Lomita Water Enhances Transparency with New Website
The City of Lomita has launched Lomitawater.com, a new website that offers information and transparency on the City’s water system. The website was designed and built by Tripepi Smith in a quick timeline to provide a tool to City Staff to connect and communicate with residents. The simple-to-use website empowered staff to add content as needed, while offering a clean and simple interface for residents to find information about their water supply.
“Being transparent about water quality with our residents and addressing their questions is important to the City of Lomita. Tripepi Smith brought technical skills and an understanding of water policy in California to the table that enabled the City to complete the website in less than four weeks,” said Ryan Smoot, City of Lomita’s City Manager. “Tripepi Smith offered a quick single-stop solution to the City’s needs, and they were a great partner to us.”
The new site offers several key features. It has been optimized for the public to find information about the water system in Lomita through general Internet searches. Lomitawater.com provides a good user experience across devices including computers, tablets and mobile phones. Integrated search makes information discovery simple for those already on the site. Finally, residents are offered a single spot to report any water concerns and the information is routed to the appropriate parties within the City.
“The City of Lomita came to Tripepi Smith with a goal to improve transparency and public knowledge of the water system in the City of Lomita. The Internet was the natural starting point for the City because residents have come to expect that answers to their questions are merely a Google search away,” commented Ryder Todd Smith, President of Tripepi Smith. “City of Lomita staff were highly-engaged in the development process of the site and this allowed for both a fast timeline to implementation and creation of comprehensive content on the site on the first day of launch.”
The new website is powered by the open source WordPress content management system – the most commonly used website platform in the world. The platform provides an intuitive user interface to easily manage content while avoiding proprietary lock-in that many other public agency website solutions require. The result is a website that is simple to manage and that staff can easily update.
Tripepi Smith is a marketing, technology and public affairs firm located in Orange County, CA. Its clients include for-profit, non-profit and public agencies throughout the state of California. Its unique mix of marketing and technology prowess provide a competitive advantage for organizations seeking to leverage the Internet to achieve their communication goals. The firm also provides full content creation services, including: ghostwriting, collateral development, photography, video production, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, email marketing campaigns and website design and execution. Tripepi Smith clients include: Rowland Water, Valley Water Company, Bellflower-Somerset Mutual Water Company, Inland Empire Utilities Agency, California Utility Executive Management Association, Climatec Energy Services, California Contract Cities Association, California City Management Foundation, Big Independent Cities Excess Pool, Independent Cities Finance Authority, City of Duarte, City of La Cañada Flintridge, City of Livermore, City of Placentia and City of Norwalk.
As a family-friendly City, Lomita creatively and consistently strives to provide excellent public service and employee performance, with the intent to enrich the quality of life for every citizen, worker and business owner. The mission of the City of Lomita is to provide a healthy, safe and friendly small-town community where everyone can successfully live, work and play.