Royston Council Unanimously Fills Vacant Water-Wastewater Superintendent Post

Royston City Council unanimously confirmed Jammie Cawthon as Water-Wastewater Superintendent on Dec. 9, 2025, filling a vacant leadership post in the department that oversees the city’s water and wastewater operations. The council approved City Manager Lanier Dunn’s nomination in a 6-0 vote after Councilman Fields made the motion and Councilman Roach seconded it.

The appointment places a named department head over services that residents and businesses rely on every day. Water delivery and wastewater operations are core city functions with public-health and household consequences, but the council’s action was a charter-required confirmation of a nominee, not a decision on new utility policies, rates, staffing or construction plans.

Before the vote, a council agenda listed Dunn’s nomination of Jamie Cawthon as Water and Wastewater Department head for consideration under Charter Section 3.10(e). That agenda item signaled that the nomination was pending council review; the Dec. 9 minutes then recorded the consequential action, confirming Jammie Cawthon for the vacant superintendent position. The agenda itself does not give an exact meeting date.

Dunn put forward the nomination, while the council supplied the required confirmation. Fields and Roach took the formal steps to bring the matter to a vote, and all six council members supported it. The minutes do not record debate, competing nominees, public comment or a stated disagreement over Cawthon’s qualifications, so they establish the vote but offer little detail about the discussion behind it.

The confirmation is complete, not a proposal: the minutes document a 6-0 council vote for Cawthon’s appointment. Still unresolved in the public record are when Cawthon began serving, whether a transition was needed and whether the city paired the personnel decision with any changes to department staffing, daily operations or infrastructure priorities. No such changes are established by the council action.

The Dec. 9 minutes identify no further formal council action on the appointment. The next public indication of its practical effect would come through later council minutes or city updates that identify Cawthon’s start, transition or department actions; until then, the timing and operational consequences of the leadership change remain undecided in the public record.