The City of Pickering has budgeted nearly $1 million for website makeover. To say that this is absurd budgeting may be a gross understatement.
No matter which website designers I speak with, TD Bank, Toronto web design, even in my own nearly 10 years of experience with web design and work, that amount of money for doing a makeover of a single website, no matter how deep, how sophisticated has been labelled as being absolutely ridiculous.
Even if the company is doing ongoing maintenance and monitoring over two years, a $1 million dollars sounds as has been labelled, astounding. The professionals I spoke with were shocked at this amount. None could find any justification for a million dollars.
As a lowly skilled website designer and manager, I am hesitant to jump on the criticism bandwagon fully. However, I am skeptical about how this amount can be justified.
The City does not owe me, a lowly, somewhat computer-skilled citizen, any explanation or justification for this amazing fee. However, perhaps the citizens of Pickering should get some kind of explanation, some kind of transparency as to how this money is being used and how it is justifiable.
Do the citizens of Pickering deserve some explanation when a million dollars of their money is being spent on what looks like a possibly overs expenditure?
