The City of Moose Jaw will be submitting three projects to be funding through the province's Municipal Economic Enhancement Program (MEEP), city council decided on Monday night.

Those projects include $3.9 million for the high service reservoir pumphouse project, $880,000 for the wastewater treatment plant blower project and $54,000 for COVID-19 protective measures.

City manager Jim Puffalt said this item was supposed to go before city council on June 15 but had to be delayed.

"There was some late-breaking information that came and we took a re-look at the projects being recommended to council and we think that we should do some more work on this and there'd be more information coming out in due course," Puffalt said.

The high service reservoir project would see the construction of a new pumphouse through the federal Investing in Canada Program. As part of that program, the city must supply 26.67 per cent of the funding, or $3.9 million.

The wastewater treatment plant blower project is slated to replace four centrifugal blowers that were installed in the 1980s with newer technology. Finally, the COVID-19 protective measure would help bring in the protective measure necessary to begin to reopen city facilities.

The project submissions were passed unanimously.

Meanwhile, city administration recommended putting $109,000 towards the Pla-Mor Palace dressing room upgrades and $125,000 towards the Kinsmen Sportsplex upgrades as the cashflow situation has improved because of the MEEP funding.

Coun. Brian Swanson made a motion to table the additional projects because he wanted to see more options.

"There was some late-breaking information that came and we took a re-look at the projects being recommended to council and we think that we should do some more work on this and there'd be more information coming out in due course," Swanson said.

Coun. Heather Eby agreed, saying it was hard to vote for or against something when there are no other options.

The tabling motion passed was Coun. Crystal Froese opposed.