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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Daily Digest DAILY SCHEDULE Address from Premier 11 P.M. MACLEOD HALL 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Registration 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Government Day Hot Buffet Breakfast 7:25 a.m. Morning Announcements 7:30 a.m. – 7:50 a.m. Address from the Minister of Municipal Betty Osmond (left) received the AUMA and SLGM Dedicated CAO Award from Linda Davies, Executive Director, SLGM, Affairs Tim Timmons, Chair, SLGM, and AUMA Past-President Lisa Holmes. 7:50 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Dialogue Session with Provincial Ministers Congratulations 8:45 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Dialogue Session with Provincial Ministers to our 2017 Award Recipients! 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. AUMA and Society of Local Government Sustainability in Action Award, recognizes Trade Show opens Managers (SLGM) Awards recognize municipalities who have demonstrated 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. excellence in leadership displayed by excellence in implementing sustainability Trade Show Hot Breakfast for CAOs senior administration of Alberta’s urban plans municipalities. Winners: Town of Blackfalds (population 2,500 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Winners: City of Leduc’s Executive Team to 10,000); Town of Cochrane (population over Education Sessions (concurrent) (Dedicated Team Award); Betty Osmond, CAO 10,000). • Tackling Alberta’s Opioid Crisis for the Town of Sylvan Lake (Dedicated Chief • Smart Cities and Communities: Practical Administrative Officer Award). Above and Beyond Award, recognizes Advice to Achieve Success staff, residents or organizations who help • Building Effective Relationships with the AUMA Distinguished Service Award, municipalities achieve their sustainability Business Community presented to elected officials of Urban goals related to governance. • Building Relations with Indigenous Municipalities who have served 20 or more Winner: Crowsnest Historical Society Peoples (also offered at 1:45 pm) years on municipal council. • Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Winners: Donna Buchinski, Town of Falher; Life Membership Awards, presented Management (also offered at 1:45 pm) Doug Coubrough, Village of Irma; Sherrie to individuals for their extraordinary • National Housing Strategy – An Update Duda, Town of Coaldale; Eldon Feniak, Village contributions to AUMA over an extended 11:00 am – 11:30 am of Andrew; Dwight Ganske, Town of Stony period of time: Address from Premier Plain; Bill Kesanko, City of Spruce Grove; Recipients: Julian de Cocq, former CAO, 11:30 am – 1:45 pm Norman Mayer, City of Camrose; Wayne Rothe, Town of Cochrane, and member of the AUMA Trade Show Buffet Lunch and Prize Draws City of Spruce Grove; Bill Steinburg, City of Municipal Governance Committee for over Spruce Grove; Jo Tennant, Town of Crossfield. 10 years; Lisa Holmes, past Mayor, Town of 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Morinville, and AUMA Board President 2015- Education Sessions (concurrent) AUMA Award of Excellence, recognizes 2017; and Jim Stevenson, past Councillor, • Asset Management: Fighting Fiction and outstanding civic leadership by either past or City of Calgary, and AUMA Vice President and Fads with Facts present municipal elected officials who have Director, Cities over 500,000 2009-2017. • Building Healthy Citizens, Communities, held office for at least three years in Alberta. and Environments through Recreation Winners: Steve Christie, City of Lacombe, and Parks Melodie Stol, Town of Blackfalds; and Chris • Building Relations with Indigenous Warwick, Town of Hanna. Peoples (repeat session) • Procurement Practices for Alberta’s Municipalities MLT AIKINS LLP • MLTAIKINS.COM • Emergency Preparedness and Disaster AMSC Trade Show Management (repeat session) The AMSC Trade Show opens today from 9 a.m. • Social Media Strategy: Politics, PROUD SPONSOR to 2:00 p.m. and includes a Hot Breakfast for Communications and Crisis CAOs from 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Strengthening Police Services We have over 100 trade show booths for you to visit. Booths include our valued vendors 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Alberta Municipal Affairs Reception and business partners, government ministries, municipally-oriented businesses, and other After 6:00 pm organizations. The trade show takes place in Sponsors’ Networking Events Exhibition Halls C, D and E. While you’re there, be sure to enter your name Munis 101: for the various prize draws! New Date Added! Visit the ATCO booth to see how we Don’t miss the luncheon for delegates from EOEP LOGO RE-DESIGN PROPOSAL Jan 11 -12, 2018: Stony Plain can help solve the challenges facing 11:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. held