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CityView software is helping to automate the City’s Community Development department

May 16, 2017: VICTORIA, BC: The City of Stevens Point, WI is now live with CityView! The CityView software is helping Stevens Point streamline processes and increase staff efficiencies with modern technologies.

Stevens Point implemented CityView Property Information , Permits & Inspections, Planning, Code Enforcement, and Rental Housing. The integrated suite of modules is allowing City departments easy access to data, eliminating redundancy while ensuring standardized workflows and accountability.

Supplemental applications in use by the Stevens Point include CityView Portal, which offers citizens online self-service capabilities; CityView Mobile for permit, code enforcement and rental housing inspections, offering inspectors full access to real-time records and updates directly from the field; and CityView’s Microsoft Word and Outlook add-ins , which increase data sharing between every day business critical applications.

“Our end user training with the CityView staff was very informative and helpful to our staff. Thus far, CityView has helped us streamline our process, and we look forward to taking advantage of all of the other added benefits that the system provides,” said Michael Ostrowski, CEcD, AICP Director of Community Development / Redevelopment Authority for the City of Stevens Point.

“The City of Steven’s Point underwent a thorough due diligence of the available systems in the marketplace and recognized CityView as the best fit for the City due to its comprehensive handling of development and permitting workflows, ability for spatial analysis through deep integration with GIS and its capacity to promote information flow between business critical systems.We’re very pleased to help the City realize the potential from CityView to bring further efficiencies to process and service, said Sean Higgins, Executive Vice President of CityView.

Stevens Point is the county seat of Portage County, Wisconsin. Incorporated in 1858, its population of 26,717 as of the 2010 census makes it the largest city in the County. The City is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, and has won numerous State and National awards for Best Small Cities in America (7th), one of the top 10 Dream Towns to Live, Website Award of Excellence, and the Best Tasting Tap Water in America (beating out New York City)!

For additional information contact:
CityView
250.475.6600 or 800.665.5647

About CityView

Local Government Building, Licensing, Inspections, Public Works and other departments use CityView’s solutions to reduce customer call volume, shorten permit issuance times, increase citizen self-service, increase inspector productivity, and reduce paper and manual processes. Since 1982, CityView has dedicated itself to solving day to day business process and service challenges in local government. Visit us at www.municipalsoftware.com.

About Harris

Harris is a wholly owned subsidiary of Constellation and is a leading provider of Financial Management and Customer Information Systems (CIS) software solutions. Since 1976, Harris has focused on providing feature-rich and robust turnkey solutions to all levels of local government, public power and water entities as well as school districts throughout North America. Harris’ focus is on creating long-term relationships with our customers and ensuring that we meet the changing needs of our customers overtime. For further information on Harris Computer Systems, please visit our website at www.harriscomputer.com or call 888.847.7747.