Residents in Cordova now have a new way to keep up with what’s going on with the City through a new mobile app launched Wednesday.
Cordova Mayor Jeremy Pate said it’s a “good and easy way to keep up with what’s going on in Cordova, and all the things we’re doing.”
“Residents have easy access to everything at their fingertips,” he said. “They can pay their water bill, pay their court fees and can access anything about the city right there on that app.”
Pate said the idea of an app came about while at a League of Municipalities meeting in May, where he met a vendor from the company who ultimately designed the mobile app, OneAppWay.
“I got the information from her and we decided to move forward with it,” he said. “So we’ve been working on it since probably early June. It didn’t take long to design it, but took us a month to get it into the app store. Once we got it in and they gave us the administrative access, we were able to go in there and change over everything and get our information in it.”
The app, available on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, features a main menu with access to city and events calendars, municipal bill payments, social media links, city contacts and more. Pate said the city plans to add more as they continue to grow it.
“We’re looking to put all of our ordinances, all our resolutions on there and things like that so they can access that as well,” he said.
The app will also serve as a way for city officials to easily be able to reach residents through push notifications.
“We can send out notifications about events, about storm warnings and anything else,” he said. “If we have the storm shelters open, we can send those push notifications out. Any kind of messaging that we need to get out to the citizens, we can do that through that app straight to their smartphone.”
Pate said the response to the app so far as been positive and encourages people wanting more information about the city and wanting to keep up with what’s going on, to download it.