at the AMSC Trade For more your community. Show. Prizes will be drawn from 1:00 p.m. – information ATCO.com/AUMA 1:30 p.m. visit: eoep.ca Proposed Solution: EOEP letterforms have been updated; new constructed forms feature rounded, lowercase 0 / 0 / 0 / 93 letters that are more modern and approachable. Subheader has been addressed with a new typeface, with consistency between both halves of the expanded name. Special attention has been paid to the overall balance and symmetry of the complete wordmark. Colours 42 / 47 / 79 / 14.5 have been adjusted to be made slightly brighter, but are still professional and keep the experienced target demographic in mind. Addition of the checkmark adds a unique visual Sub-head Typeface: Sego UI element, intended to evoke the idea of the vote, a nod to the “Elected Ocials” aspect of the EOEP. Similar to the current logo, the “EO” and “EP” are dierentiated with a change in ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ colour, but here, the checkmark unites the two side for more visual cohesion. Proposed acbdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz logo has been developed to include multiple formats for best use. 1234567890 City of Leduc’s Executive Team received the Dedicated Team Award from Linda Davies, Executive Director, SLGM, Tim Timmons, Chair, SLGM, and AUMA Past-President Lisa Holmes. Resolutions Update Delegates voted on the following resolutions yesterday: # Resolution Title Sponsor (s) Status A1 Collaborative Discussions Between AUMA AUMA Board of Directors Adopted and AAMDC on the Opportunity to Merge B1 Alberta Capital Finance Authority Access for City of Grande Prairie/Town Adopted Housing Authorities of Banff/ Town of Canmore B2 Repeal the Cannabis Act Town of Taber Defeated B3 State of Local Emergency City of St. Albert and City Adopted of Spruce Grove B4 Integrate Emergency Social Services and Town of High River Adopted Emergency Management at Provincial Level B5 Municipal Reserve City of St. Albert Adopted B6 Cell Phone Towers City of Lethbridge Adopted The remaining resolutions will be debated on Friday morning. To read full text of the Olympic Gold Medallist Joan McCusker provided an entertaining and inspiring keynote address to resolutions, please check the convention guide or visit the Resolutions Library at auma.ca convention delegates. under Advocacy Services. Dialogue with the Are you on Twitter? We are! GET CONNECTED Ministers Share your convention experience and Wifi: AUMAWiFi photos using the hashtag: This year, we have two Dialogue with the Password: AUMA2017 #AUMA2017 Ministers sessions. The first session starting at (password case sensitive) 7:50 a.m. will include Shaye Anderson, Minister Be sure to tag @TheAUMA! of Municipal Affairs, Richard Feehan, Minister of Indigenous Relations, and Lori Sigurdson, Minister of Seniors and Housing. Don’t forget to look us up on Facebook as The second session starting at approximately GETTING AROUND 8:45 a.m. will include Deron Bilous, Minister well - that’s where we’ll be of Economic Development and Trade, Sandra posting convention photos! Limited Seating Jansen, Minister of Infrastructure, Shannon For today’s break out sessions, seating Phillips, Minister of Environment and Parks, Irfan is limited and is based on first-come, Sabir, Minister of Human Services, Brian Mason, Need a meeting room? first-served. Minister of Transportation, Kathleen Ganley, Justice and Solicitor General. Meeting rooms are available on the following dates and locations: Finding the Glenbow Theatre Each Minister will be introduced one at a time, allowing them two minutes to speak. Once all Thu: TELUS 103 Attending sessions in the Glenbow introductions are concluded, the floor will be Fri: MAC E-4 Theatre but not sure where it is? The open for your questions. To keep us on track, Glenbow Theatre is located in the you will have 45 seconds in which to ask your To book a meeting space, simply use TELUS Convention Centre on the main question. If time runs out, your microphone will the sign-up sheet outside the room, level of the South building near the be cut off. To keep you on track, we will have a noting your municipality, and contact base of the UP escalator. countdown clock for you. name and number. Transportation/Shuttle THURSDAY: NETWORKING EVENT INFORMATION Today’s shuttle service to the Delta Bow Valley, The Westin Calgary, and Host: Location: Times: International Hotel & Suites runs Municipal Affairs Reception Exhibition Hall Foyer 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. approximately every 15 minutes from 4 – 6 p.m. Alberta Counsel Imperial Ballroom, Hyatt 6 p.m. – 11 p.m. Pickup location: NW corner of 1St SE City of Edmonton Reception The Guild 6:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. (Macleod Trail) and 8 Ave SE, in front of Brownlee LLP Alberta Room, Fairmont Palliser 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. the Centini Restaurant..