Weyburn city council approved a number of development permits and tenders at their August meeting, including a tender for new lights in Jubilee Park, and development permits for a church and for a new sign for the Weyburn Credit Union.
The new LED lights for Jubilee Park will be for the centre of the park around the cenotaph to finish off the improvements made in the park this year.
The tender was to remove 20 poles and light fixtures around the cenotaph, and replace them with 12 10-foot high poles, and 16 LED light fixtures.
The eight poles closest to the cenotaph will be fitted with new lower-wattage LED lights, and the four poles closest to the outer sidewalk will be fitted with higher-wattage LED lights.
The tender was awarded to C&D Electric, the lowest of three local tenders, for the price of $16,794 plus GST.
Once this work is done, this completes the work at Jubilee Park that included renovations of the east washrooms, tennis court playing resurfacing, street light replacement and the addition of three new poles and light fixtures. City staff also did repairs and repainting of the barbecue wall in the park.
A development permit with conditions was approved for the Wheatland Community Church, which will be renovating and moving into the former Church of God building at the corner of 12th Street and East Avenue.
Up until now, the church had been meeting in the gym at Souris School. The church building has an assembly room space of 147 square metres with seating for 152 people. The main conditions of approval is to ensure adequate parking for 22 off-street parking stalls plus one off-street loading space.
The Weyburn Credit Union was approved for their application to install a newer, bigger sign at the corner of Second Street at Coteau Avenue, which will feature their new logo. The sign will no longer have the digital display that is on the current sign.
The application was increase the size of the sign from the current 12 square metres to 17.26 square metres. The permission was for discretionary use as the sign will be bigger than is allowed under the city’s zoning bylaw.
Council was told the current sign is already larger than the allowed size, and council wanted to get input from adjacent property owners.
A response came from Don Kraft, manager of Prairie Sky Co-op, and he said he is in favour of the proposed new sign, plus a resident of Third Street said she would rather see the design of the sign stay as it is, but would be unaffected either way by the sign change.
Council was told that the new water conservation bylaw has been working well so far in reducing the amount of water usage in the city.
The level of Nickle Lake is currently at 92.9 cm, which is about 68 cm lower than the average level of the lake. City engineer Sean Abram said the water usage has dropped since the water conservation bylaw was introduced, “so there has been a positive impact from that, which is good to see.”
The data showed that water usage in June was 102,849 cubic metres, which is down from 173,876 cubic metres in June a year ago, and in July, the water usage was 125,890 cubic metres, down from 160,344 in July of a year ago. In terms of litres, the water usage in July was 157 million litres drawn from Nickle Lake.
Also at the city’s water treatment plant, operators there have begun a study of tri-halo methane (THM) levels in city water, with the view to improving the quality of water in the distribution system. Four samples were taken, including of water leaving the plant, and the data will help staff maintain a proper level of chlorine and reduce the levels of THMs.
Organizers of the 36th annual Terry Fox Run in Weyburn made a request of city council for the use of River Park and the park office building for this year’s run.
The Terry Fox Run will be held on Sunday, Sept. 18, starting in River Park, with walkers and runners heading out from there into the Tatagwa Parkway path system for a 3km, 6km or 10km route, and all funds raised by pledges going directly to the Terry Fox Foundation.
The run starts with registration at noon in the River Park campground office, followed by the run at 1 p.m.
