It was all about feedback at Monday night's meeting regarding the new joint-use school coming to Moose Jaw. 

Announced earlier this year in the provincial budget, the Holy Trinity Catholic School Division and the Prairie South School Division will be teaming up and merging four existing schools on South Hill into one facility to house all students. 

Earlier this week both school divisions and various dignitaries within the education sector locally and provincially got together with public at their second meeting regarding the new venture at Riverview Collegiate to get feedback from the public. Residents were first challenged to come up with a list of pros and cons regarding the four potential sites - Westmount School, Sacred Heart School, Currie Heights South and Coteau Street West. 

Shortly after giving residents a chance to network with the other individuals at their table and come up with a list, representatives from the two school divisions discovered that there may be more options.  

"There were two tables tonight that came up with a fifth location that we haven't even considered. That's the beauty of the process here is that we'll add that one in and you know maybe that's the one. Maybe none of those four is the one and the best one is number five that just came up with the local knowledge of the people," explained director of Education for Prairie South, Tony Baldwin. 

He noted that the positives of a process like this are endless as residents have been engaged and eager to be a part of the process. 

"You can't go wrong if people are that invested in the process than the process will work. We know that none of these sites is perfect, we just need to get to a point where we can pick one that is imperfect and then figure out how to mitigate any imperfections it has and make it good for the kids."

Baldwin added that it all comes down to whose the most familiar and knows the lay of the land best. 

"These are the people who live on South Hill in Moose Jaw and they know more about their community than I do. I think it's really important that they have the opportunity to say 'these are the things that are good and these are the things that would be problems'. Because there will be things on these sheets that we haven't thought of."

Now officials will be taking the information provided by attendees and also looking at how residents rated each site from one to four, one being their top choice, to see what the majority would like to see going forward. Baldwin told the crowd that they hope to be making an announcement in the summer to let people know the next piece of the process.