RM of Clinworth
At A glance
- Seven-item navigation: Notices, Policies, Permits, Municipal Services, RM Map, Council, Contact.
- Sitewide alert banner for fire bans, road closures and emergencies that can be easily toggled on or off in the editor.
- Notices feed doing double duty and keeping important information at the top of the pile: election notices, financial statements, newsletters, water-quality notices.
- Curated outbound links to add helpful context for residents, without having to maintain the data: SARM, Municipal Hail, Highway Hotline, Great Sandhills Museum.
The Challenge
The audience for an RM is farmers, ranchers and acreage owners spread across hundreds of square kilometres, and what they need is specific and often urgent. So Clinworth's site had to be fast, easy to use, and maintained by a small team.
What we built
We kept the site to seven top-level pages and made sure every one of them answers a real question:
- Notices: the living heart of the site. Election notices, annual water notices to consumers, financial statements, newsletters, cemetery donations.
- Policies and Permits: the documents ratepayers come looking for, surfaced by "most recent" and "most popular" on the homepage so the common stuff is just one click in.
- RM Map: a popular item for any rural municipality.
- Municipal Services, Council, Contact to make connecting with residents easy.
When there's a fire restriction across the RM, the alert banner appears at the top of every page. Staff toggle it on and off themselves, with no delay.
Rather than duplicating provincial content the Resources section points residents to SARM, Municipal Hail Insurance and the Highway Hotline. Less to maintain, and the information is always current, because someone else is maintaining it.
KEy Takeaways
Everything on this site is a repeating content type. A new notice, a new policy, or a new permit form can be uploaded in minutes. The homepage "most recent" lists automatically brings them to the top, so posting a document in one place updates it everywhere it appears.
You don't need a big website to satisfy municipal requirements - you need a small one with the right pages, and a publishing workflow an administrator can run between all of their other tasks.
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