Rural Municipality of Piney
A community app that brings members, news, and resources together.
The Rural Municipality of Piney covers a wide stretch of forest and farmland in southeastern Manitoba, along the Minnesota border. Its residents live in small communities including Piney, Vassar, Sprague, Woodridge and South Junction, often a long drive from the municipal office.
The RM of Piney app, powered by Communikit, carries Council notices, road and waste updates, fire bans, events and municipal documents. Administration publishes once, and a wildfire or road notice can reach every household on push, SMS and voice from the same screen.
Explore the app
With communities spread across forest and farmland, residents of Piney need the same information at the same time, wherever they live. Everything the office publishes lands in one feed, with tabs for News, Events, Jobs and Documents. A fire ban or a washed-out road reaches Sprague and Woodridge as quickly as the office down the street.
An app that feels like Rural Municipality of Piney
Members search for Rural Municipality of Piney by name and find their own app — the community’s crest on the icon, its colours through every screen, its own language in place of a generic shell.
Administration keeps full control. Staff decide who can post, which groups receive what, and whether a notice goes out as an ordinary update or as a critical alert that bypasses Do Not Disturb. Registered members get a personalised feed and can save the posts that matter to them; everyone else still sees every public notice.
Programs ratepayers can act on
When the RM secured 2,500 White Spruce seedlings for its Fall 2026 Seedling Program, the notice went out as one News post with the price per bundle, who could order, how to pay and when pre-paid orders opened. Ratepayers who missed the push notification could still find it later in the feed.
