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

Dear Mr McBride

I acknowledge receipt of your email and have now commenced the process
of dealing with same.

I enclose for your attention Right of Access to Information leaflet for
your perusal.

S Knox (Mrs)
FOI Officer

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Dear Mr McBride

Further to your request for information under FOI Act, I have now been given the information you requested.

Having just received same, I have just noted that salaries of those officers involved are not included. I will need to obtain these figures for you.

Kind Regards

Shernelle Knox

Development: Site designed and developed in house so only real costs are salaries which are estimated below

Design: Site designed and developed in house so only real costs are salaries which are estimated below

Updates: Site designed and developed in house so only real costs are salaries which are estimated below

Changes: Site designed and developed in house so only real costs are salaries which are estimated below

Hosting: Hosted locally so no costs over and above purchase of hosting hardware\software

co-location: ?

domain registration: £25 per annum?

Licensing: Running under OS of hosting Hardware

Autumn 1999 - Jonathan Carson employed as member of IT staff with responsibility for designing and developing website. I would imagine a fair estimate would be that he spent 50% of his time on web work until publication summer 2000. So probably the following would be fairly accurate.

Costs 1999 - 50% J Carson's salary

2000 - 50% J Carson's salary

I would then imagine that after 2000 that probably about 25% of his time was "web" work

2001 - 25% J Carson's salary

2002 - 25% J Carson's salary

2003 - 25% J Carson's salary

In 2003 two posts were amalgamated and ultimately J Carson left the organization with me taking up the post (D Hughes). I still have a responsibility for the web site but the previous IT Manager took over this responsibility.

I would imagine that the following would be accurate

2004 - 5% D Hughes' salary, 10% F Levi's salary.

2005 - 10% F Levi's salary

2006 - 20% F Levi's salary

2007 - 25% F Levi's salary

Since arrival of new IT Manager, I have again taken responsibility for the site and would imagine that at present that about 25% of my time is taken up with development of the new site but this has not been all year so I would guess that so far in 2008 the costs would be about 10% of my salary.

This is far from being accurate as we do not do time keeping recording.

KNOX, Shernelle would like to recall the message, "Freedom of Information request - Cost of Council Website".

Hi Nick

I am now able to provide the figures previously asked for.

1999 - £3706.91

2000 - £9068.66

2001 - £4369.75

2002 - £4771.06

2003 - £2172.80

2004 - £4161.42

2005 - £3656.36

2006 - £7582.45

2007 - £4849.44

Total 1999 - 2007 = £44338.84

Regards

Shernelle Knox

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Dear Shernelle,

Thank you for these figures. It is unclear whether these are the
total costs for the year, or just for the staff time. In either
case can you please also break out the other costs incurred.

Yours sincerely,

Nick

Hi there Nick

Will check this out with the IT Manager.

Regards

Shernelle

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Hi there Nick

Hope this addresses your last email to me.

Kind Regards

Shernelle

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