It looks to be another jam-packed evening at city council tomorrow night, as there are more than a dozen topics combined that council will discuss during its regular meeting and executive committee meeting.
Here are five issues councillors will look at on Monday night, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Industrial land purchase
Carpere Canada is proposing to purchase 780 acres of land in the Southeast Industrial Park — which is all the remaining property there — for industrial development. Carpere is a private investment and management company focusing on Canadian agricultural opportunities.
City council needs to authorize the draft purchase and development agreement before this goes through. If it does, the City of Moose stands to make more than $38.6 million.
Airshow partnership
The 2019 Saskatchewan Airshow is asking for financial and in-kind services from the City of Moose Jaw to support this year’s event, which takes place July 6 and 7 at 15 Wing Moose Jaw.
The air show is asking for $45,000 and in-kind contributions of police services, firefighting services, bussing to and from the base, electrical equipment and traffic barriers.
However, the organization did not approach city council during this year’s budget process to ask for this funding then, according to a city administration report. There are no readily identifiable sources of funding to give this type of donation. However, money could be taken from a contingency account or from a surplus from the Downtown Facility and Fieldhouse (DFFH) Inc.
Policies
Policies around naming of streets and neighbourhoods, and the adopt-a-bench program, are coming back to council for final approval. These documents were discussed at previous meetings, with council suggesting several changes.
Nuisance bylaw
City administration is asking city council to uphold an order to comply for a property maintenance order, which was issued to a homeowner at 81 Daisy Crescent.
A cleanup order was issued on March 26 for the homeowner to clean up his property; this never happened. The bylaw officer inspected the property again and found the property was still considered untidy. Another cleanup order was issued. The homeowner then filed an appeal at city hall on April 18 disputing the original order.
Traffic bylaw amendments
Amendments could be made to the traffic bylaw. These amendments would focus on:
- Ensuring motorists have special needs placard parking signs in metered areas
- Providing for veterans’ parking in metered areas
- Increasing the fines under the Traffic Safety Act
- Determining if parking meters are located within restricted parking areas due to their location to intersection sightline controls
- Giving bicyclists fines for not wearing helmets
- Ensuring cyclists have adequate lights on their bikes
- The use of stop arms or stop lights on school buses
Council’s meeting begins on Monday at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers.
