The city of Sammamish has $75,000 in the 2015-16 budget earmarked for an upgrade to the city’s website, which the Sammamish City Council approved in 2014.

The progress of updating the site was set back due to a vacancy in the IT department, which IT Director Joe Guinasso said has been filled.

The city will likely ask for request for service proposals at the end of the year or early 2016.

The update will make the backend of managing and updating the website easier. It’s not a content change.

The city last updated the site in 2006. It’s one of the older city websites, Guinasso said.

“With our existing system, most of the file attachment code is different depending on the attachment type,” Guinasso said in an email.

Part of the website project will include a content management system that will allow city staff to “handle content editing, including file attachments and user management,” Guinasso said.

“This will replace a lot of the older parts of the site, and switch us to a more widely used system with support options available,” he said.

The code and user interface to upload an agenda is different from those used to upload an ordinance and that’s different for uploading park brochures and on, Guinasso said.

“A lot of this was created years ago, so any bug or modification takes a long time,” he said. “This is true for a lot of the older features on our site.”