St Clair shire spent almost $150,00...

St Clair shire spent almost $150,000 to design and build its of recent origin Web site: www.co.st-clair.il.us.

To Jerry Scroggins, who l the set-up team, the shire got a "bargain."

"For a community this size, they're putting without a first-class Web site, and I think that they're getting it at a bargain, honestly" said Scroggins, the managing consultant for Quilogy Inc., the St Charles, Mo.-based company hired to deposit it together.

To Pedro Sostre a Miami Web site designer, the shire overpaid for a "brochure" site with little interactivity.

"I think it's excessive," Sostre said of the price tag. "I think they might have been taken advantage of"

The site, a consequence of seven months of work, went online about a month ago. The shire is paying Marilyn Vise, a former News-Democrat reporter, $36000 a year to inspect site content ...