The Estevan City Council has begun a new year with a council meeting, which began with a proverbial "state of the city" from Mayor Roy Ludwig.

In it, he discussed some of the city's achievements over the past year.

These included:

  • Working on the council's financial position by reducing debt by $2 million
  • Traffic lights were installed on King Avenue and Souris Avenue
  • Water main work was finished on various roads
  • The police expansion building was finished
  • The new pathway system was completed with more upgrades and finishing touches coming this year
  • More upgrades at the water treatment plant
  • Resurfacing on 4th street, along with sidewalk improvements and undergrounds between 8th and Souris
  • Initiated a downtown revitalization plan
  • Perimeter fencing put in at the airport
  • Continued park improvements
  • Approved a dog park on Hillside
  • Affinity and Powerdodge went through major improvements to their ice plants, with Affinity place also receiving draining improvement
  • Did landfill expansion design, allowing monitoring and sampling

Mayor Ludwig also laid out some of the new goals the city had ahead of it going into 2022.

These include:

  • Looking at upgrades to Churchill Park's pool
  • Full refurbishment of the town's water tower
  • Looking at HVAC upgrades on the leisure centre's roof
  • Doing the final asphalt lift on the 800-900 block of 4th Street
  • Doing roadway rehabilitation on Smith Street, Hastings Place, and Yardley Place 
  • Continue to bring more upgrades to the wastewater plant
  • At the airports, runways will receive emulsion for all paid services to extend the runway's lights, also repainting runway lines and markings

Mayor Ludwig finished the introduction to the meeting with a message to the citizens of Estevan.

"In closing, we would like to thank our community over the last couple of years of COVID. We realize that this is trying everyone's patience to the max. We thank you for your patience and optimistically hope the end is in sight."