That's how many members of Moose Jaw City Council will remember the last three years as we prepare to vote for a new City Council October 25th.

 

Teamwork or the lack there of will be the lasting legacy of this outgoing Moose Jaw City Council according to a few elected officials.

Monday night's regular meeting marked the end to the current council as we head to the polls next week.

While many large projects have been completed or initiated, Mayor Al Schwinghamer says more could have been done over the last three years. "They (last three years) have been from a City Council perspective extremely interesting and my only regret as mayor was that we were unable to get a team atmosphere put together in order to assist ourselves in planning and moving the city forward."

Several other councillors expressed the Mayor's feelings about a team atmosphere, including Jim Carr. "It’s been a frustrating council to work with but overall I think that we've done a good job. There just seemed to be a lot of division on council, not the same councillor all the time but just division on council over the years and sometimes that gets frustrating. When I say division in council its lack of team work."

When we sat down with Councillor Frank Abdou he called the last meeting of council refreshing as some new faces could be around the big desk in a few weeks. "I don't know if it’s a huge secret but we haven't had many issues that we have had a consensus on and that makes things very difficult. I think new faces will be a benefit."

Councillor Walt Yakiwchuk also mentioned the difficulty associated with the past three years, but also highlighted some achievements. "There were some successes, maybe not as harmoniously as we could have but there has been some good positive achievements. Like the 1.3 million dollar demolition of providence place, we've made budgetary provisions of 6.11 million dollars for the new hospital wing, and finally the 17 million dollar waste water project."

We head to the polls October 25th to elect a new city council.