The Saskatchewan Municipal Awards celebrate the excellent and innovative practices of Saskatchewan’s municipal governments. Four innovative projects from five municipalities are being recognized for the 17th Annual Saskatchewan Municipal Awards. This year's winners have shown excellence in municipal infrastructure, cooperation, and addressing community needs.
The winners of the 17th Annual Saskatchewan Municipal Awards are:
Top Municipal Initiative:
New Mechanical Wastewater Treatment Facility (City of Lloydminster)
Winning practice: Created a new multi-jurisdictional, bi-provincial wastewater treatment plant requiring collaboration from leaders in all levels of government. Resulting in improved quality of treated effluent entering the North Saskatchewan River and achieving a fair agreement that benefited residents of both Alberta and Saskatchewan residents.
Top Rural Municipal Initiative:
The Junction (RM of Prince Albert No. 461)
Winning practice: Created a municipal centre that encompasses the RM shop and office is equipped to be the RM Emergency Response Center. The centre offers meeting space and
amenities, and the area is expanding with multiple enterprises emerging in their design phases.
Top Urban Municipal Initiative:
Southland Co-op Centre (Town of Assiniboia)
Winning practice: Replacement of the old rink with a new state of the art recreation facility that supports the health and wellness of the community and has increased tourism to the area. The centre contains a walking track, NHL sized ice surface, Multi Purpose Gym, Climbing Walls, Simulator room, and more.
Regional Cooperation:
Outlook-Rudy Joint Protective Services (Town of Outlook and RM of Rudy No. 284)
Winning practice: The Town of Outlook and the RM of Rudy No. 284 worked together to address concerns raised over the long term viability of fire and rescue services by addressing a need to repair relationships within the region.
The winning projects were selected by the Saskatchewan Municipal Awards Committee who reviewed twenty nominations, submitted on behalf of twenty-eight municipalities.
Each year, the awards committee is made up of partners from the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM), the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA), New North, the Rural Municipal Administrators’ Association of Saskatchewan (RMAA), the Urban Municipal Administrators Association of Saskatchewan (UMAAS), and the Ministry of Government Relations (GR).
The 2023 selection committee members are:
Keith Comstock, Executive in Residence at the Johnson Shoyama School of Public Policy
Malcolm Eaton, former Mayor of Humboldt and former Vice-President of Cities for SUMA
Wendy Gowda, Municipal Advisor, former Administrator for the RM of LeRoy No. 339 and Past President of RMAA
Harvey Malanowich, Reeve of RM of Sliding Hills No. 273 and former SARM Board Member
Jim Toye, former City Manager for the City of Prince Albertand
Loretta Young, former administrator for the RM of Longlaketon No. 219 and the Village of Earl Grey
Selection committee members noted that the winning projects reflected the needs of their respective municipalities and addressed municipal infrastructure.
The winners of the 17th Annual Saskatchewan Municipal Awards will be highlighted in ceremonies at the upcoming SARM and SUMA Conventions:
SARM Annual Convention and Tradeshow REAL District, 1700 Elphinstone St., Regina Wednesday March 13 at 11:00 a.m. | SUMA Annual Convention and Tradeshow REAL District, 1700 Elphinstone St., Regina Tuesday April 16 at 1:30 p.m. |
Winner videos will be available on April 17, 2024 at www.youtube.com/@SaskMunicipalAwards
For more information, visit www.municipalawards.ca or contact:
Stephanie Bourassa
Program Coordinator, Saskatchewan Municipal Awards
306-525-4318
To arrange an interview with a winning municipality contact:
Top Municipal Initiative: New Mechanical Wastewater Treatment Facility
City of Lloydminster
Nominee:
Terry Burton, Director Engineering, City of Lloydminster Wastewater Treatment Facility Project Senior Management Team Member (780) 874-3700 ext. 8332tburton@lloydminster.ca
Nominator:
Don Stang, Executive Manager, Operations, City of Lloydminster (780) 874-3700 ext. 2930 dstang@lloydminster.ca
Top Rural Municipal Initiative: The Junction RM of Prince Albert No. 461
Rochelle Neff, Chief Administrative Officer, RM of Prince Albert No. 461 (306) 763-2469 cao@rmprincealbert.ca
Top Urban Municipal Initiative: Southland Co-op Centre
Town of Assiniboia
Stephanie VanDeSype, Recreation & Community Wellness Manager, Town of Assiniboia (306) 642-5007
Regional Cooperation: Outlook-Rudy Joint Protective Services
Town of Outlook and RM of Rudy No. 284
Kevin Trew, Chief Administrative Officer, Town of Outlook
(306) 867-8663 cao.outlook@sasktel.net