Ready for Mosaic Place to get back to what it was designed to do, the Moose Jaw and District Chamber of Commerce had representation at Monday night's Council meeting to discuss how the facility should be managed.

Greg McIntyre is the past Chair for the Chamber and supports the idea of bringing in a third party company to run the downtown facility.

"Third party, no matter who it is, generally comes in with the horsepower to be able to give the type of financial oversight that has maybe caused our previous attempts at governing it some heartburn. If the organization is starting to go in the weeds financially, they would be on it quite quickly because they are built to monitor those things. 

He argued that these companies have so much expertise, it would take years for City employees to learn it.

"This is their business; they don't survive in their business without being good at it. they have the relationships that we lack, they have the know-how to do the cross-border transactions, they know this stuff," expressed McIntyre. "We will only know it through maybe another ten years of bungling and hoping that we retain the type of people that would actually stick with it long enough to take their lumps and actually be trained in that."

McIntyre suggested that a professional event center company would have training opportunities for staff that we could never provide, and the financial know how to see anomalies before they become problems.

"They would take these staff that we currently have here and they would send them down to other facilities, whether that be in Canada or the US, and they would actually train them at sporting events or concerts. We can't do that, and then these people from our community would come back to us with a higher skill set than we can offer them right now."

He also said that a company interested in such a contract would likely have a human resources capacity that would have also helped with the most recent controversy at the facilities. McIntyre added that he would just like to see Mosaic Place go back to entertaining residents and generating revenue for local businesses. 

The majority of Council shared that perspective and will start searching for that company.