Mission:

Our mission is to maintain a world-wide presence for the City of Hollywood, Florida, and provide the public with quick and easy access to information about the City of Hollywood and its programs, projects and services. Our website is designed, programmed, maintained and hosted by the City of Hollywood Department of Information Technology.

The City of Hollywood, Florida provides the information on this server to the public, but retains copyright on all text, graphic images, and other content. Express written permission is required from the City of Hollywood, Florida to distribute the text or graphics to others in any fashion, or to “mirror” this information on your server. Copies of the information may be printed for your own personal use. Questions about this Copyright statement should be directed to the webmaster@hollywoodfl.org.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service is strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Information found on this site has been compiled from a variety of sources, and is subject to change at any time and without notice from the City of Hollywood, Florida. The City of Hollywood, Florida assumes no liability for damages incurred directly or indirectly as a result of errors, omissions or discrepancies. Questions or comments concerning information contained in the City of Hollywood, Florida Web site should be directed to webmaster@hollywoodfl.org.

About Our Foreign Language Translation:

Most of the pages on the City's website can be translated to several languages (including Spanish and French) and back to English by clicking on the Microsoft Translator Widget on each page. Exceptions are third party applications, pages not hosted on the main HollywoodFL.org site, "proper" names, applications that use an embedded database and PDF files. Microsoft Translator provides instant automated translation of our content. Although the quality of the translation is beyond our control, it should help non-English speakers get a general idea of a page's content.

The Microsoft Translator Widget will be visible only if your browser window is maximized to fill the whole screen. Your screen's horizontal resolution must be set to 1024 pixels or higher (for example, 1024x768, 1280x800 etc.).

Talking Web: Speech-Enabled Content

Most of the pages on the City's website are speech-enabled via Browsealoud. Browsealoud is a speech-enabling service that reads back the content of webpages as well as PDF documents. It increases the website's accessibility and benefits users with:

• visual impairments
• low literacy and reading skills
• learning disabilities

This service is provided through a browser add-on (plug-in). This tool can be downloaded for free from the Browsaloud website.

Once downloaded and installed, Browsealoud automatically speaks when your mouse hovers over text. If you move your mouse over some text, Browsealoud will start to read it aloud. To stop Browsealoud from reading the text, simply move the mouse off the text, or move it onto a new piece of text. To turn the tool off (or on), right-click on its icon in the System Tray (lower right of your screen) and select the appropriate option. Please check Browsaloud website for additional information about the tool's usage.

External Links Policy:

The City of Hollywood, Florida links to external websites in the hope that users will find reference material and information on community-related subjects. The provision of these links should not be construed as an endorsement or sponsorship of these external websites, their content or their hosts. The City specifically disavows legal responsibility for what a user may find on another site, or for the personal opinions of individuals posted on any site, as the views and opinions of documents linked to the City's website do not necessarily state or reflect the opinion, policy or position of the City.

Furthermore, the City of Hollywood, Florida is not responsible for the content, quality, accuracy or completeness of any off-site materials referenced by or linked through the City's website. By using the City's website, the user acknowledges and accepts that the City is not responsible for any materials stored on other websites, nor is it liable for any inaccurate, defamatory, offensive or illegal materials found on other websites, and that the risk of injury or damage from viewing, hearing, downloading or storing such materials rests entirely with the user.

While our primary service is to our citizens, property owners and business, it is also evident that many of our site's users are visitors and companies exploring business opportunities here. We further recognize that economic development in our city necessitates the need to link to outside agencies that gather data in this arena.

This may entail providing external links to any of the following:

• Other government agencies, social service organizations, special purposes districts, hospitals or educational institutions (public and private).
• Organizations that sponsor City events or partner in meeting business plan initiatives.
• Economic development partners such as the Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown and Beach Economic Redevelopment Agencies and the Hollywood Business Council.

Communications made through email and messaging system links contained on this site shall in no way be deemed to constitute legal notice to the City of Hollywood, Florida or any of its agencies, officers, employees, or representatives, with respect to any existing or potential claim or cause of action against the City or any of its agencies, officers, employees, or representative, where notice is required by any federal, state, or local laws, rules, or regulations. Email directly to City staff may be used to address business issues and content on this site. General web site related comments, questions or recommendation may be directed to the Information Technology Department.

We do not collect personal information about you when you visit http://www.hollywoodfl.org unless you choose to provide this information to us. We will use the information that you voluntarily provide to us to notify you of selected content changes or new publications. We may also use it to conduct statistical analyses of user activities in order to measure user interest in the information we provide and how we provide it. However, we do collect and store some non-personal information automatically.

Notice of Nondiscrimination Policy:

Consistent with the United States Constitution and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, the City of Hollywood does not discriminate on the basis of religion in the application of its laws, policies, or procedures, including the application of its land use regulations and zoning laws.

Further, the City of Hollywood has entered into a Consent Decree with the United States Department of Justice regarding its nondiscrimination policy under RLUIPA. A copy of the Consent Decree Order will be provided to any person upon request.