Course Description: 
This webinar covers maintaining healthy communication and council/administration relationships, avoiding silos and increasing cooperation between departments, how key municipal processes interact with each other to achieve success, legislation review (MGA), a short overview of the election cycle, and the financial challenges faced by municipalities today.

Discussion on politics, media challenges, public engagement, intermunicipal collaboration, asset management, service delivery demands, climate change, cost downloading, and long-term sustainability.

Learning Outcomes:

• The basic definition of a municipality including history, purpose, legislation and structure.
• The differences between governance and administration, the roles of council versus administrative staff, and the CAO role defined.
• Best practices in municipal structure and why municipalities are structured the way they are.
• Key municipal processes – strategic planning, business planning, budgeting, service delivery, and reporting.
• Learn the fundamentals of the legislation that governs municipalities.
• Robert’s rules, open session versus in-camera, what is a bylaw, how the process of creating municipal bylaws works, and discussion on a typical council agenda.
• The basics of assessment and taxes vs, user fees vs. utility rate revenue.
• Municipal challenges.

Who Should Attend?

A unique professional development experience that has benefit for all municipal staff, including small, medium and large municipalities!

This webinar will benefit everyone from finance professionals to elected officials, CAOs, municipal managers, and front-line staff.

Currently available ON DEMAND

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