Tag Archives: City Hall
Dekker Centre executive director vows change after posting deficit
Programming that does not attract a wide audience and no significant fundraisers in the last 15 months.Those are two major problems Executive Director Kali Weber points to as bearing the brunt of resp...
Jun 25, 2019 The Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts in North Battleford. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)
New playground installed for children with physical, intellectual disabilities
The Alfred Jenkins Field House is now home to a unique kind of playground.Tuesday morning representatives from a variety of groups including the City of Prince Albert, Government of Saskatchewan and C...
Jun 25, 2019 Brittany Hudak and Malcolm Jenkins mark the official opening of P.A.'s newest playground (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
City lawmakers receive preliminary data from community safety survey
How do residents perceive safety and crime in their community?That question was centre stage as early results from the community safety survey were presented to municipal lawmakers Monday night.Projec...
Jun 25, 2019 (file photo/paNOW Staff)
P.A.'s boarded-up houses: what's the answer?
Not for the first time, the mayor of Prince Albert is committing to deal with the ongoing problem of boarded-up, unlivable houses in the city and says council will ponder doubling property taxes on va...
Jun 25, 2019 One of the boarded-up houses in P.A. that appears on a list of 13 that are not in compliance for safety and health reasons and have a deadline for compliance looming. There are another 68 properties with issue. (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)
City, town, area First Nations set to sign landmark collaborative working agreement
Five regional First Nation governments, the City of North Battleford and Town of Battleford are set to sign an agreement that will see them work towards a reconciled regional community.The First Natio...
Jun 20, 2019 A historic joint meeting of North Battleford and Battleford council took place Thursday evening where resolutions were passed to pave the way for an official signing. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Battleford formally adopts new mill rate; tax notices on the way
Property owners in Battleford will soon see their tax notices in the mail, as the town has formally adopted the new mill rate.The uniform municipal mill rate was set at 3.35 mills for all taxable prop...
Jun 20, 2019 The Town of Battleford formally adopted its 2019 mill rate at its meeting Monday. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Letter from École Vickers' student plants a seed with city
Students at cole Vickers learned Thursday morning the pen is mightier than the sword.As a project for Earth Day, students were encouraged to write letters to different levels of governments and organi...
Jun 20, 2019 P.A.'s Park Manager, Tim Yeaman helping École Vickers' student, Jacob Cloutier plant a tree. (Ronald Quaroni/paNOW Staff)
City not looking at changes to residential parking time limit
A change by the City of Saskatoon to increase the amount time vehicles can be left on residential streets has not caused a stir at Prince Albert City Hall.Saskatoon amended its bylaw extending parking...
Jun 20, 2019 The City of Prince Albert administration says it is satisfied with the current the 48-hour parking limit on residential streets. (paNOW Staff/Ronald Quaroni)
Customer service at P.A. City Hall under the spotlight
An independent report shows Prince Albert City Hall has gone backwards when it comes to customer service over the phone and its misdirected voicemail system. The city has promised action for improveme...
Jun 19, 2019 Too many residents face a poor customer service experience in phone dealings with P.A. City Hall.(Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)
Town pleased to see positive financial report
The Town of Battleford is tickled pink after receiving a rosy report from the auditor for 2018.Mayor Ames Leslie said despite last year's problem of having to clean up some billing glitches dating bac...
Jun 19, 2019 Battleford Mayor Ames Leslie, left, and CAO John Enns-Wind, as shown. The town received an overall positive report from its financial audit, Monday. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)