Moose Jaw Independent

The SaskPower natural gas fired generating plant took another major step forward.

A bit of a longer opinion/commentary read as the second Freedom of Information (FOI) request we release this weekend deals with the recent decision to actively enforce the rules surrounding encroachment on City-owned land.

It is a policy change that was being developed for over a year with much of the discussion involving Council in-camera and behind closed doors.

At the first Council meeting of the year it is traditonal for the Mayor of the City of Moose Jaw to give a speech which not only reflects back on the previous year’s accomplishments but also what there is to look forward to in the coming year.

The following is the 2020 Mayor’s Address given by Mayor Fraser Tolmie in its entirety. We encourage our readers to read it in its entirety. We thank the Mayor and the City for providing it to us.

With income received from dumping demolition debris from the former Union Hospital at $36,384.80 a council member said the City has missed the opportunity of a significant revenue source.

The shrinking capacity at the Moose Jaw landfill was the reason the majority of the debris from the former Moose Jaw Union Hospital was hauled to the City yards and not the landfill documents obtained by an FOI show.

The three member commitee reviewing Council’s pay and benefits wants to hear your opinions on the matter. Either in person or a written submission on January 22rd or on-line until January 28th.

It is something our readers asked us to ask the federal political candidates in the 2019 election and now the Province of Saskatchewan has launched a campaign asking people to set up licensed home-based child care facilities.

Council was presented with an update of the strategic plan and asked to vote to include a document from the provincial government they have not read nor reviewed.

Councillor Crystal Froese has volunteered to sit on the City’s Cultural Diversity Advisory Committee after no other member of Council wanted the job.

It flooded some basements over a large area and now the City has found the problem and is preparing to make repairs in frigid temperature conditions.

For nine days he was likely the most notorious cat in Moose Jaw and attracted attention all the way to Regina. Despite the sub-zero temperatures and even thoughts he was a goner he made it home without apparently having to give up any of his nine lives.

Do you have sewer and or water in your basement? If you live near William Grayson School you may have. If you do, you are not alone, as there has been a significant water main break with water entering the sanitary sewer system and then into basements.

There is little growth in the tax base but a large increase in the amount of revenues over the past decade figures released in an enquiry of Administration show.