Royston report says Airport Road gas-main extension is underway for poultry farm

Royston’s Natural Gas Department was continuing work on a 2-inch main extension on Airport Road to serve a new poultry farm, according to the city’s May operations report included in June 9, 2026, meeting materials. The report is the clearest public indication in this record that the extension was underway, though it does not say when construction began or how far the work had progressed.

The project matters because a new gas main can shape utility service and construction activity along Airport Road while tying city infrastructure to a specific new business customer. For nearby residents and businesses, however, the report leaves the practical stakes only partly visible: it identifies the line’s size, location and intended customer, but not its route, cost, funding source or expected completion date.

The May report appears in the June 9 city materials as an operations update rather than as a standalone project proposal or completion notice. Its wording—saying the department “continues work”—indicates activity was already in progress by the time of the report, but the record does not trace the decision that preceded it, identify a construction-start date or document any later milestone.

The Natural Gas Department’s report presents the extension as work intended to serve a new poultry farm. The meeting material does not include a statement from the farm, nearby property owners, City Council members or other city officials about the project’s benefits, impacts or terms, so their positions cannot be determined from this record.

What is documented is limited but significant: city operations staff reported ongoing work on a 2-inch Airport Road extension for the poultry farm. The material does not document a City Council vote, departmental authorization, contract, budget, completion, delay or final disposition. That absence does not show the work lacked approval or will not be finished; it means those questions are not answered in the June 9 record.

The next public confirmation would be a city agenda, meeting minutes or later operations report that specifies whether the extension has been authorized, completed or altered. Until then, residents cannot determine from this record the project’s full scope, cost, funding, timetable, Council role or the terms under which the new poultry farm will receive service.