Moosomin town hall meeting Thursday
January 26, 2026, 9:29 am
Nicole Taylor, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
There will be a town hall meeting in Moosomin this Thursday, hosted by Moosomin Town Council, giving residents a chance to hear what the town has been up to and ask questions.
The meeting is this Thursday, January 29 at the Moosomin Convention Centre at 7 pm.
Each member of council will give a report on the committees they sit on, with questions from the floor after each report. The committees include Recreation, Public Works, Finance, Library, Economic Development, Tourism/Communities in Bloom, and Environmental (landfill and recycling).
“It was an election promise for me to do yearly town hall meetings, in order to be able to get in front of the taxpayers and answer their questions and let them know about our plans,” says Mayor Murray Gray.
“You need to involve the community in order to make decisions. They are essentially the ones paying the bills. They need to have a voice in order to tell us what they are thinking and just so they are informed on our future plans.
“We are going to have committee reports from seven different committees. They are the seven main committees that we have that we feel are the most important to report on. So each of the seven members of council will do one report that will give a background of what we have been working on, what we need to be working on and what our future plans are. And then we will open up questions on that specific topic after we do each one. So for example there will be a rec report followed by questions on the rec report, a public works report followed by questions on public works.
“If a question comes up from the report from the committee member, then we will be able answer them to the best of our ability that night.”
Gray says it’s important for people to know what the town is working on.
“I just think it is important for our residents in order to have a lens into the goings on of council. They can see what we have going on by the reports in the paper and we try to have a lot of social media presence and all those things, but if they have questions, they will have the floor with all of council there, and we are also going to have most of our key managers and staff members there to help us answer the questions. This is the people’s town and not the council’s town, so it is important for people to have their say and know what the future looks like and help shape what the future looks like.”
“I also plan on talking about a few of the things as well. I am going to talk about the census and the importance of that and some of the other things that just don’t fall under the committees that are important. Not only do they have us as an audience, but we also have them as an audience, so it is a chance for some messaging that we know is important.
“I think it is going to be great. I’m looking forward to it.”
Gray says he’s hoping for a good turnout.
“I hope there is 80 to 100 people. I think if we have 80 to 100 people that it will show that people are interested in what we have going, and if only 22 people show up, then it indicates that we are doing a good job of communicating what we have going on.
“The more people there, the more it shows how important it is. I hope there is a good crowd, and I think that there will be.
“I think that people are engaged in our community and that is one of the things makes our community great is that everybody is engaged in what is going on.
“I encourage everybody to come out that night and find out what is happening in Moosomin.”
