Six months after city commissioners decided to hire a California-based tech company to redesign the Fort Lauderdale Police Department website, the site looks exactly the same.

“It’s not up-to-date [and] it’s not user-friendly,” police department spokesman Sgt. Matt Sousa said.

But department officials say the redesigned site might debut as early as next month.

In January, city commissioners hired Vision Internet Providers Inc., which specializes in creating government websites and has built sites for Reno, Nev., Manhattan Beach, Calif., and the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. The redesign will cost more than $58,000, of which $25,000 will come from the department’s trust fund 104, which is derived from money confiscated by police. The remainder of the funding will come from the federal Safe Streets Grant.

So far, no changes have debuted on the site, but Sousa said they are in the works.

“The project hasn’t been put on hold,” he said. “We wanted this to be a group effort and not just the work of a few individuals.”

The new site will include district maps, news updates, a community section for neighborhoods and the city’s “10 Most Wanted.”

The slow economy has not delayed the completion of the redesigned site, Sousa said.

“We had the money in place,” he said. “[And] we still do.”

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