Public Engagement for Municipal Budgeting Excellence

By Tim Duhamel

Integrating public engagement into the municipal budget process enhances transparency and enables public buy in to budgetary decisions. Learn how to effectively incorporate public engagement into your budgeting processes.

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Course Content

Public Engagement Fundamentals
Best Practices – commonly used best practices to improve your citizen engagement
Communication Tips – how to use visuals and common language to energize your budget presentations and connect positively with citizens
Public Engagement Tools – commonly used tools that can support your budget process and improve your engagement with citizens in your community
Public Engagement Workshops – tips on how to get participation
Integrating Public Engagement into the Municipal Budget Process

Course Content
1. Public Engagement Fundamentals
2. Best Practices – commonly used best practices to improve your citizen engagement
3. Communication Tips – how to use visuals and common language to energize your budget presentations and connect positively with citizens
4. Public Engagement Tools – commonly used tools that can support your budget process and improve your engagement with citizens in your community
5. Public Engagement Workshops – tips on how to get participation
6. Integrating Public Engagement into the Municipal Budget Process

Course Info

Price:$150.00

PD Credits: 1.5

Category: Technical

Updated: June 15, 2022

Duration: 1:35:03

Course Synopsis

Public Engagement for Municipal Budgeting Excellence

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

Communicating budget information to the public effectively can be challenging. Learn the fundamentals of public engagement, how to use visuals and common language to energize your budget presentations and connect positively with citizens, and about best practices and commonly used tools that can support your budget process and improve your engagement with citizens in your community.

Learning Outcomes

Learn the fundamentals of public engagement and ultimately what it is intended to achieve
Learn about commonly used best practices to improve your citizen engagement
Learn how to use visuals and common language to energize your budget presentations and connect positively with citizens

Who Should Attend?

Any municipal financial professionals and senior executives from small, medium, or large municipalities.

Elected officials, CAO’s, planners, and finance officers will benefit from having a fundamental understanding and core knowledge of all financial processes.

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…

Public Engagement for Municipal Budgeting Excellence

Integrating public engagement into the municipal budget process enhances transparency and enables public buy in to budgetary decisions. Learn how to effectively incorporate public engagement into your budgeting processes.

Register Today!

Course Content

Course Info

Price:$150.00

PD Credits: 1.5

Category: Technical

Updated: June 15, 2022

Duration: 1:35:03

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

Learning Outcomes

Learn the fundamentals of public engagement and ultimately what it is intended to achieve

Learn about commonly used best practices to improve your citizen engagement

Learn how to use visuals and common language to energize your budget presentations and connect positively with citizens

Learn about commonly used tools that can support your budget process and improve your engagement with citizens in your community

Learn how to plan for and conduct budget workshops for the public that can make a positive difference for your budget process

Learn how to build public engagement into the budget timeline and how to utilize the information to positively influence decisions

Who Should Attend?

Any municipal financial professionals and senior executives from small, medium, or large municipalities.

Elected officials, CAO’s, planners, and finance officers will benefit from having a fundamental understanding and core knowledge of all financial processes.

Register Today!

BLOOM can customize courses for your needs.

Some topics include:

Questions? Get in touch…