Council agreed to rent 29 acres in the Moose Jaw Agri Food Park to Sask Polytech. The unserviced land will be used by the institutions new Agricuture and Food Diploma Program.
Terms of the lease are $1 for the first five years and then $160 per acre after that period.
Read MoreAlthough only two businesses chose to have a Parking Patio in 2021 Council’s Executive Committee has decided to forego the rent they initially intended to charge in 2022.
Plus Executive agreed to institute changes to the regulations surrounding the patios including defining two classes of outdoor patios largely dependent on the Public Health Act.
The decision must now be approved at a future meeting of Council.
Read MoreThe Mayor's annual address highlighted the plight of the less fortunate residents of Moose Jaw with Mayor Clive Tolley asking everyone to pull together and end homelessness with an emergency shelter before next winter.
Read MoreFrom no Saturday bus, to new bus routes, snow removal and pickleball
Read MoreIt is an issue near and dear to the hearts of the majority of Moose Javians and that is garbage collection.
With the approval of a 38 cent per month increase on your solid waste utility bill - making the monthly bill $9.99 per residence - Council agreed to extend weekly trash collection to now include October.
Read MoreThe pay raises for out of scope employees based upon modernized job evaluations will soon see 18 supervisory and Administration employees with some extra cash in their pockets.
Read MoreThe rising levels of crime in the community had Council unanimously approve the Moose Jaw Police Services budget increase of 5.58 percent or $565,322.
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 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 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 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.
Read MoreIf you were hoping to park for free to do some last minute Christmas shopping without using the parking app or plugging the meter you will have to as the request for free parking Downtown just before Christmas has been withdrawn.
Read MoreIn a 6 - 1 vote Executive Committee agreed to sell their portion of the re-developed former Eaton’s store and nine parking stalls for a dollar and then effectively walk away from the dream formulated over 35 years ago.
Read MoreThe Moose Jaw Humane Society has asked the City of Moose Jaw to provide $15,000 towards a spay, neutering and vaccination program to assist lower income families with cats.
The proposed program is designed to reduce the number of unwanted cats that end up in the shelter.
We have added comments about the proposed program not said at Council.
Read MoreIn their most recent statement Mosaic Place presented year to date financials which showed a seeming sea of red ink largely attributable to the impact COVID - 19 had on the facility.
Despite some brightening factors over the last little while the comments made now and in the past point to tough financial times presently occurring for the facility and into the near future.
Read MoreIf you were to use a football analogy an 80 something year old former Bible college president carrying a neighbourhood petition threw a 95 yard wobbly Hail Mary pass for a touchdown win to have the City re-consider the demolition of the Coteau Street Bridge literally as the clock was about to expire.
The motion does not save the bridge but allows CN to be approached to see if they will cost share saving and not demolition of the structure.
Read MoreDuring the post Council media scrum MJ Independent asked Mayor Clive Tolley his thoughts about re-starting a Friday evening recreation program for youth 13 - 17 years old which operated out of Prince Arthur School.
Mayor Tolley mentioned funding but at the same time said he would ask Administration about the potential of re-starting the program.
Read MoreIt was a bit of a mixed bag as there was a slight dip in the amount of property tax arrears on September 30th, 2021 versus the same date last year while at the same time the amount of those outstanding taxes in arrears payment plans dropped by 54 percent.
On a positive note City coffers are a little bit fuller as they have won some major property tax appeals.
We ask Mayor Clive Tolley his thoughts on the issue in the post Council media scrum. The responses are at the bottom of the story.
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