MOOSOMIN - Mayor Larry Tomlinson told Moosomin Chamber of Commerce members about the town’s accomplishments in 2021, and what he’s looking forward to for this year.
“In the beginning of the year we implemented a new safety system for every employee that’s employed by the town, which included operating equipment. We also put a Site Docs program in place, where all employees in Public Works and Recreation complete an assessment prior to starting a job, and digitally record safety concerns, equipment used, weather conditions and so on. It costs us in the neighbourhood about $35,000. In June we took the delivery of our new Fire and Rescue Truck, for a total cost of $364,000. We crushed a lot of gravel last year for $107,000 for our own gravel pit. We did our annual paving, which covered a lot of the neighbourhoods, we did a lot of patching, and we ended up transferring $250,000 out of reserves to finish and do that much.”
“We did our annual piezometer testing, which runs about $20,000, looks like we’ll be looking at landfill decommission study.”
Tomlinson says the town received a grant and a new MOTOH bus was delivered. In regards to recreation, he says Rec Director Mike Schwean accomplished a variety of projects.
“Some of the projects were Sharpes Field, Pharmasave Field, REIMAX Court, Batting Cage, Liberty Swing, soccer field, storage building, horseshoe pits, ski trails, and a tree project. You know how Mike works, most of that came through from grants and didn’t cost the town much.”
Tomlinson says some of the current projects from last year will carry over to this year’s projects.
“At this point the water treatment plan looks like it will be a go, we don’t have it finalized but we’re very close. We hired MPE to look at engineering for potential seepage of the lagoon and that study is still underway. That’s a cost of about $33,000. We did two blocks of water replacement on Ellice Street. One of our main things is the relining of our sewer, rather than dig up the streets and put up a new pipe, and it’s working very well for us.”
Tomlinson says the town’s main priority for this year is to improve infrastructure, paving roads and sewer lining.
