This advancement places a great deal of freedom and responsibility on community members to keep their QuickSite pages current and interesting. Increased community involvement relieves the volunteer Web Committee of reviewing each posting to the site. Presently, this site has the potential to host 6 million pages, Grove says. QuickSite postings are managed by an exception committee, which certifies contributors but not individual postings of that contributor. The Web Committee has the capability to certify or uncertify and modify by expanding or retracting the rights of a contributor.
Grove notes that the committee has only expanded user access.
It is a different continuum than almost all sites that only deal with town hall. Like most other municipal Web sites, Franklin's offers residents access to local government information. The town employs one part-time employee to post town hall information such as meeting minutes. But it is the volunteer Web Committee that maintains the site. The popular site recorded an average of 16,000 weekly hits in the six-month period preceding the launch of QuickSite.