Are you tech-savvy? The City of Myrtle Beach could use your help

Tech gurus out there, you can now use your skills to help the City of Myrtle Beach. 

The city just formed a new Technology Advisory Group (TAG), and it’s taking applications.

If you’re particularly app-savvy or good at troubleshooting, or if your friends call you all the time as their free tech support, then you’d be a perfect candidate for the committee. 

“We want to provide better services,” City Manager John Pedersen said. “And obviously the use of technology is a tool to help us to do that.”

Basically TAG will be made up of people who have ideas for how city leaders can use technology more efficiently and effectively. This could be someone who, again, is handy with smartphones, a local business owner or even an artist.

“There is this community out there that has these talents and intelligence that I think can be utilized for this community,” Lauren Clever, Director of the City’s Downtown Redevelopment Corporation, said.

For examples of duties, members may be tasked with coming up with ways to better deliver city services or assisting start-up companies. 

You could even help improve parking. “Is there some new technology that we can employ there?” Pedersen questioned. “How can we make that a more seamless operation? How can we, you know, improve customer satisfaction when it comes to paying a parking meter?”

Pedersen said he’d personally like to see the committee bring technology co-work spaces to the city. 
“The small start-up companies that we have so many of here in the community,” he explained, “…that may not be able to afford their own space but don’t want to work out of their homes have a chance to come there and kind of use that space jointly.”

To apply for the committee, send a brief bio and a letter of interest to the City Clerk, P.O. Box 2468, Myrtle Beach, SC 29578. Or, you can drop paperwork off at City Hall on Broadway Street. 

There’s no cut-off date right now for the applications. Pedersen said he expects them to remain open for about another month.

For more information on TAG, visit the City’s Facebook Page.