University to provide Mainstreet website

Georgia College recently renewed a service agreement contract with Milledgeville Mainstreet, the city’s Downtown Development Authority, which calls for the university to provide the organization with maintenance to its website.

The Milledgeville City Council unanimously passed and adopted a resolution at its last meeting on Jan. 25 that authorizes the service agreement with the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on behalf of the university to provide the maintenance.

Caroline Collier, professor of information technology, will be in charge of the website maintenance on behalf of the university and will be assisted by one of her graduate students.

According to Milledgeville Mainstreet Interim Director Carly Schulte, Collier and her assistant will receive $275 for 20 hours of service to the website over a 12-month period. Schulte said she has been pleased thus far with the work Collier and her student assistants have done.

“We had this contract prior the year before, and so when it came up for renewal, I was happy with how it’s been going with them,” Schulte said. “So I wanted to renew it for another year.”

Collier and her students first created the Milledgeville Mainstreet website in 2009 and have maintained it ever since. Its last update came on Jan. 4 according to Schulte. The website is one of a few that Collier and her student assistants work on and maintain.

“We probably have seven to 10 websites that we maintain and oversee throughout the community of Milledgeville and Baldwin County,” Collier said. “We are also working on one with Rock Eagle in Putnam County.”

According to its website, Milledgeville Mainstreet’s mission is to “inspire public and private investment in the revitalization and preservation in the downtown business district in order to strengthen the economic base of Milledgeville-Baldwin County.”

“We work on a four point approach,” Schulte said. “Those points are organization, design, promotion and economic reconstruction. All of those are within the context of historical preservation.”

Schulte said the website was last updated on Jan. 4, and that it should be again soon. Collier said that agreements and partnerships such as this one are beneficial to the university and especially helpful to any students who are involved in the process.

“It’s a good experience for students to be able to meet with clients and develop a good relationship with (them),” Collier said. “It does a good job of preparing them beyond their time here.”

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