City hall will continue to track how many provincial employees work in Moose Jaw since that data helps city council remain informed when speaking with ministry officials.
The municipality undertook a study eight years ago that reviewed the number of provincial employees who worked in the community, particularly for Crown corporations. The first report factually analyzed the data for the years 1990 to 2012; reports were then produced annually in the following years.
However, those reports were not produced for the fiscal years of 2017-18 and 2018-19. But that will now change, after city council voted unanimously during its recent regular meeting to have city administration begin analysing the data again.
“This has fallen off the radar, it seems,” said Coun. Brian Swanson, who introduced the motion to continue the analyses. “This is easy to update: someone only needs to look through annual reports of each provincial ministry.
“This would give us 29 years of information that is very important for us,” he added. “Every time we get it, we go, ‘Wow!’ I’d hate for it to be discontinued.”
This is a good way to keep the records updated, agreed Mayor Fraser Tolmie. This also allows city council to speak to different levels of governments about employment levels in the community. He usually references that data while speaking with the minister of government relations or economic development.
Tolmie suggested that the municipality’s economic development officer be tasked with continuing the analysis and accumulation of this information.
Council appointments
City council appointed the councillors to the following committees:
- Coun. Dawn Luhning has been appointed deputy mayor for the next two months and will serve in that position until Aug. 31
- Coun. Heather Eby has been appointed as the chair for the executive committee for the next two months and will serve in this position until Aug. 31
- Coun. Chris Warren has been appointed chair of the personnel committee for the next two months and will serve in this position until Aug. 31
The next regular council meeting is Monday, July 8.
