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COUNCIL ROUND-UP: After busy week for PA, city looks to keep momentum going

Feb 24, 2014 | 11:24 PM

After a week that saw the Prince Albert abuzz with local businesses kept busy because of the Saskatchewan Winter Games, the Prince Albert Winter Festival and the Canadian Challenge Dog Sled Race, the city’s mayor is looking to keep the momentum going.

Mayor Greg Dionne said that with any of these events that come to the community, there’s an economic spinoff.

“Every hotel was booked. My normal quiet restaurants that I went to, we were lined up, you know,” he said after Monday evening’s council meeting. During the week, he said he handed out more than 300 city pins to visitors.

The key to keeping the momentum going forward, for Dionne, is to speak positively about the community.

“Ninety per cent that goes on in our community is positive. But for some reason, we want to dwell on the 10 per cent. Well, I’m not going to. After this last week, I’m moving forward. We are a great place to live and that’s what we’re going to be selling moving forward.”

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His office, he said during the council meeting, only took three complaints for the entire week. Those complaints all had to do with the lack of hotel rooms available in Prince Albert.

Council notes

-Council approved raising the rainbow Pride flag in Memorial Square in front of City Hall between March 7 to 16, to coincide with the Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
-Council approved continuing with the development of Crescent Acres Stage 4 and 5a development, and approved a much-debated change order.
-Council approved the two per cent increase to rates and fees at the city’s facilities in 2014.
-Administration will review the whole City Yards lease with First Canada ULC prior to the expiration of the current lease in July 2015.
-Council pushed forward approval of a request to contract aerial photography work over the city in the spring. The project would cost $35,000, and the pictures would be used for planning and development purposes. A decision won’t be made about the project until members of council hold discussions about the land fund.

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