Weyburn's newly-elected mayor, Marcel Roy, plans to continue running his oil-patch safety training company while also running the city.

Roy told Discover Weyburn he views the Mayor's position as a part-time job. "Mayor is supposed to be, of Weyburn, is supposed to be of only a part time, and I know it's probably moving into about a three-quarter time job." he said in an interview the morning after last week's election. " I'll still have this entrepreneur. I'll probably hire an instructor or two to help work with my business, to free up time." he added.

Roy's predecessor, Debra Button, whom he defeated last week, had taken a leave of absence from her job with the Sun Country Health District to perform her duties as mayor. She doesn't agree that it's a part-time job. "That's very unfortunate." she told Discover Weyburn. "No, it is not a part-time job. It is a very full-time job."

However Roy feels his work as an oil-patch safety trainer can complement his role of Mayor. "There's a lot of people in the oil industry, and a lot of people from other industries that come through, and then we have discussions at lunch times and coffee breaks." he said. "So it keeps me in very good contact so I can see what people are thinking, and what ideas they would like to bring forward." the mayor-elect added.

During the election campaign, Roy used his Facebook page to post videos promoting his views on Weyburn city issues. "That's where I think a lot of the new style of politicing is going to take place." he said. "Whereas in the old ones, they used to have the soap box out in the middle of main street, and the person would stand up. Well, that was in the 1800's, but that was the media at that time. Now we've got Facebook and there's where you do your soap boxing."

Roy feels his online campaigning helped with his electoral success. "A lot of people thought we ran a very good campaign, that we used multi-media an awful lot, and I think that struck a lot into the younger generation, and people who had never really thought about stuff," he told Discover Weyburn. "But now, that's where they get their news from, they get their news from the multi media, like I say, your paper, on the phone, on the websites, and seeing it through Facebook, they read all this stuff." he continued.

The new mayor plans to bring his social media campaign style to city hall. Roy sees Facebook as an efficient way to open up communications between city hall and the public. "The Facebook page for, that I campaigned on, we're changing the face of it right now. And it was going to be more of a 'what's going on', a follow. Its not about me it's about the mayoral, it's about the city hall, sort of what we are doing, what the council is doing, again it's not about me, it's about the council."

However, he emphasized that in order for the city to move ahead, a team approach is required. "I helped coach football for a lot of years, and this is the attitude that I want to do. " said Roy. "It's about the whole team, We have to move the ball forward, only by having the team work together. And the team includes both Weyburn citizens, the council, the city workers at city hall, everybody. We all have to move forward together."

The mayor and new council will be sworn in on Nov. 14.

Marcel Roy's complete interview with Pat Hume: