joel Radtke on the installation, dedication and visitation of the Broomfield 9-11 Memorial took Best in Class national honors for photography in the NACIO awards.