The City of Flin Flon will no longer take bookings for tag days on Main Street.
Glenna Daschuk, city administrator for the City of Flin Flon explained it is no longer profitable for groups to be on Main Street, and that they are becoming problematic. She noted that groups make more profit at the Flintoba Shopping Centre, and that the city does not control those sites.
“For now, we don’t think it’s a good idea for us to be doing that. When it’s adults, it’s one thing, when it’s small children, it’s another.”
Daschuk clarified that the city would not prohibit people from tagging on Main Street, but rather that groups who want to tag in that area no longer need permission from the city.
“All we were responsible for managing anyway was ... we could avoid overlaps if two or three organizations were doing it ... We had no other reason for being involved, and now it’s like there’s not even really a financial benefit for some of these groups to be on Main Street tag days.
Mayor Cal Huntley said he expected that situation to turn around.
“Even if the situation changes, and I’m sure it will, and there’s some advantage to the groups going there, we’re going to let the groups coordinate themselves.”
Emergency Plan
Council agreed to be an evacuation point for the Town of Snow Lake during the June 5 regular meeting of council.
“The Town of Snow Lake is putting together their emergency plan there,” said Mayor Cal Huntley.
“There are some concerns with how dry it was, so they were working diligently around an evacuation process. They wanted to know whether we would consider being a point of evacuation for them.”
Council agreed that Flin Flon would serve as an evacuation point for Snow Lake as it has in previous years.
Finances
Council agreed to split $4,400 three ways for the Flowers on Main Street project with the Flin Flon Neighbourhood Revitalization Corporation and Hudbay Minerals Inc. It also committed $1,000 to the Flin Flon Friendship Centre for its National Aboriginal Day Celebration.
