AKBLG Preconvention Education Workshop focusing on Infrastructure

AKBLG is proud to present a day long education session focused on Infrastructure! This workshop will be held in-person on Thursday, April 24^th, 2025 (9:30am – 4:00pm) at the Kimberley Convention Centre (prior to the 2025 AKBLG Convention). Our exciting lineup of presenters for the workshop include:

Mike Matejka (City of Cranbrook) presenting Infrastructure Services and Sustainability.

At a time when the cost of infrastructure has increased dramatically, how do elected leaders make informed decisions that balance service delivery needs alongside budget pressures and inflation facing their taxpayers? No matter what financial situation your community is in, or what capacity is available to tackle infrastructure challenges, there are key common principles in place and a host of readily available resources to bring more clarity and certainty to this difficult topic.

Kim Fowler presenting on the Effect of Climate Change on Stewardship of Infrastructure

Kim is the principal of Sustainability Makes Cents Consulting, and a full member of the Canadian Institute of Planners with over 35 years’ experience working with local governments across Canada. She is best known for project managing the redevelopment of the Victoria Dockside lands, which were awarded the highest LEED™ Platinum point total in the world for the first two development phases by the successful land sale developers. She has authored a book on Dockside Green’s 18-year innovative project history from vision, land sale, development and operation. The Planning Institute of BC awarded Kim the Individual Outstanding Achievement Award for Innovation and Advocacy in 2022.  Kim will be leading a session focused on Climate Change and how the costs of mitigating climate change affects stewardship of our infrastructure (floodplain management, dykes, parks, natural resources, etc).

Jan Enns presenting on Informing and Engaging Communities with Confidence

Jan is highly regarded for her engaging and interactive approach! She will be leading this interactive session focused on communications with your community looking at questions such as “How does a local government convince taxpayers that expenditures related to infrastructure are necessary?”

The cost for this educational workshop is only $75.00. This includes lunch and coffee!!

Register through the same link as the convention registration. If you are only interested in attending the workshop (ie no convention) – just select “Pre convention workshop only. Otherwise, be sure to check off both pre-convention workshop AND convention registration to attend both! If you already registered for the convention and want to add the pre-convention workshop – contact Linda at admin@akblg.ca