Elected Officials Orientation Workshop
November – 12-14 2015
Town Hall –Gold Rush Inn
Whitehorse, Yukon
Thursday, November 12, 2015
12-4pm
4 hours LAC Forum
Lunch and Health Break served
6:00 p.m.
30mins
Registration and Reception
Drinks and Appetizers
Start building your network! Mingle with people who
can help you get the answers to some of your
questions.
6:30 p.m.
30mins
Association of Yukon Communities
General Store –
Gold Rush Inn
AYC President
How AYC fits into Elected Officials network
7: 00p.m.
7:30
30mins
Community Services Overview
1 Hour
Connect with YG Community Services, get introduced
to who they are, gain a better understanding of what
they do and how they can help you
Meet and Greet Speed Dating
YG Community
Services
All Delegates
Friday, November 13, 2015
7:30 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
1 hour
Breakfast Buffet
Welcoming
30mins
President AYC
Currie Dixon - Minister of Community Services
Chief Doris Bill - TBC
Mayor of Whitehorse
3 hours Municipal and LAC Governance
 Councilor's role, opportunity to serve community
 Council's role as a collective, as opposed to individual
Councilor actions
 Council procedure bylaw
 Developing good relations between Council and staff
 Importance of strong, positive relationship between CAO
and elected officials
 Opportunity for a Councilor's leadership on a project
 In-camera meetings, confidentiality of information
 Media relations, understanding
partnership/conflict/limitations...
Facilitator:
Gordon
Hume and
Dennis
Shewfelt
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 Broad perspective of Municipal vs. Territorial relations,
opportunities, issues...
 Understanding the complexities of the elected position
10:30
a.m.
15mins Health Break
Municipal and LAC Governance with Gord Hume Cont.
10:45
a.m.
12:00
a.m.
1hour
Lunch- Building your Network.
Start building your network! Mingle with people who can help
you get the answers to some of your questions
1:00p.m.
1.5
hours
Municipal Finance
PSAB
Financial Management
2:30 p.m.
15mins Health Break
2:45 p.m.
1.5
hours
6:00 p.m.
30mins Happy Hour
6:30 p.m.
Media Training
Asset Management
Bill Cox
BDO
YG
Bar-B-Q Dinner - Guest speaker-Premier Pasloski
Saturday, November 14, 2015
8:00 a.m.
1 Hour
Breakfast Buffet
9:00 a.m.
3
Hours
Municipal and LAC Governance in the Yukon
 Taking Back Our Cities” issues Gord talked about in his
book
 How can municipalities become more independent of
their political masters and take more control of their own
affairs?
 What are some options for raising revenues when we are
so constrained by the Municipal Act?
 If you want to look at property tax reform, what are the
first steps?
 Should municipalities the size of ours be considering City
Gordon
Hume
And Bev
Buckway
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Charters? What are the pros and cons?
 How do we change the relationships with the higher levels
of government to give municipalities more respect and a
higher place in the power hierarchy?
 How do local councils go about getting the higher levels of
government to pay attention and take more seriously
what we consider pressing issues and not continually have
to follow those levels agendas?
 Questions and Answers
10:30 a.m. 15mins Health Break
10:45 a.m.
Municipal and LAC Governance in the Yukon Cont..
12:00
p.m.
1 Hour
Lunch
Start building your network!
1:00 p.m.
1 Hour
Responding to the consultation requests from other
orders of government
2:00 p.m.
1 Hour
Jeopardy
Test what you learned
3:00
15 min
Health Break
3:15
1.5
hours
Keynote – Inspiring Leadership
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Gordon
Hume
Bill
Klassen
SLR
Consulting
All
Delegates
Mike Kerr
What it means to provide truly inspiring leadership
What leading with laughter means (and why it isn’t about
being funny)
Leading a values-driven workplace Simple ways to boost
your H.Q. (humour quotient)
Using humour to connect, reward, recognize and motivate
employees
Why humour is the most powerful stress buster available
Laughing your way to a more creative workplace
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GORD HUME
Gord Hume is recognized as one of Canada’s leading voices on strengthening local
government, and is an articulate and thoughtful commentator on municipal governance
and community issues.
Gord is the author of five important books on building strong, creative cities. "Places
and Spaces" is his latest--an insightful look at the public realm and how we design, use
and sustain great communities.
