The scope of Abilene’s road trouble is straightforward to visualize on a brand new telephone app released through metropolis officers Wednesday to record potholes and other troubles.
A map at the app SeeClickFix has a pin of each pothole — plus different problems stated — inside the app. By Wednesday afternoon, there had been pins dotting many neighborhoods in the course of the metropolis.
The town also released the app MyABI, evolved in partnership with the Abilene Convention & Visitors Bureau, to listing occasions, restaurants, accommodations, top sights and extra.
Both free apps may be downloaded from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
See something, take an image
The SeeClickFix app became evolved 10 years ago to facilitate less complicated communication between residents and the authorities, in keeping with the app’s website at seeclickfix.Com.
The city has been working with the organization over the last yr to launch the app for Abilene, said Mari Cockerell, the town’s communications and media family members supervisor.
The annual SeeClickFix agreement charges approximately $17,000. The town is the use of the app to replace the Abilene 411 reporting program, which price about $18, four hundred years and did now not include a mobile platform, Cockerell stated.
The app enables the user to percentage with metropolis officials a photograph of an abandoned automobile, deceased animal, excessive grass or weeds, unlawful dumping, graffiti, damaged playground gadget, and other troubles.
Problems also may be said without an image.
Clicking on the map pin brings up extra facts about the unique criticism as well as feedback from the town at the reputation of the record.
“We’re in reality excited so that it will get into the app and communicate with folks as they make a request. People could be capable of seeing that your request has been assigned to this man or woman,” Cockerell said. “For example, in case you made a pothole restore request, the pothole supervisor will are available and say, ‘It’s been filled.'”
Other capabilities of the SeeClickFix and MyAbi apps encompass hyperlinks to a number of the cities online capabilities, such as paying a few tickets, reporting minor crimes to police, city contracts and contacts for city hall.
Win prizes
To sell the use of the new apps, the city has a competition that includes writing a thank-you note to a town worker “running to make our metropolis the fine it may be” and mail it to City Hall.
On March four, the writer of one thank-you word randomly drawn from all entries will win a staycation p.C. That consists of a 4-individual season bypass to Adventure Cove Aquatic Park, an $80 credit towards tickets to this year’s Children’s Art and Literacy Festival and tickets to the Abilene Zoo, Frontier Texas!, National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature and The Grace Museum.
The notes can be mailed to Abilene City Hall, Attention Thank-You, 555 Walnut St., Abilene, TX 79601. The creator must consist of the call of the branch being thanked, name and speak to variety or email. The non-public records of the letter author will not be shared with the note’s recipient.