From 21st Century Disaster Tips You Will Not Hear From Officials.
And I sent her a link to this blog post that I did back in 2007.
In reply, I make this blog post in 2009, and again in 2010, using free tools, that give me two RSS Feeds, An Archive, Commenting, and many other bells and whistles.
The city's website is truly awful. To be fair I expect that it's all an afterthought project dropped on the existing IT staffs desk. Even so, the decisions they've made have been terrible. They finally start archiving and streaming council meetings and they use Silverlight? There are several excellent free solutions. Another thing that would make the city city remotely useable, and would take the pressure off the IT staff, would be to use a unified collaborative calendar system. To find out what meeting are going on you've got to look for multiple static calendars hidden in various parts of the site.