Dear Sir or Madam,

Can you please detail, for each year since your public website was
launched, how much money has been spent on creating, developing,
and running it.

Where possible, please break these costs out by function (for
example, development, design, updates, changes, hosting,
co-location, domain registration, licensing etc). Where the costs
have been incurred with external providers, please list the company
in question. For internal staff time, if this is not recorded
and/or charged explicitly, please provide estimates based on
salary/overheads of people involved.

Yours faithfully,

Nick

RESPONSE

Our Ref: FOI/LK/222

Mr Nick McBride

Dear Nick

Re: FOI Request ? Council website

I refer to your recent request posted on 'whatdotheyknow.com' relating to
spending on the Council website. We have not had email notification of
your request and therefore cannot respond to you directly. I have asked
the whatdotheyknow.com team to pass this response to you.

We have listed below spend on Council website since May 2005:

May 2005 - new election information page - temporary - £95
May 2005 - web hosting - £50
June 2005 - web hosting - £50
June 2005 - web hosting - £50
June 2005 - web hosting - £50
July 2005 - Councilors images section amendments - £95

February 2006 - new website for STLC - £1550
March 2006 - web hosting - £400
March 2006 - document conversion and upload - £95
July 2006 - web hosting - £300
July 2006 - Web site update training - £140
September 2006 - design and build cms - £1100
September 2006 - web hosting - £150

February 2007 - web hosting - £390
February 2007 - new recycling section for BBC - £465
June 2007 - New website for tourism only - £3250
June 2007 - web hosting - £195
August 2007 - Browsealoud integration - £250
August 2007 - Councillors section - £3750
September 2007 - web hosting - £195
October 2007 - new site for Braid town hall - £3450
October 2007 - control management system for Tourism - £700
October 2007 - new site for Seven towers Leisure Centre - £1550
November 2007 - STLC update - £150
November 2007 - development of cms - £250
December 2007 - Web hosting £195
December 2007 - domain name registration £80

January 2008 - development - upload of database - £120
March 2008 - Web hosting £195
March 2008 - Ecos web pages - £680
March 2008 - Tidy up of stray links etc to old web pages - £150
May 2008 - Env Health new pages and re development of old pages - £850
May 2008 - New pages for sports development section - £570
May 2008 - web hosting - £195

It is virtually impossible to allocate time and money to this request
regarding the staffing costs etc.

If you are unhappy with this response, you have the right to seek a review
by council. To do so, please write to Mr Greg Dornan, FOI Officer, at
[email address].

If you are still unhappy after the completion of an internal review, you
have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner?s Office, who may
undertake an independent review of this matter.

If you have any queries regarding this correspondence, please do not
hesitate to contact me.

Regards

Louise Kennedy
Policy Development Assistant

Louise Kennedy
Policy Unit
Ballymena Borough Council
Email: [email address]
Tel: 028 2566 0474

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Dear Louise,

Thank you for providing this information. I note that you have not
included details of the provider(s) with whom these costs were
incurred. Was this merely an oversight, or are you refusing to
provide this information (and if so, on what grounds)?

When you say that it is "virtually impossible" to detail the staff
costs, can you please clarify this?

Thank you,

Nick

Nick

I have received your recent email seeking clarification.

I'll look into your queries and get back to you as soon as possible.

Regards

Louise

Louise Kennedy
Policy Unit
Ballymena Borough Council
Tel: 028 2566 0474
Email: [email address]

Nick McBride <[FOI #1058 email]>
27/08/2008 12:51

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Freedom of Information request - Cost of Council Website

Dear Louise,

Thank you for providing this information. I note that you have not
included details of the provider(s) with whom these costs were
incurred. Was this merely an oversight, or are you refusing to
provide this information (and if so, on what grounds)?

When you say that it is "virtually impossible" to detail the staff
costs, can you please clarify this?

Thank you,

Nick

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Dear Nick

I refer to your request for clarification on our FOI response.

The costs outlined in my previous response were incurred for services
provided by a company called Web Solutions NI. Their address is 31
Richmond Court, Lisburn, BT27 4QU.

In relation to staff costs, this is virtually impossible to calculate as
we do not keep recordings of what time has been spent by IT staff on
specific duties over the last number of years. During that time other
staff from outside the IT section have also been involved in keeping the
website updated and we have no ability to access the length of time spent
on this.

If you have any other queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards

Louise Kennedy

Our Ref: FOI/LK/222
Policy Unit
Ballymena Borough Council
Tel: 028 2566 0474
Email: [email address]

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