Municipal Update: February 24, 2020

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Two Great Webinars!

Do you want to bring more grant dollars to your community or learn about waste management through waste incineration? If the answer is yes, check out our two upcoming webinars. Our webinars, sponsored by SUMAssure, are free to all Municipalities of Saskatchewan members.

Grant Writing 101:

Putting Money in

Your Community

Applying for project grants can cost your municipality not only time but also money through staff time, and there's no guarantee your application will be accepted. Learn how to increase your chances of grant success in the webinar, Grant Writing 101: Putting Money in Your Community.

Join Lorri Matthewson, owner of Solomon Matthewson Consulting, tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. to hear tips on how to write grants efficiently and make your grant proposals stand out from the rest.

Waste Management:

Utilizing Waste Incineration

Hometowns across Saskatchewan are finding new solutions to the old problem of dealing with solid waste issues.

On March 5 from 11:00 a.m. -

12:00 p.m., learn about the Southwest Incineration Project in the webinar Waste Management: Utilizing Waste Incineration . Hear from Fox Valley Mayor Sean Checkley who will share information on the project and talk about how regional collaboration is leading to effective waste management in his community.

Improve Road Safety with a Traffic Safety Fund Grant

Applications for the Provincial Traffic Safety Fund (TSF) Grant program are being accepted now until March 30 . The program provides funding of up to $100,000 per location to projects that reduce traffic collisions, injuries, and fatalities in communities across the province.

Applicants representing Indigenous lands or territories and urban or rural municipalities are encouraged to apply with their traffic safety initiatives.

Learn more and apply today!

Take in the Courageous Conversation Speaker Series

The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission invites you to attend a Courageous Conversation speaker series event on March 5 at 10 a.m.

At this event, speaker RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mark Fisher will talk about mental health, with a special focus on post-traumatic stress disorder.

There are 60 available spots for this event being held at the Regina Public Library - Regent Place Branch. RSVP by March 3 .

Consultation: Legal Services in Saskatchewan

The Law Society of Saskatchewan is exploring the provision of legal services in the province and legal service needs. The Law Society recognizes that some groups and individuals providing limited legal services, who are not lawyers, may not fall neatly within the current list of exemptions to the practice of law. Through a notice process, the Law Society is seeking to identify those groups and individuals. Identification and review of legal service providers who do not fall within existing exemptions will inform the development of new or expanded exemptions where appropriate and, in other cases, will provide the foundation for consideration of new categories of limited licensees. See the Consultation page for more information on this process and share this information with any interested party.

Firefighter Occupational Disease Coverage Expanded in Workers Compensation Act

Recent amendments to The Workers' Compensation Act, 2013 has expanded the list of occupational diseases covered by the rebuttable presumption for firefighters. The expanded list now includes six additional cancers that were not previously covered by the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB ) .

Amendments to the firefighters’ presumptive coverage include coverage for volunteer and part-time firefighters who are or have been exposed to the hazards of a fire scene, other than a forest fire.

The WCB is reviewing old claims that were not previously covered to determine if they would be an acceptable work injury under the new legislation.

Take Asset Management Training this Spring

Asset Management Saskatchewan (AM-SK) is again offering a range of training opportunities including in-person workshops on asset management planning.

The first training opportunity will happen in April . AM-SK will be hosting NAMS Canada training workshops in both Regina and Saskatoon. Use the links below to register:

Saskatoon - April 21- 23

Regina - April 28- 30

For more information about Asset Management Saskatchewan, visit www.assetmanagementsk.ca .

Landfill Operations Training in Saskatchewan

Learn landfill basics and gain landfill managerial knowledge with the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) - Northern Lights Chapter.

SWANA is hosting two landfill courses - Landfill Operations Basics and Manager of Landfill Operations - in Saskatchewan this spring. Learn more about each course:

Landfill Operations Basics - March 9-10 in Prince Albert

Manager of Landfill Operations - May 11-13 in Saskatoon.

Visit swananorthernlights.org for more information about the association.

Advocacy Update

Resolution Results

Each year at Convention, our members bring forward resolutions important to their community, region, or sector. Resolutions passed by the membership shape our advocacy efforts.

At Convention 2020, we saw 20 resolutions on topics from SaskPower rates for municipal facilities to residency requirements for business owners.

Of the 20 resolutions, 15 were carried . You can see the full descriptions of the Convention 2020 resolutions (carried and defeated) on our resolution database. All carried resolutions will be forwarded to the appropriate ministry or organization, and we will update the database when we receive full responses.

We are also working to update our website so you can easily track the status of each resolution.

Convention

Convention Survey Closing this Week

Do you have feedback you would like to share about Convention 2020? If so, be sure to take the 2020 Convention Evaluation before it closes this Wednesday at 4 p.m.

By filling out this survey, you will be entered to win a prize! Thank you in advance for taking the time to help us improve future conventions.