Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Higgins: Useful information gathered at SUMA

Mayor Deb Higgins and Coun. Don Mitchell are
pictured at the Oct. 21, 2013 executive committee
meeting. Higgins and Mitchell were two of
five Moose Jaw city council representatives at
the 2014 SUMA convention in Regina.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy
By Lisa Goudy


With more capital budget discussions set for Friday, Mayor Deb Higgins thinks what she learned at SUMA will prove helpful.

“It’s all good information that you take with you when you’re looking at what kind of options we have for the City of Moose Jaw,” she said. “To be able to talk to other municipalities, see what they do, hear first hand from their mayors and councillors how they deal with different issues, what they’re looking at, what their priorities are — it all feeds back into the information and, I think, each and every one of our opinions as we’re working towards finalizing our capital budget over the next little while.”

She said by far the biggest issue all municipalities discussed at the four-day Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) convention was infrastructure. Wednesday was the last day of the 2014 convention.

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