Keynote & Breakout Session Presentations
Speaker(s):
- Dr. Penny Burns: AMQ International, Principal Director - The Road Ahead: wht and how Asset Management can help you move faster and with more confidence - Presentation for download
- Casey Vander Ploeg: Canada West Foundation, Sr. Researcher - Infrastructure Funding, Financing and Delivery options - Presentation for download
Citizen Engagement
Discuss how Citizen Engagement impacts the Planning Process and how the Planning Process impacts Citizen Engagement.
Session Design:
Presenter and Discussion Session
Sub-themes (categories):
- Elements of Planning Culture and Citizen Engagement
- The complex process of City Building by thinking carefully about places, people and environments. (Highlight the success, challenges and learning’s from the Regina Downtown Plan)
Speaker(s):
- Dr. Jonathan Levine: University of Michigan - Presentation for download
- Jennifer Keesmat: Office for Urbanism and Consultant to the Regina Downtown Plan - Presentation for download
- Philippe Leclerc: City of Regina, Interactive Communications Manager - Presentation for download
Role of Mayor:
Mayor Tremblay will introduce each speaker, then will facilitate and participate in question and answer session.
Defining the Need
Describe and define the current state of infrastructure across Canada. Speakers will use objective data, performance indicators, and service levels wherever possible.
Session Design:
Quasi-panel (for all 3 sessions)
Sub-themes (categories):
- State of our Cities (Infrastructure Realities)
- State of the Practice (What we’re doing today)
- State of the Future (Where we need to be)
All sub-themes will introduce and weave throughout, the current state of Canadian municipal, the trajectory of its condition, and the consequences of inaction.
Speaker(s):
- Dana Vanier: Adjunct Professor, The University of British Columbia
- Konrad Siu: City of Edmonton
- Steve Wyton: City of Calgary
- Kevin Bainbridge: City of Hamilton
- Greg Chartier: City of Saskatoon download
- Gareth Lifton: CH2MHill (Canadian Network of Asset Managers)
- Patricia Bugas-Schramm: USA
- Chris Champion: CEO of IPWE Australia - presentation for download
Role of Mayor:
Mayor Pat Fiacco will introduce each speaker, then will facilitate and participate in question and answer session.
Financing Opportunities
Compare and contrast traditional financing options with new and innovative options – and will include a discussion of what systemic and political changes may need to be made to enable new infrastructure financing models to evolve. Session participants will be challenged to think BIG, think outside the box and think about the long-term future of municipal finance.
Session Design:
Quasi-panel – 5 presenters
Sub-themes (categories):
Charges
- Development Charges
- Special Districts
- Special Assessments
- Special service areas
- Exactions
- Tax Increment Financing
- User Fees
Bond / Capital Market Financing
- General Obligation Bonds
- Revenue Bonds
- Tax –Exempt Bonds
- Bank Bonds/ Loans
Funds
- Trust Funds
- Revolving loan Funds
- Managed
Privatization
- Pure Privatization
- Public Private Partnerships (P3s)
Speaker(s):
- Dr. John Bartle: University of Nebraska – Omaha - presentation for download
- Can Xiao: City of Phoenix - presentation for download
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Jonathon Burns: PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- Senkhar Angepat: RBC Capital Markets - presentation for download
- KPMG: Understanding P3s - presentation for download
- Stephen Liddington: PPP Canada, Principal - presentation for download
Role of Mayor:
Mayor McCallion will introduce each speaker, then will facilitate and participate in question and answer session.
Embracing Innovation
To establish a more optimistic mindset, four areas of innovation have been chosen to highlight the cost-effectiveness of innovation:
- land-based wastewater treatment as an alternative to conventional “industrial processing” especially in an era of increasingly restrictive effluent measures
- managing rainwater supply as an in-situ resource as an alternate to constrained remote reservoirs
- matching pavement service levels to manageable life cycle costs as compared to budgeting based on taxpayer capacity without service level engagement
- using modular concrete components for sidewalks & curbs instead of poured in place concrete which requires replacement with each settlement event
All will focus on the opportunity from the executive and governance perspective:
- land-based treatment offers lower cost, lower risk, and biomass value
- in-situ water management offers lower risk, higher quality water resources
- matching road budget to service level offers greater taxpayer control and support
- modular concrete offers higher durability, lower maintenance, & greater safety
Session Design:
Presenter and Discussion Session.
Speaker(s):
- Patrick Lucey, Aqua-tex Scientific, Victoria : land-based treatment offers lower cost, lower risk, and biomass production - presentation for download
- Dr. Wade Nutter, Nutter Assoc., Georgia, USA: in-situ water management offers lower risk higher quality water resources - presentation for download
- Dr. Penny Burns, AMQI, Salisbury, South Australia, AU: matching budget to service level offers greater taxpayer control and support
- Kees Nelissen, from Den Haag, The Netherlands: modular concrete offers higher durability, lower maintenance, & greater safety - presentation for download
Role of Mayor:
Mayor Robertson will introduce each speaker, then will facilitate and participate in question and answer session.
Municipal Infrastructure Program Models
Highlight the various municipal infrastructure program models in use and consider how to develop future models.
Session Design:
Panel discussion.
Sub-themes (categories):
- Partnerships;
- The role of the private sector; and
- Interest-based models.
Speaker(s):
Speakers will be drawn from the following areas: construction industry; banking industry; former federal politicians; former senior bureaucrats (federal and/or provincial); and academics.
- Role of Mayor:
Mayor O’Keefe will act as host and moderator for the session.