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Four Themes:
Positioning municipal interests:
- Support the essential role of municipalities in responding to COVID-19 and leading Ontario’s recovery, including continued federal and provincial financial assistance with pandemic impacts
- Advance prosperity and economic recovery through multi-lateral advocacy for strategic investment and enhanced economic participation
- Integrated, outcome-focused policy: renewed focus on integrated municipal health and human services, including homelessness, SA reform, childcare, LTC, mental health and additions, opioids, Public Health, EMS, and justice
- Policy leadership: policing regulations, EPR/diversion, cannabis, digital government, etc.
- Advocacy of broadband to support economic and social development
- Integration of infrastructure investment, climate change and social policy
- Advance and protect municipal employer interests and sustainability of $100B OMERS Plan through MEPCO
- Planning for next Provincial Election
Stronger relationships and partnerships to benefit members
- Strengthen the unity of the municipal sector
- Solidify successful collaboration with other municipal sector organizations provincially and nationally to effect consensus
- Engage with other BPS leaders for common purpose
- Demonstrate AMO’s value, relevance and influence through mutually beneficial partnerships, sponsorships and strategic alliances
- Renew engagement with members through strategic and advanced communications
Building member capacity
- Advance dialogue, understanding and action on matters of equity, diversity and representation with Board and members
- Develop strategies and partnerships to promote broader, more diverse participation in 2022 municipal elections
- Continue to advance Municipal-Indigenous relations in Ontario
- Cost-effective and impactful conference and learning opportunities
- Redevelop education and training programs in preparation for 2022 municipal elections
- Broaden dissemination and transfer of best practices, including asset management
- Advance LAS’s renewable natural gas (RNG), digital government, home energy/local improvement charge (LIC) and school zone speed enforcement projects in tandem with AMO‘s policy advocacy
Building Internal Organizational Capacity
- Modernize, adapt, and innovate workforce and workplace
- Enhance employee engagement and internal collaboration, review internal practices, examine bias and discrimination
- Increase the representation of women, youth, racialized and marginalized persons and groups at AMO: more diverse voices at AMO Conference, advancing youth engagement
- Review task force process and activity for better integration of policy objectives
- Committee of the Whole approach to strengthen Board engagement
- Improve data analysis capacity to support advocacy, service to members, and digital government