July 2008Canada's Municipal Magazinevol. 118, number 7

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Municipal strategic planning gaps — 5
The challenge for senior management is to ensure that the strategic plan becomes a “living plan” for the whole organization.

imagineCALGARY — 9
More than 18,000 Calgarians helped the city define its vision for the future.

Click! Strategic planning in Markham — 13
Building on its success with online voting, Markham does e-consultation.

10 practical tips for strategic planning— 15
Jon Linton serves up advice from his time in the trenches.

Investing in future leaders — 19
Pathways to leadership at the City of Thunder Bay.

An IT lawyer’s notes to diary — 23
Highlights of municipal procurement over the last 25 years (Part 2).

Building Canada: A P3 push? — 27
Behind the spin, there is little new money in the Building Canada plan, says CUPE president Paul Moist.

Ordering compliance with orders to comply — 29
A powerful alternative is part of the municipality’s compliance toolbox.

Critical infrastructure assurance programs — 31
Municipalities must begin to examine weaknesses to the critical infrastructure and develop programs to increase its resiliency.

GFOA finance practices for Canadian municipalities — 33
Development of recommended municipal finance practices in Canada.

Fee (not so) simple — 37
Implications of Ontario’s amendments to its property assessment and tax system.

Holistic approaches to land development — 41
New urbanist principles used in Garrison Woods, a former army base that was developed by Canada Lands Company in Calgary.

Canada's broken tax system is a “job killer” — 45
New report among the highlights at Federation of Canadian Municipalities annual conference in Quebec City.

FCM honours municipal excellence — 46
Winners of FCM’s awards for Outstanding International Volunteer Contribution and the 2008 Sustainable Community Awards.


Coming Events25,55
Editor’s Notes3
Environmental Zone53
Governance Zone47
Management Zone51
Procurement Zone49


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