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Rewrite "Alternative Payment Options" document in plain language

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Content debt Department: Municipal Court Team: Content
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Description

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**What is the URL?**
Currently it is a [PDF](http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Municipal_Court/Alternative_Payment_Options_English120417.pdf)
Will be an alpha information page #3257

**Have you documented this via the author notes field in Joplin?**
- [ ] Yes!
- [x] No, because there's no alpha page yet.

**Describe the content debt.**
Municipal court is mandated by City Council to include the "exact language" of the Alternative Payment Options document anywhere that a payment to the court can be collected.

I want to understand what *specific language* on the current document is mandatory by law and rewrite the page in plain language as allowed by law.

**What is the long-term, ideal solution for this content debt?**
A cultural shift in city writing towards plain language as the default and creation of informaiton pages rather than uploading PDFs.

**Is this related to a feature request issue? (Add the issue number below and add the issue as a dependency.)**

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