Economic round tables held in Moosomin, Rocanville to develop long-term growth plan

October 14, 2025, 11:13 am
Nicole Taylor, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Moosomin’s economic round table on Thursday. Community members were asked to choose development goals and targets, stick them on the rink windows, and then vote on them to see which rose to the top of the priority list. Information from that session will be incorporated into a long-term growth plan for the region.

Last Thursday economic round tables were held with community leaders in both Moosomin and Rocanville. The round tables were part of a process that has been taking place over the last month to formulate a long-term growth plan for the region.

“We contracted out David Froh and Aaron Murray out of Regina to write our Regional Long Term Growth Plan,” says Moosomin and Rocanville Economic Development Officer Casey McCormac. “Over the last month they’ve been doing one on one interviews over Zoom. We had a list of people in both Moosomin and Rocanville that they have been interviewing.

“Then we did a round table in Rocanville around noon on Thurday and then we did the one in Moosomin Thursday night.”

At the round tables, community leaders were asked to identify growth priorities such as housing, health care, and business development, and then to vote on them to see which priorities rose to the top of the stack.

“It is to figure out what was is most important and needed to be in the plan according to everyone there,” says McCormac. “That’s why they voted on everything. Then we want to try to get into what the goals are and how we work towards those goals.”

What happens with all of that information?
“We have already started on the plan and now we can actually choose our top action items or what we want to do and the goals and milestone we will have to hit in order to reach those with specific timelines to those goals, says McCormac. “Some might be 10-year goals, some might be two-year goals. So, they will put that together.

“Along the way they have been mentoring me and showing me how this all works, and then from there they will have a draft plan written up, and then the EDC will say yes or no and it will be finished and we can send it out to the other groups. That gives me my work plan.”

What has McCormac learned through this process?
“It’s been really interesting to see how an economic development plan actually works. I’ve been doing economic development now for around three years,” she says.

“This is really going to help us narrow our focus. We’re kind of really broad right now and this is going to help narrow it and hopefully get some projects pushed through.

“It’s just been really interesting to learn from them because they’ve been in it and they understand economic development.”

McCormac says lots of different people in the community have been involved in the round tables and one on one meetings.

“Business leaders, council members, just kind of leaders in the community,” she says. “We are hopefully planning to do one more round table of young people in the age range of 20 to 30 just to see the difference in responses we might get. I know people my age might have different views on what’s important.”

McCormac says she is pleased with how the process has gone.

“I think it went really good. There has been some really good discussion and some really cool ideas that I never would have come up with on my own and from people we don’t normally talk to. So, it’s been really interesting to learn about that and learn about other people’s businesses and what they need to be successful.”