City of Murrieta Launches New Website

The city of Murrieta launched a new and improved website Tuesday.

The new design was in the works for several months after the city awarded a contract for its redesign in March. The website, www.murrieta.org, offers several new features, such as a city calendar, photographs, an interactive park map and more. Residents can also register on a "My Murrieta" portal to ensure they stay updated on goings-on.

With the launch of the site, the city is also providing an mobile app beginning Wednesday.

"To keep up with the demands placed by the public for an easy-to-use website that provides up-to-date information, the city's current website needs to be redesigned," wrote Tom Aronson, information systems manager for the city of Murrieta, in a staff report at the time.

The city accepted proposals from 14 software development companies in a bid process that closed Feb. 1. It then interviewed five companies, and awarded a $66,425 contract to Newport Beach-based Civica Software.

"When looking for a company to update the city's website, the ease of the CMS (content management system), was the selection committee's primary focus," Aronson wrote.

The selected company services websites for other municipalities such as the city of Beverly Hills, the city of Norco and the city of Irvine, as well as utility companies such as Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District.

The city of Murrieta has had a website for more than 10 years. The last time the city's website was overhauled was in 2007, when it cost $13,000, according to the staff report.