Business View Magazine | March 2020

381 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 WARMAN, SASKATCHEWAN a BMX track, an outdoor skating rink, a toboggan hill, several ball diamonds, a campground, and a ski park.” BVM: Warman is considered a bedroom community. Is your tax base mainly residential? Toth: “We are in close proximity to Saskatoon; people think of us as a bedroom community, I’m not sure we like to be identified that way. The vast majority of our tax base is made up of residential, but we have a number of commercial and industrial developments as well that play into that.” Mayor Spence: “When you talk about bedroom communities, at one time not so long ago, Warman did have to rely a lot more on our big city neighbor. But over the last few years, Warman has become much more sustainable on its own. You don’t have to hop, skip, and jump to the community next door because we have the amenities right here. That’s something we’re very pleased to have been able to nurture.” of Saskatchewan. And we’ve just completed an expansion to double the capacity of our reservoir and a new pump house. “There’s been a new interchange constructed to provide better access and connectivity to the provincial highway network. And we were just successful in our bid to the Building Canada Fund for provincial and federal dollars for an $18 million project to expand our current sewage treatment facility, adding some aeration to the primary cell and constructing a major pipeline outlet to the river, which will not only help with the discharge from our facility but also help with our stormwater management system. Those are some of the big infrastructure items that the city has had to complete. “On the softer side of things, we constructed a new recreation facility entirely with taxpayer and fundraising dollars; no provincial or federal money with that. In addition, we’ve done some major expansions to our park system, including a new district park in our south end that includes