Town of Rosetown Parks & Recreation Department

Press Release, November 4, 2010

To all individuals, businesses and/or community organizations in the Rosetown area:

The electronic message display sign at the Saskcan Centre, 901 Highway #4 North, Rosetown, is available for advertising community information and events.  The Town of Rosetown has developed an Advertising Policy to govern the advertising that will be placed on this sign.  Anyone wishing to advertise locally using the sign at Saskcan Centre should review a copy of the Advertising Policy.  If you have any questions concerning the Advertising Policy, please contact the Recreation Director at 306-882-2214 or email:  rosetownrecreation@sasktel.net.

Messages should be emailed to the Recreation Director or dropped off at the Town Office in Rosetown, 417 Main Street.

A tax rebate incentive program for Businesses

The Policy objective is to encourage businesses to beautify the front appearance of their structure or front property through a financial incentive in the form of a tax rebate in the taxation year following the improvements.

Business owners would have until June 1st in any given year to submit plans and estimated costs for review for improvements to the front appearance of their business.  Plans would be approved by special committee consisting of two members of Council and two members of the Rosetown Chamber of Commerce.

Business location priority for approval would be as follows:

1.  Highway #7

2.  Highway #4

3.  Main Street

4.  Other commercial business locations

Tax abatement would be credited to  the following year's taxes and would be as follows:

1.  Expenditures over $1,000 but less than $2,000 would receive a tax abatement of $250.00

2.  Expenditures over $2,000 - for every $500 increase in expenditure, a further $50 tax abatement, to a      maximum of $500, will be granted

All improvements to be completed by August 31 and a copy of the invoice expenditures to be turned into the Town as documentation for determination of the tax abatement amount.

The Town would budget $6,000 per year.   Once total rebates from approved submissions have reached the budget amount, all other applications would be informed that they will be placed into the next year for approval.

To be eligible for the tax abatement, the business must have all arrears of taxes paid in full and the following year must pay the remaining taxes by May 31.

The Rosetown landfill is accessible from Highway #4, approximately 2 km south of the intersection of Highways #4 & #7, turn east at the landfill sign.  It is opened Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm, closed on statutory holidays.  Please check here for landfill fees and other relevant information.

Click here to see the map of the Rosetown garbage pickup days