For anyone who has sat and watched regular meetings of Yorkton Council for the last five years there has often been a palatable sense of unrest that percolates to the surface every few meetings.. . .
For those unfamiliar with pump tracks “a pump track is a one-to-three-metre-wide track that can be used for bicycle, skateboard, in-line skates and scooter riders to practice skills on a series of features, such as berms and rollers placed in quick succession,” detailed their report to Council in April. “I just think it’s a really great amenity we can bring to Yorkton at a fairly reasonable price,” said Zaharia this Monday. Zaharia made a motion to have City Administration look into potential locations and the potential scope of a track project. The original presentation identified three potential locales; Heritage Heights Park, near the Gloria Hayden Recreation Centre, and Weinmaster Park, but Administration was instructed to look at other potential sites too.
Editorial Yorkton This Week When it comes to government in Canada we are largely impacted by three levels; federal, provincial and municipal. While all three have their roles and certainly impact things, in particular how much they siphon from our pocketbooks in terms of taxes, when it comes to the most direct impact on our lives, we need to look no farther than City Hall in any community across the country. It is also the level of government where each person at the table in City Hall have the loudest voice, and those who they represent have the greatest access to those we elect.
“I can’t see why the City of Yorkton can’t do that.” For those unfamiliar public accounts are a listing of city accounts, and includes staff salaries in excess of $50,000 annually. The accounts are presented to Council annually. As it stood in Yorkton the accounts have always been available to residents for a fee, which Ashley Stradeski, Director of Finance with the City explained was simply “a cost recovery fee” associated with printing the material. In terms of Council packages, Zaharia noted that at present the agenda for meetings is all that is posted, adding “that don’t give a lot of the information.”
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