Administration Asked To Prepare Report Reviewing Snow Removal
Council unanimously approved a motion to have Administration prepare a report about the costs to remove the snow piled along Priority 1 and Priority 2 streets for discussion at next year’s budget deliberations.
Another potential solution discussed to improve snow clearing was to potentially test a different system on an area of Snow Route where residents would remove their vehicles from the streets and then the plow unobstructed without lifting the gate at driveways. Later residents would have to shovel their driveways out as done in Toronto and Montreal.
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Mayor Gets New Committee To Help Keep City Clean
Despite having its detractors on Council a new committee to coordinate and lead the efforts for a cleaner Moose Jaw and subsequent community pride has been established.
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City Gets Surprise Returns On Investments
A surprise fourth quarter market rally has led to the City earning millions in investment returns on their $100 million reserve funds.
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City Commissions Study On The Use Of Geo-Thermal Energy
Council’s approval to spend just over $54,000 on a study into the geo-thermal potential for the new industrial park is an investment in the future of a world moving away from oil, Mayor Tolmie says
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Council Approves Additional Funding For Two Facilities Upgrades And Repairs
Council approved over $100,000 be spent to finish upgrades and repairs at two City facilities.
One of the projects will see procedural changes within a City department after work proceeded without Council funding approval.
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Missing Information Leads To Council Backtracking On Disposal Fees Decision
A long time Moose Jaw business received an apology and a more equitable landfill disposal fee after Council discovered they had not been provided with all of the pertinent information to make a proper decision.
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Councillor Typifies Print Media As "Ancient and Outdated" Calls For Advertising Policy Review
Typifying print media as ancient and outdated Councillor Dawn Luhining has asked for a review of how the City spends its advertising dollars.
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Mayor Says City Doing What It Can To Open Facilities More
Mayor Fraser Tolmie answered questions from MJ Independent in a post Council media scrum about the impact of the loss of recreational opportunities due to COVID - 19 restrictions and what the City is doing about it.
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Moose Jaw Soccer Asks For Rate Cut Through Restrictions
“Currently our rates per hour per player have tripled…At this time it is unsustainable,” Mike Armstrong, president of the Moose Jaw Soccer Association (MJSA) told Council in an attempt to get a temporary rate reduction at the Yara Centre. A request that was unanimously denied.
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Mayor Delivers State Of The City Speech In A Year Dominated By COVID -19
Traditionally at the first Council meeting of the year the Mayor stands up and delivers the annual State Of The City Speech.
The speech reflect on the past, speaks of the present and points the way to what the Mayor sees for the City’s future. The speech often includes future initiatives, plans and policies to the lead the City on its journey.
We have have provided here the 2021 State Of The City Address by Mayor Fraser Tolmie, unedited in its entirety. We encourage our readers to give it a read.
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Council Says No To Adult School Zone
School and playground zones are designed for children and so the students at Sask Polytechnic won’t be getting them around their campus.
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Council Pumps Brakes On Cutting Saturday Transit Service
After voting just under two weeks ago to discontinue the regular Transit service on Saturdays effective February 1st Council decided to use their $20,000 travel budget to extend the service until May 1st.
Additionally Council will survey residents and businesses about the service and how to improve it and increase the ridership to make it less costly to subsidize. Such moves may mean the service is maintained in some form on Saturdays.
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Stock Market Turnaround Results In Higher Than Targeted Returns
In what looked like it could be a disaster for the City’s invested reserve funds a market reversal has the City earning higher than targeted earnings in 2020 - some of the earnings are now earmarked to help fund the 2021 Budget.
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Update Given On Future Of 4th Avenue Bridge
A detailed update on the future plans to upgrade and repair the 4th Avenue Bridge was delivered to Council.
The question remains though where will Council find the money?
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Policy Change Partially Used To Justify A Subsidy Elimination
A seemingly innocent policy change years ago on the ownership of the service connections to property owners was used partially as a reason to eliminate a long running program to subsidize the replacement of no corrode service connections.
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Movement Made To Fix Broken Bridge
It has been a highly publicized issue becoming almost a serialized novel in the Moose Jaw Express, created animosity and set off some tempers, but it now seems a deal is at hand in repairing the 7th Avenue SW Bridge.
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Council Approves Affordable Housing Proposals
As long as they can get funding approval from a Federal program a developer is planning on erecting 40 affordable housing units on part of the former Moose Jaw Union Hospital site.
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City And SaskWater Strike A Deal
Council agreed to a deal that will see SaskWater customers getting a water deal but at the same time the necessary work to the geo-thermal wells that supply Temple Gardens Mineral Spa got a much needed workover.
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Council Discusses Hiring More Temporary Workers To Tidy Up Green Spaces
An initiative aimed at improving the look of City-owned green spaces is going to have to wait until the end of the Budget deliberations to see if it does not overtax residents.
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City Management Pay Reclassification Once Called "Gobbledegook" Deferred To 2022
A reclassification touted as a way to promote equality and fairness in the salary paid to Administration ran into COVID - 19 money concerns and deferred until next year.
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