Royston council approves $25,147.98 City Hall LED sign purchase after old board failed

Royston City Council approved a $25,147.98 invoice from Jaymarz Signs & Graf-X on Nov. 10, 2025, authorizing replacement of City Hall’s message-board sign with a 3-by-7-foot LED electronic display. The motion passed 6-0 after the city manager said the existing sign had been nonfunctional for more than a year and replacement parts were unavailable.

The decision commits city money to a visible means of communicating public information at City Hall. Rather than building a new sign, the approved work calls for placing an electronic display in the existing sign structure, making the practical stakes both the cost of the upgrade and whether the city restores a public-facing message board that officials said could no longer be repaired.

The proposal first appeared on a November 2025 city agenda as an item for consideration: replacing the nonfunctional message board with the specified LED display for $25,147.98. Four days later, according to the Nov. 10 minutes, council acted on an invoice from Jaymarz Signs & Graf-X and approved the purchase unanimously. The agenda itself identifies only the month, not the exact date when the proposal was placed before officials.

Council members who voted supported the purchase by a 6-0 margin, while the minutes attribute the case for replacement to the city manager’s account that the old display had been out of service for more than a year and that parts could not be obtained. Jaymarz Signs & Graf-X was the vendor named on the approved invoice. The cited agenda and minutes do not record any council member or resident speaking against the expenditure, so they do not establish whether opposition existed outside the vote.

The purchase is no longer merely proposed: the council minutes document an approved invoice and a 6-0 vote. But approval is distinct from installation. The records identify the price, vendor, display size and use of the existing structure; they do not establish a purchase date, delivery, installation schedule, completion, or whether the final scope or price later changed.

The next public record that would clarify the project would be a city document showing implementation—such as a payment record, installation update, later meeting-minutes entry or completion notice. Until Royston releases one, residents can confirm that council authorized the $25,147.98 purchase, but cannot determine whether the LED sign is operating at City Hall or when that work was finished.