Municipal Basics

By Tim Duhamel

Provides an overview of municipalities from top to bottom, with a special emphasis on key processes and today’s complex financial challenges.

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Course Content

Municipality defined
Governance and Administration, differences and roles
Municipal structure and best practices
Key municipal processes – strategic planning, business planning, budgeting, service delivery and reporting explained
Legislation review – the Municipal Government Act (MGA) explained
Council meeting overview and basics
Municipal finance explained
Municipal challenges

Course Content
1. Municipality defined
2. Governance and Administration, differences and roles
3. Municipal structure and best practices
4. Key municipal processes – strategic planning, business planning, budgeting, service delivery and reporting explained
5. Legislation review – the Municipal Government Act (MGA) explained
6. Council meeting overview and basics
7. Municipal finance explained
8. Municipal challenges

January 27, 2021

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM MST

Course Info

Price:$125.00

PD Credits: 1.5

Category: Technical/Other

Updated: Jan 27, 2021

Duration: 1:37:21

Course Synopsis

Course Info

Price:$175.00

PD Credits: 1.5

Category: Technical/Other

Updated: Jan 27, 2021

Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM MST

Course Synopsis

Municipal Basics

Course Info

Price:$175.00

PD Credits: 1.5

Category: Technical/Other

Updated: Jan 29, 2020

Duration: 1:29:11

Course Synopsis

Municipal Basics

About the Author

Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of

About the Author

Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of Municipal Education.

He is a municipal veteran whose career has spanned over 21 years.

His passion is creating educational material and conducting lectures for municipal professionals. He has lectured as far away as Kiev, Ukraine for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

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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.

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

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, CAO’s, municipal managers, and front-line staff.

Who Should Attend?

Register Today!

In Alberta (GFOA)

BLOOM can customize courses for your needs.

Some topics include:

Financial Planning & Management
- Municipal risk and opportunity reviews
- Financial condition assessments
- Budget process reviews and development
- Priority based budgeting
- Program and service costing
- Operating budget forecasting and financial solution development
- Asset management
- Capital budget development and prioritization
- Capital plan development and prioritization
- Capital plan funding strategies (debt, grants, reserves, operating budget)
- Long term financial plan development
- Municipal price inflation (MPI) development
- User fee and permit reviews
- Development levy plans
- Grant research and application support

Strategic Business Planning
- Strategic plan facilitation and development
- Business plan facilitation and development
- Situational consulting and strategy development
- Facility project plans and feasibility studies

Education & Mentorship
- CAO mentorship and education
- Finance officer mentorship and education
- Council orientation and education
- Environmental education
- Communication and writing mentorship

Project & Change Management
- Project plans
- Change management plans and facilitation
- Services reviews

Advocacy
- Representation and negotiations
- Intermunicipal agreement reviews, frameworks and facilitation
- Intermunicipal negotiations

Communications
- Communication plans and strategies
- Facility sponsorship packages
- Narrative process development (budgets, strategic plans, business plans)
- Business plan writing
- Budget communication support
- Media releases
- Media strategy
- Newsletter development
- Public survey development
- Business case development

Environment
- Environmental education
- Environmental communication plans and strategies
- Climate change adaptation plan development
- Environmental strategic planning
- Environmental grant research and support

Questions? Get in touch…

Municipal Basics

Provides an overview of municipalities from top to bottom, with a special emphasis on key processes and today’s complex financial challenges.

Register Today!

Course Content

January 27, 2021

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM MST

Course Info

Price:$125.00

PD Credits: 1.5

Category: Technical/Other

Updated: Jan 27, 2021

Duration: 1:37:21

Course Synopsis

Course Info

Price:$175.00

PD Credits: 1.5

Category: Technical/Other

Updated: Jan 27, 2021

Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM MST

Course Synopsis

Course Info

Price:$175.00

PD Credits: 1.5

Category: Technical/Other

Updated: Jan 29, 2020

Duration: 1:29:11

Course Synopsis

About the Author

Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of

Municipal Education.

He is a municipal veteran whose career has spanned over 21 years.

His passion is creating educational material and conducting lectures for municipal professionals. He has lectured as far away as Kiev, Ukraine for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

About the Author

Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of Municipal Education.

He is a municipal veteran whose career has spanned over 21 years.

His passion is creating educational material and conducting lectures for municipal professionals. He has lectured as far away as Kiev, Ukraine for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

Course Description

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, CAO’s, municipal managers, and front-line staff.

Register Today!

BLOOM can customize courses for your needs.

Some topics include:

Questions? Get in touch…