Instructors
- This module will be delivered separately through the SUMA, SARM and New North Newly Elected Workshops.
Financial Planning and Strategic Planning for Municipalities
To be presented by Advoco Consulting Ltd.
- Founded in 2006 Advoco Consulting has been providing municipal management services to rural and urban municipalities throughout the province. A team of seasoned professionals – former city managers, a retired rural administrator and former Executive Director of SUMA – bring a wealth of hands-on experience and knowledge in many areas of municipal administration. The focus of the team is on building municipal capacity by working with councils and key administrative staff.
- Presenters include: Keith Schneider (former SUMA Executive Director), Ron Hilton, P. Eng. (former Swift Current City Manager and currently Interim Rural Administrator for RM of Sherwood), Wayne Jensen (former Yorkton City Manager) and Donna Strudwick (former Rural Administrator for RM of Edenwold).
- To be presented by various members of SEDA, the Saskatchewan Economic Developers Association.
- SEDA is the professional association for those who practice community economic development (as a paid profession or volunteer) in Saskatchewan. SEDA's mission is to enhance the economic development profession in Saskatchewan through the professional development of practitioners. SEDA does this through training courses, educational seminars, networking events and conferences, the setting of accreditation and certification standards, and partnerships.
- Some SEDA members that are instructors in this program are Chester McBain, Kent Dubreuil, Celine Favreau, and Dillon Shewchauk
- To be presented by Advoco Consulting Ltd.
- Founded in 2006 Advoco Consulting has been providing municipal management services to rural and urban municipalities throughout the province. A team of seasoned professionals – former city managers, a retired rural administrator and former Executive Director of SUMA – bring a wealth of hands-on experience and knowledge in many areas of municipal administration. The focus of the team is on building municipal capacity by working with councils and key administrative staff.
- Presenters include: Keith Schneider (former SUMA Executive Director), Ron Hilton, P. Eng. (former Swift Current City Manager and currently Interim Rural Administrator for RM of Sherwood), Wayne Jensen (former Yorkton City Manager) and Donna Strudwick (former Rural Administrator for RM of Edenwold).
- To be presented by Lynn Gidluck, Partner, Benchmark Communications.
- Lynn is a certified trainer from St. Francis Xavier University and has a Master of Arts degree from the University of Regina focusing on agriculture and rural issues. She has over fifteen years of public relation's experience working in the government, corporate and not-for-profit sectors, most recently as Executive Director of Corporate Affairs for the Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation. She is an Accredited Business Communicator from the International Association of Business Communicators and teaches management communications and public relations classes at the University of Regina. She is currently a partner in the Regina-based public relation's firm, Benchmark Communications Inc.
- Benchmark Communications helped develop this module.
- The company was founded in 1992 and specializes in communications planning, media relations training, copywriting, editing and proofreading, typesetting and design, and management consulting and publishing.