The University will oversee development of the web site and its ongoing operation for the first two years of the project. MuniMall.net is intended to give municipalities the technological tools they will need to make full use of the opportunities provided by the Internet by supplying links to existing and new sources of information. For example, municipalities can use the site to tender large and small infrastructure and construction projects.
Municipal officials can meet with each other through web conferencing and chat room capabilities.
People involved or interested in municipal government will be able to take the Local Government Certificate Program on-line in the comfort of their homes, through links to the Faculty of Extension's Government Studies program. The first on-line courses will be available by September 1999, with new courses being added each semester. MuniMall.net will be officially launched in the spring. MuniMall.net will feature regular updates and information about the project's progress. In British Columbia, Bill 21, the Assessment Amendment Act 1998 became law by regulation on October 23, 1998.