ROCANVILLE — The Moosomin Airport project received funding from the Town of Rocanville. Recently, the town donated $10,000 to the project, something they had previously discussed last summer.
“We do want to support it, and we will whenever we possibly can financially,” said Administrator Tanya Strandlund. “It made sense for us to donate $10,000 at the time due to some of our projects coming in under budget and on time and just being financially smart.”
On Aug. 14, council hosted a delegation of airport development representatives during their meeting. In addition to providing an update at that time, those in the delegation also asked if Rocanville would be willing to commit to helping to fund the project along with other municipalities in the region. At the time, the town chose not to fully commit dollars to the project, underlining that they do support the project regardless. However, now the town has been able to offer some funding toward the project.
“It is crucial for that regional co-operation, and it does benefit the area,” Strandlund said of the Moosomin Airport.
Busy year for property sales
An item from the administrator’s report noted a strong year for property sales in Rocanville. Strandlund said there were 33 properties sold in the town through 2024 between commercial, residential, and empty lots.
“It was a pretty big year,” she said. “There’s a combination of new people moving into town and people just moving around within town.”
Strandlund estimates roughly half of those sales were for relocation and the other half were new faces.
Snow clearing revisited
Council took another look at the current policy on snow clearing in town, favouring an approach to try something new in the way snow is cleared from local streets.
“We’re still trying to make some changes to our snow clearing, we’re going to do a trial run on a new system that we’ve got,” Strandlund said. “So we’re going to see if it works, and if it does, then we’ll do some resolutions to update our policy.”
While the actual process of snow removal will not change, the priority of the removal will be tweaked.
“We’re going to see if that helps or hinders residents; what the feedback is on that, especially on the main street, to see if snow removed quicker is better, or if people don’t mind that little bit of a ridge for a bit,” Strandlund said. Another factor is what time snow removal will begin and how an early start will affect the remainder of a workday.
Sewer jetting contract
During last week’s regular meeting of council on Jan. 8, the town signed an agreement with Municipal Sewer Maintenances for sewer line jetting. The contract is for a three year timeframe, and a major clean of the sewer happens every year.
