Colorado’s Foothills Fire Protection District Responds to Citizens’ Expectations for Enhanced Online Content and Services
January 19 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
What do tourist attractions like the Buffalo
Herd Overlook, residential developments ranging from the cabin era
to modern developments, “dead-man’s curve,” and transmitting
equipment for most of Denver’s television and radio stations have
in common? They rely on the services of Foothills Fire Protection
District (FFPD) in Golden, Colorado. FFPD’s mission is to keep a
wide range of entities safe, and it’s increasingly relying on its
website to keep constituents informed. “We’ve always focused on
being transparent about our activities so that residents can be
in-the-know about everything happening in our busy district,” says
Fire Chief Brian Zoril. “Our residents want easy and quick access
to online information.”
Volunteers Doug Kalish and Nancy Southorn were
charged with taking FFPD’s online presence to the next level.
“We’re a small, rural fire department with limited resources.
Information Technology is not what we do,” explains Kalish. “By
partnering with Colorado Interactive (CI) and the Statewide
Internet Portal Authority (SIPA), we have created an infrastructure
to better serve our citizens. We’ve upped our game.” In addition to
a new technology platform, the site incorporates modern design
elements, payment processing, and event scheduling.
CI provides digital government services to
state agencies and local governments through a contract with SIPA —
the official internet portal connecting the public with Colorado
governments. The partnership’s mission allows government leaders to
focus on delivering on-demand, digital government solutions without
requests for proposals or the use of tax appropriations. The
CI/SIPA partnership has benefitted over 60 special districts in
Colorado.
FFPD reoriented its website to focus on the
user’s experience and make it easier to find useful information
such as the FFPD’s ISO rating for insurance purposes, restrictions
on burning items, how to secure permits, and fire mitigation
information. The website is now mobile-friendly and includes an
events calendar as well as a dynamic fire restrictions map that
indicates areas with fire restrictions.
“Foothills Fire Protection District is one of
the growing number of first responders answering citizens’ demands
for comprehensive online information,” says CI’s President and
General Manager, Fred Sargeson. “Their website is a fine example of
providing the public with easy access to critical information
regardless of the technology being used to view it.” Special
districts in need of free website hosting and development through
the Colorado.gov web portal, should start with SIPA.
About Colorado Interactive
Colorado Interactive (CI) is the team behind
the official website of the state of Colorado
(http://www.colorado.gov) and is overseen by the Statewide
Internet Portal Authority. The portal operates through a
public-private partnership between the state and CI to help
Colorado government entities web-enable their services. CI builds,
operates, maintains, and markets Colorado.gov and is part of the
digital government firm, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV).
About SIPA
Established in 2004 by the Colorado General
Assembly, the Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA)
is a self-funded government organization created to be Colorado's
single most comprehensive delivery channel for electronic
government (eGovernment) services. SIPA strives to
accelerate the adoption of efficient, effective electronic
government services by placing more government information and
services online to benefit citizens.
About NIC
NIC Inc. (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation’s premier
provider of innovative digital government solutions and secure
payment processing, which help make government interactions more
accessible for everyone through technology. The family of NIC
companies has developed a library of more than 13,000 digital
government services for more than 5,500 federal, state, and local
government agencies. Among these solutions is the ground-breaking
personal assistant for government, Gov2Go, delivering citizens
personalized reminders and a single platform for all government
interactions. More information is available at www.egov.com.
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