Despite the critics and the naysayers Mayor Clive Tolley said he is happy with the results of the 2022 Budget.
It is a budget he said designed to make Moose Jaw a better place and money is not just being spent to be spent but rather it is an investment in the future to draw people to the city.
Read MoreIn what some critics of City Hall might consider to be a financial shell game, to hide the true extent of the increases of the 2022 Budget, Council agreed to draw down $7.2 million in Reserve earnings to fund both the 2022 Operating and Capital Budgets.
Read MoreA time held local tradition at the Olde Capitol Theatre is about to spring into life.
Read MoreA popular Christmas program is being presented this Christmas both in person and virtually by the Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw.
Read MoreThe plans to get the staff of the new bylaw enforcement unit up and running this year is going to have to wait until next year’s budget as Council in budget discussions on Monday evening decided to wait until next year to get it up and running.
Council would like to see a new City Solicitor in place before proceeding.
By all appearances that mountain of unpaid parking tickets, business licenses and other assorted fines is going to have to wait until next year for collection efforts to begin in earnest.
Read MoreAn animal cruelty case dating back over two years ago was once again adjourned.
Read MoreDeciding to steal a bottle of rum has resulted in a Moose Jaw man receiving a $100 fine for his 18th conviction for petty theft.
Read MoreA look at questions answered by Mayor Clive Tolley when it comes to the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant
Read MoreThis week a Moose Jaw man was sentenced to a one year conditional jail sentence in the community for what Moose Jaw Provincial Court characterized as not “provoked” and vigilante in nature.
We asked the City’s Bylaw Enforcement office about it and what either party should do instead of taking the law into their own hands.
Read MoreThere are now four locations in Moose Jaw where you can pick up at home rapid COVID -19 tests.
Read MoreA photo of how the new Christmas lights look in the Downtown core if you are up and about at 3 am.
Read MoreThe City not having in-house legal counsel has lead to the delays in restructuring City Hall’s operations and for those of you with unpaid parking tickets likely a half a year reprieve until collection efforts can begin.
Read MoreWith readers questioning about how snow removal is conducted on 1st Avenue NW in the Downtown core we asked City Manager some questions about it as part of this morning’s post Council presser.
Read MoreIn what seemed likely a very short debate Council in a 4 - 3 vote decided to defeat a motion that would have referred all City agreements to outside legal counsel.
A $500 - $600 per hour lawyer cost and the large stack of documents combined was enough to have Council decide against the action.
Read MoreAn explanation was given as to why the snow was piled in the center shared left hand turning lane on 1st Avenue NW this past Monday morning.
Read MoreThe annual City of Moose Jaw Budget deliberations kick off tomorrow with proposed increases to property taxes, water and sewer rates as well as the infrastructure levy.
Of the property tax increase the Moose Jaw Police Service is requesting approximately one-third.
Read MoreQuestions were asked in the post Council media scrum to Mayor Clive Tolley if more detail, information and an opportunity to ask questions are something which could happen in Moose Jaw regarding the budget submitted to Council by the Moose Jaw Board of Police Commissioners.
Read MoreThe new Christmas decorations the City is erecting Downtown were introduced to Council.
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