Recently it was announced by The Californian.com that the City of Salinas has launched a new Spanish language website. According to the report:

“The city of Salinas has created a Web site that allows residents to view community information as well as submit online crime reports, maintenance requests and other forms in Spanish.

The site, http://espanol.ci.salinas.ca.us, went live Thursday.

The city paid its vendor about $19,000 to translate its English site at www.ci.salinas.ca.us, said Tom Kever, the city’s finance director. The vendor company will get an additional $1,700 per month to translate updated pages.”

For the record, we’d have done the job for $18,950.