Gord was elected to London City Council four times. He served as Chair of the Creative
City Task Force, the Police Services Board and the Public Library Board. He also chaired
the Ontario Cultural Planning Partnership, and was a board member of Innovation
Ontario Corporation.
He had a distinguished career in Canadian business, managing radio stations and was
the founding Publisher of a newspaper. Gord has been honoured with two “Broadcaster
of the Year’ awards and several other national and international awards.
He is a popular and sought-after public speaker known for his passionate and inspiring
presentations. He has addressed major conferences and local governments across
Canada, as well as in Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Gord
was the keynote speaker at the UNESCO Congress on Creative Cities in South Korea.
Gord is a national columnist for the Municipal Information Network from Montreal, and
is a regular contributor to Municipal World magazine. Gord has written feature articles
for the international Ivey Business Journal, Canada West Foundation, The Globe & Mail
and many other publications. He is a regular commentator on radio and television.
He is President of Hume Communications Inc., a professional independent advisor to
municipalities.
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Bill Cox
BDO PSAB Specialist
Bill is in charge of over 20 major public sector audit engagements in British Columbia
and the Yukon which include municipalities, crown corporations, pension plans,
universities, community colleges, hospitals, and school districts. His specialty includes:
• Audit services to local governments
• Not-for-profit and public sector audit and finance
• Internal control review and consulting services for not-for- profit
organizations and public sector organizations
• Private/public partnership consulting
Bill has over twenty-five years’ experience in BDO Canada LLP’s general accounting,
audit and tax practice. Key firm and industry roles include:
• CICA - Accounting Standards Board/PSAB Joint Task Force
• BDO Canada LLP – National Policy Board
• BDO Canada LLP – Computer Audit Coordinator
• BDO Canada LLP – Vancouver Not-for-Profit Group (Chair)
• Joint CICA-CIA Task Force on Pension Plan Audits
• ICABC - Government Organizations Accounting and Auditing Committee
WILLIAM J. KLASSEN
SLR Consulting
Bill Klassen has lived and worked in the Yukon for the past four decades. He is familiar with all
aspects of life in the Yukon, having lived in seven of its communities, and is aware of the
importance of the infrastructure services that Yukoners rely upon as provided by the
municipalities. He has been involved in social services, natural resource management and
environmental assessment throughout the Yukon and in the Northwest Territories during that
time. He was deputy minister of the Departments of Health and Social Services and Environment
(then called Renewable Resources) as well as the Deputy Commissioner of the Yukon
government’s Development Assessment Process office. He chaired the Yukon Workers
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Occupational Health and Safety Board and served on the Yukon Police Council. For the past two
decades he has been active in the private sector, either operating his own consulting business or
working for environmental consulting companies.
Mr. Klassen has extensive experience in community meeting facilitation, public engagement and
consultation both in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. He has lead public engagement
teams consulting communities on mining projects. He has conducted public meetings in all
Yukon communities related to sometimes controversial topics such as child protection
legislation, and forest management or environmental protection legislation.
Bill and his wife Rayanne live on a small hobby farm along the Takhini Hotsprings Road.
Mike Kerr
Inspiring Leadership: Turning Passion Into Action
Success in the workplace begins at the top. Employees don’t quit organizations, they
quit because of their supervisors. Study after study supports the notion that an
employee’s immediate supervisor has a profound impact on his or her effectiveness,
productivity, happiness, and even their health.
Although managers play a critical role in an organization, there is a big difference
between being a manager and being a leader. And there’s a difference between being a
leader and being a truly inspiring leader. And no, I’m not talking about charisma (at least
not in the traditional sense of the word) or leadership through the force of a person’s
gregarious personality. I’m talking about a leadership style that anyone can embrace to
build a more inspiring culture, to truly engage employees, and to drive better results in
your workplace... leadership that turns your employees’ passion into action.
There are thousands of leadership trainers and programs available, so it’s important to
compare Michael’s perspective and focus with that of other presentations. With more
than 20 years’ experience and research into the role of humour and creativity in the
workplace, Michael will emphasize how a manager’s sense of humour can help them
lead, and the role that leaders play in fostering a more fun, innovative, and creative
workplace culture. His presentation touches on many essential aspects of leadership,
but emphasizes what it takes for a leader to foster a less stressful, more fun, more
positive, and more creative workplace culture.
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