The 2019 annual report of the Administrative Review Officer was submitted to Council and it showed there were no complaints which needed to be resolved.

Council discussed two motions regarding bells.

One would see restoring the glass in City Hall’s iconic clock tower and the bell presently there. A second motion would see constructing a stand for the original City Hall bell not presently in the clock tower.

Both projects combined would cost $60,000 with funding coming from reserves.

The collapse of the deal with Carpere Canada to buy 780 acres in the Southeast Industrial Park had Council re-opening the 2020 Capital Budget and then debating where to get the $2.7 million needed for the water line to service SaskPower and the industrial park.

There are major upgrades coming to the Boulevard Bylaw with the potential of affecting hundreds if not thousands of property owners. Now is the time to read about it and have your say and voice heard if you chose to do so before the issue returns to Council on March 23rd.

It was a mixed bag when it came to the City of Moose Jaw’s safety statistics but overall the number of injuries and serious incidents took major drops in 2019 compared to 2018.

Outdated cast iron water mains were a major contributor to the number of breaks reported in 2019.

A heritage site which has sat largely unused for a quarter of a century had a resident address Council requesting renovations, preservation and more use.

An attempt to have school buses exempted from oversized vehicle restrictions from parking within 100 meters of a residential neighbourhood was denied.

Pipelines, resource extraction and genocide against First Nations peoples in a backdrop of blockades opposed to proposed pipeline projects made its way to the Council as a resident spoke out on the issues.

The West Park Community Association has offered to chip in to see their neighbourhood recreation area see major upgrades but their lack of their total share of the cash in hand had one council member worried a precedent was being set where one neighbourhood is treated differently than others.

Despite the funding application yet to be approved Executive Committee voted on the locations for a record setting amount of cast iron watermain replacement.

What initially started out as a new joint use school on South Hill will end up seeing the two school divisions spending just over $2.5 million for two proposed neighbourhoods and getting into the property development business.

For some it may seem like a wish list of projects costing the City millions of dollars but if approved in the end it will save the City millions especially when it comes to cast iron water main replacement. Read all about it.

It has been a persistent problem - the growing property tax arrears owing to the City of Moose Jaw. The quarterly reports show year over year the trend continues.

The idea of approaching the province to partner on a comprehensive regional transportation study similar to one done for Weyburn is not in the City’s immediate plans following a 4 - 3 Council vote.

It was 10 years in the making and was frustrating for residents who wanted the gravel road beside their homes paved but the City now has an LIP policy in place.

The question is after a decade do the residents still want the work done?

A motion to spend some of the interest from a reserve to help kickstart the Downtown Local Area Plan has been tabled pending a report back from the Planning Department.

Canadian Tire’s proposed new retail development took another step forward as Council approved the first moves to subdivide and re-zone the City-owned property presently leased to the Moose Jaw Exhibition Company.

Council approved subdividing a High Street West property to allow the sale of one side of the building to an unknown purchaser.