Town of Sexsmith
A community app that brings members, news, and resources together.
Sexsmith is a town of roughly 2,600 in the Peace Country, twenty minutes north of Grande Prairie. The restored 1951 Alberta Wheat Pool elevator still stands on Main Street, from the years the town was known as the Grain Capital of the World.
The Town of Sexsmith app, powered by Communikit, now carries Council notices, utility and road updates, events, job postings and municipal documents. Administration publishes once from the admin portal, residents find everything in one feed, and an emergency notice can reach every household on push, SMS and voice from the same screen.
Explore the app
Everything the office publishes lands in one feed — a pinned fire advisory at the top, the fall Forest School session under it, the next farmers’ market after that. Tabs separate News, Events, Jobs and Documents, so a resident looking for a permit notice is not scrolling past a market listing. Forms are filled in inside the app, which means a question to the office no longer has to wait for business hours.
An app that feels like Town of Sexsmith
Residents search for Sexsmith and find Sexsmith. The grain elevator crest on the app icon, the town’s teal and gold through every screen, the welcome screen set over an aerial photograph of the townsite — none of it reads as a third-party product the town happens to use.
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.
Notices that stay findable after they are posted
Development permit notices, bylaws, tenders and Council agendas sit under the Documents tab with the notice itself attached. A resident who hears about a home-based business application down the street can open the actual notice, read the meeting date and the lot description, and see the site map — without anyone at the office fielding the call or finding the right page on the website.
