Royston Looking at Mobile App for Smartphones, Tablets

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia

Want to know what road projects are planned for your community? Or are interested in paying your utility bill from your phone?

Well if you live in Royston, there may soon be an app for that.

The City of Royston is exploring the possibility of offering a free app for citizens to download to their smart phones so they can quickly access city information.

At last week’s Royston City Council meeting, councilmen and Mayor David Jordan heard from Councilman Keith Turman who is putting forth the idea.

Turman said other municipalities, such as Rome, Georgia, offer a downloadable app and he believes it would be a benefit to citizens.

He went on to say that there are a number of convenient uses for the app such as reporting a road repair, paying utility bills online, reading minutes of meetings, and so on.

However, Mayor Jordan expressed some concerns that the app might require someone in-house to manage it as they do the city’s web site.

Turman said the app would allow the user to link all of the city’s social media so that everything would be accessible from the one app.

He added that he had already gotten information from a software provider and after more discussion, Jordan told Turman to continue to look into it.