Community Development Suite for the Village of Lansing, IL
The Village of Lansing, IL was incorporated in 1893 and is now a southern suburb of Chicago in Cook County, with over 29,000 residents. Since its incorporation, it has grown to 7.52 square miles and is a popular homebase for Chicago commuters.
Main Challenge
The Village’s government structure combines community development and public works operations, and Lansing officials had some definite goals in mind for their new land management system:
- Go paperless for permitting and licensing
- Update field inspections and code violations with the use of modern mobile technologies
- Have an integrated land management system compatible with Microsoft Office
They wanted to use Microsoft Exchange and a permitting system allowing field inspectors to see daily work routines and schedules. Also, staff needed to handle ever-increasing workloads in their rapidly growing community.
MaintStar Solution
MaintStar’s Community Development Suite was perfect for the Village of Lansing’s needs, integrating smoothly into existing Microsoft Office and other systems. By providing a fully web-based SaaS platform and running on Microsoft SQL, a paperless operation became a reality. Allowing public visibility into community development projects created positive community engagement, and everyone benefitted from a fast, successful implementation and broad community adoption.
That’s the MaintStar difference.